The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-01-16
NUMBER 20.
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY,
DOMESTIC.

DOMEST1C.
| Jumbo's heart weighed l6O pounds.
| The Augusta, Ga, Chronicle has just issued
its one-hundredth number.
Ex-senator Tabor of Colorado is to build
a 81, 100000 residence in Washington.
Pure California wines are sold on the Pa
cific coast for five cents glass.
st. Louis and Hartford both experienced!
slight shocks of earthquake on December %.
Over 100 hundred persons were injured by
the burning of a Christmas tree at Chicago.
There is pension agent in Washington
whose daily mail frequently numbers 500
letters.
The forty ushers Of Talmage's Brooklyn
Tabernacle gave reception at the Conser-
vatory of Music in that city.
Mistletoe boughs for kissing purposes are
now sent to New York from Florida post
paid, at cost Of 10 cents each.
A Baptist minister of Clayton, Ind, who
had been convicted of bigamy, committed
suicide on being expelled from the church,
Six boilers in the San francisco Water
works exploded Christmas day, demolish-
ing the building and killing four workmen.
At Como, Miss, 127 bales of cotton we're
ignited by fire from Roman candles and en-
tirely destroyed. At one time it was feared
the town would be burned.
The st. Tammany Farmer published no
paper during holiday week according to its
established custom to allow the employees to
spend their Christmas ut home.
A butcher at Chattanooga, Ca, while
scalding hogs, fell head first into vat of
boiling water and although lifted out in
stantly he was literally boiled, the flesh
dropping from his body in huge fakes.
The business house of D. NJ. Ferry & Co.,
the Detroit seedsmen, has been destroyed
by fire. One million and half dollars
worth of property was lost and fireman
killed by falling cornice.
The Children's Christmas Club of Wash
ington, organized by Miss Nellie Arthur to
give toys to poor children, entertained 400
stray waits at a grand dinner where they
were waited upon by the daughters of the
most prominent citizens.
The Collector of Customs at Georgetown,
D. c., has been ordered to admit free of
duty certain plaster models, imported by
the Ladies' Lee Monumental Association as
designs, from which a selection is be made
for a monument to Gen. Robt. E. Lee.
The thirty days of mourning for the late
Vice President Hendricks having expired
the departments and other public buildings
are divested of the mourning drapery. The
hook and ladder force was required to re-
move the black cloth from the White House
portico.
FOREIGN.
The Greek consul at Crete has been re-.
called. sss
The Queen of Spain expects to become .
mother in April.
The Prussian diet was summoned TO met
on the 14th instant.
The attitude of Greece toward Turkey is
becoming more friendly.
His Holiness Pope Leo XIII has ap-
pointed 1886 year of jubilee.
The Pope will create no British or Amer
ican cardinals at the coming consistory.
Pasteur has treated ia cases of hydro
phobia since the perfection of his discov-
cry.
Sixty thousand rifles sent from Proyi-
dence, r. l., have arrived at CONSTANT
nople.
A couple in Leipsic, Germany, recently
Al
child.
The Duke of Seville wanted his regiment
to depose Queen Christina in favor of ex-
Queen Isabella.
Twenty-eight hundred Bulgarian prison.
ers, escorted by Servian guards, are return
ing to Bulgaria.
The claims of the creditors of the de-
posed King of Burmah amount to 100000
roupees.
King Milan has granted amnesty to all
political prisoners who were concerned in
tho rising of 1888.
Russia has asked the Vatican to reopen
the negotiations for closer relationship be-
tween that country and the Vatican.
Prince Alexander has offered the Sultan
the services of Bulgarian troops in the
event of a Greek rising in Macedonia.
Twenty -one vessels were wrecked and
sixty-fve lives lost during the recent storm
at Colon, Spain.
Russia wishes to counteract the intimate
relations at present existing between the
Vatican and Prussia.
Servia, Bulgaria and Greece have been
ordered to disarm, and are promised that
Turkey will follow their example.
An explosion occurred at the Point-y-
Predd coal mines, in Wales, and seventy
five men were buried in the debris.
Prince William of Wurtemberg has been
betrothed to Princess Charlotte, daughter
of Prince Williem of Schaumburg- Lippe.
At the request of Emperor William Queen
Victoria has authorized Gen. Viscount
Wolseley to accept the decoration of the Red
Eagle.
In the recent engagement between the
British troops and the Dacoits, at Sagoen-
ing, the former only lost seven men and
the latter, sixty.
Maddalina Granata of Eocera, Naples,
who has been married nineteen years, has
given birth to sixty two children, including
fetuses, fifty-nine of whom were males.
At wedding in England the bride being
entirely without arms, the ring was placed
upon the fourth toe of her left foot, and she
wrote her nams in the register With her
right foot.
For the second time the Mayor of Liver