The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-01-09
STATE NEWS,

iieanings from the Newspapers Of Lou
l.inn~.
Lake Charles has a high school.
Thibodaux is to have new town hall.
Monroe has knights of Labor oreaniza
ton.
The Ruston Gn,igrapA has built bricl
office.
The Plaquemine firemen's entertainment
netted SAL 10.
| The Mill bayou culvert in Ayoy ellea hal
been completed.
Leon 1'resclair was accidentally drowned
at Timbalier Island.
The Baptiats of Ruston are preparing tc
, build brick church.
Black Bayou bridge. Ouachita, is to lie
rebuilt by the parish.
Alr. Rees Bryant takes editorial charge OF
the Claiborne Gua,Wiun.
| The Davis crevasse levee is continually
sliding and settling down.
| The residence of Mr.. G. C. Gorllin, More
house parish. has been destroyed by fire.
| The East Carroll Banner has been elected
corporation printer O: Lake Providence.
| N1ne prisoners cut hole in the corpora
| ton lookup at Providence, and escaped.
AT succession sale in Vermilion parish
prairie land sold for from 90 to $40 per
acre.
The Sunday law, iu St. Landry parish, is
TO be rigidly enforced after the 1st of Jan
nary.
Ben Dnrcan was shot and fatal!v wound
ed by Anderson Lewis, at Rnstl,I. Both
| colored
At Mount Airy Station, st. James. a car
load OF 45 bales of cotton caught fire and
burned.
In ra;lroad smash up near Mermentau
John Kelley Of Lake Charles WAS badly
crushed.
Sufficient rails to lay three miles of track
on the Houma branch road have been for
warded.
Tho Police Jury of St. John have appro-
prlated $500 for repairs to be made on the
Davis Ievee.
Shreveport has new Slsby steam fire
engine which has been named after Cant
VIM. Robson.
The State Board Of Engineers have COM
pleted Harlem and Bohemia leyees. Plaoue-
mines parish.
MIR. Jules Liea1 has been seriously in
jured at gin near Hermitage, Pointe
Ooupee parish.
The Turnerville levee. above Planoeminc.
Is to be built on the laat line laid out by
Engineer Brown.
Tie ferry at Monroe, Ouachita parish,
brought over three hundred wagons into
town in one day.
Building and stock of DR.. C. NJ. Sitmau
& Co.'S store at Greensburg were entirely
consumed by fire.
Mr.. Van p. Winder of Terrebonne has
been appointed District Attorney vice Win
chester, resigned.
The body of an unknown man was found
floating in the river, in the neighborhood
of the Davis erevasse
A colored Nimrod of St. James was shot
by the accidental discharge of his gun and
died from the wounds.
The warehouse of Messra. Coyle & Will
mot, Baton Rouge coal merchants, has
been destroyed by fire.
j. Wesley Harvey, on trial in St. Landry
parish. for the murder of James Mickey in
1873, has been acquitted.
drunken Negro fell off his horse into a
creek between Arcadia and CALVIN. Lincoln
parish, and was drowned.
Cattle are dying in Bossier from drinking
refuse water from the sugar-houses. filled
with scum and bisulphate.
Mr.. Charles McD. Puckette, editor of the
Shreveport Times, has recovered from a se-
rious and prolonged illness.
The funeral of Judge Goode in Houma,
is said to have been the largest ever wit
messed in Terrebonne parish.
Mr.. Ed. Wells is to put up turpentine
still in Springfield, Livingston parish,
and open turpentine orchard.
A Morgan railroad train ran into car!
on the Garden City plantation, st. Mary,
killed three muias. tore the cart to pieces
and tossed tha driver high i'll the air.