The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-11-14
STATE NEWS.
Gleanings from tho Newspapers Of Lou

! Trains now run from Shreveport to the
Sabine river.
A Negro boy killed s0o-pound black
bear near Haughton.
Mr.. J. Lehman Of Morgan City shipped
10000 oysters to Texas.
Mr.. Numa Dufour, one Of the editors Of
the New Orleans Bee, is dead.
| Mr.. J. R. Brown, of Mansfield has raised
500 bushels of peanuts this years.
| Ex-State Treasurer Antoine Dubuclet is
| very i'll and not expected to recover.
The Clubhouse Of Mr.. ]. W. Jeter, Bos-
sier parish, has been destroyed by FIRE.
The contract for building the new jail in
Franklin has been LET to q firm of st. Louis
builders.
Over $1H were collected in one week as
toll on the bridge which spans Red river at
Shreveport.
| The work of blowing up obstructions
in Bayou Pierre with dynamite is progress
ing favorably.
The Police Jury Of Claiborne have under
consideration the establihing poor farm
in that parish.
Mr.. Dick Nichols Of Richland parish
was assassinated near the Fawke place by
unknown parties.
James Morton, telegraphioperator, was
killed at Delhi while attempting to board
moving railroad train.
Four more government geologists will be
sent to this State from Washington in the
early part of next month.
Mr.. j. B. Watkins, the Calcasieu parish
| cattle king, has enclosed piece of land
with barbed wire fence one hundred miles
long.
The citizens of Minden celebrated the
completion of the Minden tap railroad with
a grand jollification and display of fire.
works.
Rev. Sam Jones, the Georgia evangelist,
will preach in Shreveport some time dur
ing the month of ebrusry.
Mr.. j. G. Clark, foreman of the Lake
Charles Echo, has been obliged by i'll health
to retire from duty, and has returned to his
home in Baton Rouge.
The second artesian we'll at the st. Charles
Hotel has been sunk to depth of 400 feet.
The first is producing water at the rate of
sixty gallons to the minute.
The Grand Jury of East Baton Rouge
have indicted number Of retail liquor
dealers for selling liquor to minors, and
several vendors of Louisiana Lottery tick
cts.
A Negro woman in DeSoto parish left
her child, nine months of age, in charge of
nine year old boy while she went to the
field to work, and he deliberately roasted
the infant to death.
II. Il. Meng, late Postmaster at Vidalia,
pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzle-
ment and was sentenced by Judge Boar
man to imprisonment nine years in the
penitentiary at Chester, III.
The st. Mary Rcrie:o says Morgan City is
the most orderly town in the State, giving
in evidence that the Mayors court is sol
dom in session, that the corporation has
but one policeman, and Judge Lanaux is
both lawyer and Justice of the Peace.
MIR. Charles Med. Puckette has retired
from the editorial management of the
Shreveport Times to take the chair Of Ian
guages in tho State Normal School at
Natchitoches. he is brilliant writer and
we note his abandonment of the journalis-
tic field with regret.
The new Silsby steam fire engine pur-
chased by the town Of Lake Charles was
delivered at that place free of freight
charges by tbe Southern Pacific railway.
Two underground cisterns, having a1capac-
ity of 20, 900 gallons, are to be sunk to sup
ply water facilities.
Justice of the Peace Jules Dubus of 1be-
ria parish has eued the Iberia Farmer for
5000 damages for SANDER. The Lake
Charles Echo says the idea of country
editor having 5000 is perfectly ridiculous,
as all the members of the craft In the State
couldn't raise that amount.
A boiler attached to a pumping engine
on the sugar plantation of DR.. A. r. dour-
rier, near Bayou Goula, exploded on the
Bird inst, killing the doctor and fatally
wonnding the colored fireman. DR.. Gour-
rier's body Was blown 27O feet, and only
found after two hours search.
Mr.. w. II. Gayle, proprietor and pub
Usher of The Monroe Bulletin, has been
married at Monroe to Miss Birdie Lanier.
The CH1EF extends congratulations and
hopes the editor and his chosen bride will
have safe and prosperous voyage on the
sea-that their connubial bark
vii! escape all the big cyclones and lorna
does. encouatering nothing more serious
than little Gayles and squalls.
TIE Ouachita Telegraph is again trying
the experiment. of daily edition. We wish
Col. McCranie and his associates full suo
cess in the venture. If the people Of Mon
roe desire that the newspaper men Of the
State, who are to meet there in convention
next year, shall have good opinion Of the
town and give it fair name abroad, they
must accord the daily Telegraph hearty
support. A failure of the enterprise will
surely be regarded as a reflection upon the
enterprise and liberality of the commu-
nifty in which it is projected.
If you know good shirt vhen you see it
you should call at Kline's Old Reliable Store
and look at the new stock just received from
Philadelphia. They are selling at only 81
each and are the best shirts ever offered
here for the money.
A curious public house kept by one of
the leaders of the insurrection of 1871, and
called La Taverne du Bagne, has Just been