The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-12-15
LOUISIANA NEWS.

v Morgan City Register A con-
siderable smash up ON Morgan's wharf
occurred Tuesday night, caused by the
piling giving way under a loaded
freight train.
1 Monroe Observer Marion Tay-
ior, who was shot last summer by j.
w. Swazie, and who has been confined
to his bed ever since, died at his resi-
dence Sunday morning.
~ Monroe Electric Letter The
Presbyte terian Church was filed to its
utmost capacity Sunday morning to
hear the dedicatory sermon by Rev.
DR.. Palmer of New Orleans.
~ East Feliciana Pat Dem. Mr..
S. B. Kent's new and costly steam gin
and grist mill, situated five miles east
of Clinton, was totally destroyed by
fire on the night of the 4th inst.
u st. John Meschacebe: Burglars
entered Mr.. Honorat Rodrigue's store,
Monday night, and carried away a
few pieces of goods and about SIS in
currency The Grand Jury's report
is very complimentary to our parish
officers.
y Tangipahoa Independent The
lookup at Pontchatoula was destroyed
by fire and G. j. Varney, confined on
the charge of drukenness and dis
orderly conduct, was burned to death.
It is not known whether the building
was fred by the prisoner Or from the
outside.
u Franklin Sun: Mr.. Henry Esch-
man, painter, while on his way home
in state of intoxication, was attacked
by some party or parties unknown,
knocked off his mule, beaten senseless,
and robbed of both money and articles
of merchandise he had purchased in
our town.
n st. Mary Enterprise A small
tubular boiler at the sugar-house on
Chatsworth plantation, used for the
purpose of supplying steam for the
strike pan, exploded. Fortunately
there was no one fatally hurt. Capt.
A. j. Sypher, one of the owners of the
place. was scalded on the back and
shoulder.
~ Richland Beacon: A negro boy
about five or six years old was burned
to death in q house on the place of
Abe jenkins. The owner of the place
went off to sit up with corpse, leav-
ing a colored woman there who locked
up the house with her little boy in it
and left. The fire is supposed to have
resulted from a defect in the chimney.
w Morehouse Clarion: Mr.. John
Younger, second engineer on the stern
wheel steamboat Matte, while going
up Vermilion Bayou the other day,
was caught on the roof of the boat by
an overhanging limb. dragged over
the stern and dropped into the wheel
as it turned round. He went into the
water headforemost and got out with
out injury.
" st. Bernard Eagle: At Myrtle
Grove plantation, Monday night, the
Bird inst, seven negroes attempted to
cross the river in a skiff. When about
midway of the stream the skiff went |
to pieces and five of the occupants |
were drowned. The other two saved |
themselves by clinging to the planks
until they were picked by boat sent
to their relief.
~ Thibodaux Sentinel: A negro |
named Gus jefferson was found dead |
in the woods in the rear of Mrs. Col |
Inns plantation, shot through the body. |
1t is believed to be an accident or
suicide AT the Guion Academy a
little daughter of Cleophas Hebert,
while standing near the fire, had her
clothes to catch fire, and was badly
burned = In a difficulty between two
negroes at the Leighton plantation,
one was killed by being struck in the
breast with a brick thrown by the
other.