The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-12-26

A loaded shell exploded in the hands of
Mr.. A. Adam of Houma, carrying away his
right thumb.
The Baton Rouge ladies got up petition
TO the Governor in behalf of Pat Ford and
John Murphy.
Morris Green shot and slightly wounded
his wife on Foos Il Barnett's ulaptation.
st. Mary parish.
A Negro was thrown from Mustang
pony in Gum Swamp, Morehouse parish,
and instantly killed.
Emile Braupbacher, section boss on
the douma Branch, has had his right foot
badly cut with an adze.
fehx Romero of New Iberia cut Jonas
Spencer in the abdomen, inf,ictinp dan
gerous if.not fatal wound.
Mr.. Simmons, assistant f;sh comm;a-
sioner, has distributed large number of
German carp in Shreveport.
Mr.. Leon Tresclair was accidentally
drowned near Timbalier island while en-
gagged. in fishing for oysters.
Mrs. 4. j. Harp of DeSoto who fell of a
platform on the 7. & p. road, has sued the
company tor 5000 damages.
Mr.. Ernest Dry fell from Mr.. Leon Sar-
py's sugar house in st. Charles parish, and
broke his arm near the wrist.
The team of DR.. w. A. Robertson of st.
Landry ran away, upsetting the medico and
fracturing several of his ribs.
bottle of beef-tea exploded in the
hands of Q Houma sick nurse, severely in
juring the sight of her left eye.
While Mr.. E. Bass of Morgan City was
looking att circus parade, some one tap
ped his till to the tune of $50.
! A rogue entered the bedroom Of two
Shreveport policemen and robbed it of
everything of value it contained.
Two homicides we're committed in the
parish of Natchitoches in one day last
week; all parties concerned were farmers.
The sugar house of Dry Bros, three and
half miles below Napoleonville, left bank
of Bayou Lafourche, has been destroyed by
fire.
Lake Charles has produced curiosity in
the way of double orange the center one
being much smaller, but perfect and dis
tinct.
| The steamer Saccharine and a barge
towed by the 7. T. johnson coll.ded on
Bayou Teche, badly injuring the iron hull
| of the former.
There is a dispute between the editors Of
the Minden Democrat Tribune and the
Morehouse Clarion as to which has the
most religion.
John Howard, white, and William Red.
colored, got into fight while unloading q
wood boat near Plaquemine, and the for
| mer seriously hurt. -...=-y------------
Roustabout Wylie, Of the steamer Jno. W.
Cannon, attacked VIM johnson, at Dorsey
vile, with heavy stick, jnaictinga severe,
wound on the head.
The latest appointments to POSTMASTER
ships are John W. Brown at Bastrop; Bern
ard Fostering, Buras Settlement; Geo. s.
Owen, Fisher Point.
Mr.. Robert, section boss of the section
| near Rayville was thrown from his horse
receiving injuries from. the effects of which
he died in half an hour.
The 13-year-o son of Mr.. Hammo nd OF
Lincoln parish fell from a wagon loaded
with cotton which passed over his leg,
crushing il near the ankle,
Achllle Aitezan of Baton Rouge, aged
10 years. while endeavoring to crush stalk
I of sugar cane between two COO whaala ~ .
saw-mill, got one of.his fingers cut off.
Shreveport has been visited by three fires
lately, an Office of Doctor Taylor damaged
and the residences of Mr.. GEORGE r Sim
son and A. B. Weaver entirely destroyed.
Thirty young gentlemen and ladies'
friends of the deceased Mr.. Theodo,e
Chenevert, in Pointe Coup6e parish. ben.
evidently made party to pick cotton fo,
the widow.
One TO the centrifugals in the sugar.
house, on Union plantation, Plaoueminas
parish, was shattered into pieces Inv ;ts
own momentum, killing one hand md
neutrality-suspicious..
Just above Grants place, on Cane r;vor
wagon containing several occupants ,vos
thrown twelve feet down bank sevara,,
injuring two ladies named Lanius, and .
6-weeks-old infant.
Sam Rassdale quarreled with four mon
ut a collation. in Caddo Prairie and uoa
struck on the head With a fence rail. dvino
almost instantly. The mon, all co,oraa
have been arrested.
The Natchitoches Rerie,c saws ,ady o.,,
scarcely pass up Front street without ha;,,1
shocked by indecent or profane la,o,oae
from some drunken Negro, and wants nd
ditional police service
Apropos of the ruuaor that the No., IT,,
is to be re-established it is stated that Mr.
Manghan will not revive his paper at CIT.
but will 60 to Bastropto take charpa of o,,1
of the publications there.
The residence of Mr.. Sigmond schm;t+
Washington, st. LanGry parish, was cot ~
fire by the carelessness of one of his ,;.+,,
children, and burned to the ground ,rto
child was roasted to death.
Rev. T. n. Coleman of Keach; hos No..
excluded from the fellowship of the Ro,,
tist denomination for conduct unbecon,;
to Minister of the Gospel and obt,;,;,a
letters under false pretenses.
One of the biggest trains ever drawn b,
one locomotive in the United States c.,oo
over the Mississippi Valley railroad to Na,,
Orleans: it consisted of 15s loaded cara ond
was nearly two miles in length.
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