The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-05-13
SUMMARY OF STATE NEWS.

been put in operation.
The parish Jail Of East Feliciana was
without an inmate last week.
A colored convict committed suicide
at Minden to escape fogging.
More than two-thirds Of the parish OF
East Carroll has been submerged.
The young men of Lake Charles are
about to organize a military company.
There is only one piece of real estate
OH the delinquent tax roll in Tensas
parish.
Miss Kate Westerling, aged II years,
was drowned in the overflow near
Morgan City.
A disease known as Spanish leprosy
has killed great many mules in Natchi-
toches parish.
The Clarion reports the crop prospect
favorable and labor earnest and diiIgent
in MoreAouse parish.
john Nelson, a Swede, fell out Of a
skitf while intoxicated and was drowned
iii tEo OaiClSl6u river.
a white man and three colored Chi
dren were bitten by u dog supposed to
be mad, in New Iberia.
The first kiln Of 100000 bricks burned
by the new Bayou Sara Brick Com
pany was a total failure.
A crazy mother near Abbeyille killed
her six-weeks-old infant by dashing its
brains out against tree.
Natchitoches has the base ball fever.
Much interest in the game is manifested
by the ladies Of the place.
Dave Singleton, Il colored steamboat
cook, was accidentally drowned i'll
Bayou Teche at New IBERIA -.s-
Tom Duffy killed John Farrell with a
Ratchet at Vermilionville during mid
night quarrel. Duffy is in jail.
Fritz Wagner, /. Houma barkeeper, was
fseverely cut in the face by some unknown
person while going home ut night.
Noel Falgout, a young man from Nor
gan City, was drowned in Bayou Long,
near that town, while floating logs.
Three sous of Mr.. VIM. SIawson OF
Union parish trapped q large she-woli
and killed her and her six young ones.
| John Webb fell from loaded wagon
i'll Shreveport and was crushed to death
beneath its wheels. Webb was intoxic;a
| ted.
Thibodaux's three fire companies had
brilliant annual parade and a very
successful fair and ball on the 26th OF
April.
| An entertainment given by Lake
Charles Fire Company No. for the
benefit of sufferers by the overflow net
| ted 500.
G. W. Laird was shot and killed by
JOHN Nealey, at Sugar Town. Calcasieu
| parish. Nealey and his brother were
arrested.
The sugar-house of NJ Tester, i'll St
james parish, was destroyed by fire
| believed to have been the work of AZ
| incendiary.
Mr.. Thomas Taylor, an old citizen o.
Union parish, was bitten by mad dog
seven weeks ago, and died of hydropho.
bia last week.
Paul Pringle, the colored man who
was to have been hanged i'll Mansfield OF
the 10th ult., was rcspited for sixty day:
by the Governor.
The residence of Mrs. Mary Ann Hays
on Bayou Lacasine, Calcasieu parish
was destroyed 10y fire with its entire con
tents. Loss $4,000.
Young James s. Osborn was drowned
in the overflow in Rapides. Similar casu
alities have occurred in several other o
the flooded parishes.
A produce boat loaded with corn
belonging to Mr. Banlsey, went into ;
crevasse i'll Madison parish and grounded
The cargo was saved.
Mr.. c. l.. Walmsley, an old and uni
versally esteemed citizen of Natchitoches
was thrown FROM railroad train and
killed near Harrisburg, Pa.
Mary Z. Porch was accidentally sho
atsd fatally wounded by her brother
TeIesphor Porch, on the Glendale plan
tation i'll Terrebonne parish.
Baptiste Saizan, a colored resident o
In ;oI, 1,
water in a leal.y flat and was drowned
He was under the influence of liquor.
Baton Rouge, Alexandria and the sixt
ward of Bienville parish have each had
case of small pox. The Alexandria vic
tim is member of the Town Council.
America Black, colored woman
charged with killing her new born in
FAINT in Caddo parish, was acquitted b.
jury composed entirely Of white meu
Auguste and Joseph Batiste, tw
Indians, quarreled at Vaudeville an
August shot Joseph in the neck, MORTAL
wounding him. The murderer was al
rested.
Widow Lessin Meaux, distracted b
grief at the death of husband, committe
suicide in Vermiiion parish by SEVERN
the blood vessels of her arm in tw
places.
The United States Circuit and Distric
Court for the Western District of Lou
isana is holding its first term i'll the cit
of Shreveport, Judge Aleck Boarman 0
the bench.
w. c. Raglan, prominent citizen {
Thibodaux, was shot and severely woul
,lal in thu f.oo hv a hall from a nisft