The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-07-13


Shreveport and this city. After. leav-
ing the line of the Texas Pacific Road,
we started from Dallas and went down
to Houston, Austin AMI Galveston, and
thence we camc to this great city of
yours. And in all that country there
is now developing trade which, if
you can bring it to Your, town--and
you can do it easily by constructing
two lines of railroad, one from New
Orleans to Houston, aud one from New
Orleans to Galvcston--would be worth
moro 10 you than all the other traffic
which comes to Now Orleans. !4f.t.a
Now, l want to impress upon you as
strongly rs can, to-day, the necessity
of doing those two things for The COM
mcrcinl benefit of Now Orleans. l
want particularly 10 see, you build the
railroad from hero to Shreveport, or to
aid any organization that may be FORM
cd to do il. l don't want you TO do it
through mo particularly, hut do Mant
[ to sec you take hold of some ofgstftfza-
tion that is among you here antl take
UP tho subject OF building 800 miles OF
road that ought to be built for $40, 900 n
ten millions of dollars, and that will
put you in communication with Texas
and clear through to tho Pacific Ocean.
AS f,r as tho Texas Pacific road is
concerned, the question has been
asked me twenty times since 1 have
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Texas Pacific road would not connect
with tho Eastern lines in - way that
would turn this Trade from the city Of
| Now Orleans. no that had but lone
reply to mako and mako it here, that
1t is in no way connected with fny inter-
est of any kind whatever. 1T stands
there ~ perfectly independent corpora
tion. Ii tho people OF New Orleans will
make Il connection with il they shall
have as good chance for its trade as iny
people on earth. .N .HH aEHt..
The New Orleans Times, of last Sun
day, has the following notice Of an up
roarous Radical meeting held in that
city. Matters arc working finely. il
seems: 't... ..s.I...
About ?n'clo:ll last night Il dim
cult v ocrurrcdin in the Third WI ard Radi-
cal Club, in which about fifty shots
were fired, aud Col. A. p. Fields and
several others wounded. r..if i..
Ii appears that u motion was made
rcpudintinG the action of the Baton
! Rouge Convention, during which it
was cont"nd"d that the club had been
packed with new members in the inter
est Of the tuStomhousc Kellogg faction.
! Tho motion was put and finally carried,
when Immediately the lights We're put
oui and forty or fifty shots fired causing
Il general stampede through the doors
and windows, which presented an APP
rraranrr rs If there had been a powder
mill explosion. ....r
II WAS at first Thought that no one
had been seriously hurt, but upon On
animation ~ tiay's Hall, on pcrddV
street, adjoining, il was discovered
that Cot. y. T.. Fields WAS slightly
WnunLrh in the leg. AZ it blch pro
fus"ly, and no osurG"on could DC obtained
tIpttcc by his friends. Several colnrrI
mcn Wrr" slightly wounded in the
hands aud arms. No arrests made.
Tho Galveston News says that apart
| from the political situation, no people
! v.rri, over upurr blessed than are Texans
| in this year Of pcHr" ana plenty.
| Never lns the harvest Of wheat b"cn so
hOrutifti: never HH4 Tia" promise of"6rH
and cotton been 20 lnr;G". Providence,
with - bntIntcuuI hanN, has poured
ont if,rraiiy or ii7 tsrn"iona blessings.
The Garth has brought forth hcr in.
rrCnr4, nnd brought IL forth hounii
fuify.
The triad of .5tuNcS for tic trurtcr of
Fisk is progressing before the Court of
oyer and Tcrluincr. Tho evidence thus
far is strongly against the accused, and
il is possible that he may yet suffer the
last penalty lor the crime of which nc is
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