The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-02-27
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Hothouse strawberries are selling in New
York at 81 per box.
The Grant monument fund i. New York
amounts to Sis, 108.
The MissouriD Cremation Society has
twenty five female members.
Colored miners are to be put to work in
the Pennsylvania coke regions.
Adelaide Nelson was photographed GOO
times during her professional career.
A Fulton county, Ca, farmer is dying of
hydrophobia from being bitten by a mad
mule.
The Chinese laundrymen of San Antonio,
Texas, are being boycotted by the Knights
of Labor.
In his early manhood the late Gen. Han
cock was said to have been the handsomest
man in the army.
Mr.. Steinitz has won the third and con-
Gliding game in the st. Louis section of
the international chess contest.
The remains of President Garfield were
placed III handsome bronze sarcophagus,
February s, and Theoretically sealed.
Fire Engine Company No. of New York,
has upon two occasions hitched up in IL
seconds from the sounding of the alarm.
Archbishop Gibbons has received cable
from Rome assuring him that he will be
made cardinal at the March Consistory.
Since the sudden death of his wife and
daughter, Secretary Of State Bayard is said
to contemplate the resignation of his Office.
Following the lead of many northern
cities, Louisville, Kentucky, has established
a society for the cremation of dead bodies.
woman i'll Philadelphia waylaid an
other, whom she accused Of alternating her
husbands affection, and cut he1 face to
pieces.
A respectable young farmer of Texas re-
Gently committed suiside on account of
grief at the death of mule to which he was
passionately attached.
A fund is being started i'll Philadelphia
for Gen. Hancock's widow, to which
Messrs. A. J. Drexel and Geo. w. Chllds,
have contributed 5000.
The Texas and Pacific Railroad has re-
duced its rates of travel to California to
very low fgures. A tirst-class through ticket
can now be obtained for S65.
tramp picked up near Huntington, L.
l., with his hands and feet badly frozen,
had secreted in his clothing bank books
showing deposits, of $4,000.
Francis Scot koy, author Of THE Star
Spangled Banner" is to have monument
i'll Philadelphia raised by tive-cent sub
scriptions III the public schools.
The president was unable to attend the
funeral of Gen. Hancock, and the Cabinet
was represented by Secretary Bayard, wLo
acted as pail bearer, and Secretary Endi-
colt.
The Knights of Labor have distributed
notices over Dallas, Texas, warning ladies
if they trade with the boycotted house of
Sanger Bros. their husbands will be boy
cotted III turn.
VIII 5. Hays, the writer, made his
debut on the minstrel stage at Louisville,
as ''Old Ike" the Negro character he has
made famous through the river columns of
the Courier-.1ou.nul.
The quarantine against Fort Worth Oh the
part Of Dallas has been withdrawn A tele-
gram from the former place 10 the Calves |
ton Ereniag Tribune announces that the
was laid purely to hurt lis bust !
ness.
The British steamship Saxon. which left |
New York January 2sth, has been lost. |
Many of her crew, including the captain, |
persisted with the vessel. The engineer and /
few sailors were saved and have reached /
Jamaica. |