The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-09-22
The DoDaIdsoqviIIe CpieI'
STATE NEWS.

items Of Interest Cleaned from the Louisi-
ana Press.
Mansfield is about to build new brick
jail.
The Farmers Club of Union Parish has
400 members.
Henry Dupuy succeeds Chas. L. Huesman
as Postmaster at Marksvilie.
Glenco cotton gin, with eighteen bales OF
cotton, burned in Grant parish.
Candidates for Sheriff and District Attor-
ney are announced in the Vienna Sentinel.
Joinville Joseph, colored, killed bis broth
er, Omer Joseph, in St. John parish, and is
under arrest.
barrel of petrifed pork was found
floating in the river by i1r. Victor Mezy of
West Baton Rouge.
Three acres of levee in front of the York
and Medora plantations, Iberville parish,
caved into the river.
Witt Holmes shot and killed Thos. John
son, in Calcasieu parish, and claims that
he cted in self defense.
All the compositors employed on the
Shreveport Standard left that paper and
went to work in the Office of the daily DEM
Dcrat.
st. handry's assessment for 1883 is
S4,2i2, 71G, which is greater than that of
any other parish in the State excepting Or
leans.
There are three cases of small pox On the
T,,t, I'll
three miles from St. Frsncisyille, but none
IN the town.
If the judgment of the Gretna Courier is
correct, Jefferson parish will make larger
crops of rice and sngur this year than any
other season since the war,
The New Orleans Grand Jury recon-
1nends the establishmentof a crematory in
the city for the burning of the bodies Of all
victims of contagious diseases.
Alex Dees and Linsey Thomas, colored
men, had difficulty in Concordia parish,
which culminated in the killing of Thomas
with an ak. The murderer escaped.
VIM. Berry and j. B. Sanders, white
men, had fight in a saloon at Amite City,
and Sanders was fatally shot by Berry,
dying in a short time. Berry is in jail.
Beioni Loncon of Terrebonne parish
was found dead in his brothers field. in the
parish of St. Mary, aud is believed to have
committed suicide. He was hard drinker
and lived unhappiy with his family.
At Royville, Lafayette parish, an old man
named FL. Fl. White was struck with a
spade handle by Albert Fabre and died
from the effects of the blow. Fabre was
admitted to bail in the sum of $4,000.
Tom and Monroe Youngblood, notorious
Negro hoodlums, nave committed several
misdemeanors in Livingston parish and
DEFY arrest The Maurepas Gazette calls
upon the vigilantes to take their case in
hand.
big steam shovel used in the work of
grading for the Vicksburg and Shreveport
railroad was blown to pieces by the explo-
sion Of its boilers On the LIST inst, at Roane-
vile, Lincoln parish. The fireman was
severely wounded.
shooting affray occurred at the Yer
'ihiiioiiSlilo idllfotd uepOt between an en-
gineer named Peterson and a conductor
named Goode, during which Goode and a
brakesman named Mayfeld were wounded
Peterson surrendered and gave bond.
Henry Dickerson, colored, who murdered
John Steele in Iberville parish. last June.
because the latter would not loan him ten
cents, was hanged at Plaquemine on the 7th
inst, in the presence of 1000 peonle. He
claimed the killing was accidental and at
tributed his fate to whiskey.