The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1879-10-04
Summary Of State News.
Geanings from the Press.

Geanings from the Press.
PoINTE coUPEE. .
Pelican: There is large influx Of
Negroes in this parish, aud they read
lily find employment at good wages
picking cotton. They come from
Mississippi and Georgia, it is said.
EAST CARROLL.
Lake Providence Conservative On
Thursday morning while the Belle of
Memphis was at Purdy's wharf boat
on her up trip, one of the colored
roustabouts fell overheard and VA
drowned.
TENsAs.
st. Joseph journal: Saturday night,
shortly after dark, a fire occurred
which consumed the gin house, two
gin stands, one cotton house, and
about twenty-five bales of cotton, on
the Osceola plantation of Dr.. Wealth
erly. The exact cause Of the fire is
in doubt.
TERREBONNE
Houma Independent: An accident
happened to Nat Clark's little nephew
on Wednesday last in which he came
near losing his life. Edward, as the
boy is called, was driving refractory
mule, which threw him off, and the
wagon passed over his leg and broke
it in two places.
LAFOURCHE.
Thibodaux Sentinel: Last Satur-
day night an alteration took place at
Lafourche Crossing in which two or
three colored men we're seriously
wounded. The difficulty occurred
between. people of color and was
probably the result of too FREQ indul-
gence in alcoholic liquors.
ST. LANDRY.
Opelousas Courier: On Sunday
night, the 11th inst, about 8 o'clock,
a negro man by the name Of Francois
Magloire, killed another negro man
by the name of Laurence Pierre Au-.
guste, near the village Of Big Cane.
....A fight occurred ut the Chicot
poll during the Democratic primary
election in which Edward Grimm, a
bystander, was shot aud almost killed,
Richard Nash, also looker-oD,
wounded in the thigh and Chas. Doss-
mann severely cut on the side Of the
head. Lewis Dossman, who shot
Grimm, is in Jail.
CADDo.
Shreveport Standard The second
case of miscegenation that has ever
occurred, We believe, in the parish,
occurred recently at Jewella. It con-
sisted Of the marriage Of one A. Gajac,
a white man, to the daughter Of 3. A.
Hamilton, formerly Tax Collector Of
this parish. The mother of the girl
who was married, is a colored woman.
The affair created no little excitement.
and Indignation among the residents
of Jewella, and we are informed that
it was only through the exertions Of
gentleman living there, that they
were prevented from treating the
groom to ride on a rail.
WEBSTER.
Minden Tribune: Last Wednesday
a negro named Alf. Daniels attempted
to murder Mr.. j. L. Harrison, living
near Shongaloo, in this parish. Dam
iels, while in the employ Of Mr.. Har-
rison, bonght a mule, and was about
leaving the premises without paying
Mr.. Harrison. On endeavoring to
prevent the negro from taking the
mule away, quarrel ensued, when
Daniels cut Mr.. Harrison in four
places-once in the breast, twice in
the back, and once in the abdomen.
Murder was edidently his aim, for,
not content with TINS wounding his
victim, the negro deliberately shot
Mr.. Harrison in the thigh. The shot
and two of the knife wounds are very
dangerous and painful, but, the latest
news received is that Mr.. Harrison Ia
in a fair way Of recovering. A reward
of one hundred dollars is offered for
the capture Of the would-be murderer.