The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-06-22
THE LATEST NEWS.

e,ssSo u"s - ~ Ruu-NO0001E.
tee on COusllatta affairs, made thai,
report today to General Randall 7.
Gibson, chairman Of the commitia.
After detailing the Circumstance.
Of the shooting Of King and Twitch
ell, the report says: sThe testimonr
Of the witnesses, without exceDtion
is to the effect that the man Ma
did the shooting was unknown. ana
the horse that he rode was not ~.
Ognized as belonging in that nart
of the country. Many witDosses
representing both of the political
parties, white and colored man
were examined as to the MANAGE.
ment of affairs OF the parish. which
" re almost exclusively under
Twichell's control. Twitclell vs..
State Senator, member OF the Police
Jury, member Of the school hoanl
and United States Commissioners
The committee say: ssIn reality he
also had control OF the school money.
and other moneys collected from
the taxpayers of the PARISH The
testimony Of all the disinterested
witnesses, who were examined n
regard to the conduct of paroachial
affairs, was to the effect that thew
had been loosely and extravagantir
managed, and that Mr.. Twitcheil
was responsible for their misman.
agement. Here follows Il statemet
OF his Wrong doing.] The commit.
tee then say: ave cannot within
the space of this report recapitulate
the worse than profiigate conduct
of school affairs and other irregular.
tiles and malpractices Of Twitchell
and his associates, as shown to have
existed in Red River parish since
its organization. In word, the
affairs Of the parish have been man.
aged under direction of Mr.. Twitch.
ell in such a way as to merit and
receive the condemnation Of good
citizens of both political parties, aud
your committee have no hesitation
IN saying that they were unprelmred
to find such lamentable condition
of things existing" In conclusion
The committee say: "The testimony
of the leading men of the two poll,
tic Il parties is explicit in establish.
ing tue fact that the shooting Of
King and Twitchell was not CAUSED
by reason of political opinions and
that the affair was not Of a political
character"
| BANGOR, June 49, The Conven.
ton nominated John G. Talbot fof
Governor. The resolutions con-
mend the services of Democrats
House in instituting investigators
and unearthing corruption and on
pose imitation of the national curreil.
cy. A resolution was adopted de.
claring Samuel j. Tilden, the able,
Jealous, intrepid reform Governs
of the Empire State, to be the first
choice of the Convention for Presi.
dent and his nomination by the Ma
tional Democratic Convention re.
commended as eminently fit and
proper. d
4 KNOXVILLE, TENN, June 19.-
Almost the entire crops ON French
Broad river were destroyed by the
recent freshet. Twenty feet rise up
to midnight last night, but falling
rapidly this morning. Fields and
islands are entirely submerged
from 30 to 100 feet in some places.
The planters will replant corn below
Knoxville. Farmers will lose about
one-fourth the crop. Very slight
damage on the Holston river.
AUGUSTA, June IT. Rains fcr
several days have been general
throughout this section; crops Oh
both sides of the Savannah river ssre
submerged, and there is a total die.
tructiOn of the crops on the bottom
lands. The river is thirty feet high
and still rising. The freshet threat-
lens the city, but no serious results
are apprehended. The rain stopped
this afternoon aud the weather q
clearing up.
NEW ORLEANS, June 1.-THE
lower coast packet Oriole exploded
her boiler twenty miles below the
city. One cabin boy and one deck
hand killed, and the first and second
engineers and three deck hands 81
verely hurt.
BERLIN, June 19.-Austria hal
ordered the concentration of 158, OO0
regular troops and 10000 land.