The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-04-03
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
DOMESTIC.

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Manchester, n. H., Amoskeag Mills Il
suspended, and over $50 operatives are out
A San Francisco jury has awarded tht
young lady plaintiff in brsaeh Of promise
case $4,000.
Tho steamship City Of Pekin, which re.
Gently sailed from San Francisco for China
took 400 Chinese.
A Philadelphia doctor sells the colored
people Of that city q liquid for the hair that
takes the curl and kink ont.
Chan Hon Fan, a Chinaman of Portland,
Ore, is a regularly ordained preacher OF
the Methodist Episcopal church.
4 railroad is to be constructed this spring
between Niagara Falls and the Whirlpool
Rapids, some three miles below.
A little girl in Cedar Rapids, nine years
old, wrote an account Of children's party,
get it up in type and corrected the proof.
A granite boulder, appropriately in
scribed, is to be erected on the spot where
Gen. Hancock was wounded at Gettysburg.
An Iowa legislator has introduced a bill
compelling people about to marry to fur
nish proof that they can pay the cost of
housekeeping.
The immense prehistoric shell heaps at
Damarisootta, Me-, arc being dug up,
shipped to Boston and ground into dust
for poultry food.
Tho wife Of the late ex-Gov. Seymour
died at the residence of Roscoe Conkling,
in Utica, New York, few days after the
death OF her husband.
The New York Senate has passed bill
ceding to the United States jurisdiction
over tho Dre1el cottage, at Mt. McGregor,
IN which Gen. Grant died.
Arthur L. Mackaye Of New FORK has
bsen granted divorce from his wife, Maud
Miller Msckaye- McC ormick, the daughter
Of tho poet, Joaquin Miller.
The New York Senate has passed a bill
providing that street railroad franchises be
sold to the bidder who will undertake to
carry passengers at the lowest rate.
An association ct the young ladies Of
Atlanta, Georgia, have issued notification
that they will receive visits from no young
man who drinks Intoxicating liquors.
holland, tns Texan, who killed Davis,
the sawdust swindlsr, in New York, is uaid
tc have been offered $500 night by the
Broadway Museum to exhibit himself.
Four pounds Of Paris green were thrown
IN a coffee pot ut the Lebanon, Pa. aims
house, and eighty inmates made seriously
i'll. twelve being in critical condition.
The Chinese at Carson, Nevada, have
adopted the boycott, and served notices
tina. they will cease to trade with men who
take active part in the anti Chinese move
ment.
The ex- Supreme Treasurer Of the Knights
of Honor, Robert Breckenridge, has been
summarily expelled for refusing to surren-
der the balance of the widows and Or
phans' fund at the demand of the Supreme
officers.
"Old Sorrel," Stonewall Jackson's war
horse, was watched all night by guard Of
soldiers during his last hours, and at his
death the old Confederate battle flag at the
Southern Soldiers Home, Richmond, Va,
was placed at half mast.
One of the most daring and bloody ex-
press robberies ever perpetrated occurred
on Chicago, Rock Island aud Pacific e1-
press train, near Chicago. Tho messenger
was killed and the safe robbed Of over
$25,0 900 in money and jewelry.
In pursuance of the pleuro- pneumonia
law recently passed by the Kentucky Leg
islature 1O6 head of diseased cattle, valued
at GIG, 900, were killed, buried six feet I'M
der ground, and the places recedtly inhab-
tied by them quarantihed for year.
The steamer Oregon, the fastest of the
transatlantic vessels, was run into by an
unknown schooner while east of Fire
Island, on March IA, and sunk immedi-
ately. None Of the 1000 persons on board
were lost. Nothing has since been heard
Of the schooner.