The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-02-20
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
FOREIGN.

been betrOthed to the Grown Prince OF For
tugal.
Russia's objection to the Turco- Bu]ga-
rian agreement ia personal to Prince Alex
ander.
Greece will disarm provided Turkey cedes
Epyrus in accordance with the treaty of
Berlin.
The Servian cabinet has decided on the
immediate purchase of $1,000 rifles and
25,OoO, 600 cartridges.
4 bill has been introduced into the Lower
House of the prussian Diet to make school
attendance compulsory.
The nuptials of Princess Irene, daughter
of the Grand Duke of Hesse, and Russian
! Grand Duke are soon to be celebrated.
The Porte has been informed that Lord
Roseberry, British Foreign Minister, will
maintain Lord Salisbury's Balkan policy.
The German Emperor, who is i'll his
S9th year, opened the recent annual bal lie
rOpern, in Berlin, with the Crown Priu-
cess.
water spout, accompanied by q shower
of immense hail-stones, passed over the
District of Vegas, Cuba, destroying the
| crops.
The Greek feet in the Gulf of VIOLA,
Thessaly, has been ordered to return soon
to Sebalis, in the Gulf of Agma, near
Athens.
Two great grandsons of Sir Moses Men
delssohn commemorated the centennial an
niversary of his death by giving $35, 600 to
the poor Of Berlin.
King Milan has summoned the entire
Servian army, numbering $1,000 men, to
enter the field, fully equipped for war, to
undergo six weeks drill.
The Bulgarian government has sent Cir
culars to the powers saying that in conse
quence of Servia's warlike preparation Bull
garia is compelled to mobilize her army.
The Servian government has ordered the
inhabitants of the parishes. through which
the Servian army marches to place sup
plies of grain at the disposal of the troops.
royal decree has been promulgated Or
dering work to be Immediately begun on
public Improvements in Copenhagen to
! give employment to mechanics and laborers
cut OF work.
| 4 metallic burial case.company of Win
| field Junction, Long Island, have com
pleted casket intended for the final dis
position of the remains Of the late King
Alfonso of Spain.
| Queen Natalie of Seryia has bought for
ty American sewing machines and set
I ~, Oh ~ paI
grade making garments for the troops,
which, che cuts out with her own hands.
| DOMESTIC.
! There are ak one legged men in Con-
gress.
The rentals of pews in Plymouth church.
Brooklyn, for 1856, amount No s27 ,49S.
| Each Congressman gets this year 1866
| packages of vegetable and flower seeds
! OF Il train of hogs that arrived in Kansas
City lately, seven carloads were frozen to
| death.
Five persons were killed by collision on
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad at otauu-
! ton. Va.
| s'SS
were frozen to death uloDg the railroad
| tracks in Texas.
| The ladies Or Birmingham, Ala, nave or
I ganized an ASSOCIATION to establish cllari-
ty hospital at that place.
| Mrs. Bayard, wife Of the Secretary OF
State, died i'll Washington of grief caused
| by her daughters sudden demise.
| Cheshire, Mass, farmers are dispos;ns
of their surplus apples at s;l0 Il ton, to be
shipped to a mince- meat factory i'll Mexico.
| Five Negroes were killed in Hernpsteat;,
| Texas, from eating tho flesh OF Il stolen he.
| whose owner had poisoned it with strycil-
nine.
| An cid lady Of Tell. Ill, aged 50 years,
took dose Of strlcl,nine, then seating her
sell i'll the middle Of the house, set fire to
the building.
| bill has been introduced in the House
! appropriating $500 900 for erecting a Grant
monument on ground to be donated by the
city of Washington.
San'l PIimso.l, "the British Sailors
Friend" accompanied by his wife and
daughter, have arrived in New York on
their way to Florida.
Dr. Thomas W. keene, e member of the |
Virginia House of Delegates, dropped dead |
from heart disease at the conclusion Of a
very telling address.
Six of the sixteen Arkansas convicts who
tunne!ed under the coal mines and escaped
were captured by an old unarmed farmer
and returned to work
Prof. Pasteur refused to inoculate Mr.. |
Sullivan, who had been bitten by mad
dog in Boston, rs seventy days had elapsed
since he was wounded.
Ornda, this smallest of all tie Coleman
midgets. died at Houston, Texas. She was
thirteen months old, twelve and Il half inch
es high and weighed four pounds.
Andrea Depolido of New York, WHO de- /
liberately killed his faithless wife, never at
tempted to conceal the deed, thinking tina.
such 4 homicide was legally justifahie.
"A St. Louis burglar caught III tie room
OF Il young lady and imprisoned for the of
Tense, succeeded in winning the affections
of the girl while in Jail and marrying her.
Nelly aud Rose st. Clair, St. Louis cour
tesa,s, attempted TO commit suicide by
taking the contents Of fourteen ounce
bottle of laudanum, but were resuscitated |
Peter A. Weast. who is in tie penitenti
AIRY serving three year term for man |
slaughter was allowed to attend the funeral !
OF his little daughter, which took place at