New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-04-18
IOVISIANA ITEMS,

7 The Tad, Of Homer, has greatly i'm
| proved hopes of the future of Claiborne
parish. 1t chronicles this local improve"
ment:
| The courthouse fence was sold on last
| Monday. Sheriff Aycock was the buyer.
| giving $l9 IS for it. He sold the posts 10
| another party for $40, which was very
| good speculation on a small scale. We now
| hone to see things in that vicinity soon as
! sumo decent appearance. new fence
| would help much toward such a consnm'
| nation.
How sporting gentleman, not unknown
to the police of this city. came to grief. is
explained in the Vidalia Herald:
William Wallace was arraigned and tried
| in the district court, on Tuesday, upon the
| charge Of obtaining money under false pre-
lenses, in this, that the said William Wal
| lace did invegle minister OF the Gospel
| of thirty years standing into some SINAI!
game" known as "three-card monte
After arraigned and unGer charge OF
! his honor Judge Hough, the jury
| retired, and after several hours
being asked in the usual form whether the
| Jury had agreed upon verdict, the fore
! man announced that they had except one
| man, and remarked, Judge, L speck you'll
| have to git another man ia his place"
| The Judge thought they had better retire
and make further effort to agree. which
they did, and at length returned with a
| verdict OF guilty"
Yesterday Mr.. Wallace received the re-
| spects of the court in the shape Of SEN
tence of twelve months to the Penitentiary,
| and was advised that he would do well TO
| improve the opportunity this affords HIM OF
| learning an honest trade.
The Louisiana Farmer, with more force
| than elegance. demands that the people
'shurl the usurper Kellogg from the throne
of down trodden Louisiana Which It
proposes to do by tax resistance, of course.
| It disposes of the views Of Judge Head, OF
the Sparta Times, in this conclusive
manner:
| We think that such arguments are little
| too thin, and we say let us, by all means,
refrain from paying our taxes to the Mel
| loug government until we are forced to dc
| if. if we are forced at all. Let US prove to
| the world that VIC will not quietly submit
| to the fraud and corruption which Kellogg
seems determined TO heap upon us. Should
| We quietly submit to his unreasonable and
| outrageous biddings, it would be bona tide
| evidence that We recognized his govern
| Rent. So let US prove faithful TO the end
This, and more of the same sort. with q
column article on the editors birthday,
comprises the cream Of the weekly before
De.
The Bossier Banner approaches the all
important topic by another route:
We hear a great deal about resistance
| 10 the Kellogg usurpation, but nothing to
! the point of financial assistance" to the
| legal u Emery government. Ii is true
! there was little epasmodic talk opposite
| the Citv Hall, New Orleans, and few thou
| sand dollars raised, but like Bob Acres
| courage, it soon oozed out. How much
| money could McEnery's tax gatherers have
| collected, is a Qaestion that has often ram
| bled through our troubled brain during the
| past four months. Would that 1t bad been
| tested, that we might have known who
were and who were not our supporters.
| Let us all ''practice what we preach,
| and back our impotent words with tangi-
| bic dollars and earnest deeds. With that
| positive understanding faithfully adhered
| to, we will go as far as any man who has a
heaven to lose and hell to fear" to sus'
| tain those principles dear to US, but we are
| emphatically disguised with swagger, brag'
adocio iand dernagOgy, andi think we
| have "passively" submitted to our share
| of it.
| The BGnner announces that j. w
| Walker, commissioned as clerk for that
parish by Kellogg, has possession of the
clerks office, and that T. N. Braden, the
former incumbent, and who was declared
| elected by the Warmoth board, delivered
| it up amicably, reserving any rights in Law
| that he might have.