The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-04-25
STATE NEWS.
Gleanings from the Newspapers Of Lou
isfana.

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st. Tanmany's new courthouse is fin
ished.
Awar on gamblers has been opened in
Shreveport.
party of deer hunters in jackson par
ish captured half-dozen wolf puppies.
The lively little St. Bernard Eagle is
soon to be enlarged aud otherwise i'm
proved.
| Governors Hoadly of Ohio and Bate of
Tennessee arc in New Orleans, visiting the
Exposition.
| A oolored man named Albert was thrown
! from his horse near Bayou Goula and had
| his neck broken. e.ys
Many cattle have died in St. Landry par
ish from disease which affects the neck,
1 causing it to swell.
The Minden Democrat and Webster
Tribune have consolidated under the title
of Democrat Tribune.
Richard johnson, convicted of the mur-
der of John Simmons in Concordia parish,
has been sentenced to death.
| Edward Griffin, who in 1877 killed Mar
tin Bernley, and jumped his bond, was ar
rested last month at Jeannerette.
| Gibbsland, Richland parish, is now an
incorporated town, the people having
adopted charter week before last.
The heavy rains of Monday and Tuesday
last did considerable damage to crops in
many portions of North Louisiana.
| A saucy bear attempted to climb into
wagon that was travelling along the Ray
| vile and Alto road in Richland parish.
| An infant son of Mr.. Walter Mcbride of
st. Landry parish, tumbled into half
filed tin wash-boiler and was drowned.
! Three thousand dozens of eggs were
shipped from Breaux Bridge to New Or
leans by express at ono time, week before
last.
Miss Marie Lavergne, aged 10 years,
committed suicide by hanging herself in
st. Charles parish. No cause for the act is
known.
The Calcasieu Land Company will cul-
tivate 1000 acres of rice this year, using
steam plows and giving employment to
| l2O men.
The courthouse of Vermilion parish, at
Abbeville, was destroyed by fire the morn
ing of the 7th inst, together with its en-
tire contents.
State Commissioner G. j. Barrow is Ia
boring with might and main to make the
celebration of Louisiana day at the Exposi-
ton a grand success.
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Plaquemine has made a full confession Of
the crime, duplicating three others, two of
whom are under arrest.
A colored man named John Glover, alias
Cox, has been arrested in st. Louis on a
charge of murder committed in New Or
leans six or seven years ago.
Antoine A. Labuzan has been convicted
of the murder of John Joseph Fischer, in
New Orleans, Dec 8, 1884, and will be sen
fenced to life imprisonment.
John Baptiste, colored, has been con-
demned to death in New Orleans, for con-
hitting rape on Mrs jacob Greiner, an old
German woman, Nov. 8, 1884.
Mr.. Fred. Whaley, young man living
on Whitecastle plantation, shot and killed
Fleming Smith, eolored, in the store of
Armand Brusiere on that place.
Mr.. Alfred Mayeur of Natchitoches had
his thigh badly fractured by the bursting
of an iron tap while firing salutes in honor
of the arrival of Bishop Leray.
The Plaquemine fire companies have or
ganized themselves into a fire department
with Mr.. Henry Wilbert as Chief and will
have parade on the I'd of May.
At Prairie Plaisance, St. Landry parish,
Hartville Warner, colored, was struck by
lightning and remained unconscious for
TIVE days. He is not expected to recover.
The name of the Caldwell Herald has
been changed to Caldwell Watchman
The paper is published by Mr.. j. o. Viii.
liams and edited by A. B. Hundley, ESQ.,,
Ben. Jones, colored citizen of Rapidea
parish, shot and wounded his mother-in
flaw, Jenny Fox. and made his escape. Il
is thought he intended the shots for hit
wife.
A tramp who sat down and presumably
went to sleep on the the railroad tract
near Bayou Sal6 station, St. Mary parish
was run over and killed by an expires!
train.
1t cost the parish of St. Landry $500 t.
try criminal case at the late term of th'
District Court involving the alleged lar
oeny of eight fence rails valued at fft,
cents.
| The New Iberia Sugar-Bo,cl advocate
, the reopening of Bayou Plaquemine ans
, completion of the Charenton canal, and tn
Abbeville Meri9ional vigorously second
the motion.
q The steamboat j. S. Mercer struck a hal
, sunken log in the Atchafalaya river, abou
fifty miles from Morgan City, and sank il
, about seven feet of water. No difficulty
q anticipated in raising her.
j. Burglars broke into the store Of Mr.. G
q L. Heath, at Homer, and carried of abou
t $500 worth of dry goods, besides BLOWN
J., from $50 to 800 in cash.
Mrs. Della Garrigues, widow of the lat
Judge Adolph Garrigues, died at Opelousa
9 on the 9th inst, in her 73rd year. She be
u longed to one of the oldest and most prom
inent families in St. Landry.
Alexander and John Davis, who kIlle
Jack Hylaire at Cloutierville, Natchitoche
= parish, on Easter Sunday, have been jaile
q without benefit of bail. All the partie
- involved in the affair are colored.
). A Teachers Institute will be held
d Thibodaux from June to IL, both date
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