The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-04-24
STATE NEWS.

Franklin parish is soon to have new ;ail
water is running through Moreanza Gre
vase again.
Rayne is making large shipments of eggs
to New Orleans.
The Calcasieu oil well is now yielding
about 30 gallons per day..
East Carroll has $500 in the treasury
andno outstanding claims.
The School Board of East Carroll have
on hand $4,000, and no debts.
The colored people of Lake Providence
have established normal school.
The Houma fremen will shortly ce,e-
brate their fourteenth anniversary.
The marriage of a postmistress in Cald
well parish caused the Office to close.
A Negro swamper is in Jail for shooting
couple Of boys on Bayou Plaquemine.
A son Of Mr.. J. Il. Gilliland of Shreve-
port was killed by an exploding coal-oil
can.
The roof of the Mount Lebanon Baptist
Church. 81. Bienville has been damaged by
fire.
Elton levee, in East Carroll, is to be built
by James McGdre for sixteen cents per
yard.
The Opelousas moss factory is again in
operation after suspension of nearly two
years.
An excursion party of $50 persons went
from New Orleans to Thibodaux Sunday
before last.
Anderson Lewis and Andrew Mayfield,
both colored, broke Jail at Ruston and are
still at large.
Terrebonne stubble cane was injured by
the freeze, but the plant cane is in excel
lent condition.
Albert Guillot, Thibodaux drug clerk,
struck the Louisiana Lottery for $500 at
the last drawing.
Mr.. Laperonse of Thibodaux has cap
tured live rattlesnake, four feet long,
with seven rattles.
John Wooster shot and killed Farrar
Dorsey near Trinity, on the Tensas river,
for abducting his wife.
The Hebrew citizens of Alexandria have
subscribed $500 to the Jewish Orphans
Home in New Orleans.
The children of st. Joseph and Islan6
schools, Iberville parish, have subscribed
81 cot the Ford fund.
Plans are being drawn.for block of five
elegant brick and iron-front stores, to be
erected in Shreveport.
Mr.. Numa Schexnaydre, resident Of
Tofo nJ,n -.
while at work in his field.
Mr.. j. Lehman of Morgan City has s
large contract to furnish Eastern bushes.
houses with alligator hides.
Shreveport had hail storm, April II, Of
such magnitude that in many places hail
stones were over foot deep.
Gustave Williams, colored, of st. James
accidentally killed his uncle, Gus. Holmes
while playing with his pistol.
The Baton Rouge Yarn Mills are now
running force of forty hands and will
soon manufacture cotton goods.
Shreveport has a new weekly paper-the
Caddo Knight. The daily Evening Journal
will also soon make its appearance.
Jerry Jones. oolored man employed in
unloading an ice-boat at Plaquemine, died
from eating too much Of the cargo.
At Burke Station. Iberia parish, Alex
Nelson, half-breed Indian, shot and killed
Rodolph Sandoz, white desperate.
Prof. Will Willie should be closely scru.
tinized by the Masonic brethren, as he has
racket which he works on the craft.
Mr.. Sandy Simpson of Claiborne parish
left his wife and four children and eloped
with his wife's sister, girl of fifteen.
bill to free the town of Alexandra
from parish taxation will be introduced a!
the next session of the General Assembly.
Kez.ah Collins of Lafourche, who inter-
rupted the wedding of her paramour by
stabbing him, has been caught and jailed.
New Orleans teachers captured both pri-
yes offered by the Louisiana Educational
Society for the best essays on education.
An arrangement is being put upon the
Plaquemine dyke to enable logmen to
transfer timber from the bayou to the
river.
On the Goth of May the West Baton
Rouge Poultry and Live Stock Associa-
ton propose to hold grand fair at Port
Allen.
Tom Bell, indicted sor the murder of Ed.
Washington, both colored, at a dance in
Caddo parish, has been captured at Cou-
shatta.
Meetings are being held in the northern
portion of st. Landry and southern part of
Avoyelles, to agitate the subject of forming
a new parish.
The Monroe Compress Company has
purchased the residence lot os Gov. McEn-
cry for the compress, which is to be finished
by September.
OF the seven persons charged with per-
jury, who testified in the Ford case, six
have been convicted and the seventh is dy
ing in tbs parish prison.
A Negro woman fell into tho fire DURING
tit, at Amite City, and while unconscious
burned her two children severely with her
lighted clothing dying shortly after,