New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-05-22
News from the Interior.

From the Shreveport Times, May ~:
Yesterday morning a shooting affair &C.
Cured about twelve miles below town, be.
tween u Mr.. Volontine and young man
named McClOud. 1t appears that diff
Guilty arose between the parties some days
ago but was supposed to have been all set
tied. 1t was, however, renewed Yesterday
and resulted in the shooting of Volontine
by young MeClOud. A physician was sent
for from here, and so far we have been una
bic to learn whether the wounds are dan
gerOus or not.
McClOud is quite young, not more than
seventeen or eighteen years Of age, and
said TO be OF quiet and peaceable disposi
ton.
From the Mansfield Reporter, May IL:
On last Tuesday night an attempt was
made by one of the inmates of the Jail to
burn out. The lower story of the Jail is
unoccupied, the wall having an aperture in
it. A prisoner in the upper story tried to
burn hole in the floor, expecting to be
able to get through it into the lower story
and from there make his escape. The fire
however got beyond his control. and he
was Obliged to call out for assistance
Luckily his cries aroused some of the citi-
zens in the vicinity, who giving the alarm,
procured the keys in time to rescue the
prisoners and extinguish the fire. not how
ever before they were nearly smothered.
The dangerous experiment will not prob
ably be repeated soon.
From the Monroe lnteliigeacer of May 10:
An Irshman named James Gallagher
was accidentally shot last Sunday evening,
the sixteenth instant, in Mr.. w. II. Ferry's
saloon at Five Points" The ball entered
the left breast, making serious if not fatal
wound.
From the Shreveport Times, May l6:
Last Saturday evening a difficulty oc. |
CURED on the Staten place, twelve miles |
below town, on the river, between young |
man about eighteen years old, named |
Albert Couch, recently from Georgia, and |
negro man named Lewis. When the
difficulty occurred there were no witnesses
present. and We did not learn who shot
first. The white man was wounded in the
right hand, both arms, one shoulder, and in
the head with No. shot, while the negro
was shot below the ear, the ball. which
was from a small pistol, coming out of the
men are severe, though will not likely re
suit fatally.
Young Couch was brought up in skiff
Saturday morning and placed in the City
Hospital. DR.. Moore informed us last
evening that two or three fingers of the
right hand are badly shattered, and he de-
eigned amputating them.
FROM Inc shreveport InatS, may Is:
The negro man who had the difficulty
with young Couch, on the Staten place,
mention OF which we have previously made,
came up on the steamer Lotus Sunday
evening, probably for the purpose of hav-
ing his wounds attended to, was arrested
by the Chief of Police and taken to the
City Hospital for treatment His wound is {
not q dangerous one.
Mr.. Couch is doing well. Two of bis {
fingers have been amputated, and probably |
a third one will require the knife.
Saturday night fight occurred on Arse
nal Hill between two negro men living
there, one named Bob Washington and the !
other Tom Wilson. The former got the lat J
ter down and beat him with q heavy pick,
breaking his right leg and severely bruising
his head and left arm. About two o'clock | S
Sunday morning the police having heard Of !
he affair went over to the hill and conveyed | :
he wounded man to the city hospital. His S
eg was amputated below the knee, Sunday 6
morning, by DIR. Moore, the bones having =
,een so badly crushed that it was deemed
impossible to save it. Bob was arrested
nd placed in Jail. p