The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-06-01
Items of Louisiana News.
lsIeanizfks from tlse 'ress.

wTaneipaboa IndepeadeHt: Tues
day nirlif. lust aiaoze Jphnson Sta
ton, il Isineo1n apRntss Mis-, two
unknoaa Villa Heza, ssupposeA 20 oe
tramps, Wlsss Isin over ~ z passing
train and instantly Killed.
~ Concordia Eagle: Jesse Walk
or. colored, who was found guilty OF
the iaaEder of yidet Simmons IN
Uniea parish, gu the 18th day OF
February last, was executed at Farm
ersvilIe on the 10th inst.
U Assumption Pioneer A little
son of Mr.. Marcelin Bourg, aged four
years. was drowned in front of the
Yalence plantation. Two of his com /
papions about the same age made
brave but futile effort to rescue him.
~ w. Baton Rouge Sugar Planter:
The lightning last Saturday struck
| one of tho cabins on the old Stewart
place, iniuring colored man sleeping
therein, setting fire to bis bedding
aud scattering things around consld-
erably. His wife, who was sleeplng
| with him at the time, had to be pulled
from the bed to prevent her from
burning up.
n Iberia Sugdr- B0tcl: Judge Fon-
telieu and District Attorney Merchant
were compelled to appear before the
Supreme Court, in New Orleans, IN
answer to writ of mandamas. We
believe this grew out of their efforts,
coupled with those of Clerk Segnra
and Deputy Sheriff Veazey, to prevent
the citation of witnesses in the trial
of Judge Fontelieu for ineligibility.
~ Lafayette Advertiser During
a heavy storm of thunder. lightning,
rain, hail and wind, Sunday night,
the wind overturned or seriously
damaged over thirty buildings and
FRUSTRATED much fencing from Caren-
Gro westward few miles. One man
had thigh broken and was other
wise bruised, and several children
were also hurt, but not seriously.
D Madison Journal: On the fer
ryboat P. F. Geisse, yesterday morn
ing as she was lying at her landing III
Eicksburg, the engineer, Edward
Costello, was hrutally murdered by
Thomas Joice, the fireman of the
boat. Joice knocked Mr.. Costello
down, and, taking his pistol from his
pocket, beat him in the head until
Costeilo's blains oozed out. The muir
derer was arrested.
EE E. Feliciana Pat DEM: The
death of the little negro Emma Hick-
", upon whose body an inquest Was
recently held, undoubtedly arose from
strangulation caused by her falling
and fastening her heaa bEtween the
bed rail and the chair upon which she
was standing, and not from any foul
means. The house of DIR. Felix De-
Lee, in Port Hudson, was struck by
lightning and considerably damaged.
| " st. Charles Mirror: There is
a rumor to the effect that ex-G0y.
Hahn will be appointed by the Presi-
dent Minister to the Central American
States. The appointment will be re-
ceived with much satisfaction by the
Governors friends in this parish
The Supreme Court dismissed appeal
in the case of VIM. Harris, convicted
of rape at the recent term of Court
and sentenced to imprisonment in the
penitentiary for life.
| n st. Mary Enterprise Sunday
night, d woman living at the Orphans
Home plantation attempted to light
fire by pouring coal oil on thecoals.
j The flames of the burning oil COM
pletely enveloped her body, and
burned her beyond recovery. Last
Sunday, Mr.. Loeb of Cypremort,
while bathing in Cote Blanche Bay,
leaped from the wharf and was in-
stantly drowned. His body was re-
covered.
~ Morelouse Clarion: Saturday
evening our parish was visited by
the most severe and destructive wind
known for many years. In the upper
portion of the parish some three or
four gin houses We're blown down,
cabins unroofed; and in other sec
tioas tile damage was confined prin-
eipally to blowing down fencing -
All over cur parish the bud worm
has done considerable damage to the
corn and sweet potato crops.
Il, N Morgan City Register: Mr.. K
B. Lawrence brought to our Office q
few specimens of giasshoppers which
have appeared on his place in great
numbers and are deyonring the pota.
to and beet crops. Mr.. Lawrence in.
J forms us that he is satisfied they are
, the same that destroyed crops IL
Texas and Kansas for o year or tive
, past. :. While jock Wildenstein, 6
, merchant in Jeannerette, was quietly
sitting ON the gallery of his store LAS
Friday, during thunder storm
smoking his pipe, fash of lightning
!, struck the pipe and knocked it int
pieces, but did not injure Mr.. Widen
stein in the least.
. Tr Franklin Saa: Last Sunda,
: Mr.. Jas. German, who lived abou
!. four miles from this place, on th,
Delhi road, was killed BY his step
daughter, Sallie Bryant, girl abou
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