The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-12-20
MI ION. R. simmons has disposed of his

|, a Betsey Stuart, an old colored woman
was accidentally burned to death few
miles from Covington. She was lying
asleep in front Of fireplace when her
clothing ignited.
Editor j. W. Bryan of the Lake Charles
Echo is the proud pappy of a little daugh-
ter born the morning of November 5, upon
whom he has bestowed the patronymic of
Cleveland Gay Bryan.
The ST. Mary Herald tells of seventeen
acres of cane on q plantation in that parish
that yielded $1,000 pounds of sugar. This
is. a fine yield, undoubtedly, but it has fire.
quently been exceeded in Ascension.
Mr.. G. l.. Wilson shot and killed an
eagle on his place in Rapides parish that
measured 61 feet with its wings spread.
Mr.. Wilson says this eagle and its mate
| have had a nest on his farm for forty years.
Work upon the government building at
| Shreveport is shortly to be commenced.
Major N. s. Allen is to superintend the
work and Postmaster VIM. McKenns will
be disbursing agent for the appropriation.
| T. A. Devereaux was recently shot and
killed by John O'Neal at Haughton station
| on the v. S. & p. railroad, in Bossier par
| ish. Devereaux, who was under the infu-
ence of liquor, was the aggressor in the
affair,
| Miss Irene Kennedy, daughter of far
| mer at Evergreen, Avoyelles parish, has
sent to the Exposition two bridal bonnets
| ornamented with artificial flowers, COM
posed of three thousand five hundred fish
scales.
The proposition to impose a special levee
tax of ten mills was defeated in Concordia
parish by a vote of 286 to III. The property
holders claim that they cannot stand the
additional burden in their present impov-
erished condition.
A white man named Crandle Robin, en-
ployed as laborer in one of the camps of
the Calcasieu Lumber Company, was
crushed to death by rolling logs. His body
was forwarded to his former home at
Saginaw, Michigan.
Some children gathering frewood dis
covered the dead body of an unknown white
man hanging to the limb of a tree in the
woods near Acadia. The man had evil
IDENTIFY been hanging five or six weeks. He
had been scalped and his throat cut.
Wash Lyons, Bob johnson, Henry Will
Jams and Charles Verrett, accused of the
murder of Charles F. Gray, the colored
supporter of Mr.. Gay for Congress who
| was shot at a political meeting, were tried
at Houma week before last and acquitted.
| Mr.. j. II. McBroom, aged s., who has
| been Postmaster sixteen years at Lone
well post-oftice, Union parish, was arrested
recently charged with appropriating part
| of the contents Of letter containing $50
4 that passed through his hands in February,
1889.
Mr.. 3. +. Williams had a hand mashed
Off and the leaders pulled e, ..aty i is. air.
nearly up to the,,shs ooru1der while working at
y 1ettsason gin on the Elmwood plantation,
I Red River parish, The arm was amputa-
ted and the young man will probaly re-
cover.
A large black eagle, measuring seven
feet from Tip to tip of wings, was recently
captured by Nh. VIM. Dark in Lincoln
parish. Mr.. Dark was out coon hunting at
night and came across the bird sitting on
root Thinking it was q turkey, he struck
it with stick and knocked it over.
During the latter part of November two
/ women believed to be over 100 years old
died in Lafayette parish. One was col
ored woman called Marinette, whose age
was reckened at ITO. She was born in
Africa and tradition has it that she was the
wife of a noted chief in that country.
L. B. Wakeman, keeper of Trinity Shoal
light-ship, and a seaman named TORY
were rescued from watery grave by one
OF the Morgan steamships. They had been
ashore and were returning to the light ship
in small boat, when they encountered a
gale that swamped their little vessel twelve
/ miles from land.
| Mr.. F. w. Castleman's store on the
| Mound place, Tensas parish, was burned to
the ground, entailing loss of nearly $4,000.
| A white man is under arrest charged with
setting fire to the store and also to the cot
ton gin on the same place, which narrowly
escaped destruction a few days after the
burning of the store.
dispatch from New Iberia thus de-
scribes a peculiar accident that occurred on
the Morgan railway at that town Just after
midnight of the 7th inst: Gas the Texas
express train due here at 1890 A. NJ, was
coming up, and when about two miles be-
low town, the engineer discovered that he
had not sufficient water in his boiler to pull
the train to New Iberia, where there is a
tank. He cut loose from the train while
under full Roadway and came on to get
water, expecting to go back after the train.
AS the engine was standing at the tank the
train left behind came up full tilt and ran
into the engine, smashing it and the mail
car. The passengers were knocked off the
seats and out of the hunks, all badly fright
ened, but none hurt. The switch engine at
this place took the train on to Lafayette.
Rex, the mighty Carnival King, is out in
his annual proclamation calling for grand
celebration of Mardi Gras in New Or1ean S
February II, 1886.
TRANSFERS OF PROPERTY
Recorded in the Clerk and Recorders office
Ascension Parish. Since Our Last Report.
jos. Dominique to A. P. Dominique and A.
f. Dominique to Jos. Dominique partition of
the land and Improvements belonging to the
SuCceSSI on of the late JnO. DominieI1n and mr.