The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-12-25
lsalosonbille Gbbicf.
"a Tvs Dollars ! Year. 81
SUMMARY or STATE NEWS.

SUMMARY or STATE NEWS.
0lsanings from the Louisiana Press.
Thibodaax Sentinel: Four plantations
shst bAss completed rolling have made
6s6 Askshsads Of sugar sgainst $40 hogs
hsads ID feg0.
Caldwell Herald A emitting ARRAY
took placs 81 Browns store in which
man nsnsd Ainsworth was probably f.
tally wounded by Jim Smith.
Clinton Patriot Democrat: A Mr.. Hoff-
msistsr, tailor u this place, who was
1ivisY Alons II building on the Domi-
niqus Zimmerman promises, fell in tho
Ars Saturday night aud was burned to
death.
d. Bofnard Eagls: Stephen 8. Colo, .
ootoss1 boy, Il undsr arrest for shooting
and instantly killing Ben VALERIE, another
ooloesd youth, on the Olivier plantation.
Valefe was shot because he refused to 70
hsntius with Colo and several other boys.
ClAibogno Guardian The dwelling
houss u z. G. Collier was destroyed by
Are 0undsy night with oil its contents.
The family did not oven save their wear
ing apparel. The honse was large and
we'll furnished. The loss is heavy one.
Concordia Eagle: In the case Of the
AtAte ". Ashbnrry Harris colored man,
for the alleged murder of r. P. Derbin,
white, . lssseo on ono Of Mr.. Yznaga's
plantations, coming up on preliminary
s1aknsslsa, Judge Hough held that the
killing was justifable and discharged
ths prisoner.
Dseon Rouge ADVOCATE: Mr.. r. H.
Burke. NJ contracting carpenter, has
puAhsd eAsed his work on the State
House with surprising energy. He has
the House Of Representatives and num-
bse 81 ~ other rooms near enough COM
plEsd1F tho plsstersrs to begin lathing.
Ia sseW days 10 will also have the SEN
sts chamber neaf enough done for the
lsthisg.
Ltstsesas~tas A party of surveyors
arrived Inst week At Maurepss for the
purpsse Of continuing the survey Of the
Conway tract OF the Houmas claim, above
Tiger Bluff, aud extending az high up
she Afnits river a. Cornett's Mil--in
Aownshtps and 9, ranges. 1t is to be
hops1 shst ore many months shall have
passed away, tho settlers on the disputed
territory may b satisfied as to their
elaims.
Morshoass Cote. P1ast: Messrs J.
1hafh ". Il. Boss, and James B. Will
liasas, II this parish, started On Monday
Last for Alabama for the purpose Of pro-
snrtng colored laborers to work oa their
plsatations next ye.r.1 They will proba,
bly, y able % bring OH about one hun
dred and atty, and this parish will then
lack just $3.50 more. Ten thousand Ia
bossEs, in addition to what we already
Aass, would not he one too many for this
parish. We nssd labor, and We need it
badly.
West Feliciana Ssntinsl: A young man
aamed J. G. Ball WAS shot and severely
wounded in the left side during an alter
cation with Negro calling himself Gar
nett Thompson. The Negro was pursued
aud shot TO death, and proved to ,e
murderer who escaped from Jail in Tcrre-
bonns sometfme ago. The verdict Of the
Cossnsr's Jury was that he was killed by
paeetse unknown. ...A two year old Ne
gro child was accidentally drowned in
hole Of wstor nsAr the store Of j. Frcyhan
4 Co., Thursday evening.
E Grant CAreaicls: There arc n set of
eowardly eat-thrssts some eight or ten
nilss southeast of Colfax, on Bayou
Philip or Bayou Darro, who richly de-
serve torn IA the penitentiary OF justice
q NE end Of limb. Thurrday night,
they set IRE to store owned by two COL
ored mon, fsrssl Smith and Hanson Bris-
oo,l md burned it to the lgr"und. The
store had goods in it amounting to near
y $500, and the building was worth
sbcnt 800 more. While the store was
In flames several volleys were fred intr
=. No ono was In it at the time, the oc-
ouPenes being at house several hundred
yards away, and too Heightened to ven
turs lsar. .. This party is evidentlyi'the
same ~ who killed Young Negro man
ID the same store early in the fall. by
shooting through the walls. Measures
sAeald 10 taken to break up this nest Of
outlaws
cslcasaen Echo: Last Thursday, about
midnight, fire broke out in WIN. +. ellis
nav two-story building next to the do
pot Of tho Louisiana Western Railroad,
about half q mile northeast Of Lake
Charles, snd..in very few minutes the
building, with all it's contents, was CON
saMed. u was built for hotel, and was
rented and occupied as such BY tho rail-
road company. Up stairs five employees
Of the railroad company were sleeping.
They escaped by jumping from the win
dow u the upper story Mr. F. Bunce,
cashier Of the hotel, barely escaped with
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