The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-07-29
Louisiana News.
TRINIDAD FOUNDRY BURNED.

TRINIDAD UND BURNED.
About half past three o'clock on Wed
nesday morning, a fire broke out in thu
Trinidad Foundry, situated in this town
which destroyed the entire building, will
all its contents.
The total loss is estimated at between
SO, 600 and So, 900. IN which the total insur
ance amounts to 50, $50, of which s., 900 i:
on the stock and machinery.
The origin of tie fire is unknown, but i
supposed to have been the work of some
malicious person. New Iberia Sugar
Bowl, July Goth.
ASSASSINATION.
On Saturday night last. Mr.. William Den
nison was shot on the plantation of Gen,
Morse, in the extreme sonth point of this
parish. lie was called out of his house by
some one, and before he could get to the
voice calling, he was shot at and wounded
in the legs. He was, however, able to run
back to his house where he seized a gun and
fired it off in the direction of his would-be
assassins. He then escaped under cover OF
the darkness. On examination, afterwards,
it was found that three men were engaged
in,the attempted assassination.
Toncy Forney, a freedman, has been ar
rested as one of the parties, and is now in
Bellevue Jail, awaiting commitment trial
before Judge Baker. Two other suspected
freedmen are still at large.
Mr.. Dennison's wounds are not consider
cd dangerous.--Bossicr Banner, July Sth.
MURDERED.
On Saturday the LIST inst, r. M. Kelly
was assassinatcd in his field at DR.. Shell
mans, in Webster parish, between the
bayous. .-g.
Early in the morning he went out some
distance from the house to work, in com
pany with a mulatto named Marshall -,
who worked with him. Some time after
wards, perhaps at noon, his wife went out
to the field to carry him provisions. At Il
shed out there, a ghastly sight presented
itself to her, in the dead body OF her hus-
band weltering in its blood. When the
neighbors collected and the surroundings
were examined it appeared that Kelly had
gone to the shed to rest, or escape a shower
of rain, and there had lain down with his
head on his saddle, that while>in this posi-
ton he received several blows upon the
head, inflicted by the eye of a hoe, one of
which blows fractured his skull and caused
death, or insensibility, and that his body
was then dragged off several yards, where
its throat was cut. The mulatto had alb
seconded. He was seen afterwards, on that
Or a subsequent day, and an epdcavor was
made to arrest him, but he escaped.
There is no doubt but that he was the
murderer. What was his motive is unknown,
as no difficulty had occurred between him
and the deceased, and they seemed on quite a
friendly footing. There is a suspicion among
the %neighbors that he was hired to do the
deed, by some enemy of kelly's. But it is
to be hoped that this suspicion is unfounded.
Kelly was the second son of Mr.. John
Kelly, and had but a few months g mar
ried a daughter of DR.. Shelman. He was
quite young, and much liked by his &C
quaintances. The public can easily imagine
the fury excited in his ncighborhood against
his assassin. Parties were Immediately
formed to scour the country, but as yet we
have not heard of the arrest of the muir
derer. = Bossier Banner, July Sth.
ANOTHER TAX.
In addition to the special road tax the
Police Jury have ordered that a special tax
of one dollar be raised on each and every
shotgun, muskct and rife in the parish,
kept for private use, and the parish AS
is authorized to proceed to its collec-
tion.- Planters Banner, July 18th.