The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-04-25

declQeQ.Dy the small VOt0 Oh 20 against po
levy special tax of five mills to meet the
expense of moving the parochial buildings
and records from Vienna to Ruston.
A new lodge of the Knights of Honor has
been instituted at New Iberia under the
title of Iberia Lodge. The officers we're
installed by District Deputy Grand Dicta-
tor D. Benvenu, Jr., of Labadieville.
Prof. Charles, proprietor of the skating
rink at Natchitoches, collided with one of
his pupils while giving an exhibition of his
skill. The pair fell heavily, the Professor
underneath, and the latter sustained
fracture of one leg. II
Morey FL. Wallis, brakeman on the
Houma branch of Morgan's railroad, has
been awarded $12,500 damages by the Dis
trict Court for injuries sustained while on
duty, and caused by bad management of
persons connected with the road.
Mr.. John Manning, living near Cherry
Ridge, in Union parish, has COW that
gave birth to two-headed calf with two
mouths, two sets of teeth, four eyes, and
perfect in all respects, except that it had
but one pair of ears. The creature was
dead when found. @5..
There have been several casos of measles
in the neigLborhood of New Texas Land
ing, Pointe Coup6e parish. The disease
was brought over from Cat Island, West
Feliciana, where it has been very fatal, one
family losing five members, the mother
and her four children.
Gov. McEnery has granted a brief re-
spite to VIM. and Perry Melton, ,who were
to have been hanged at Farmerville on the
10Th inst. The delay was allowed in order
that the Governor might examine evidence
presented in support of an application for
Communication of the death sentence. ~
Mathurin Lenin is in Jail at New Iberia
for the murder of Frank Harrington, CON-
mitted the night of March II. The men
quarreled in a saloon and Harrington was
arrested by policeman. As they were
shot Harrington in the back, from which
he died on the lst of April. zr.
Geo. Mack, an oiler employed in the en-
gine room of the steamship Arkansas, was
canght in the machinery and instantly
killed, while the vessel was ON her way
from Morgan City to Corpus Christi. De-
ceased leaves wife and six children al
most destitute in New Orleans, to which
city his body was forwarded. s.. .s,
The little steamboat j. r. Jolley sank
while tied to the bank in Bayou Jessie, ten
miles above Morgan City, drowning two
brothers, E. w. and Amos Shinn. Several
other persons on board narrowly escaped.
The deceased had lately married two Sis
ters named McQuay, who have been teach
ing school at Morgan City,
Ohas. Lasseigne, Jr., assistant Postmas-
ter at Bonnet Carre, st John parish, is
under bond to appear before the United
States District Court at New Orleans to
answer charge of purloining IS from a
registered letter. The young mans father,
who is Postmaster at Bonnet Carr6 and
editor of the Meschaeebs, states that no
such crime was committed at his office
that he. registered nearly all the letters him
self and they left Bonnet Carr6 in perfect
condition.
! We learn from the Capitolian- -Aduocat.
that the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred.
ericks, on the Perkins place, in East BatoI
Rouge parish, was struck twice by light
ming recently, destroying one gable end o1
the building, shattering the ceiling in one
or two of the rooms, and setting fire to the
woodwork. Mr.. and Mrs. Fredericks, who
were out doors, were both knocked down
but not injured, though the lady was al
most suffocated by the sulphurous fume.
of the electric strokes.
Ex-Gov. Sprague of Rhode Island, &C
companied by his wife, was in Morgan
City recently on his way back from tril
to Mexico. The Free Press says: eth,
Governor is deeply impressed with tn
growing prosperity of the South, and find
great improvements in manufacturing ant
mining within the past few years. He fel
confident that the present stagnation il
business would be followed in the earl
fall by general active movement of capi
tai, and that se would probably be re,
letter year for business men,"
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