The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-12-24
OF STATE NEWS.
Gleanings from the Louisiana Press.

i'll the fields Of Avoyelles parish.
A hotel is to be built in Toledo which
will have chapel attached instead of q
bar-roo
A five-year old son Of Mr.. S. J. Harrel
of Minden was nearly killed by the kicE
of mule.
The clubhouse of Mr.. w. r. Tunnase
near Farmeryille, was destroyed by fire
Loss $400, covered by insurance.
Mr.. Duncan +. Kenner has sold his
CORTLAND plantation in St. John the Bap.
tist to Mr.. Morris Edrington for $21 900
Homemade syrup sold in Vienna al
81 gallon, and farmers of Lincoln
parish think it will pay better to raise
cane than cotton.
The store of C. B. Maglone, in East
Feliciana, was destroyed by fire on the
oath ult. The fire was set by an un-
known incendiary.
j. L. Augustine, residing near Hahn
willie, was shot in the neck and severely
wounded by Raphael Pierre. The shoot
ing was accidental.
Mr.. Francis S. Caro-, publisher of the
Pointe-a-la-Hache Obserrer, has heen
elected President of the School Board of
Plaqnemines parish.
| 1t is understood that the two colored
boys confined in Jail at Franklin for the
murder of young Richard Kane O'Neill
have confessed their guilt.
A dramatic entertainment for the
benefit Of the Wiltz fund was given by
amateurs at Lake Charles and the
sum realized was about $50.
James Anderson, colored, has been
found guilty Of the murder of Henry
johnson, at st. Joseph, Tensas parish,
and is under sentence of death.
An indigant colored family lived some
days in tAe market-house at Houma, and
one Of their children died there before
other quarters were provided them.
Hubert Richard, tenant on the
Waverly plantation, Lafourche parish,
made from 81 acres of cane 45 hogsheads
of sugar, weighing 100 pounds each.
Father Ryan, the poet-priest, delivered
three lectures in Baton Rouge last week.
He was presented with silken badge by
the Association of Confederate Veterans.
A large boiler exploded at the sugar
house Of Mr.. John Dymond's Bel Air
plantation, Plaquemines parish, injuring
number of laborers, six of whom have
since died.
Ed. johnson, a colored man, is in jail
at Clinton charged with firing upon the
messenger and robbing the mail bag of
the Jackson and Clinton route Oh the
25th ultimo.
A colored man named Stevens, living
on Lower False river, Pointe Coupee
parish, killed himself by discharging his
gun accidentally while standing in the
door of his cabin.
Rev.. Chas. +. D. Lyme, for ten years
pastor of the st. Johns Episcopal church
at Thibodaux, has gone to Key West,
Florida, to take charge of the st. Paul
church at that place.
Labor is cheaper in Morehouse than it
has been for years, and farmers are hay-
ing a great dea! of work done in the way
of building and repairing houses and
fences and clearinr land
The people of st. Martinsville have
voted a special tax of 81 mills in aid of
the proposed branch railroad to be built
from that town to the main line of the
Morgan road, at Cadie's Station.
The sugar-Louse Of Mr.. J. F. Lacaze in
the parish of ST. John was destroyed by
fire just as the work Of grinding was
completed. Fortunately the puryery,
containing all the sugar, was saved.
A company has been organized in
Franklin parish which proposes to build
a railroad from Vidalia to some point in
Arkansas, passing through the parishes
of Franklin, Richland and Morehouse.
Messrs Chas. Stott and +. Luton
berger, citizens Of New Iberia, had a
fight recently during which Mr.. Stott
was seriously wounded in the head by
an iron spike III the hands of his antago-
mist.
The whisky election held in Grant
parish resulted in 143 votes for prohibi-
ton and 167 against it. Three wards
were carried by the prohibitionists and
three by the liquor men. In one ward
no votes were cast.
Two convicts, Jack Toby and VIM.
Faulkner, escaped from the penitentiary
at Baton Rouge by cutting through the
bars Of their cell and scaling the walls,
but were recaptured at Woodville, Miss.
Both men were from New Orleans.
In Richland parish Henry Nichols and
his wife, coIored persons, visited Ray
vile leaving their two little boys at
home. During the absence Of the pa
rents the cabin caught fire and burned,
the children perishing in the flames.
7. L. Winder, Esq, prominent men,
ber of the Thibodaux bar, has purchased
of Mr.. Shelly Of New Orleans the fine
Erin plantation in Terrebonne parish.
The price fixed upon was S42, 900, paya-
ble in eight yearly instruments, without
! interest.
The Governor has sigpsd the death
warrants of Paul Pringle, Ed. Bolton