The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-02-20
STATE NEWS.

Wherefore these love-born words Of mine
Fan not offend Saint Valentine.
STATE NEWS.
EribbIngs and Cuttings from the Ne~spa-
pers Of Louisiana.
Fidalia il infested with tramps
Lake Charles is to have an ice factory.
ii showed in 1sas. Felicana on the 10th
instant.
Abboville has organized lodge OF the
Knights Of Honor. e5.
Mad horses have bitten several Negroes
in Terreborne parish.
The Office of the Madison Times has been
slightly damaged by fire.
A long stretch of new levee is being put
up Mt st. Gabriel, Iberville parish.
Backarow, who has been on trial in
Shreveport for abduction, has been con
yicted.
Nick Bush, white, shot and slightly
wounded ~. NJ. Houston, colored. at Alex
andria.
There il plan on foot to build a rail-
road from Amite City, via Clinton, to
Natchez.
The levee work and dyke across the Ba-
you Jacob, Plaquemines parish, has been
completed.
The steamboat John B. Maude was
burned at the wharf in New Oriea..s and is
y complete loss.
Bayou Teche has had more water in it
since the recent freeze than it was ever
known TO have before.
a sneak thief stole 800 from the store of
MIR. Delu6 Dngaa, e.blind merchant doing
business at TEihodaux.
Tbs railroad bridge across the Sabine
river has been finished, and trains are run
ming from Shreveport to Houston.
Dick Defee who has been on trial at
Mansfield; charged with the murder of
Negro fifteen years ago WAS, acquitted.
The clubhouse On Grants point, opposite
Colfax, and W. +. Morris's store, near
Shreveport have been destroyed by fire.
G. 4. Dupuy, Plaquemine grocer was at
tackled by two strange men while closing
his store, aud desperate effort made to
rob him.
Ralph Grant of DorseyviIle, aged years,
shot and seriously wounded Victoria Bap-
tiste, girl of about the same age, With. IL
toy pistol.
The young son of Mr. Thomas H. Hall of
Baldwin, st. Mary parish, has captured
and presented the Times e,. oc,ut white
blackbiru.
A Negro named Castle who tried to kill
,colored woman some time ago in Plaque
mine, has been arrested in the Charity Hos
4'ital, New Orleans.
MIR. Thos. Suily, St. Tammany archi-
tect, has been awarded the contract to erect
a new building for She New Orleans Ma
tional Bank, to cost $4,000.
David Waahburn Of Gibsland, BienviHe
parish, youth of Is years, while loading a
pistol, accidentally killed Chas Colbert, a
companion of the same age.
Wiley Landers of Rayville, Rich!and
parish, while handling self cooking pis-
tol, accidentally sho. HIS friend, Thomas
Hardesy, through the skull
Messl~. Thos l.. Mills, g. C. Mills and
a. DeBritton, of slberville have purchased
the Scotland plantation, in that parish,
from the Citizens Bank, for $1O,OOG.
Etiza Logan. a Negroes, was run over
and Instantly killed ut Monroe by locono-
tire No. 800 Of the V. s. T. z. railway. which
has already gsound twelve human beings to
death.
While Walter Kemp and Eddie Muse of
Amite City were out hunting together the
latter accidentally shot both himself and
his comraed, inaicting painful though not
dangerous wounds.
Mr. Joseph Mathern, who resided near
Bayou DIES AlIemanas. while hauling his
pirogue ashore, accidentally discharged his
gun, the whole load entering hs right
breast, causing death ten minutes after
ward.
An aged gentleman named j. W. HAYNES.
VINO with his wife, was Oh his way from
opelika, Ala, to Baileyville, Texas. fell
from train near Shreveport aud was moi
fonnd until next day. His injuries are not
serious.
In mentioning the slight unplsasantness
existing between the Ibsrville South and
Democrat, tho Morehouse Clarion says, at
IS devilish hard work for new paper to
knock the props from under an old es;ab-
Eehed one"
Geo. Harr'son, who killed Geo. Allen in
shreveport. Jan. I, has bean found guilty
'ot murder in the first degree, aad Frank
pearafenried, Harr;son's half brother, on
srial under the same Indictment, Of murder
without capital punishment
At dance ten miles below Ihib,,l,,o,
20. Morris, known Us Canada Bill" a
notorious baliy, was shot aud killed bv
Frinin Thibodaux, lad OF 49, who, DURING
. quarrel with another party, was struck by
Norris. The oorcner's jury rendered YER
dict of justidable homicide.
Not Synpto,as BUT tie Dssaasc.
1t would seem to be u truth apprecintabe by
al. and especially hy professors OF the hs.lin.,
at, that to remove .,e disease not to alleviate.
ats symptoms, should he the chlaf aim of med
icatiou. Vet i'll how many instances do We s..e
snls truth asi.iit1ea III theory. ignored il: prnc-
:ice. The reason that Hostaster's Stomach, Sit
ters IL successful Ia many cases VIII, wli.;,
r.lae.lies previously tired were inatl..;1a.e To-
cope. ia attributable to the fact that 4 i. a
medicine Nhie., reaches and re.naves the caaees
Of the sariuus inaiasils tn wt.,s., it is adptcd
lndiEsstion fever and astue. .tear complaint
govt. rheumatism, dsorJ.. al i.e i;;,ssals,,r,a
~ affections Rrt, other rsas!.s are mat pa,a-