The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-12-31
VILLETTE.
SUMMARY OF Sta TIE NEWS

Gleanings from the Louisiana toress'
| The residence Of Mr.. John Tru.,seil
near Vienna, was destroyed by fire.
An unknown Irishman and a little
| daughter of Mr.. Green were killed 10y tic
cars at Lake Charles.
A. A. David, who killed L. G. Fitzum
in Rapides, has been committed to jail
without benefit of bail.
Two young men named Mcintyre and
Stone were drowned while crossing Black
bayou, Caddo parish, in a dug-out
Fields are still white with cotton in
| St. Martin and it is believed the croI
! will be heavier than for several years.
The Bayou Teche steamer Matte ex-
ploded boiler near Pattersonville. M
one was hurt and the damage was small
At the whiskey election held in Tangi-
pahoa parish on the 5th inst, the pro
hibitionists carried the day by vote Of
521 to 22O.
Capt. ]. H.. Walker of Webster parish,
who killed the seducer Of his daughter
Simon P. Doyle, has been tried and ac-
| quilted.
Green Fitzpatrick, Constable and Col
lector of the village of Pineville,, Ra-
pides parish, decamped with $40 of the
municipal funds. >
| John Dimond, who killed James Simms
| in st. Charles parish, on the 3oth Of July,
has been convicted Of murder without
capital punishment. z.tz,
The Boynton brothers, charged with
waylaying and shooting W. L. Vaughn in
Caddo parish, have been discharged
having proved an alibi. 4., E.
Ten criminals are under sentence OF
| death in this State: four in st. Mary
| one in Tensas, one in Orleans, three in
| DeSoto and one in Bossier.
Mrs. +. B. Post, wife of a railroad con-
tractor working about sixty miles below
| Shreveport, was found dead in her bed
She had been i'll some time.
An ,eight-year-old son of Mr., Bietry
was lost in the woods in st. Tammany
parish week before last and no trace Of
him has yet been discovered. 80
| A white man believed to be Francis T !.
! Cluverius of Portsmouth, Va, was fatal
ly beaten and stabbed by an unknown
colored man, in Rapides parish.
The cotton crop of Bienville parish
turned ont somewhat better than was
expected and the farmers have nearly all
cleared enough to supply them another
year.
The sngar house of Messrs. James
Robertson e. Brother, in Iberville, was
destroyed by an accidental fire the night
of the 4th inst. Loss, $4,000; no ilisu-
rance.
A livery stable belonging to Mr.. J. F.
Durham burned at Mansfield. All the
horses and mules were saved. Loss,
$25Oo; insurance $500. The fire was
started by an incendiary.
A shooting ARRAY occurred among a
party Of men at collation. given by
colored people near Tones bayon, Caddo
parish, and Richard Ivey was killed.
Two white and several colored men were
involved in the affair but it is not known
who fred the fatal shot.
Jim Randolph was brutality murdered
in Natchitoches parish and his body
concealed in an old we'll, whittier it was
tracked over three miles by a trail of
blood. Strong circumstantial evidence
points to Bill Price, colored, as the
murderer, and he has been arrested.
Aaron Patterson and VIM. Harrison,
colored men living on False river, Pointe
Coupee, had quarrel and Patterson
emptied his revolver into Harrison, four
balls taking effect, two Of them striking
the backb bone. The wounded mans con-
dition is critical. Patterson is in Jail.
Verify, the law prohibiting gambling
is a very dead letter in Louisiana and
particularly in st. Landry. A suit has
been filed in the District Court of that
parish wherein $1,000 damages is claimed