New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-11-30
STATE NEWs,
CADDO,

SADDo'
From the Shreveport Telegram, November
Burglars made small hauls on the houses
of Mr. HatkinsOn, Mr.. E. Jacobs, Colonel B.
NJ. johnson, Mr.. B. r. Patterson and Mr. A.
Winter, all on Saturday night. Monday
they visited Mr.. Tom Iler, and took s. so.
From the Shreveport Times, November
Colonel E. w. Morton has left tho control
of the National Compress and gone to Lit
tie Rock.
No more accommodation trains from
Shreveport to Jefferson.
Mr.. P. j. Trezevant, clerk of the House
of Representatives, has been ill, and is look
ing remarkably we'll.
LAFAYETTE.
From the Sugar Bowl, November IS:
Jonas Marsh died November 10, aged
eighty three years, six months and eight
days. He was born in New Jersey, and has
been q resident of New Iberia since 1929.
He was married November 90, 1918, to
Elizabeth Morse, who survives him. He
leaves behind him his widow, in her eighty
third year, two sons, five daughters, twenty
six grandchildren, and five great grand
children, besides host of relatives and
friends to mourn his loss. He was good
citizen, honest and upright in all his trans
actions.
LAFOURCHE.
From the Thibodaux Sentinel, Noyem-
ber 81:
Last Tuesday Mr.. A. Leret was attacked
on the Brusie road by thick set negro
with cooked pistol, and he delivered SO
and silver quarter. After going on, by
the robber order, he was shot in the calf
of the leg by him.
ST. JAMES.
From the Sentinel, November 81:
The crop of perlque tobacco is superior to
that of former years. This crop can be sue
cessfully grown at other places than Grand
Point The secret is not in the soil nor
preparation with other ingredients. Pack
ages of seed, with circulars containing full
instructions, will be sent by the Sentinel on
receipt of twenty-five cents.
EAST BATON ROUGE.
On the presidential election the Adcocate
says:
'For our part, we shall await the count
of the votes before we venture calculation
of the result.
eUACHITA.
From the Monroe hteuigencer, November
"a:
A mild form of epizootic prevails.
w. Bruce was found dead in his shop,
Monday, November %. A medical exami-
nation by DR.. Caldwell caused a coroner's
verdict that he died from convulsions,
caused by the excessive use of alcoholic
liquors.
WEST BATON ROUGE.
From the Grand Era, November q:
The grand jury having reported that
lives would be endangered if the court
house were not repaired, Judge DewIng di-
rected that the president of the police jury
be served with q copy OF the report with
the further intimatiOn that if the repairs
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to the district attorney and next grand
Jury, that the performance of the duty
might be compelled by indictment or IN.
formation.
From the Shreveport Telegram, Novem-
ber 25:
Colonel Williamson's family left for De
Soto to visit friends He will visit Western
Texas and then go to New Orleans.
The police force has been increased by
two members.
From the Times, November &c:
Eleven of the twenty delegates from Lou
isiana to the st. Louis convention were
from Shreveport.
HIGHLAND.
From the Beacon. November l3:
Swamp fever prevails. All Mr.. Spences
family are affected,
Captain c. II. Brashear, special deputy
sheriff, returned last Sunday from Baton
Rouge, where he went to conduct to the
the convicts Jack Mcdonald
and Joe Gindry; but he failed to get there
with the former, he having made his es-
cape from the steamer Nstchez on the way
down the river. The captains statement is
that he was worn out by Watching, and
hiring porter to watch the prisoners for
him, lay down to take little nap, and
when he awOke Jack was gone. Joe Gindry
informed him that white man had broken
open window of the room in which they
were confined, and assisted Jack in getting
the irons of. But no one seemed to know
when he left the boat.
Messrs. Preston and New took q pop at |
each other with six shooters in our town on
Tuesday last. Nobody hurt, but they had |
better quit their foolishness or they may
hurt each other or somebody else yet.
We were misnformed as to the person
and place of the shooting affair last week. |
1t was Mr.. William L. Wilkinson, long q |
resident of our parish, who was brutally
murdered in his own field by man by the |
name of Hart for the arrest of whom Mrs.
Wilkinson offers reward of $500 in this |
paper. These 0utrages should be stopped |
~ the citizens, even if they have to take |
,he law in their own hands.
ST. MARY.
From the AHakapas Register, Novem-
,er q:
The steamship Hewes, while landing at |
he wharf on Tuesday evening, ran into the |
Harris, then lying at the wharf, |
her own starboard wheelhouse |
md wheel, and slightly iDjuring the Harris
The Hewes had I400 bales of |
otton on board at the time.
Congressman Darrall leaves this week for |
Washington.