The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-11-17
LOUISIANA NEWS.

v Caldwell Herald: Monday eve
ming, 29th ult., tornado passed
through the lower edge of the parish,
doing considerable damage.
To- Morehouse Clarion A bald
eagle, measuring nine inches from
i" tin to tip, +" located on Horse shoe
lake and was killed by Mr.. d. w.
Douglas.
y Iberia Courier of the Teche: A
gittle colored girl was burned to death
in cabin opposite the plantation of
DIR, Duperier. During the absence of
her grandmother the girl played so
near tie fire that her clothes caught.
az West Feliciana Sentinel /: Per-
haps the heaviest wind and rain
storm that has visited this section of
country for many years prevailed
Wednesday night. Fences were pros
trated and two coal barges and a fish
boat torn from their moorings and
fioated down the river.
Eg E. Feliciana Pat-Dem.: Upon
anany places throughout the parish,
the hogs are rapidly dying from a pc
animals cat heartily until the last
moment, they gradually become re-
1ucea to mere skeletons, and lie down
and die, apparently without strug-
gle.
T Vienna Sentinel: A posse of
men from Claiborne parish passed
through this place last Sunday, re-
turning with a negro prisoner charged
with an outrageous attempt upon a
white woman. We understand that
when the party reached the neigh
borhood of Terryville, in this parish,
mob took possession of the prisoner
by force and he has not been heard
from since.
~ Avoyelles Bulleti3 Two young
men, Louis Barbin and Alfred B.
Messick, met in deadly combat on the
street, in Marksville, both armed
with pistols, and in the encounter the
latter lost his life. Young Messick
fred several times without effect
Barbin's- pistol snapped twice, but at
the fist explosion of the weapon
young Messick was shot full in the
face and expired in few moments.
4 judicial examination was held and
Barbin acquitted on the ground OF
having acted in self defense.
}. ~ st. Charles Herald: The pas
senger train of the New Orleans and
'Donaldsonville Railroad met with a
mishap on the down trip last Sunday
When passing through the plantation
of Mr.. A. d. Bougere, about three
miles above Hahnville, the road bed
sunk in and threw fiom the track two
coaches. The train was unusually
crowded. but owing to the reduced
speed at which it was running, no.
body was injured. The passengers
were transferred to the freight cars
attached to the train aud reached the
city without delay. The road, at that
place, has been repaired.
Richland Beacon: A crowd OF
masked men surrounded the house
of Il negro on the plantation of Mr.
Milton Larkin, during the night, Will
the avowed intention of numbering
him, and even went so far as to break
his door down; whereupon he fired
killing Earnest Hatch. u Young man
of good family, and the rest of tbs
crowd ran off. The negro has left the
country to escape murder. 1t is gen
orally conceded that he acted in self
defense = Mr.. j. H. Bunch, in at
tempting to board the train at Girard
after it was i'll motion, slipped and
fell with one leg across the rail. One
wheel of the car passed over it, crush
ing itin such a manner as to render
amputation of the limb necessary
The leg is cut off SD that only a shor
stump of.the thigh is left and at thi'
writing, aIr. Bunch is i'll u very criti
cal condition. y