The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-01-16
STATE NEWS.

Gleanings from the Newspapers of Lou
isiana.
| Vidalia is to have another hotel.
PIaquemine has a colored lawyer.
Shreveport is soon to have new national
bank.
Monroe has eight white secret organiza-
tions.
Pneumonia is prevalent in Vermilion
parish.
| A catamount was killed in the lower part
of Lincoln parish.
Work on Kemp levee, Tensas parish, is
progressing rapidly.
Monroe received 5000 bales of cotton in
the last three months.
A bicycle club has been organized in West
Monroe, Ouachita parish.
colored woman froze. to death in Baton
Rouge during the cold snap.
A malignant type of diphtheria is prev
alent in Piaquemines parish.
Ponte- a-Hache has been threatened
| with an epidemic of diphtheria.
Numbers of Immigrants are settling in
the interior of Vermilion parish.
The residence of Mr.. j. p. Harrel of
Sparta has been destroyed by fire.
Joe Jefferson is going to sink an artesian
we'll on his island in Iberia parish.
Alphonse Levi. who killed Mike O'Hara
in New Orleans, has been acquitted.
Coored laborers have been brought to
Ouachta parish from North Carolina.
A panther was seen within two and a
half miles of Rayville, Richland parish.
Two colored children we're burned to
death in cabin at Baton Rouge, recently.
Thieves robbed the altar of St. Johns
Episcopal church, at Thibodaux, Christmas
eve.
party of immigrants have purchased 2!'O
parish.
jeff Minions of Iberville, colored, shot
and killed William Gaynes, and made his
escape.
Some freight cars of the v. 8. & P. R. R.
tumbled into Bee bayou, Richland parish,
! recently.
Seven men were killed in New Orleans
during the six days between Christmas and
New Years.
During the recent rain and thaw Bogue
Fa!ia river, st. Tammauy parish, rose
twelve feet.
The Rev. Dr.. J. Fl. Cunningham has pur-
chased and become the editor of the Robe
G1se Reporter.
! ! young man named ". B. Davis was run
! over at Minden junction by a car and dan
gerousfy hurt.
A fodder house in jackson parish, con-
tanning 500 bushels of corn, has been de-
stroyed by fire.
| Pat Cumniskey of Baton Rouge fell on
the roadside while in a drunken siupor and
broke his neck.
Percy Coleman. mulatto, wanted at
Baton Rouge for murder, has been arrested
at Plaquemine.
A young son of Mr.. Elias Taylor of Union
parish was thrown from wagon against a
tree and killed.
Thomas Burns has been appointed to a
scholarship in Tulane University from st.
Tammany parish.
The New Orleans weekly Picayune has
changed its date of publication from Sat
urday to Thursday.
The sixtieth execution under the McEnery
administration will take place in Webster
parish on the 22nd inst.
The stables of Mrs. Shines place, Avoy-
elles parish, and 220O barrels of corn have
been destroyed by fire.
/ Rev. H. C. Pugh of Monroe received over
fifty bushels of rutabaga turnips, some of
which weighed ten pounds.
Some villain tried to fire the village of
Cheneyville, using coal oil freely, but was
detected in the act and fled.
Several hundred head of cattle are said to
have frozen to death in Cameron parish
during the recent cold wave.
After carefully examining the map OF
| Louisiana now on file at the Exposition, a
wealthy European purchased an immense
tract of land in the southwestern part Of
the State, and is prepared to establish
.co,ony of sixty families.