James Madison Wells , Thomas C. Anderson, Gadane Casanave and Louis M. Kenner will be released on bail. Judge Felix Pierre Poch attains national prominence as a founder of the American Bar Association. He kept a diary of his Civil War experiences, which has become a valuable source book for scholars. The Poch Plantation house is located on the East Bank near Convent. The house will be restored in 1982 by Dr. and Mrs. John Fraiche of New Orleans.
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The Daily City Item begins publication as an afternoon newspaper. It is founded by 12 journeymen printers. Daniel Dennett is an agricultural columnist and reformer for the Daily Picayune, one of the few to be published during the post-Reconstruction period. He suggests a plan for peaceful division of large plantations to accommodate tenant farming and champions education for children on smaller farms.