The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-29
SUMMARY OF STATE NEWS.

Gleanings from the Louisiana Press.
The sweet potato crop will be short
one, owing to drouth.
Mr.. Charles F. Huesman has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Marksvil]e.
Mr.. Joseph Anger, an Iberville planter,
raised 800 barrels Of corn this year.
A handsome new;railroad depotiis one
of Plaquemine's latest acquisitions.
Hi1aire Lopez of st. Martinsville was
drowned while bathing in Bayou Teche.
Ground for new courthouse has been
staked off at Rayville, Richland parish.
Worms are deyouring.theisec ond. crop
Of cotton in Morehouse... and franklin
parishes.
Seven men charged with murder are
confined in the st. Mary parish jail at
Franklin.
The town Of Covington, st. Tammany
parish, is out of debt and has money in
its treasury.
A white man working on the. railroad
in Natchitoches parish was cru shed to
death by falling tree.
A portion of the body Of supposed
white man was found floating iu Red
river opposite Shreveport.
A young man calling himself Roland
Melville, is wanted at Lake Charles for
stealing $25 from Mr.. Hendrickson.
Bricks are being hauled to the site of
the proposed new Jail at Abbeville and
work on the building will soon begin.
The Conoordia Eagle is jubilant over
the bright prospect for the early compile
tion of tho Natchez, Red River and Sa-
bine railroad.
The hay crop of Pointe Coup6e is very
fine, but the Banner expresses fear that
the farmers are not saving so much of it
as they should.
Alien Holland, a colored man, was ar
rested at Morgan City, charged with the
murder of another colored man ten years
ago, on Bayou Sale.
Jack Lyons, colored, was assassinated
in Richland parish, by some one un-
known. Several colored men have been
arrested on suspicion.
Faustin Martin, charged with the muir
der of George Rountree about two years
ago, in the parish of Lafourche, has
been tried and acquitted.
Henry White, a young Canadian en-
ployed on the ironawork of the railroad
bridge at Berwick's Bay, accidentally fell
off the structure and was drowned.
A man named Whitesides, employed
upon the railroad, fell from the bridge
at Delhi and was killed. He leaves a
wife and two children, ut Water valley,
Miss.
A colored lad named Clarence Hamp-
ton was caught in the running gear of a
grist mill on Mr.. Chaler's place, parish
of Natchitoches, aud was crushed to
death.
While Mr.. Zenon Huber of Faque-
taique, St. Landry parish, was cleaning
his gun, he accidentally shot his wife ip
the shoulder and breast, causing severe
wound.
The carpenter of the steamboat Fuller,
Peter Metzgar by name, fell ovefboard
and was drowned while making some re-
pairs to the boats eel-house, at Nor
gan City.
| A colorcd man named George Brown
was arrested in Romans swamp, st.
James parish, for stabbing and mortally
wounding George Washington, in Pla-
quemjnes parish.
| A large force of laborers employed at
St. Louis by the Mississippi River Com
mission, have arrived in East Carroll
parish and are now at work closing the
large break in the Ashton levee.
Francisco Llorens, colored boy only
Is years of age, killed Mr.. Ursin Racial
with knife, in Natchitochcs parish, and
made his escape. The murdered man
leaves wife and three children.
Frank HELEN, d boiler maker, from
New Orleans, who was repairing the
boilers of the steamer Matte at New
iberia, died suddenly from the rupture
of blood vessel near the heart, caused
by lifting heavy weight.
An alligator snatched sheet from the
hands of a young lady who was washing
clothing in the Calcasieu river. Finding
the sheet poor edible, the brute re
turned to the bank and was killed BY
the young lady's brother with on ak.
The clubhouse on Gen. Sparrow's Hope
we'll plantation, three miles and hal
North of Lake Providence, was acciden
tally destroyed by fire, together will
twenty-five bales of cotton. The build
ing and ten bales Of cotton were insured
Mr.. Lafayette Godfrey of Connection
recently visited Baton Rouge to examin
the machinery for manufacturing cottol
in the State >penitentiary and ascertain
the cost of putting it in operation. II
thinks tho looms will be in motion yer,
soon.
Robert Carter, colored man living a
| the Island, in Ouachita parish, shot at
/ hog and killed two colored children,
: little boy and girl, playing out of sigh
seventy-fve yards away. The Coroner
jury decided that the killing was purel
accidental.
: Robert Wade was arrested at Ii