The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-04-15

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those who are least able to procure with
their own means the material necessary
for replacing the crops destroyed by the
innndation.
SUMMARY OF STATE NEWS.
Gleanings from the Louisiana Press.
Shreveport has had Il couple of cases
of small pox.
Five prisoners broke out of Jail at
Lake Charles.
Bill Hogan fell into Cobb's ditch, near
Bayou Sara, while drunk and was
drowned.
A wild cat was killed in Calcasieu
parish that measured four feet from nose
to tip of tail.
Farmeryille had municipal election
Monday before last, and Mr.. W. A. Darby
was chosen Mayor.
Over hundred mules were drowned
in the waters of the Alsatia creyasse,
East Carroll parish.
Vic Pierre, who escaped from the ST.
Charles parish Jail three weeks ago, was
recaptured in St. john.
Mr.. Geo. Hildenbrand's moss factory
at Gretna has been destroyed by an in
cendiary fire for the fourth time.
A plantation "with any amount OF
water privileges" is advertised for sale
| in ono of the overflowed parishes.
The store and residence Of MIR. Eugene
Ahearne, situated in the suburbs OF
Plaquemine, were destroyed by fire.
Joshua Mason killed Harvey Field
with fence rail i'll Ouachita parish
Both were colored men. The murderer
escaped.
The Washington argus says that lands
in st. Landry that have "never been
under water since the dclnge" are now
submerged.
Mr.. Gervais Bronssard's two-year-old
daughter was fatally wounded while
playing with u loaded revolver in st
| Charles parish.
| A colorcd man in Avoyelles parish wa:
cured of total blindness by pouring :
| few drops Of fish gall in his eyes two o.
| three times day
| Ground is being broken for the frs
railroad ever constructed i'll Bossier par
ish. The Banner trots out its rooster t.
| crow over the event.
Thos. Middleton, an old colored maj
living in Iberviile parish, fatally sho
himself while pulling his gun out of hi
wagon by the muzzle.
Delta had narrow escape from tota
destruction by the food. The rive
threatened to make new channe
through "Grant's canal"
A colored man named Beatin wa
| drowned in the overflow i'll Caldwell
parish, and companion had narros
escape from the same fate.
| DE-. J. G. Gordy Of St. Mary, the ven
cradle Grand Lecturer of the Masoni
order for this State, has relinq nished til
i duties OF She position on account of OLE
age.
State Senator L. N. Mutt Of Cadd
died at his residence in Shreveport O
the 22nd of March. He served as a
officer in the Confederate army and wa
an able lawyer.
} John Hall, a eolored skiffInan, wa
shot and dangerously wounded III Yves
Baton Rouge by a colored tramp wh"l
Hall refused to cross over tue river Ut
less paid i'll advance,
: The only planters in st. Charles VIII
have suffered from the overflow are q fe,
OH tue east bank Of the river whose bac
levees broke, letting in the water fro,
the Bonnet Care crevasse.
: Sunday before last a severe storm vi!
tied tue eastern portion Of Ouachita pa
: ish, destroying uumber Of building
and fences on several plantations.
woman was badly hurt by falling timber
Phil Jackson stabbed Munich Brighal
through the heart in Morehouse paris
and was taken to Jail. The murder Wa
unproyoked and the Clarion says Phil
chances to swing are reported fav orabl'
8 Both were colored men.
At Smithville, just below Red Rive
Landing, Geo. Smith shot at Hem
Sewell but missed him and the bull.
mortally wounded John Lindsey. Smit
shot again, seriously wounsiing Sewel
$ who returned tie fire aud killed Smi;
, instantly.
4 special election is to be held
Caddo parish on the 25th inst, for Il
purpose of choosing successor to tt
late State Senator L. NJ. Mutt. Col. :
D. Battle, editor of the Shrevepo
Times, and Mr.. VIM. Robson are cand
dates for the vacancy.
, A Timely Suggestion.
: DosALDsoNvILLE, April Is, 1882.