The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-10-10
STATE NEWS.


Franklin.
A few cases of diphtheria are reported il
Alexandria.
This years pecan crop promises to b.
very large.
Considerable sickness prevails in Lafay
ette parish.
Evergreen, Avoyelles parish, is to have
street lamps.
Griffin Smith, colored, fell into the river
at Gretna and drowned.
There is talk of building back levee
through Pointe-a-la- Hache.
A Presbyterian church with eleven mem
bers has been organized at Arcadia.
A Clubhouse with ten bales of cotton was
burned at Point Pleasant, Tensas parish.
Caldwell parish is having map of her
vacant lands prepared for the Exposition.
The notorious Negro boy known as "Cub-
by" made his escape from the Franklin
Jail.
A bill to repeal the convict lease law
will be presented at the next session of the
Legislature.
In fight between two colored women at
Plaquemine, one killed the other by blows
with her fists.
The Southern, Sentinel, a neat and inter-
esting paper published at WINFIELD, has en-
tered it's third volume.
An alligator ten feet long, with two we'll
developed heads, was captured in Bayou
Lacache, Terrebonne parish.
Chief Engineer Richardson reports the
levees of Louisiana in better condition
than at any period since the war.
Work will soon begin on the Davis levee,
in St. Charles parish, which has sunk con-
siderably during the past two months.
The infant son of the editor of the Rus
ton Calig,uph crawled into fire and was
severely burned before being discovered.
Morgan's railroad is the only one enter
ing New Orleans that has refused to extend
courtesies to the agents of the Exposition.
Patrick Graham, made homeless tramp
through the excessive use of liquor, died at
Columbia from the effects of protracted
spree.
The citizens of Plaquemine have contrib
uted enough money to purchase fire alarm
bell, which is being manufactured in St.
Louis.
The Police Jury of Caddo parish have de-
feated the proposition to subscribe funds
for parish exhibit at the New Orleans Ex-
position.
While attempting to get bucket of wa
| ter, Fred Duncan, a white boy of Concor-
dia parish, fell into the Mississippi and was
drowned.
Mr.. Bicaut Petry of Vermilion parish
was caught in the saws of Wise & Bartel's
cotton gin and badly cut on the throat,
face and arms.
We sincerely regret to note that owing to
the ill health of its proprietor, Mr.. J. K.
Sandoz, the Washington Argus has sus-
pended publication.
An ear of corn has been raised in Union
parish which measured twelve inches in
length, ten in circumference, and weighed
twenty one ounces.
Offenders arrested in st. Martinsville
who are unable to pay their fines, are put to
work on the streets until the amounts are
cancelled by their labor.
There have been but four homicides in
Natchitoches parish this year, all of which
were committed while the assailants we're
under the influence of liquor.
Eliza Hopkins, an aged inmate of the
Shakespeare Aims house, New Orleans, was
run over and killed by dummy en-
CINE on the St. Charles Avenue railroad.
The residence of Mr.. Thomas Chauffe,
at Napoleonville, was completely destroyed
by fire caused by a lighted match thrown
among some combustible material on the
floor.
Aleck Smith, colored man, was shot in
the head and instantly killed during a free
fight with number of companions in East
Carroll parish. The affray grew out of a
game Of dice.
Two children of Mr.. Valsin Simoneaud,
living near Jeannerette, we're sick last week,
and the doctor prescribed different reme-
dies which the father accidentally changed
in administering, resulting in the death of
both.
A continuation of rains has caused cot
ton to rot and rust, and with the addition
of boil worms and caterpiliars, the loss has
been tremendous throughout the State.
The rice, corn. pea and hay crops have also
suffered largely.
A caustic controversy between the More
house Clarion aud Sentinel threatened to
result in a hostile meeting of editors Nc
Means and Brigham, but an amicable ad-
justment has been reached through the in
tervention of a mutual friend.
just before the day performance of King,
Burke & Co.'s circus at New Iberia, one of
the female open-air tight-rope performers
was precipitated on the tent by the break
ing of the rope; passing through the can
vas to the ground. She escaped injury.
The Gibsland Nec Era says there is in
that town man who can take six twenty
fve-pound sacks of shot in his teeth, with
two twenty-five-po pound sacks in each hand,
stretched out at arms length, and walk
about the streets with them considerable
length of time.
An Enterprising, Reliable House.
| J. II. Matthew can always be relied upon, not
only to carry in stock the best of everything.
but to secure the Agency for such articles rs