The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-07-16

heavy doses of salts, until the horse is
purged freely, and cold water applied to
the heat, until relieved Other cases
have been cured 10y bleeding, in addition
to tho salts and cold water treatment
j "A fine Attorney COW, at Sulphur
Springs plantation, gave birth to twin
calves. Both are doing we'll Thomas
Vcret, colored, was shot and mortally
wounded by Chas. ]. Sharp, white
man, OH Bogue Chitto. Veret died and
Sharp has disappeared.
Farmerville Gazette: Mr.. A. w. Bishop
has laid upon our table a boil of cotton,
raised in the open field, measuring five
inches in circumference. This cotton is
of the Mammoth Prolific variety, and
grown upon DR.. 3. i. billiards. place.
Mr.. Bishop says he has nine acres with
bolls, some even larger than the one he
brought to our office, and that fifty bolls
of maturcd cotton will weigh q pound.
The boil before us is evidently not over
half grown. - The cotton caterpillar has
made it's appearance on the farm of Mr..
Agerton, eight miles north Of town. The
dry hot weather we have had will pre-
vent the increase of the caterpillar. If.
however, it should DO showery and
cloudy for the next fifteen days, the en-
tire cotton crop will be destroyed before
the LIST of October.
Honma Courier: Monday morning an
alteration took place at tho Morgan
depot of Houma between Mr.. A. Bour-
gcois and Mr. Il. Leonval, school teacher,
which resulted in the former receiving q
bad cut in the left side from Il pocket
knife. Tho wound though very serious
is not dangerous, and Mr.. Leonval has
been released on bond On the 4th
inst, at his residence i'll the suburbs Of
Houma was snatched from our midst, DR..
A. Blanchard, than whom there was no
man more beloved III our whole COM
munity The suddcnncss of his demise
caused universal shock, for though
advanced in years, having covered the
allotted span of three score years and
ten, his strcnth was unabatcd and his
eye undimmed by age Two young
colored men were playing with pistol
OH the Cragen plantation, at Tcrrebonno
Station, when the harmless little play
thing exploded, lodging a ball into the
lower part of the abdomen Of one of the
playmates. Luckily the ball was diver
ted from its course, and was shortly
after extracted.
Shreveport Times: We yes terlay had
tho pleasure of meeting Maj r w. r.
Devoe, who has been absent for some
weeks surveying and laying off town
sites along the New Orleans Pacific rail
road. He is olated over the brilliant
prospects of the new town of Grand
Cane, situated in DeSoto parish Il few
miles north Of Mansfield Yesterday
evening while Michel Bernstein, drug
gist at A. j. BogcPs, was in the act Of
putting SOFA fountain OH JIG IstCk "
the generator the latter exploded, al
though the gauge indicated only 135
pounds pressure, and there has frequen
thy been as much rs 300 pounds. A
piece about six by eight inches blew out
Of tho generator near the bottom and
was driven against the ceiling. The
force Of the explosion threw Michel out
Of the door on to the pavement, the acid
severely burning him about the breast
and legs, though he received 10 material
injury A. C. Daniels, book-keeper and
druggist, was standing at the desk
near by and tho acid injured his clothing
and the books ! Saturday morning n
most distressing and fatal accident befoll
the family of NJ. and Mrs. james II.
McRady, living at or near Greenwood
Their little son, James Paterson, aged
one year and ten months, while playing
fell backward from q chair, which sc
severely injured him that death sool
cnsucu.