A colored man inamed Johi Riley, a
resident of Port Ilprrow, was drowned in
the river ncar the head of IBayou La
fourche, last Tuesday forenoon. lie was
helping to navigate a thlatboat, and the
craft getting aground, he jumped into
the water to push her off, and sank be
neath the surface. The body was recov
ered a few iouts lifter the accident.
By a card of thanks published in this
issue of the CHIEF the Terpsichorean
Social Club of Donaldsonville expresses
its grateful sense of obligation to the
Rising Star Debating Club of Baton
Rouge for the cordial reception and
handsome entert:ainment accorded by the
latter organizatiuuo to the members of the
Terpsichorean Club who .'isited the
Capital two weeks ago.
We regret to lJa ir that Mrs. L.: L. Fer
naudez, wife of the gentlemanly Missis
sippi street barber, met with a serious
mishap one day this week. While walk
ing in the yard of her residence on Cheti
Ioaches street after a shower, she slipped
.and fell, breaking a leg. A physician
was suimnmnoned and under his care the
patient is doing as well as could be ex
pected.
SAte oF F'.ut IPttvl':.t;II;.-By offi
cial advertisement in this issue of our
paper it is announced that the Sheriff of
the parish of Ascension will offer for
.,ale at public auction, on the 27th of
August, the Bayou Lafourche ferry priv
ilege granted by thl Legislature of 1?70
to Messrs. Marx Schonberg and Win.
