The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-11-07

STATE NEWS.
Gleanings from tho Newspapers of Lou


STATE NEWS.
Gleanings from tho Newspapers of Lou
isimna.
! Plaquemine is to have new wharf.
Prohibition has been defeated in Bien-
vile.
Trains now run from Shreveport to the
Sabine river.
A Negro boy killed 3Oo-pound black
bear near Hanghton.
Mr.. j. Lehman of Morgan City shipped
$780, GOO oysters to Texas.
Mr.. Numa Dufour, one of the editors of
the New Orleans Bee, is dead.
Mr.. ). Il. Brown, Of Mansfield has raised
500 bushels of peanuts this years.
Ex-State Treasurer Antoine Dubuclet is
very i'll aud not expected to recover.
The Clubhouse of Mr.. j. w. Jeter, Bos-
sier parish, has been destroyed by fire.
The contract fof building the new Jail in
Franklin has been ,letsto firm of St. Louis
builders.
Over S1;4 were collected in one week rs
toll on the bridge which spans Red river at
Shreveport.
The work of blowing up distractions
in Bayou Pierre with dynamite is progress
ing favorably.
consideration the establihing poor farm
in that parish.
Mr.. Dick Nichols of Richland parish
was assassinated near the Fawke place by
unknown parties.
James Morton, telegraph operator, was
killed at Delhi while attempting to board
a moving railroad train.
Four more government geologists will be
sent to this State from Washington in the
early part of next month.
Mr.. j. 3. Watkins, the Calcasieu parish
cattle king, has enclosed piece of land
with barbed wire fence one hundred miles
long.
The citizens of Minden celebrated the
completion of the Minden tap railroad with
n grand jollifcation and display of fire.
works.
Rev. Sam Jones,sthe Georgia evangelist,
will preach in Shreveport some time dur
ing the month of February.
Mr.. j. C. Clark, foreman of the Lake
Charles Echo, has been obliged by ill health
to retire from duty, and has returned to his
home in Baton Rouge.
The second artesian we'll at the st. Charles
Hotel has been sunk to a depth of 400 feet.
The first is producing water at the rate of
sixty gallons to the minute.
The Grand Jury of East Baton Rouge
have indicted number of retail liquor
dealers for selling liquor to minors, and
cts.
| A Negro woman in DeSoto parish left
her child, nine months Of age, in charge of
a nine year old boy while she went to the
field to work, and he deliberately roasted
! the infant to death.s ssssssaszssasssss4
H. H. Meng, late Postmaster at vidaiia,
pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzle-
ment and was sentenced by Judge Boar
man to imprisonment nine years in the
penitentiary at Chester, III.
The st. Mary Rerie,c says Morgan City is
the most orderly town in the State, giving
III evidence that the Mayors court is sell
dom in session, that the corporation has
but one policeman, and Judge Lanaux is
both lawyer and Justice of the Peace.
MIR. Charle les Med. Puckette has retired
from the editorial management of the
Shreveport Times to take the chair of Ian
guages in the State Normal School at
Natchitoches. He is brilliant writer and
we note his abandonment of the journals
tic field with regret.
The new Silsby steam fire engine pnr-
chased by the town of Lake Charles was
delivered at that place free of freight
charges by the Southern Pacific railway.
Two underground cisterns, having a.capac-
ity of %, 600 gallons, are to be sunk to sup
ply water facilities.
Justice of the Peace Jules Dabus of Ibe-
ria parish has sued the iberia F'urme,. for
5000 damages for SANDER. The Lake
Charles Echo says the idea of a country
editor having 5000 is perfectly ridiculous,
as all the members of the craft in the State
couldn't raise that amount.
A boiler attached to pumping engine
OIL the sugar plantation of DR.. A. r. Gour-
rier, near Bayou Goula, exploded on the
3ra> inst, killing the doctor and fatally
wounding the colored fireman. DR.. Gour-
rier's body was blown 27O feet, and only
found after two hours search.
Mr.. W. H. Gayle. proprietor and pub
Usher of the Monroe Bulletin, has been
married at Monroe to Miss Birdie Lanier.
The CHIEF extends congratulations and
hopes the editor and lis chosen bride will
have safe and prosperous voyage on the
matrimonial sea-that their connubial bark
viii! escape all the big cyclones and lorna
does. encountering nothing more serious
than little Gayles and squalls.
The Ouachita Telegraph is again trying
the experiment of daily edition. We wish
Col. McCrame and his associates full Sue
cess in the venture. If the people of Mon
roe desire that the newspaper mon of the
State, who are to meet there in convention
next year, shall have a good opinion of the
town and give it a fair name abroad, they
must accord the daily Telegraph hearty