The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-07-31
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STATE NEWS.
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STATE NEWS.
CribbiDks and Cuttings from the Newspa-
pers Of Louisiana.
A fire company has been Organized at
Rayne.
Two new hotels are being erected in Lake
Charles.
An opium joint has been raided in
Shreveport.
Three persons were struck by lightning
near Lecompts.
The upper end Of the Davis crevasse levee
is sinking very fast.
Baton Rouge railroad property has been
assessed $500 per mile.
Shell Beaah post-ofice, st. Bernard
parish, has been abolished.
The residence of Mr.. Bssss. at Rayne,
has been destroyed by fire.
The corn crop Of Lafayette parish will be
one Of tho largest ever made.
A Morgan City colored woman drew
$SUUU IN the Louisiana lottery.
Mr.. VIM. Sorrel hanged himself to tree
in his fathers yard, in New iberia.
Master Hunter Packwood fell at a skating
rink in Clinton, dislocatine his elbow.
Two negroes were struck BY lightning in
Natohitochss, one being instantly killed.
For Afteen months but i've sheriff sales
hsye appeared in the Caldwell Wotchnan.
Cattle afaicted With charlton In Coneordia
parish have been saved by the Pastsur treat
mont.
Messrs. ]. v. Roy and George Bondier, Of
.Rayne, were stricken With paralysis last
Sunday night. a.z- es-ss s4s -
Tho New iberia post ofioe has bsen
robbed OF a small amount of money and
postage stamps.
Ned Brady, one of the oldest citizens Of
Webster parish, aged 81, blsw his head OF
with shotgun,
Caldwell negro recently ate four boxes
Of salmon on a wager, and offered to dis
pose Of two more.
! Mr.. F. NJ. Mumford has been appointed
postmaster at Bayou Sara, vice John s,
Wooster, resigned. ... a..
The nude body Of white man, with the
neck broken, was caught floating in the
river at Port Hickey.
Mrs. N. Lame, aged 10 years, living near
.Thihodaux, was found drowned in we'll
near her residence.
A negro girl died recently in Caldwell
parish, of hydrophobia, from a bite re-
ceived last December.
An act Of the last legislature of this State
allows the accused ia criminal cases to tes-
tify in their own behalf.
Mrs. NJ. j. Cunningham, wife of the
State Attorney General, died at the family
residence in New Orleans.
An old man named Mills was brought
from Je6ereon, Texas, to Shreveport and
jailed, charged With horse stealing.
Wild Bill White, who is desperado. shot
and seriously wounded Mr.. Mccall, on
Wild Cow Bayou, Concordia parish.
Anumber Of white hoodlums broke open
q colored woman's house at New iberia
and wantonly destroyed lite sontsnts.
Ella Henderson, a oolored girl, has bsen
arrested at Shreveport for attempting 10
set IRE to Capt. Ben Fulton's house.
An unknown assaesin killed negro
named John Nicholson, near the Redvine
neighborhood, in Lincoln parish, last week.
A cotored man by the name Of Mason
shot another colored man through the
bowels at Point Allan, INJECTING q fatal
wound.
Tho Women'e Club of New Orleans has
sent up q petition asking that women be
appointed as members of the board OF
education.
Capt. v. NJ. Fauria, Town Marshal Of
jacksonville, who recently shot aad killed
William and Thomas Davis, has been
acquitted.
The jury in the case of Jacob Scott, COL
Dred, charged with the murder Of Alfred
Jones in Lake Providence, has brought in
verdict Of guilty.
lsam Mcdonald and Grit Burns, charged
with larceny, and Alex. Jones, charged With
the marder Of Joe Johnston, have escaped
from tH0 9OuE00 ydlls
The death Of Mr.. l.. II. Burdick, of
Rohelins, Was caused by his physician, who
wrote .smarphine" instead of "quinine" in
making mp the prescription.
The last was one of the most laborious
sessions Of the Legislature ever held. No less
than seventy five bills were acted upon
over the number disposed of in 1884.
Three Gar loads at cattle were shipped
from Rayne Last week to Kosciusko. Miss.
Almost daily shipments Of onions and Irish
potatoes are made west, principally to Lake
Oharlee.
In a recent Thunderstorm in Terrebonne
parish two colQred men were struck by
iiRhtGine apparently dead. but we're resus-
citSted by DR.. Joseph Puios after nine
hours work.
At the burning of Mr.. !. A. Smiths store
in Rayne, three fFeman were injured by the
breaking Of ladders, and G. R. Yalson,
druggist, became very sick from becoming
oyerheated.
= At Shreveport Mrs. J. L. Tilly's horse
took fright at q newspaper lying in the
street and ran away, upsetting and de-
molishing tho phaeton, whose occupants
escaped uniniured.
Owing to the Losses to orange groves
occasioned by the rigor of last winter. the
Plaquemines parish assessor has reduced
the assessment Of the owaera Of such prop
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