The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-15

more are about to enter.
Mills for the manufacture of cotton
seed oil will soon be in operation in
Washington and Opelousas.
A rabid dog bit several hogs in Pointe
CoupGe. The animals all became afflicted
with hydrophobia and were killed.
In few days trains will be running on
the Morgan road to Cheneyyille, tho point
of junction with the New Orleans Pacific.
Read Harris, charged with the murder
of Paschal A. Pujo, in Calcasieu parish,
August 5, 1877, has been tried and acquit-
ted.
George Coke, discovered in the act of
burglarizing Mr.. George Longs store, is
under arrest at Floyd, West Carroll
parish.
Policeman McRady of Shreveport, who
killed VIM. Bowie, a colored desperate,
in self defense, has been exonerated from
blame.
J. d. Hines and r. McIntash had a
difficulty at Cottonport, and the latter
was shot and slightly wounded. Hines
is in Jail.
A man charged with stealing duck
spent fifty three days in the Jail of Con
cordia parish and was then set at liberty
without trial.
A colored thief who robbed the resi-
dence Of Mr.. Randolph Snyder, near
Port Hudson, has been captured. His
name is Henry Hansey.
Alexandria anticipates having railroad
communication with New Orleans via
the N. O. Pacific and Morgan lines, ere
the end of the current month.
jeff Harris, colored, shot and killed
Henderson Jackson, also colored, near
Athens. The killing is looked upon as
wilful murder. Harris is at large.
John Williams, eo!ored, was waylaid
and shot to death in Bossier parish, and
Jack Chapman, also colored, is in Jail at
Bellevue charged with the assassination
A colored citizen of Baton Rouge re-
plenished his exchecquer by going about
with spade on his shoulder soliciting
subscriptions to bury man who was not
dead.
Six hands on the Lusk plantation, in
Terrebonne parish, struck for higher
wages and refusing to resume work or
leave the place, were elected by the
Sheriff.
The steam gin on the Downing & Mer-
rick plantation on Bayou Fordoche,
Pointe Conp6e parish, was destroyed by
fire. There was no insurance on the
property.
Dave Robinson, a cotton picker in
Caddo parish, had his arm so badly
mangled in q cotton gin that amputa-
critical.
Mr. Spicer Jones successfully expert
mentcd in the manufacture of sugar from
pumpkins on Mr.. Marcelin Trcuit's place,
st. James parish, and proposes to patent
the process.
Eight head of cattle belonging to Mr.
DeFee, in East Carroll parish, broke in
to aoptton field where worm destroyer
had been used and were fatally poisoned
from grazing there.
Charlie johnson, who recently muir
dered Squire Coleman near Shreveport,
after enticing Coleman's wife to leave
him, has been sentenced to life imprison-
ment in the penitentiary.
A pecan tree in Thibodaux over 100
years old that ceased to bear was made
to yield again By boring hole in its
trunk and driving the limb of Young
pecan tree into the aperture.
On the Marshall place, in Madison pa
rish, John Boyd had difficulty with
several colored men and stabbed three of
them with knife. One of the wounded
men subsequently died.
The planters of St. Mary parish have
formed an association and decided to pay
laborers during the approaching grind
ing season 81 50 and rations for eighteen
hours work, or 81 IS without rations.
The store of Mr.. Lazarus Mayer, in Har-
risonburg was destroyed by fire which is
believed to have been set by an incendia-
~. Mr.. Mayors residence, fifty feet
away, was saved with great difficulty.
A flat car and the caboose of con-
struction train on the New Orleans Paci-
fc railroad ran off the track en- route from
Mansfield to Shreveport. A white man
named VIM. Z. Wood was run over and
Instantly killed.
Mr.. VIM. Vaughan, who was wayIaid
and shot by some unknown seoundrel,
in the parish of Caddo, seems to be III a
fair way to recover from his wounds
A reward Of $3.50 IS offered for the detec-
ton of his would be assassin.
A building used as cooper, carpenter
and blacksmith shop was burned on Mr.
Gibson's Greenwood plantation, Terre-
bonnie parish. The fine sngar-honse,
standing only thirty yards distant, mar
rowly escaped destruction.
The Clubhouse and wheelwrisht shop
Of Mr.. Chas. WyIand, situated nine miles
from Baton Rouge, were destroyed by fire
last week, together with thirty-two tons
of cotton seed, a wagon, buggy and all
of Mr.. WylaHd's tools. No insurance.