The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-04-03

~ Yuaieo-lIAS pe0is tnfough our great home,
Like sandal scents. old memories cling
Then lift Il 'twi1t the earth and sEy.
ana l0t ~ every atom ring,
Ana lot tts tongue still louder sing
Inc anthem that shall never die.
STATE NEWS,
0rfbbisgs and Cullings from the Nswsp.-
pers Of Louisiana.
The Esperanto levee, st. Charles parish.
pesds watching,
Tho MORGAN levse on the Atchafalaya has
been completed.
Mr.. Edgar Foret Of West Baton Rouge
committed suicide.
Baton Rouge young men have organized
= military company.
The Beaulieu leves, West Baton Rouge,
- IN very bad condition.
There afs seven prisoners in tho st.
Tammany Jail, all black.
lodge Of the Knights Of Labor has
been formed ct Franklin.
Jeanneretts has free reading room.
established by the ladies.
A little child Of Mr.. Florry Of Claiborne
parish was fatally scalded.
Methodist and Episcopal church are
being built in Lake Charles.
There we're three fires in two DAYS at
Winnsboro, Franklin parish.
The banks are caving heavily ON the Point
Ooup6e side Of the Atchafelaya.
A. q. Belden committed suicide in East
Carroll parish by taking morphine.
W. +. Parsons, q DeSoto plantation man
sssr, shot and killed Booze Eob.sc, oolored.
Tho admirers OF Gen. Hancock in ST, Ian
dry are trying to raise.fnnds.fcr his widow.
The strikes on the railroads compelled a
suspension Of work at the Avery salt mines.
John White charged with the murder Of
Hugh Hays, was tried at Sparta and acquit-
ted.
Miss West Of Catahoula parish was
burned to death while setting fire to some
grass.
Mrs. Amelia Lastrapes has been ap-
pointed postmistress at La Place, st. Mar
tin parish.
Father A. Boreas Of Bruly Landing,
West Baton Rouge parish, is building
school and convent.
Jeptha Sanders little son of Tangipahoa,
was shot in the arm one day last week. ne
cessitating amputation.
Mr.. Hampton Burris had his left hand
badly lacerated by G circular saw in mill
near Bayou Manchac.
The Negro who robbed and burned the
depot at Gibbsland has been sentenced to
fifteen years In the penitan.iary.
Several Negro girls broke open and
robbed saloon Mt New Iberia, carrying
away quantity Of cigars and liquors.
Mn. Van Winder, widow Of the late
District Attorney Of Terrebonne and st.
Mary, has opened q SCHOOL in Terrebonne.
An old house collapsed in Winnsboro.
franklin parish, painfully injuring several
children who were playing in the building.
The inmates of tho Eichland Jail fred
She building, but the flames wore discovered
and extinguished before much damage was
done.
I. ]. Boasso, the notorious ex- chief of the
New Orleans detective fierce. has taken up
hts residence in Baton Rouge for term of
fourteen yeare.
Dr.. A. J. Leech, All old on c. Desoto
parish, while attempting to save his fence
from destruction by FIRE, tainted and was
burned to death.
The Police Jury CT Fermilion parish has
asked the Police Juries of other rari,hec to
join them in petitioning the Legislature to
pass Sunday Law.
Geo. Forshay, an employt of the Outlet
Gin Factory, has received a written notice
to leave Amits City in fifteen dcys, or take
the consequences.
James r. Garfield, tho eldest son of the
late President, has been visiting New Or
leans, having como South to purchase a
tract OF land in the Teche country.
h. l.. D. O'Niel, incarcerated in the Baton
Rouge jail on charge OF embexz,ement
from the NJ. v. r. R. Co., attempted to
commit suicide by taking morphine.
Col. I. Sambola Jones Of the Copitol;o,-
advocate, while digging in his garden At
Baton Rouge, turned up an old-fashioned
brooch containing eighteen diamonds.
Ex-Congressman z. T. Lewis has been
nominated by the Democratic parish con-
yention of ST. Landry to succeed the Hon.
L. s. Fontenot, resigned, as State Senator.
James A. Graham, an elsven-year- old
boy, nephew Of Mrs. Patrick Logan Of
Bayou Sara, reached that place last veek. !
having been sent from San Franoisco nv
express.
Aleck Austin of ST. Landry, while ont |
soon hunting was instantly killed by the |
tree in which the coon had taken refuge |
falling on him, while companion was
shopping it.
The st. Charles Herald appeared with in.
verted rules on announcing the death ar
Congressman Hahn, and q number of the
citizens Of Hahnville draped their hon.as
in mourning.
A United states army engineer has been
examining the streets leading to the Baton
Rouge National Cemetery, and estimates
i will cost the Government about s17 en-
20 shell Florida street.
Mrs. J. A. Trynahan, living on the banks
of the Amite river, in Livingston parish, in
moment OF mental alteration Drained
aet husband with hatchet, and then ct
enpted to commit suicide.