The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-22
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cheese to sweeten his breath, and
That q decided improvement is notice.
able since the change ofdiet.
That Pretty's friends would like to be
informed what caused the weakness il
| his knees.
That if we didn't know he had made
his peace with Flash the question would
be an-kneesy one to answer.
That Port Barrow's distinguished Judge
didn't present picture Of high judicial
| dignity when his so-called horse insisted
on lying down with him in Bayou
Lafourche.
That Skip has somewhat recovered
frem his recent affection and is now en-.
deavoring to sweeten his sorrows by stir
ring sugar kettle.
That the elongated youth who boosted
of having things his own way at the last
hop is certainly not lacking in self-assur-
ance, else he wouldn't have ventured
back to that young lady house after the
raking down he got from the old folks.
That the ex-warden objects to making
windmill of himself in the awkward
squad.
That the Washer of baskerville has
arrived from Thibodaux.
That the celebrated author of that Pc
tition to the Police Jury denies having
booked any legal ideas from the common
law of England, but
That he can not deny having hooked
Judge Ilsloy's horse and also another
horse belonging to some one else.
That Port Barrowites ought not to
subscribe to the assertion that their
town is detrimental to the health of
the inhabitants thereof"
That the spectacle of people "driving
their COWS and other property to pasture I"
must be peculiar to Port Barrow.
That Mr.. Spiccr Jones is thinking Of
entering libel suit against lie Foyer
Creole and the CHIEF for reporting that
lie is engaged in manufacturing sugar
from pumpkins.
That the young man who promised not
to visit any body else while sAe was away
is gay deceiver, and
That we wonder if he will have the
check to toll her he kept his promise.
1NFANTlc1DB:-Thursday morning, the
goth inst, two employees Of tho railroad
company who were working at the
water tanks about a quarter Of q mile
below the Donaldsonville depot, discov-
cred in the we'll alongside the road-bed
from which water is pumped into the
tanks, the body of oolored female
child, about year old. The discovery be-
ing reported and the body taken from
the well, it was asoertained to he the re-
mains Of the child Of Mamie Scott, q
solored girl living in Donaldsonvi1le.
DR.. Vandegriff, Coroner of the parish,
was summoned to hold an inquest, and
rom the evidence adduced before the
coroners jury the following circum-
stances are learned. The child was
FAMED Albertha Laroque, and it's father |
g Henry ". Laroque, young colored
nan Familiarity known by the nickname
,f "Nicottc." Mamie Scott left her
house Tuesday evening, between and
O'Clock, with the child in her arms and
was gone about half an hour, returning
without the child. To Martha Mollere,
;he child's godmother, who had been
away from homo all day Tuesday and
who returned after dark, Mamie stated
chat she had at II o'clock that day
given the infant to q colored woman Ev-
ing in st. James, whose name she de-
,lined to divulge. Next day she told
Mary Dillingham; that she had given the
child to colored woman named Caro- !
line early Monday morning. When sp-
pretended on Thursday and taken to
where the inquest on the body Of her |
child was being held, the unnatural |
mother fell in real or pretended swoon
md remained in that condition until |
to tbs parish Jail, where she
con recovered her senses. The finding
# the Coroners jury was that the child
anne to it's death from suffocation and
(rowning caused by violence st the
lands Of Mamie Scott. The neck Of the
infant was found to be dislocated, but
whether this injury was inflicted before
he child was thrown into the water, Q.
vas caused by the body striking ono Of
he cross timbers in the well was not
ully determined. There seems no rea-
on to doubt the guilt Of the accused,
Who is confined in the parish Jail on .
barge Of murder preferred by the Cor
ner.
An accident to the machinery occurred
t the Leblanc sawmill Wednesday after
Don, compelling suspension Of work.
me Of the follow bolts in the cylinder Of
he engine loosened, breaking the follow
nd one Of the cylinder rings and bend
ne the piston rod. Fortunately the en-