The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-11-10
LOUISIANA NEWS.

~ Richland Beacon The resi-.
dence of James Leggitt, near Midway
was burned Sunday. Loss $500.
~ Carroll Conservative j: Sunday
evening there was another Jail deliv-
cry at this place. Three notorious
criminals got away. t
~ st. John Meschacebe The grind
ing is delayed by the rainy weather.
A planter who made run last week
reports a yield of 81 hogsheads from
30 acres. M ~ Sf<f
B Natchitoches VindicdtOr: Not
withstanding the caterpillar and the
storm, when you begin to talk crop
the farmers are betting ten to one on
a bale of cotton to the acre.
U Morehouse Clarion: The trial
OF Jim ,McClendon, colored, for the
murder of c. NJ. Evans in September,
1876, resulted in the jury finding an
unqualified verdict of guilty.
g Franklin San: Milton Gray,
the young man who shot and killed
his stepfather, Mr.. Owen Tuck er, two
weeks ago, had preliminary trial
this week and was discharged.
~ The desperate Williams, who
murdered the stage-driver Sweeney
in Lincoln parish, was followed sew
eral days by a deputy Sheriff, but the
officers money gave out, and the mur-
derer escaped to Texas.
~ Opelousas Courier: Mr.. Millard
Anderson, eldest son of ex-senator
T. C.. Anderson, was thrown from his
horse, at his fathers plantation near
town, and had his collar bone broken.
He is now out of danger.
U West Feliciana Sentinel: The
stores of Joseph Stern and Levy g.
Adler, in Bayou Sara, burned on the
3lst ult. Loss about $4,000; insur-
ance $6500.. The origin of the fire is
unknown, but believed to be incen-
diary. @
u Catahoula Ne,us: Two brothers
by the name of Watson, living on the
o X place, on the Tensas, got into
difficulty a few days ago, when one
drove hatchet into the others head,
fractuying his skull and inficting a
mortal wound. Tile murderer is in
Jail. g r
ES Mrs. Smith and her daughter
Mary were drowned near Covington
lately, III freshet. While the mother
was drowning, she called out to her
husband, Save my children He
abeyed with the energy of despair,
reseuing all the children but Mary, |
and then tried to save the mother, |
but it was too late.-N. O. Delta. :. :,
V Marksville Bulletin: A little |
colored girl wbose parents live in this |
town, was playing with a younger
brother, and was accidentally pushed |
into tho fire, and burned beyond re-
covery. She died next day "A dep
uty Sheriff conveyed four prisoners to
the penitentiary, sentenced as follows:
Elijah Greenlow, murder, hard labor
for life Henry Kraft, manslaughter,
five years at hat&l labor Jean Bap-
tiste and Thomas Rayney, larceny,
twelve months each at hard, labor.
"a East Eeliciapa Pat DEM. Ma
tiIdaz Cook, q colored woman living
on Mr.. L B.. Benefits plantation,
locked ber two small children, in her
house, in which a brisk fire was burn
ing, aud visited a point over a mile
distant! An hour OF so after her de-
pature, ,sthe house was discovered to
be on tirei and by the tiaie thase near
at hand arrived, it was one selid sheet
nt flame, Rescue was impossible, and
the unfortunate Offsprings of the care
less 'womaff were bufneai t0 death :s.A.-
VIM. Shields. an agedaIrislnnan who
served in the celebrated Tiger Rides
Turing the war; reached Clinton from
New Orleans, in sick aud destitute
He was kindly cared for,
lnt died foup daVs oFtay b;s orr;,at =