The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-05-15
STATE NEWS.

pers Of Louisiana,
Baton Rouge has street cars.
Jeannerette has Lodge Of the Knights Of
Labor.
st. Landry has only one prisoner in the
parish Jail.
Robert L. Binson has been appointed
postmaster at Alto. La.
The Presbyterians of Minden are going
to build handsome church.
Marshall p. Phillips has been appointed
Postmaster Of Lakeland. La.
The pedestal for the Baton Rouge Con-
federate monument has been completed.
The city government Of the town of Area
dia will cost the tax payers $4,000 this year.
Deputy Sheriff Adger Ellison Of Bossier
was thrown from his horse and fatally in
jured.
David Newman, colored resident of
Tensas parish, attempted suicide by cutting
his throat.
The name Of Mintlen junction, on the
v. s. & P. railroad, has been changed to
Sibley's Station.
Ninety-rine crates of strawberries and
five of asparagus we're shipped last week
from Amite City.
VIM. Hanson accidentally shot and killed
Mardite Gardner, in Natchitoches. Both
parties are colored.
Geo. Brown, sent from Point-a-la- Hache
to the penitentiary for manslaughter, has
died there Of brain fever.
Ex-Postmaster Merchant of New Or
leans has returned to New Iberia, and will
resume the practice Of law.
Fred. E. Van Murbike has arrived in
New Orleans after forty nine days ride
from New York on a bicycle.
Easter Monday was celebrated as Confed-
crate Memorial Day in Baton Rouge, Col.
I. Sambola Jones delivering the principal
address.
The Houma fremen celebrated their
fourteenth anniversary on the 10Th of April
and the Thibodaux boys their twenty-fif
on the 9th.
A dying Negro was married while in
drticulo morris at the New Orleans Charity
Hospital, to woman with whom he had
been living.
Miss May Beard, the young lady who
carried off the first honors in the gradua-
ting class at Nashville, Tenn, is native of
Caddo parish.
Mr.. J. B. Ellis, Custom house officer,
while on duty on the Spanish steamship
Eduardo, fell through hatchway, injuring
himself severely.
Geo. Favrot of Baton Rouge, while care
iessly handing apistol, shot young man
named Earnest Boisvert in the arm, inflict-
ing flesh wound.
The McEnery Cadets of the State Univer-
sity at Baton Rouge will take part in the
drill at vicksburg, Miss May Waddill Of
ficiating as their sponsor.
Benjamin Franklin of Franklin has been
sentenced to three years in the peniteniary
for manslaughter, and Lewis Duncan to life
imprisonment for murder.
Workmen in the turpentine orchard of
Messrs. Simpson & Wizard of st. Tammany
organized strike. and whipped two old
Negroes who refused to join.
MT. Joseph Jefferson has donated piece |
OF land, near New iberia, for school
house, and ordered his teams to haul the
lumber for necessary buildings.
One OF the principal incidents of the Ba-
ton Rouge Confederate memorial day GER
emonles was the presentation of beauti-
1ul bouquet by ex-Federal soldiers.
While two men on the Red Chute planta-
ton, in Bossier parish, were scuff1ing for
pistol, the weapon fred, accidentally kill
ing Harry Holiday, bystander.
Post offices have been established at Ber-
trand and Tunica, VIM parish, La, and
David B. Williams and Spencer NJ. Smith
appointed Postmasters respectively.
The seventh edition of the Journal.
Shreveport's new paper, consisted of 5000
copies, which were sent to every post Office
within radius 100 miles of that city,
2 An advertiser in New Iberia got a check
for 81 80 on New York bank, raised it to
$50 and swindled the Merchants Bank of
New Orleans ont of that amount.
! During the recent storm on Cypremort
prairie trees were uprooted, fences pros
trated, cabins demolished, and sugar
house chimneys twisted and thrown down.
One of the female base ballsits was taken
from the field, while a game was in prog
ress in New Orleans, by her brother. who
with her for their home in st.
Louis. I
B. Mcfarland of Bastrop, for many years
with the TMorehouse Cln,.jo. No
and editor, and who served as ;
Mayor of that town for several terms, is I
lead. =