The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-10-31
STATE NEWS.

StAlG NEWos
isi0na.
Bossier is to have a new Court house.
A shoe factory in Clinton is talked of.
A Methodist Church is to be built al
Haughton.
A new paper is soon to be started in
Shreveport.
Five loaves of bread are sold in Alexan-
dria for ten cents.
Whooping cough is raging in st. Landry
and Lafayette parishes.
Through trains will run from Shreveport
to Cincinnati within thirty days.
Ex-Governor ]. Madison Wells is suffer
ing from almost total loss of eyesight.
Three Bastropians bagged 115 squirrels
during one days hunt in Morehouse parish.
Several cases of small pox are reported
on the Tacony plantation, Concordia par
ish.
Owing to the prevalence of diphtheria,
the public schools of Alexandria have been
closed.
Red River parish has made an appropri-
alton of $50 for collective exhibit at the
Exposition. -.....
Mr.. p. E. Prudhomme of Natchitoches
had his hand badly mangied by a cotton
gin last week.
Albert Butler, we'll known colored plan
ter of Caddo parish, had his arm terribly
lacerated in a cotton gin.
The thieves who robbed the Hahnville
post Office got only $15 10 from the regis
tered letters they opened.
The Madison Square Troupe presented
' The Professor at the opening Of Lake
Charles new opera house.
A new Silsby steam fire engine, No. 5,
with 500 feet of hose, has been purchased by
the Town Council of Lake Charles.
The bakeshop and slaughter-house be-
longing to the State Insane Asylum, at
jackson, La, were destroyed by fire.
The Police Jury of Sabine parish has lim-
tied the quantity Of whisky to be pre-
scribed by physicians to four ounces.
Mr.. F. B. Howell of Bayou Toro, Sabine
parish, recently cut a bee tree" near his
place, which yielded 100 pounds of honey.
steam gin at Tangipahoa formerly
owned by w. w. Draughon, and being run
by him for the season, has been destroyed
by fire.
The Criminal Court at Opelousas con-
demned two Negro murderers to death,
and one Negro rapist to the penitentiary
for life.
Miss Mollie Walker, who was engaged to
NJ. I. F. Carter, editor of the Robeline Re
porter, died on the day set apart for their
The colored people OF Rapides parish
have had an enthusiastic meeting It Alex
andria in the interest of the approaching
One hundred and seven criminal cases
we're laid before the Grand Jury of Rapides
during the recent tsrm of District Court
in that parish.
Eight thousand dollars was paid the
Texas and Pacific Railroad for freiphts
shipped to and from Plaquemine in one
lay last week.
The sugar-house of T. J. Shaffer, about
hree miles below the town of Franklin, was
burned on the morning of the 26th ult.
Loss, $25,OOO.
A Lake Charles merchant recently re-
'eived an order from Washington Territory
or ten pounds of tobacco, which was duly
hipped by mail.
colored man employed at the cotton
in of Mr.. Sam'l. Haas, on Bayou Chicot,
It. Landry parish, had his hand severely
in the saws.
Mary Magee, colored, residing in Thib-
daux, has been sentenced by Judge Beat
le to two years in the penitentiary for
voud0oism.
Edmond Washington, colored. was shot
nd instantly killed by Tom Bell, also COL
red, in the eighth ward of Caddo parish.
he murderer escaped.
Alex. Clinton, one the Negro bullies of
t. Charles parish. was killed by Washing
N Williams during quarrel at a colla-
on given by colored people.
Henry Patterson and Andrew Wells got
ito difficulty about dime while playing 2 !
ce at Sol. Felix's store, in st. Charles par
h, and Patterson was killed.
The General Merchandise establishment
Gibsland and the Bienville Ne,o Era
ice in the upper story of the same build
g have been destroyed by fire.
Albert Clanssen, drunken hoodlum,
hile resisting arrest, fired several shots
to crowd of dancers at Spanish Fort,
ID mortally wounded Mr.. R. E. Dy-
ond.
Several colored children in Caldwell par
b who were playing at baptizing held the
'ungest of their number, baby 2116 years
d, SO long under water it died few hours
ter.
E. B. Mentz, at one time Republican Par
4 Judge of St. Mary and more recently
ayor of Morgan City, is practicing law
d keeping hotel at Goldthwaite, Brown
unity, Texas.
A couple aged respectively 81 and G2 years
re married in Vernon parish and mount
9 horses after the ceremony, rode to their
me in Calcasieu parish, distance of
enty-five miles.
a Captains Fortunate Discovery.
'apt. Coleman, schr. Weymouth. plying be-
een Atlantic City and New York, had been
ubled with cough so that he was una BILE to
ep, and was induced to try DR.. Kings New
'covery for Consumption. It not only gave
n instant relief. but allayed the extre me sore
's in his breast. His children were similarly
ected. and single dose had the same happy