The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-02-18
SUMMARY OF STATE NEWS.

pOIIloH u Cue |lcKSDurS ana Monroe
railroad is under water.
The steamer Exchange, which sunk in
Bayou Teche, has been raised.
An ice manufacturing company has
been organized at Baton Rouge.
Mr.. p. w. De Franco has retired from
the editorial chair of the West Carroll
Watchman.
There are several weak leyces in
Pointe Coupe and fears Of crevasse
are entertained.
Col. Thos. G.. Anderson has moved to
Washington, and will make that town
bis permanent home.
Gen. Montfort Wells, the oldest native
born resident Of Rapides..parish, died OH
the 23rd ult., aged 81.
A beaver or an otter bored hole
through the levce in front Of Hahuyille,
and q crevasse was narrowly averted.
A Point Coupe boy named Jauean
cut three fingers from his left hand
with II Ratchet wnllc repairing fcnce.
Jack Jackson killed Monroe Green
with q razor in East Feliciana parish.
aud then fled. Both were colored men.
A clubhouse belonging to H. Block
burned in Franklin parish, together With
four bales of cotton and quantity of
seed.
Willie Chapman, aged 16, was killed
by the accidental discharge of his gun
while out rabbit hunting i'll East Felici-
ana parish.
The store and residence Of Judge b. L.
Hardesty in Washington were destroyed
by an incendiary fire. Loss $4,000, in
snrance $4,000.
Saw mills that will turn out $50. 600
feet Of lumber day and give employ
ment to 400 laborers are to be established
ut Alexandria.
Gus Touslcy, colored, was shot and
fatally wounded by il white man named
Luke Dowden, near Lake Charles. The
murdered escaped.
Col. }. NJ. Thompson, prominent
citizen Of ST. Landry parish, died there
recently. He served in the Texas and
wars.
Tue West Carroll Watchman learns
hat not less than thousand hogs have
been drowned within six miles of Floyl |
since the rise of the river.
The cabin Of Anderson Davis, stu
'ted Oh the Turner plantation III West
'eilclana, was destroyed by fire and two
mall children were burned to death.
A charter has been granted for Il ma
lonal bank to be established at Baton
tonSe with capital of 100000. Mr..
,. \. David is at the head Of the project,
Water from Grand Levee creyasse bas
'velftowcd the banks Of bayou Crosse
'ete, and is backing up into the swamp
'etween False river and the Mississippi
Work on the VicksDurg, Shreveport
md Pacific railroad is being rapidly
ushed from Monroe toward Shreveport
nd operations will soon be begun at the
attet place.
John WEIGH, 6 young Baton Rouge
lrmer, committed suicide by hanging
'mseif in his cotton house. He was e,-
1ently contentsd aud prosperous and
ne cause for the self-murder il IL mystery,
The skeleton of Stanton Bietry, the
oy who was lost in st. Tammany parish
as recently discovered in the woods not
r from the place where he was last
zen: He had evidently died from ex
psure.
Mr. Ben. D. Harrison, publisher Of the
lalborne Guardian, issued number of
'at excellent paper on his fifty-eighth
rthday, February l. He has been {
with the press over forty-six
ears. !
Ed. Bolton, Paul Pringle and John c
obilc, the three colored men sentenced t
death in Desoto parish, escaped from
e Shreveport Jail recently, in company il
It'll nine other prisoners. Bolton was c
captured and hanged at Mansfield last a
EEK and Prinsle has been apprehended
New Or leans. Mobile is still at large. j,