The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-12-03
SUMMARY OF STATE NEWS.

SUMMARY OF STATE NEWS.
Gleanings from the Louisiana Press.
A party of hunters i'll Madison parish
remained out two nights and one day
and killed seven deer, two bears, three
wild cats and large number Of turkeys,
ducks and squirrels.
Judge VIM. NJ. Leyy's clubhouse, con-
tanning about seventy bales of cotton,
was destroyed by fire in Natchitoches
parish. The total loss was about $14,-
500; insurance, $4,000.
MI. Hood has been sentenced. to nine
months imprisonment in the penitell-
tiary for giving poor woman Confeder-
ate money in exchange for horse in
Natchitoches parish.
The sugar-house of Mr.. Geo. w. Baack
ner, in the parish of st. Martin, was de-
stroyed by fire, caused by an employe
accidentally dropping lighted match
into barrel of coal oil.
Henry johnson, an engineer, was
killed by James Andrews, a roustabout,
at L'Argent landing, Concordia parish.
Andrews was arrested. He claims to
have acted in self defense. @
A cyclone recently passed within half
mile of Sparta, doing much damage to
fences, fruit trees, etc. Some cabins be-
longing to colored people were demol-
ished, but no lives were lost.
Unknown parties set fire to a house in
St. Bernard parish in which widow
and her children were sleeping. Luckily
the flames were. discovered and extin-
guished before gaining innch Roadway.
During quarrel about mule between
Peter Ware and Harrison Jackson, in
Concordia parish, their wives interfered
to stop the difficulty, when . pistol in
Wares hand was accidcntly discharged,
fatally wounding Jackson's wife.
Ike Harris, colored malefaotor who
entered the office of the Crosse Tete
Railroad Company at Port Allen one
night in July and got away with several
articles Of portable property, has gone to
the penitentiary for fourteen years.
On the premises of Mr.. VIM. Robinson
of Bayou Rouge prairie, Avoyelles parish,
fssure in the earth extending almost
entirely around his house, has made its
appearance. The crevice is five or six
inches wide and bottom can not he
reached with twenty-foot pole.
An attempt to burn the business por
ton of Farmerville was made by UNI
known incendiaries, who SGT fire to the
storehouse of F. Selig and the drug store
of DR.. Adcock. Fortunately a citizen
saw the blaze and raised an alarm III
season to prevent disastrous fire.
A party Of twenty-nine Belgian i1hmi-
grants recently settled in Rapides par
ish. The Express says they were induced
to come to this country by number of
their countrymen who have been located
in that parish for several years, aud who
have been remarkably successful in
farming.
Elijah Perkins and Marshall Hall,
colored men, got into a quarrel about
ten cents at Smiths store, near Houma,
and Perkins shot Hall in the left breast,
the ball coming out near tho top of the
left shoulder aud causing serious
wound. Hall was the aggressor i'll the
quarrel.
Richard Kane O'Neill, promising
youth of IA years, son of Mr.. J. A.
| O'Neill, Parish Treasurer of St. Mary,
was brutality murdered while out bird
hunting near Franklin. Two colored
boys are under arrest charged with the
crime and strong circumstantial evidence
Of their guilt has been adduced.
In shooting affray at Terre-aux-
Boeufs, St. Bernard parish, between
Chas. w. Widney, overseer, and Henry
and Marcel Morales, Widney was slightly
wounded in one hand and Marcel was
shot through the body and severely in.
jured. The Morales brothers provoked
the difficulty and began the shooting.
! King Lynch and Frank Owens, colored
men, had fight near Natchitoches, re-
sulting in Owens receiving two CHASTITY
knife wounds in the side and back. Onk
of the thrusts severed the tenth rib aud
cut half way through the eleventh, and
the other penetrated tho left lung
Lynch furnished bonds to appear FOL
examination.
John Brown, a tenant on Mr.. P. L
Lorio's plantation, on Bayou Maringouin
Iberville parish, cultivated two acres o
cotton which yielded two bales pc
acre, averaging 500 pounds to the bale
Good seed, judicious fertilization ane
thorough cultivation produced the grati
flying result, and what John Brown has
done thousands Of other farmers can do
Pain and weakness OF lungs, liver, kid
neys, and urinary organs relieved by using
Browns Iron Bitters.