New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-19
SHOOTING WITHOUT A LICENSE.

/ OOD0 UuI1ceu6eO SpOTtSW0u has Deol
poaching on the Democratic preserve i,
the parish of Ouachita. The energetic
gamekeeper Of the White League ant
Rifle Club Game Preserving Association
Of that parish informed the public yester
day, by means Of the Associated Press
J that on Saturday night last "three freed
me-" (under ordinary circumstances they
would b., called ''niggers") were shot and
wounded sig miles from Monroe by ''an
entire stranger fsem Texas, who was very
drunk at the time Of ~. Va saoo1'ng. FROM
the tenor Of the dispatch it woI. seem
that this irregular sportsman had no d.
rect or indirect authority from the Demo-
cratic State Central Committee to ''use
the means at our disposal for carrying the
election" He does not even appear to
have observed any of the proprieties Incl
dent to such an occasion. He was not
disguised, except in liquor. He mad no
false whiskers, no peculiar colored pony.
According to the press account he was
ingloriously returning to Texas in a
wagon. Worst Of all, he did not even
bring down his game, but left all three of
them simply wounded, and fully able to
narrate to the deputy United States
marshal and the commanding officer of
the United States troops recently dis
patched to Monroe in what cowardly
fashion their lives had been attempted.
Need we wonder that, recording to the
Associated Press agent, ''Great indigna-
ton was felt by all classes of the people
in Monroe, and the laundering undis-
guised stranger was promptly arrested
and lodged in Jail. 1t is edifying
to read on the same authority, how
the Democratic rifle clubs of the
parish promptly joined in the pursuit
Of this unauthorized and unsuccessful
and rejoiced in his capture.
Only prejud;ced people will seek to de-
tract from the glory thus earned by the
rifle clubs of Ouachita by recalling the
TACT that when DR.. Dinkgrave, the life
and soul of the Republican party in that
parish, was murdered in open daylight
few days since by an assassin whose
racks terminated barely three miles from
own, and whose face, Invested of false
is said to have been recognized
~ more than one prominent citizen,
hese same rifle clubs being called upon
o assist in his arrest replied that "they
Eere home guards not deputy sherifs,''
md refused to bulge an inch.
The Associated Press devotes nearly
hree hundred words Of telegraphing to
ecord the arrest of one drunken Texas
oafer who killed nobody. A few days pre-
'iously when several unof'ending colored
itizens of Ouachita were barbarously
laughtered near the Morehouse parish
inc the Associated Press vouchsafed no
MENTION OF the affair, the only public no.
ice taken of the occurrence being con-
aimed in the following Characteristic spe-
ial from Bastrop to the New Orleans
Bulletin:
The emeu:e near tie Ouachita line was
uelled by the killing OF one negro and the
Of several others. Our citizens
cted as a posse under the sheriff of the
arish. All quiet tonight. GEX.
From all of which it appears that
aough the Democratic campaign shoot
,g season has commenced, and though
iggers and white Republicans are
sir game wherever found, sportsmen
lust be properly disguised and properly
censed and must not shoot within easy
Zach of deputy United States marshals
nd United States troops unless they are
cad shots and can make sure of their
ame.