The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-03-06
STATE NEWS.

. In Times Democrat.
STATE NEWS.
.Cribbings and Cuttings from the Heuspa-
pers Of Louisians.
Next Sunday is Columbus Day at tho Ex-
position.
Floods have stopped travel across the
Morganza Crevasse.
Grant parish has 81. 500, "A of school
funds in its treasury.
A mandatory of barbed wire is about to
be started in Lincoln parish.
Judge Monre has held that the Legisla-
ture had no power to exempt Tulane fund
from taxation.
Pugh P. o. is the name of newly estab-
lished post Office at Angelica store about
seven miles above Thibodaux.
Mr.. II. Trousdale has Withdrawn from
the Monroe Bulletin and w. H. Gale ESD.
has taken charge of its editorial chair.
The Eagle Base Ball Club Of Hahnville
heve concluded to give grand dress, mas
querade and calico ball on the 10Th instant
J. w. Carew ESD, of the st. Charles Her
aid, is one of the can get away editors who
is of to attend the National EDITORS Con-
vention.
The City Item of Monday, announces the
arrival of Circuit Judges f. W. Blake, OF
Lafourche and H. D. Smith, OF st. Mar,
parish, in New Orleans.
Edward j. Bermudez, a son of the Chief
Justice, has been appointed to fill the va
cancy on the Bench created by the death
the Hon. Vale J. Rozier.
A mass meeting of the people of Houma,
irrespective of politics, took place at Will
Alaas' Hall and endorsed the nomination of
Hon. B. F. Winchester as Judge Of the 10Th
judicial District, last week.
Mr.. John A. White ST., of Woodland La,
has sent to the editor of the Patriot Dem
ocrat silver dime which was found i'm
bedded in the shoulder af mule belong
ing to him. How it got there is mystery.
Hon. William Preston Johnston, for
merly of the Washington and Lee University
of Va, and now President of the Tulane
University of Louisiana, has been appoint
ed director of the American Institute of
Civics.
The Point Goupee Banner is lending q
reputation to one of its settlements by pub
fishing that the little town of New Road is
getting to be quite lively place, it having
had a fire, two hurglaries and couple of
fights, all in the space of ten days time.
At meeting of the East Feleciana Bar
Association, on the 23rd of February, a
resolution was passed soliciting Gov.
McEnry to appoint the Hon. Thomas G.
Manning to fill the vacancy to occur at the
expiration of that Justices present term of
office,
The steamboat Tensas, while en- route to
New Orleans from the Tensas river, was
burned on the Goth of last month near Eu-
taw landing, Black River. She had on
board 1O14 bales of cotton and 200 sacks of
seed. Both boat and cargo, valued at $50
900, we're lost.
John W. Morgan and John ". Cramer,
confined in the Lake Charles Jail on
charge Of highway robbery, made their es
cape recently, we're recaptured in Newton
county, Texas, and have since been SEN
fenced to fourteen years imprisonment in
the penitentiary: M
Ats wedding on the Jamison plantation
IN Lafourche parish, James Baptiste, the
groom, colored man, was fatally stabbed
by former mistress, Keziah Collins. The
woman distinguished the lights and, after
having committed the dee,, escaped on the
steamer Alice Leblanc.
The Police Jury Of Avoyelles parish has
called an election to test the sense of the
people to the levying Of tax of three mills
additional for the purpose of building
three bridges, one over Bayou du Lac one
across the Bout du Bayou swamp and the
!ast to span the Bayou DIES GLASSES.
baton Rouge has been the scene of a daring
attempt at Burglary. On the night of the
2th ultimo, an employs of Messrs. Garig
4 Co. after leaving the store, concluded to
return for the purpose or getting his UNI
brella. AS he opened the door he was met
by two or three men. He gave the alarm
and, OPP making examination of the premi
ses, found the safe bored aud charged and
a fuse inserted preparatory to blowing it up.
The robbers had covered the safe with rub
Der overcoats, in the pockets of which were
found Cincinnati papers.
Representative Hunte: Of Rapides pro-
poses to introduce in the Legislature res
olutiop TO submit. an amendment to the
constitution providing for an additional
tax Of two mills fer educational pur-
poses.
Tene Miller. young co.orel girl resi-
ding at Tigeryille, Terrebonne parish,
while amusing herself with 9 loaded gun,
Accidentally discharged its contents into
the head OF Mack Brooks, from the effects
1t which he died few hours later.
A suit on the part of Mr. Geo. W., Kit
tredge, which has thrown cloud uuou the
little of about one hundred lots in the city
af Shreveport since the year 1853, has jus:
Geen compromised and settled. The
ground involved was very valuable.
We have nsed Tongaline in several cases of
r:eura lgia and rheumatism. snd reliaf has fol-
..u-setl lie use i'll every instance,
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