The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-03-06
our GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
DOMESTIC.

/ DOMEsrIC.
The Chinese have been driven out OF Or
eeon City.
According to Talmage woman is thu
second edition Of man.
4 Dooley county, Ga, man snapped
horses nineteen times in one day.
A bigamist was rscently killed by train
| at Atlanta, and his two wives have sued 70,
| damages.
The Territory ef:Montana claims pop,
ulation u l25,O00, and demands entrance
| into the Union.
An Arkansas farmer was beaten to death
by colored man whose wife had paid him
81 for telling her fortune.
One million two hundred and twenty
eight thousand tons of sugar were con-
sumed in America last year.
A natural bridge Of stone two hundred
feet long, five hundred feet wide, and one
hundred and seventy feet high, has recently
been discovered in the Tonic Basin, A. T
A party of masked men broke into the
Jail at Martinsberg w. Va, and selling Joe
Burnes, a Negro, confined for all assault
| upon Miss Felters, .of Baltimore, hanged
him.
| The hogs of Georgia farmer chewed uI
$3.50 in greenbanks he had dropped in the
pen, and he killed enough of the hogs tc
recover pulp of 5000 of it, which he will
! forward to the United States Treasury fol
| redemption.
A home for honest girls employed as
| teachers, artists, etc, has been started by
several we'll known society ladies Of
| New York, on 49th Street. The surround.
ings are excellent and homelike, and the
charges quite moderate.
| The issue of standard silver dollars from
the minis of the United States, during the
week ending Feb. 20 was 3O6,9S0. The is
sue during the same period last year was
121 1888. The shipments of fractional sill
yer coin During February amount to $780,
459.
A committee for establishing perma-
nent American Exposition in Washington,
and a Worlds Exposition, to be held in
1892, in honor of the four hundredth ami
versary of the discovery of America by
| Columbus, met in Washington some time
i since, adopted resolutions and took other
steps toward carrying into effect the OBJ
jicts of its organization.
Clarence J. Lears, living near Ottowa, Ill.
an old man Of SO yeaas, murdered his aged
wife. The couple differed in religious views
and Sears, who is an enthusiast, arrived al
the conclusion that his wife was witch
Crazed by all hallucinntion, he determined
to kill her. Aiming himself with a hand
saw, he went into the room where she was
seated, struck her down with the weapon
and hacked her to death. He was captured
aud lodge in Jail.
Rabbi Burgheim Ct Hartford advertised
the finding of package of money some
time ago, and a few days since an elderly
and well-to- do Mr.. Martin, met the rabbi
and correctly described the money, but
when the finder offered to turn the troye,
over to him he refused to take it, saying
that he liked to see an honest man. After
some contention between them it was
agreed that the money be divided,
| The closing of gambling houses in the
| city of st. Louis, has caused gamblers to
open shops across the river. The police OF
East st. Louis are accused of protecting
instead Of arresting them, and of receiving
brides for their quiescence. The aid of the
| i've 1,{bnr1f1ac irvoHo1 on1 ChoriH
Robiquet, with several deputies, aided by
Thomas Furlong, chief of the Missouri
Pacific secret service, and several of his
| detectives raided the threo principal houses
| captured the proprietors and employees,
took them to Beleville, the county seat,
and placed them under bonds.
FOREIGN.
Two hundred years ago petroleum was
known in Burmah.
Prince Bismark has recovered from his
recent attack of sciatica.
NJ. Aaolph Desbaralles the romancer and
magician of France is dying. His age is
IS years.
VIENNA, Austria is suffering from wa
ter famine. The exhaustion of the sup
ply has been caused by the rapid growth of
the city. "a .* .~@ -
The date of the marriage of.the infanta
Eulaia, of Spain has been postponed on &C
count of her being confined to bed by an
attack of sore throat accompanied with
fever.
Servia and Turkey are engaged in nego-
Citations with the view of uniting Bosnia
and Servia, on conditions similar to those
of the union of Bulgaria and Eastern Rou-
melia.
The Archauchess Maria of Tuscany, has
been married to the Archduke Carl Ste
phen, brother of the Queen Regent of
Spain. The ceremony was performed by
the Archbishop at Vienna.
A convention has been drawn up between
Lord Salisbury and the Porte for the
cesion of Crete to England on the payment
of lib .O0O. 600 and guarantee that Greece
WOuid b0 nrevpnte1 from faE;np avressiva