The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-08-14
TRe Dopaldso9viNe Chief
STATE NEWS.
Two Dollars a Year.

,Cribbings and Cuttings from the Newspa-
pers Of Louisiana.
The Terrebonne Times has entered into
the sixth year of its existence.
Morehouse consumes about fifteen hun
bred pounds Of ice every week.
The New Iberia Farmer has been enlarg-
ed and gotten patent outside.
Ike Mitchell killed his wife in st. James,
because she refused to live with him.
George Harrison was hanged in Shreve-
port, July 16, for the murder of Geo. Allen.
cave in the revetment work at Delta
Point, of about GO feet, occurred recently.
Chas. Anderson, aged twenty five, a
Swede, committed suicide at Gouldsboro.
The three men who escaped from the
Livingston parish Jail, have been recapt-
,nred.
D. F. Boyd, president of the State Uni
versity at Baton Rouge, has rendered his
resignation.
The French citizens of Shreveport cele-
brated the anniversary OF the fall Of the
Bastile in grand style.
a painter by the name of Douglas, was
struck and instantanously killed by light
ming naar Shreveport.
The Grand Jury, In Session at Coushat-
ia, made fifteen presentment, after exam
lining about sixty cases.
The Southern University, of New Orleans,
for eolored people, has been granted an ap-
preparation Of $141 600.
j. F. Robertson is to be clerk of the
District Court for the parish of Livingston,
vice B. Spiller, resigned.
. couple OF employees at Wilbert and &
Sons Flaquemine saw mill, have lost their
fingers In the machinery.
During the recent storm at Shreveport,
lightning struck, Capt. Jos. B. Smiths
stable tearing out one end.
The State convention of the Baptist
church met near Lisbon, in Claiborne par
ish, with large attendance.
The first communicates at the Abbeville
church numbered al, and the ceremony
was witnessed by 1900 people.
Hahnville Negro won wager by drink
ing pint of whiskey and eating two loaves
OF bread without intermission.
force of men are at the work on the
Howard we'll in Lafayette Square. which
is to be beautifully ornamented.
DR.. N. Betounay, of Breaux Bridge, died
a fortnight ago from the effects of an over
dose of morphine taken by mistake.
Seven hundred dollars have been appro-
priated by the Police Jury Of Terrebonne
to build bridge across bayou Terrebonne.
Rev. DR.. Drane, pastor of the First Bap-
fist Church at Baton Rouge, was thrown
from his horse and sprained one of his legs.
The police jury of the parish of Plaque
parish $4,000 below the assessment of
1855.
Adam. Gauthreau, colored, aged about
IL years, was drowned in Bayou Lafourche
opposite the plantation of Mr.. Numa
Wives.
Miss Lucy pebore, a young lady 10 years
! old, was killed in Natchitoches parish by
The accidental discharge of gun in boys
hands.
Forty feet of levee on the upper line of
the Savin place, Lafourche parish, oaved
in just after the closing of tho Bergeron
crevasse.
The congregation of Temple Sainai, in
New Orleans. will erect monument to the
J. X. Gutheim.
q. D. Graham, ths Philadelphia cooper
who went through the whirlpool rapids in
cask, worked at his trade:for quite while
in New Orleans.
Phil. Williams, colored, was shot and
killed, on the Oakley plantation, 1berville,
by Mr.. Fred. Morales, who has been COM
mitted for trial.
During difficulty between negro man
and woman at Davis Station, St. Charles
parish, a brother Of the latter stabbed the
man three several times.
Dr.. w, S. Richly, '''The Chicago Dentist -
was severely cowhided in Baton Rouge re-
Gently, by Capt. T. B. Hillou, for improp-
erly addressing his daughter.
Calvin Farrell, colored, was shot by IN
known parties at the Ten Mile store, st.
Tammany parish, and has been brought to
the New Orleans Charity Hospital.
H. c. Wright was arrested in VIM par
ish for crime committed fifteen years ago
i'll Texas, being betrayed to the officers by
man who had known the seo.et for seven
years.
The Police Jury of Iberville parish re-
duced the assessment on the Texas & Paci-
fc railroad from. $1,000 to $4,000 per mile,
and placed like valuation on the Mississi-
ppi Valley road.
white hoy named John Siebeck, who
says he has grandmother named Mrs. j
c. Harrison, residing at Lake Charles, has
been picked up by the New Orleans police
in destitute condition.
Theodule Daigle, of Opelousas, killed 6
hog that weighed 700 pounds net and
yielded 30 gallons Of lard, and while sein
ing in the Bayou fiaquemine caught gar
fish that weighed lO5 pounds.
A part of the E. bound train Oh the V. s
4 p, was wrecked near East Carroll, tht
engine destroyed by Iire, and the brave en-
gineer horribly scalded, from the effects Of
which he died next morning.
The appearance of Charlton, most NAL
isnant cattle disease, is now reported from
some of the parishes, and two men living
within few miles of Olelousas have bee,
suffering from the same malady.
VIM. Ross, Who turned States evideuc;
in the Eastwood murder case, and upor
whose testimony his 1--WE confederate.
vara convicted and HANGED in Arrps