The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-03-07
STATE NEWS.
Gleanings from the Newspapers of Lou
isiana.

Gleanings from the Newspapers of Lou
isiana.
A barb-wire fence is being erected elont
both sides OF the Morgan railroad.
Quite a heavy fall Of snow occurred Ii
portions OF central Louisiana the night O
Feb. Il.
| Fifteen new houses are in course of con
| struction at the infant town Of Gi5bsland
Bienviile parish.
The establishment of Messrs. NJ. F. Dunn
! & Bro, New Orleans stationers, at No. K
! Camp street, was burned out last Monday
night.
! Louis Schroeder, who shot and killed
Louis 2. Lem at Pineville, parish of Ra-
pides has been released on ,bond OF
! $1,000.
Mr. Lionel G. Levy, q prominent New Or
, leans merchant, accidentally shot and killed
himself while out hunting near his summer
residence at Covington.
Mr.. J. F. WeMel Of Ouachita has con-
sructsd and forwarded to the Exposition a
beehive made of thirty-two different kinds
OF wood grown in that parish.
Dolce aerpin, a citizen of Lafayette
parish, was shot and killed while asleep at
his residence on Cote Gelee. A Negro sus-
pected of the crime is under arrest.
4 large barge loaded with 100 hogsheads
Of sugar, 46 barrels of lnolasses and IL bales
of cotton from the Lulingburg plantation,
sunk in Bayou Bauf near Cheneyville.
The contested election case Of Gull
beau Us. Broussard, involving title to the
Office OF Sheriff of St. Martin parish, has
been dismissed on defendants exception.
The subscription price of the New Or
leans Southeastern Christian -Adrocatc has
been reduced from s. to 81 so per annum,
indicating material increase i'll its list of
readers.
Prosper Narcisse, one Of the parties
charged with completely in the firing of
Jeanerette last New Years's eve, and who
escaped from the Iberia Jail, has been re-
captured.
The Bienyille Ne,o Era, recently estab-
lished at Gi5bsland by .Mr. Thos. J. Mang-
ham, formerly of the Richland Beacon, is
one of the neatest and hvest of our country
exchanges.
The New York Lumber Company has
lost heavily on its operations at Alexandria
and it is reported that the company's big
mill will be removed to some other point
On Red river.
On Col. c. W. Aliens plantation in
Pointe Coup6e parish, who're more than
two hundred persons are living, there has
been no occasion to call physician during
the past two years.
A party Of colored men went out hunting
in Ouachita parish and Geo. Walker, one
Of their number, got lost and is still miss
ing. A rumor that he had been assassin
ated for supposed hog stealing proved
yroundess.
A mulatto employed on the steamer Whis-
per made an attempt to cut the rorter's
throat whiletthsssboa was at landing in
St. John parish. The porter received
deep gash in one cheek, and the wodl be
assassin escaped.
Two colored persons have committed
suicide at Monroe recently. Nose John
son jumped into the Ouachita river and
drowned himself while being conveyed to
jail for assaulting Jim Mays with a pair OF
tongs, and Mahela Wilson ended her life
by an overdose of morphine.
According to official reports the organ
lied Louisiana militia force consists of 8
general officers, " general staff officers, G6
regimental field and staff officers, 81 com
company officers, 1860 non-commissioned
officers and priyates. The total Humber of
men available for militia duty in the State !
Is placed at 133S, 3346.