The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-06-26
STATE NEWS.

Fribblngs and Cuttings from the New spa
Pers Of Lo9lsiana.
Water Is encroachipg on the back lands
OF Conoordia.
The Bergeron orevasss on the Lsfoprche
near Thibodaux has been closed.
Ehe Bordelon ievee, near Egg Bend,
Avoyellss parish, Is now completed.
A colored girl aged ten years was burned
to death on plantation in DeSoto parish
by coal oillamp.
Mr. NJ. l. Maui Of West Feliciana was re-
Gently thrown from his buggy and killed
by = runaway horse.
New Iberia has q patriarch named Henry
Meyers. a native of Holland, who is l25
years and 3 month"; old.
About $5G6 was paid by the POLICE Jury
Of st. Mary parish at it's last meeting for
work on the public roads.
4 heavy cave has occurred at Hermitage
landing, West Baton Rouge, which carried
away nearly sll the batture.
Peter Choice, colored, was captur red near
Red Land, Bossier parish, for murder
committed in Texas ip 1879.
Jsdge Tissot decided the case of f. C..
Hancock ~. the New Orleans Plea.
yans in favor Of the Picayune.
The steamboat Lizzie Evans ran into the
Morgan City railroad bridge and carried
away nearly all the upper works.
Mrs. Frank Leslie, the leading female
Journalist Of the world, was born in the
French quarter of New Orleaps.
a mass meeting Of the citizeps OF Alex.
an dria was held to aid in getting the State
University moved back to that place.
An iron steamer has been built at Thibo
aspH and launched into Bayou Asfourche.
She has been christened " Parpell."
Amos Bsyliss, young oolored boy of
Shreveport, has besn Jailed for attempting
to kill another colored boy with club.
Sarah Ann Nichols, coloreq tsrmagant
Of Shreveport, stabbed Clarn Harris in the
back during little difference of opinion.
Easebe Hebert, living ON bayou Yer
nili94, committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head with double-barreled
shotgun.
NJ. Edgar Fouy Of West Baton Rouge,
not returning from d hunt. was searched
for and found lying dead near Brusly
Landing.
A colored man who mistook bottle of
acid for . bottle Of beer at the Baton
Rouge ics house got his month aud Throat
badly burned.
A white convict WAS shot and killed and
2 Negro voupaea BY guards near Quebec,
eight miles west Of Tallplah, while attempt.
ing to escape.
Two hundred citizens Of Washington
have given notice that they will not pay
taxes to build the new poqft.honse in St.
Landry parish,
Tbs lugeer Stonewell jackson struck a
Joy ten miles above Baton Rouge aud sank.
The crow were picked up in the river and
landed at tho Garrison. :
Mr.. Charles Thompson, section boss at
Sarpy's station on the Mississippi Valley
road, was robbed by tramps Of 500 in
money aud d revolver.
Tug Jones, colored boy about nine
years Of age, while bathing in a shallow
place in Lake Concordia, stepped into
hole aud was drowned. y
Some oxen aud several mich cows at
Mansfield, DeSoto parish. fell dead from
poison supposed to have been administered
BY an enemy Of their owner:
Hay Fever sufferers The number Of peo-
pie annually afflicted with this most annoying
|naindy Gcehs to BE- greatly ON tho increase. !.
Tho editor VI this journal is an annual VIC
TIM aud. with view to discover a specific
cure, has tried numerous remedies. OF these
! Eiy's Cream Balm is by all odds the quick
est and most satisfactory, two applications
greatly allasins the usual symptoms in tho nose
and eyes. Wevould recommend its use by all
subject to hay fever. and We gladly bear unso-
licitesl testimony to it's efficiency in our own |
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