The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-03-20
FOREIGN.

Cardinal Angelo ia coblnl ls dead.
Louis michel is kept busyslecturing.
The King Of Greece is soon to abdicate.
/ More earthquakes have occurred in Spain
| railroad station is.to be erected on til
site of ancient Babylon.
| Viscount Edward Cardwell, ex Chief Sec
rotary of Ireland, is dead.
King. Milan has ordered5the demobiliza
ton Of the Servian army.
The Greek government has borrowed
| 100000 of the National Bank.
| The Russian papers announce the eman
cipation of.the last Russian serfs.
There is to be an heir tog the Prince q
Battenburg and Princes Beatrice.
| Lord Duff erin has gone to Burmah tC
arrange for the government of that king.
dom,
M. De Freycinet proposes to postpone
the French International Exhibition until
The Russian government proposes a con-
| ference at Berlin to fix the terms of Bulga-
rian unity.
During a.trial:for forgery in Montreal
the father of the accused fell dead in the
witness box.
The German government has given an
order for the manufacture Of 10000 swords
for the army.
Lord Wolsely, ungratefully declined to
pay the customary fees of $4,000 OF being
made K. p.
The municipalauthoritieso of Paris have
had the name of the Deity expunged from
the school books.
France has protested to the Porte against
allowing Roumelia to impose additional
duties upon French goods.
Lord Roseberry is going to Heidelburg
to be treated by DR.. Schweninger, Prince
Bismarck's physician, for obesity.
The French government has ordered
four additional cavalry regiments to. tho
eastern frontier of France.
An attempt to assassinate Jules Verne,
the author, was made by his nephew, who
fired two shots, one inflicting a slight
wound in Mr.. Verne's leg.
An exhibition building in course of
erection in London collapsed, killing sew
eral workmen and wonnding eighteen.
African exploring parties have been com
pelle'l to make sudden retreat from the
interior to Zanzibar by adverse climate
A pike packed in ice and shipped from
Holland to Paris was resuscitated at the
latter place and donated to the aquarium.
Orders have been dispatched to Suda
Ba, that no active measures shall be taken
by the fleet assembled there without the
special permission of all the governments
interested.
The Duke of Seville, who was recently
imprisoned for insulting Queen Christine,
was pardoned on the occasion of tie mar
riaSe of Princess Eulalie.
Prince Torlonia, the Vanderbilt of Italy,
who died two weeks ago, leaves $4,000, GOO
francs to his daughter, the Duchess of
Ceri, and II like sum to her son.
formal separation,z will shortly take
place between the Grand Duke and the
Grand Duchess Sergius of Russia, who have
been married just eighteen months.
In Lake Nyassa. Africa. strong young
man can be bought for forty yards of white
cotton cloth, young woman for fiftysix
yards, and young mother for thirty-six
Of the medal prizes doaated by Primes
Alexander at the close of the late war, the
only gold one was merited by a Turkish
volunteer, while thirteen of the silver med
ais were also conferred on Turkish soldiers
Archduchess Maria, daughter of the Arch. !
duke of Tuscare, will, before her marriage
IF the Queen Regent of Spain, take an oath |
all rights of herself and the is
'ue from the marriage to the Austro- Hun
yarian throne.
The late London mobs having been com
Jared with the ''Goripa riots" SO wildly
pictured by Dickens, it ia singular coin
'idence. that Dickens youngest daughter.
Mrs. Peru, was one Of the ladies assaulted
nd robbed by them.
The marriage of Princess EuIalia. sister
f the late Hing Alfonso, to Prince Anto-
no, son OF the Duke of Montpensier, has
ecu consnnmated. The wedding dress
est SlO,0 COO the presents $4,000, and the
ride receives a pension Of $40. 600, besides
ne dover Ct sIoo, 900 aud al annual income
f S37, 600.