The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-05-04
Items of Louisiana News.
Cleaning. from the Press.

EP Z. FellcIana Idt.-J'eM We
have booked 1872 new subscribers
since January /.
g~ OutaIloula News: The Sunday
law is strictly obe!ed here! HE
merchants won't sell for love nor
money.
~ St. Landry Democrat: Not for
many seasons have the prospects for
IN abundant crop been SO hatterlng
as ut the present.
1 st. Charles Mirror: Mr.. Mar
celin Tassin, while placing Il fence
post, was seized with stroke of APP
oplexy and expired shortly after.
~ Vienna Sentinel: A posse from
near Homer passed here Sunday Id
pursuit of a horse thief. They re-
turned home, However, and found the
old mule quietly grazing in the vlclnl-
ty.
g Franklin Sun: The chinch
bug is doing much damage to young
corn. On the Holmes place, last
night, "A negro man was killed by Miss
Mollie Diggins while attempting an
outrage upon her person.
Eg Couslatta Citizen: VIM. Ma
son, charged with murder, escaped
from the parish Jail, but was recap
tured- :. Ed. Groves, very popular.
Red river steamboat clerk, died of
heart disease in New Orleans on the
18th.
~ Shreveport Herald: Henry
Johns, convicted of killing a soldier
in this city some years ago, aud SEN
fenced to The pcnitentiary for life, but
who escaped while ell route to that
institution, was recaptured by Deputy
Sheriff Barbee IA few days ago.
gg Caldwell Herald Henry Fer
rand, aged twelve years, son of our
Sheriff, was bitten by rattlesnake
Oh the second finger of the left hand.
The yellow of AN egg was applied to
the wound aud pint of whiskey
given the boy to drink. He is recov-
ering.
~ Plaquemine Observer A little
daughter of Mr.. Pierre Cauvin was
bitten by mad dog, and SO seriously
was she affected that she had to be
smothered to prevent injury to the
rest of the family. On the same day
another child of Mr.. Cauin's was
bitten by rattlesnake.
.ty Iberia Sugar BotcL: 1t is now
regretted by some that the colored
man, Isaac, who burned Mr.. Devezin
divers sugar house and cotton gin
was hanged SO precipitately, for it is
believed that he had accomplices in
his crime, and would have given their
names had an opportunity been Of
fered him.
R~ Iberville South VIM. Henry
Scott, who was found guilty of MUIR
der at the last term Of Court for kill
ing Augustus Webb, had new trial
ut this term of the Court, and the
jury brought i'll verdict of guilty
without capital punishment. = The
Grand Jury indicted Richard Read
for the murder of Grandson Arm
stead, child, by poisoning.
70 Concordia Eagle: Monday
night, on Chevy Chase plantation, an
assassin fired into the cabin of Jack
Scott, wounding Jack and killing his
wife Malinda. Thomas Webb has
been arrested on suspicion - The
prisoners in Jail will be employed by
the Town Council to work on the
streets of Vidalia. .Jno. Henry Will
liams and Floyd Robinson got into a
quarrel, which ended in Robinson's
getting a severe cut in the neck.
u Carroll Conservative While
the thunderstorm of Monday eve
ming was passing over the Wyly Plan
tation, about four miles below town,
the lightning struck colored woman,
killing her instantly. She had young
child in her arms which escaped IN
hurt : Tuesday morning, Mr.. Morris
Keene, gentleman well-connected
and much respected in this parish,
took morphine, and passed into the
portals of the unknown. We are not
fully informed as to the cause of his
hurrying out of existence, but it was
supposed to be depression of mind,
produced by reverses of fortune.