The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-11-24
LOUISIANA NEWS.

u Lafayette 4drertiser: The mo-
tion made By the District Attorney
for a change of venue in the case of
the vigilantes was overruled.
I Natchitoches indicator One
of the convicts at work on the rail
road below this, was killed by the
guard last week while endeavoring to
escape. +fe-FFsn
tg st. John Mesck acebe DR.. G..
Chabaud, aged 81 years, native of
Bordeaux, France, and resident of
this parish since 1910, died at his
residence suddenly of apoplexy of the
lungs.
w Caldwell Herald: Alex. Webb,
who killed John Rainey in Birming-
ham, Alabama, about two years ago,
and for whose arrest large reward is
offered, was captured on the 6th inst,
in Ouachita parish.
T w. Feliciana Sentinel: j. w.
Dixon, indicted for the murder of
negro named Percy Smith, came up
for trial in the District Court on Sat
urday, 10th inst, and was adjuged
not guilty by the jury.
v st. Bernard Eagle: While two
colored boys, on Judge Morales plan
tation, were playfully handling an
cid gun, swapping caps at each other,
it went off and dispatched from this
World the son of one Walker Jones.
D ST. Mary Enterprise: There
were three murders i'll the parish last
Sunday, one at Centreville, another
on Bayou Sale, and still another on
Grandwoods plantation. Each one
was the bloody fruit Of a drunken
broil.
g Morehouse Clarion Parish
warrants are now held at the follow
ing prices: Old issue 90c. new issue,
Csc. All outstanding parish scrip
will soon be taken up in the payment
of parish taxes, and Morehouse will
once more be out of debt. #
~ Iberia Courier Of TIE Teehe: At
DR.. Bussey's plantation, on the 18th,
a colored woman stabbed and killed
a colored boy about fifteen years of
age. The parties quarreled about the
pay for some clothes which the wo-
man had washed for the boy. The
murderess was arrested.
- Baton Rouge 4duocate: From
latest repo rts we have received, the
sugar crop is yielding much better
than expected. We have heard of
one planter who is getting one hogs
head to the acre from stubble and
two hogsheads from plant cane. As
general thing though, the cane is not
yielding as we'll as that.
U Onachita Electric Letter Neal
Mcneil, a peddler, was assaulted aud
robbed near the house of Jesse Mo-
berly and Ed. Jones, two negroes
living six miles from Monroe, and
those men are suspected of the deed.
They dubbed the peddler until he
was unconscious and dragged him
into cane brake. robbing him of
S45 and all the goods in his pack.
Regaining consciousness during the
pight, he came to Monroe and made
affidavit against MOberly and Jones,
who are both under arrest.
II Carroll Conservative Dave
Johnson, who broke jail at this place,
crossed over into Mississippi and
found some mans mule lying arnund
loose. He tied up the animal and
took him along, and now Dave is
supposed to be tied up to the limb of
tree in the Deer Greek swamp by
one end of the same rope. Andrew
Hamlin and Alfred Gregory, colored
hlaeksmiths, got into a difficulty on
Monday, when Hamlin picked up a
fore plane and struck Gregory on the
head, from the effects of which blow
he died III a few hours. Hamlin es-
caped, and is still at large.