The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-02-10
SUMMARY OF STATE NEWS

Gleanings from the Louisiana Press.
+ The new Racourci levee, in Pointe
Coupee, is nearly completed.
Col. James expects to have the Bonnet
Carr6 crevasse closed by next Monday.
There are 267 pupils in the three pub
lie schools of Monroe, III white and 9t
colorel.
Taylor Ard shot and killed VIM. Lowry
at Amite City. The killing grew out OF
an old feud.
There are several. cases of smallpox
on Nine. Groleau's plantation, parish ol
Plaquemines.
A colored cripple dropped dead on the
Baton Rouge ferryboat. He had been
subject to epileptic fits.
Bob Strain murdered Pierre AHain in
New Iberia gambling den and fled.
Both were colored men.
A telephone line is spoken of to con-
meet Port Allen with Lobdells store,
Bayou Sara and False river.
John Morgan, an old colored man liy-
ing i'll Tensas parish, was frozen to death
while in state of intoxication.
Mr.. Geo. Keller diod in Avoyelles par
isll of lockjaw resulting from injury to
his hand by the saws of IL cotton gin.
Claiborne takes her place among the
Louisiana parishes that are ont of debt
and have Il surplus III their treasures.
Deputy marshals are arresting persons
charged with cutting timber from gov
ernment lands north Of Catahoula lake.
Nelson Donaldson, colored, was thrown
from his horse near st. Francisville and
died from the injuries received. He was
intoxicated.
A cabin occupied by Henry King was
destroyed by fire in Grant parish, and
Kings wife was 90 badly burned that
she died next day.
John Justis, hostler, was shot and
killed by stock trader named William
son, at Fillmore. The killing appears to
have been done in self defense.
The public schools of Con cordia parish
opened,on the 18th ult. We infer from
an item in the Eagle that few good
teachers can secure employment there.
A mulatto named Victor Butler shot
and killed Ben Corbin, Negro. ON the
Gay plantation, one mile from Tbibodaux
and made his escape. The murder was
unprovoked. --=-.-.-
Tho steamer st. Francis Belle sunk
a few weeks ago in Bayou Bartholomew:
She had 600 bales of cotton on board,
half of which were saved in slightly
damaged condition.
Henry Brown, @ soustabout OH the
steamer Ed. Rieiafason, tried to murder
the second mate by striking him on the
back of the head with a hatchet. Brown
is in Jail at Vidalia.
A colored woman who lost leg some
time ago has been sent to the Charity
Hospital from Terrebonne parish suffer-
ing from an affection of the other leg that
will nccessitate its amputation.
Deputy Sheriff Frank Barrow of Pointe
Conpee shot and killed colored prisoner
who attempted to escape from his custody.
The homicide was committed near Clin-
ton. The prisoner was charged with
larceny.
Jarret Carraway a colored laborer OH
the WoodlawH plantation, Terrebonne
parish, was accidentally shot and danger
onsly wounded while playing with several
of his cousins, one of whom was fooling
with pistol.
awe record only four homicides in
Morehouse this week." says the Bastrop
Clarion of last Friday. Three of the
victims were colored and one white, and
three of the homicides resulted from
drinking. The fourth was accidental.
A store and warehouse owned by Mr..
II. Block and occupied by Messrs. Hech-
niger & Schwartz, together with the law
Office of A. W. Moore, Esq, were de-
stroyed by fire at Winnsboro. Loss
about $4,000, partially covered by in
surance.
Paul Condier, boy of 16, quarreled
with his father, Antonio Condior, while
the two were walking up the Morgan
railroad track near Gretna. The father
struck the son, whereupon the latter
drew revolver and shot his father dead.
The young murderer is in Jail at Gretna'
Mr.. Ben. D. Harrison, who has been
publisher of the Claiborne Guardian ever
since its establishment, has sold the
paper to Messrs. j. E. Hulse e. Co., and
retired from the newspaper business.
The Guardian has always been one of the
best printed and most ably edited papers
OH our exchange list, and we have no
doubt it will continue 50 under the new
management.
Sam Woods, q eolored laborer employed
on DR.. A. Duperier's plantation, Iberia
parish, was mysteriously murdered dur
ing the night of the 9th ultimo, his body
being found on the bank of the bayou
next morning pierced by several bullet
holes. Messrs. VIM. Auber, manager of
the place, and Douglas Duperier, son of
the proprietor, have been arrested on
suspicion and placed under $1,000 ap-
pearance bond.
j. w. Board, an old white citizen of
Terrebonne parish, was murdered in cold