The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-12-23
SUMMARY OF STATE NEWS

SUMMARY OF STATE NEWS
Gleanings from the Louisiana Press.
Fire destroyed the store Of Mr.. E. D
Coco at Hamburg, parish Of Avoyelles
Loss, $4,000.
. A colored woman lie in Jail at Dslt,
charged with beating and star wing he
child to death.
Mr.. R. F. Bass Of Calcasieu proposes t,
engage extensively ID the rearing OF inl
ported cattle.
Thirty-eight bills of Indictment have
boen returned by the Grand Jury fo
Ouachita parish.
| 4 sMr. Joseph Jarvis, aged 76, one of til,
oldest native citizens Of Avoyelles parish
died on the 18th nit
Tie little steamer Boss, laden will
cotton seed, sank in Lake Concordia
The boat will be raised.
The three-year-old child of Sam Camp
bell was fatally burned at Hahnville by
falling into the fireplace.
Forty German families have settled at
Prairie Hayes, parish of St. Landry,
within the past six months.
Henry Taylor, a colored roustabout Oh,
the steamboat P;.llie, fell overheard and
was drowned in Vermilion river.
The remains Of Associate Justice VIM
N. Levy arrived at sNatchitoches this
week and were buried with imposing
ceremonies. i
1t is claimed thatE GO 600 pounds Of
sugar were made III 4wenty-four hours
on Col. A. w. Boswofth's Matilda plan
tation in Iberia parish.
The work of laying the track of the
Now Orleans and Mississippi Valley rail-
road has progressed . point three or
four miles north of Kennerville.
The sugar mill of til Whitehead place
in St. Charles parish, which was SO bad
ly wrecked by boiler explosion few
| weeks ago, is again inoperation.
Richard Jones has been indicted for
raping Amy Jenkins in st. Charles par
ish. Charles Warsaw was acquitted Of q
similar offense in the same parish.
Alcee Bourg, aged Is, was shot i'll the
thigh and severely wounded by the dis-E
charge of a gun in the hands of !. com
panion near Labadievillc, Assumption
parish.
A ferry boat laden with cattle sank in
Black river at Trinity, and colored
man was drowned. Two white men who
were also on the boat managed after o
hard strdgglesto gain the shore.
h Mr.. John rhomas had desperate en-
counter with q scolored man in East
Baton Rouge parish ard was compelled
to shoot his antagonist to death. Mr..
Thomas surrendered to the Sheriff.
Alcide Dieudonnier, who killed one
Eph.aim Porter at u ball in Freetown,
st. Charles parish, was exonerated by
the Grand Jury, the homicide having
been committed i'll self defense.
A rice thrasher, fifty cords of wood and
several sacks Of rice belonging to Mr..
Aristide Bourgeois were burned in St.
James parish, having caught fire from
burning bagassc ON Mr.. N. P. Trist's
plantation. 4
The work of grading and bridging the
line of the Natchitoches tap road has
been completed, and the Texas Pacific
Company will now take charge of the
tap and complete it by laying the iron
and putting on the rolling stock.
James s. Sheridan, postmaster at Clos
ter station, on the Texas Pacific railroad,
was run over and killed by freight
train. The end Of shawl he wore was
caught by some projection on u passing
cur and lie was thrown under the wheels.
Stephen Galloway, colore.l, who killed
Doc Broadnax i'll Ouachita parish, has
been convicted Of murder without capi-
tai punishment. Mollie Broadnax, wife
OF the murdered man, was charged with
iii the crime, but the Grand
Jury declined to indict her and she has
been released.
Mr.. Mcdowell, a resident of the tenth
ward of Morehouse parish, was beaten
senseless and robbed by Negro, receiv-
ing several dangerous wounds iu the
head Inflicted with an ax. Wesley An
drews has been arrested OH tho supposi-
ton that he is the party who committed
the murderous assault.
A young man named Cook, aged Is
years, was mortaliy wounded on Bayou
Dularge, in Terrebonne parish, by the
explosion of his gun while lie was out
hunting dncks. The force Of the explo-
sion drove piece of the gun barrel into
his neck, severing an artery, and the
unhappy youth bled to death.
Morehouse has been disgraced by a
ynchins affair. A body of masked men
broke into the Jail at Bastrop Friday
hight Of last week, took therefrom Bill
Cephas and Tom Robertson, two colored
prisoners charged with attempting to as
Mr.. VIM. Curry, and hanged
them to Il tree half mile from the town.
Our cotton planters and country mer-
chants are much discouraged by the
present. price of cotton. When the quo
,ations are, ordinary, cents, low mid