The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-08-07
The DopaIdsoqyilIe Chief.
Two Dollars Year.

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Two Dollars Year.
STATE NEWS.
Cribbings and Cuttings from the Newspa
pers of Louisiana.
Shreveport has erected water works.
The Acadia parish bill finally passed til,
senate.
Shreveport has had glass ball shooting
tournament.
One man in Homer has killed $50 ratl
since last April.
There is not a vacant dwelling house te
rent in Arcadia.
Work on the courthouse lat Opelousas
has commenced.
The LAKE Charles Commercial has en-
tered its sixth volume.
The coiored draymen of Shreveport have
had grand procession.
The Mansfield Herald has suspended
after life of two years.
Charlie ,Binerjy, aged 10 years, was
drowned at Alexandria.
The Alexandria postmaster has had his
salary cut down from $l1oo to $1,000.
AIcide Fireman fell of perogue into
Bayou Crosse Tete and was drowned.
The Mexican Pavilion is to be moved
from the Exposition Grounds to the City
Of Mexico.
Mr.. Willie Hendry has had several fin-
gers cut Of in tho Outlet Gin factory at
Amite city.
A little daughter of Eug Eiasmann fell
from her chair in gutter at New Iberia,
breaking her arm.
A young son of Mr.. T. l.. Gates, of New
Iberia, tumbled from fence, badly sprain-
ing one of his ankles.
Mr.. Frank Coleman of Catalonia, was
siezed with an epoleptic fit while at work
and struck speeches..
captured in the gutter or hume of the Cres-
cent City Slaughter house.
The outer bar of Calcasieu Pass was
dredged out two or three feet by the high
water in the Calcasieu river.
The Catahoula News estimates the dam
age to crops in that parish, by the recent
continued rains, to be $4,000.
I; A bill is nov before the House making
an appropriation of 81, goo for the relief of
the Catahoula food sufferers.
A little daughter of Mr.. G. Davis. while
at play in Catahoula parish, fell on some
uneaven ground and broke her leg.
+: Mr.. @. H. Trousdale has leased the
Ouaohita Telegraph for two years, and
changed it from daily to weekly.
A tree being felled BY Damas Gayant of
Covington, fell on his sister, who was
standing near, killing her instantly.
Samuel 8. Robinson has been arrested
n New Orleans for robbing his mother-in-
law in Plaquenines parish of $4,000.
! Arthur Carter, an old negro, accidentally
shot and killed himself on the Fairfield
plantation, few miles above Gretna.
party Of Cinnamon have rented four
a6fes ~ ID on Caillou Island and are en-
gagged in catching md curing shrimp and
all kinds of fish for shipment to China.
I Seenore Reson, a eolored employe of the
Evangeline Transfer Co., Plaquemine, had
his foot caught in a chain and his leg bro
ken.
The Richmond Beacon gives the weight
of two ladies, who tip the scales at 212 and
'222 pounds, as evidence of the health of the
parish.
Prince Martin, colorea, shot and killed
the notorious Aleck Guilds, near the Bagley
store, q miles from Shreveport over a game
of craps.
: A colored man named Harvus Rogers,
was found dead in the Trinity plantation |
field, st. Charles parish, of hemorrahge of |
the Lungs.
The citizens Of Alexandria propose to !
bpild the T. & p. railroad first-class road,
from the present depot at Boiyce into the
town, free Of charge.
A party of Negro hoodlums visited Hahn
vile one night recently, breaking up ball
and beating coloced man, named Samuel
Campbell, numerically.
Among the casualties of the Catahoula
storm, we're the crushing Of a small build
ing, by tree being blown on it, and
mule killed by flying branch.
The steamer Grover Cleveland has taken
the place of the Morning Star in transport
ing the United States mail between Baton
Rouge and Bayou Sara.
At the solicitation Of Nr. Hugh Watson,
editor of the Trinity Herald, the people
of Natchez have contributed lot OF meal
for the Catahoula flood sufferers.
Francis Bennett, the alleged assassin of
Mcqueen, of Pearl River, has been taken
to New Orleans for safer incarceration
than can be afforded in Covington.
colored man named Grant, supposed
to be one of the rutiians who visited Hahn
vile and broke up ball there, was shot
and killed by an officer of the Gretna
police force.
j. B. Verdun, Jr., clerk of court Of ST.
Mary parish, and one of the editors Of the
st. Mary Herald, has annouced himself as
n Republican candidate 70. Congress in the
Third District
There was public JUBILEE in Opelousas
on the reception OF the news that the cues
ton of moving the courthouse from
Opeloulas to Washington had been de-
feated in the House.
A man and wife by the name of Sherman
who had lost their all by the high water,
was picked up in shift in Barwick Bay
having started for Texas. The woman
died and the man is in very precarious
condition.