The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-02-28
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STATE NEWS.

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The State Normal School at Natchitoches
is to be opened March I.
Judge John Orsborn of Alexandria dice
there on the lst inst, aged II years.
Prohibition was defeated in Avoyelle:
parish by a majority of sixty-five votes.
SEVERN Ransom. colered, has been con
yicted of rape in Iberia parish and sentenced
to death,- e
Six parties have been indicted for sell
ing liquor without license at FarmervilIe
Union parish.
Mr.. James e. Zuntz, wealthy citizen OF
Plaqusmines parish, died ut his Bellechasse
plantation OH the 18th inst.
Joseph Loga fatally stabbed a young
Frenchman in Plaquemintss parish and il
IN jail at Pointe ala Hache.
A Mrs. Houston and her child we're run
over and killed by a special train on the v
s. q Z. railroad near Arcadia.
Mr. Conrad .Neubig, respected and
prominent citizen of PIaluemine, aged GE
years, died of apoplexy recently.
The IBERIA Guards have procured uni
forms from the same firm that nlanufac-
tured those ST the Ascension Rifles
The tirefnen of Baton Rouge celebrated
their forty ninth anniversary on the z2d
inst, with a grand parade and attending
banQuets.
The new Oil mill at Monroe is to be built
of brick, and its capacity will be considera-
bly, greater than that of the mill burned
last*year.ss 1850
Jules p. GilIy was shot and killed by
John II. Abrough in saloon at Rayville.
The men had a quarrel growing out OF d
game of cards.
Jos. A. Neyens, young man living near
st. Martinsyille, was killed by the acciden-
tai discharge Of his gnu while he was pre-
pairing to go hunting.
Three fourths of the north wing Of the
State penitentiary at Baton Rouge was de-
stroyed by fire last Saturday, The damage
is estimated at $4,000. +i ~
On Little Caiilou bayou, Terrebonne par
ist, Dennis Himel, d lad of ID years, acct
dentaly killed one brother and wounded
two others with shotgun.
Albert s. Galschet Of Lake Charles is
seeking Information concerning the pres
ent location of the Tonica or Tuuica In
dians or any part of the tribe. o.
Two colored men had a fight on the hank
OF the river below Chalmette and rolled
into the water. One was drowned and the
other narrowly escaped the same fate.
The house of Henry Dunkins, a colored
resident of Lincoln parish, burned while he
and his wife were away from hoane, and
their two children persisted in the flames.
James Walker, colored, has besn conyic-
ted at Shreveport of the murder of Henry
Gates, also colored, whom Walker killed
with stick OF cord wood OH the steamer
Fletcher.
Newton j. Morphis, convict guard at
Capt. Heskyn's camp in Ouachita parish
WIS killed by the accidental discharge of
his shotgun. Deceased was from Jeffer-
sonyille, Indiana.
Mr. hansom West an old resident Of
Fine Prairie, st. Landry Parish, was shot
and beaten to death by two men whose OBJ
5ect was robbery. The assassins have been
captured at Bayou Chicot
The Bossier parish jail was set on fire
by one OF the prisoners, several weeks ago.
and burned to the ground. The inmates
were all rescued and by hard work large
conflagration was averted.
Messrs. Desire Broussard and Anatole
Verret, white residents of the Bayou Chene
vicinity, St. Martin parish, had u fight re-
Gently, Bronssard attempted to knife his
adversary and was shot dead
Mr.. Ben Bunds was shot and killed in
DeSoto parish last month while irving to
take revolver away from young colored
man named Skipper to prevent the latter
from shooting another colored man.
Gov. McEnery has Isardoned w. w. Beas
ley, printer who threw a woman out of a
thlrd-story window in Nov Orleans and
Killed her, and who WIS sentenced in 1850
to twenty years imprisonment in the peni-
Tertiary.
Rev. 1. A. S. Adams of Holly Springs,
Miss, Presiding Elder of The North Mis-
sissippi Conference Of, the M. e. Church
South, has been elected President of Cente
nary College at Jackson, vice Rev. ID. M.
Rush, deceased
The Algiers Adrerfises says that its col
ored carrier boy has broken into the parish
prison on q charge of stealing. By the
way, the Adrertiser has recently bloomed
into tri-weekly and is AL exceedingly
neat and spicy little paper.
Robert Healy, colored man who muir
dered Alfred johnson in Plaquemines par
::sh in 1874, and who escaped from Jail after
being convicted and sentenced to life i'm
prisoment in the penitentiary, has been
in the parish of Jefferson.
Dennis Boyd, the co1ored murderer Of
David Hass at Gold Point. Bossier parish. !
was captured in Red River parish and is in |
Jail at Shreveport. The arrest was made
by two citizens of Sabine, who will receive
the $500 reward offered for Boyd's appre-
hension.
John Mack and his wife, colored resi-
dents of Morehouse parish, we're thrown
INTO the water by the overturning of their
buggy while crossing a slough. The wo-
man and mule were drowned. but Mack
was rescued by couple Of white men who
were crossing at the same time.
The Morgan City Free Press says that the
Land Reclamation Company that conducted
the improvements some few miles sbelow
that place. have ordered all @.heir boats.
steam plows and other property to be so,a