The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-07-27
Items of Louisiana News.

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~ Ouachita Telegraph: Mr.. jeff
Kelly shot a colored man in Vernon.
~ Houma Courier: A gentleman
of our town has preserved in alcohol
chicken with two bodies, four legs,
three eyes, three wings and two tails.
a Thibodaux Seatiael The
bayon falls slowly. Irrigation of rice
will soon cease, but that cereal is so
far advanced that this will not seri-
ously damage that crop.
n Madison Journal: On Black
river, in Concordia parish, worms in
large numbers, are reported on tho
growing cotton, but people are not
certain about their being the genuine
army worms.
~ st. Landry Ne,rs: The corn
yield is greater than any previous
year since the war, cotton without
caterpillars and with good picking
season will be the largest crop we
have ever bad. Cane is doing well.
II Richland Beacon We hear q
rnmor that three children of A. j.
Wright, residing few miles north of
Rayville, were poisoned few days
since that two of them died and
that the other was in critical coltdi-
ton.
U Avoyelles Bulletin Tho large
quantity of bagging aud ties being
brought to this parish, would indi-
cate that planters and merchants
count upon large crop of cotton. -
1t is rumored that caterpillars have
been found on several places along
the bayou.
~ Opelousas Courier: johnson,
a Texan, and Amos Avery, Rapides
man, who stole Sam. Haas horses q
few weeks ago, were arrested at Ben-
ham, Texas, by the authorities there,
and lodged in our parish jail last
Tuesday, by Sheriff Duson, who pro-
cured requisition from Governor
Nichols and went after them.
~ Shreveport Times Wesley Le-
Rosen, son of Mr.. d. LeRosen, had
his left arm broken while practicing
on a horizontal bar-.. Herald ]: A
colored girl by the name of Annie
Adger, living in Bossier parish, at
tempted to. fiji lamp from coal oil
can while holding a light in one hand.
An explosion was the result and she
was burned to death.
n Carroll Conservative Saturday
night two negroes who had been gam
bling in SHtton's saloon on Lake street
got into difficulty, and drawing pis.
tolls, exchanged several shots /; mo-
body hurt. =. .Coaiey Newton colored,
convicted of burglary and shooting
with intent to kill, and sentenced to
five years in the penitentiary, es-
caped from the charge of the jailor.
u Port Vincent Liuiagstoaian
Mr.. john Comford had a narrow es-
cape from being killed. He had
started home with n load Of freight i'm
his wagon. when one of the mules,
suddenly starting, threw him out of
the wagon and in front of the fore
wheel. Before the mules were
checked, the wheel, after forcing hr
CoInford along for some distance,
rolled over his body just below the
neck, brnising him severely, and but
for the timely appearance of Mr. B.
Spiller. who stopped the team, tho
rear wheel would have passed over
the head of the sufferer.
~ Tensas Journal. We hare
been informed of q horrible thing
which occurred on the 4th Of JULY. A
negro wom&A living on the Black
water plantation, had dead child in
the house, and another which was
very sick, and wishing to go to some
frolie on tho 4th, left tho children
alone in the house. During her ab.
sence the sick child died, and cat
getting into the room, partly ate the
flesh from the face of one of the chill
dren. We do not vouch for the cor
rectness of the item, but give it as re
heard it.
~ Morgan City Register: The
little son of Captain Fortune, aged
about twelve years, while fishing on
the Berwick side, last week, saw q
little boy near him fall into the bay,
and without n moments hesitation
plunged into twenty feet of water,
and seizing the little fellow by the
hair, padded to shore with him Just
as assistance arrived. Such heroic
acts deserve the highest PRAISE. An
unknown white man was picked up
on the wharf last Sunday, overcome
by heat. He was taken to the court
house, where the city physician treat
ed him, bat he died Monday eve-
ming.