Last week we wanted space; this, we are in
need of matter,
According to a compilatian from the re
port of the meteorology of the Ascension
Branch of the Sugar Planters' Association
the maximum temperature at Donaldson
ville for the month of February was about
sixty-six degrees and the minimum a little
over thirty-one.
We learn from a letter to Mr. Tony Rod
rigues that Mr. J. M; Keating has with
drawn entirely from and terminated his
onnection with the Iberville. Democrat,
or reasons which will probably be given in
to-day's issue of that paper. Mr. Keating
has gone to New Orleane, but expects to be
in Donaldsonville to-day, or to morrow.
Sh t duria's theap roeery Ent
t ato na lht
* , :atabout~ half past pleven o'clock, a
small chantttof a colored man situated on
islot mtbp;res;of toWn belonagsszgto Mr.
SBerege, sng ree tenally . The
.uipnt of the house was indoors and
aleep at the time. A passer by seeing the
d flames rushed in and extinguished them by
means t sacks and bed-qovering.
Solomon Hill shot and wounded Robert
i Harris, on the M: Hoanmas plantation, in
this parish, one day last week. Both are
adlored men employed as laborers on the
plantation, and the shooting is claimed to
have been accidental, but Hill has been ar
rested and jailed to await judicial investi
gation of the itter. Harris was not dan.
gerously hurt and is rapidly recovering.
Get the dollar shirt at Kline's Old Relia
ble Store. It is the cheapest and best arti
licie of men's wear in town.
