The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-08-21
'TDe DopaIdsoqvilIe Chief
STATE NEWS.
Two Dollars q Year.

Lake Charles has sixteen bathrooms.
The Louisiana Farmer has been enlarged
THERE'S to be mail service to Gran
Isle.
Two new hotels are being erected at LAX
Charles.
Gold has been discovered in Mandiville
st. Tammany parish.
A Claiborne parish rat catcher reports SO
rats Stayed mp to date.
A party OF Minden sportsmen killed iv
deers and two wolves.
Davis Coleman is in Jail in Rossier par
ish for killing Ibal. Thomas.
A young man named Fireman was drown
ed in Bayou Crosse Tete, recently.
Larry O'Brien, brakeman, had his foo
terribly crushed by cars at Morgan City,
Three children in New Orleans, wer,
poisoned by eating too much worm candy
The sufferers from the recent overflow
in Grant parish number between $50 anc
1000 persons.
Both OF the Bossier parish editors In ve
been drawn as jurors for the next criminal
term of court.
Ihere are six vacancies at the Peabody
Normal School, Nashville, Tenn, to be filed
from Louisiana.
Dennis Boyd has been hanged at Belle
vue, Caddo parish, for the murder of Mr..
David Haas, in 1884.
San Franklin was shot over a game Of
dice, at Laplace station, by Jim Taylor.
Both parties are colored.
man by the name of r. Bloom. died IN
board the Neptune, near rointe- a. IL. Hacbe
~. and was buried at that place.
60 The Senate bill relative to the imnrore.
On1ent OF the navigation of Bayou Plaaue.
men an.yzas reported favorable Upon.
Assumn.;on y year old eofofss boy was found
parish and o,oan;sdi liver il FONT of Mr.. W. L.
having for it, ah;sct s. Baton Rouge.
the part of its mem bers, ana I'f an appfopf'a
nation Of literary and scientific e.. VI sufferers
coupled with the performance q uis''','a'
acts. The name chosen by tb oln nas over
F'liloaogia Dramatic Club. and e. mak'og ar
by Dr.. \. Wives, President; VIM. n. G a.
wee Pres'dent;J. Vincent Leblanc ~ c. ola
secretary; Leopold silber, gorresssen WI
Secretary; j. ?. Dalferes, Treasure a 5osepns'
~ Dalieres' Asst Treasurer; Ant. Vat eN1lii to
..I ana State Manager. Til the alafen'
Iertalnment by the club will be. ~ An cases.
ing the last days of September sn hdon was
IF October. .oref the lower
Food for the brain and ny ~
.i a the body without t,:hpanv hos heen -
re need in these days for sAlahy mas been Or
ne r"n'c n restores tha PARISH for tho pur
: tnins You car wells throughout the
BALg<homas who has been in tho MN
ltenSf nv for nine years, under life 90,
tehce Tor murder has been pardonad b.,
the Governor. ~
One of the passengers on the rex,a 49,,
Pacific train, delayed several days at Bnn
ne was young man Oh his way to Dallas
to be married. '''''''
oreaK IN the Speranza leyee, St. Char,a.
ss'ilsh' occurred, causing the flooding of the
aoaos ana fields in the vicinity. but with 10
serious results. -i'
oaahg oinner prepared by colored
"' MAJ Dock Moore, of Monroe, be-
came sick, with arsenic POISONING. Int i
no" recovering.
nameless outrage vas ,t4o,,.o,
A'oyeiles On the wife of one Cbr;stonor W.,
i'ans oy young boy who succeeded in
making his escape.
.. colby, found guilty of embezzl;no
Y'ooo from the Morgan line, has been sen
fenced to eighteen months in the ne,ite,
tlary at hard labor.
Joseph Villio, living in New Or,e,,s h.
came insane, killed his wife by cutting
her throat from ear to ear, and then ~
tempted to sever his wipdpipe.
y. D. Curley: the man who recent,v k;,aa
NJ. W. Fassman, of New Orleans. in Ratio,
houge and escaped from mil has boo,, -
captured In Livingston parish.
Two young men living On Bayou Black
neaf laserVlile, La, named Chas. Fayres
ana baptlste Breaux, fought a duel for y
sweetheart with fists for weapons.
governor McEnery has issued pro-
clamatlon asking for aid for the peon1e of
Nap'des' Grant and Catahoula parishes
whose crops wero destroyed by the flood.
Two Negro preachers at Fausse Pointe
Aoefia parish, got into dispute which one
attempted to settle by hanging the other
WHO was rescued when nearly suffocated
new post Offices have boon established !,
Ihls State at Amistead, Bienville parish
". W. Amistead, postmaster and o.l
Ill., Eossler parish, VIM. Linstou. most
N lser.
Josephine Acosta, residing ia New Or
leans, was killed by a relative, Felix A,v,r-
ez' thirteen year old lad, who threw n,ir
u scissors ut hor, which penetrated the ca
rotid artery.
turing tho recent overflow on gsvou
Socochle, the water was TWENTY ;n,hos
"eep III me house of Captain Long, and
p1s family lived on grits two aavs in tho
second story.
INJURIES huych, son of Mr.. Don Huvch
OF Baton Rouge, who has been ,,,oos -
sarge o. tns above Baton Rouge, is said
10 DO The youngest commissioned eno;,eor
in the country.
Mr. W. H. Readman, with f.u
spirits, circulated a subscription list a,,on,,
the citizens Of Cofax, " for the benefit ,t
me orphan" and gave a stag party with |
the amount raised
during quarrel at Trenton, Cnaobit, |
PARISH Mr.. j, II. Mitchell had bis lore,
I'd" broken, and his assailaut, 4 man n.,,ss |
-uceoaEs, vas fatally shot by VIM. E,,,..
son III law of Mitchell ''