New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-06
STATE NEWS.
ST, TAMMASY.

STATE NEWS.
ST. TAMMANY.
From the Vaudeville Ware. January 20
D1Ep-Iu Vaudeville, on the twenty :
fourth of January, 1876 from the effects OF
wound inflicted in the heart about nine
months ago by pistol shot, Mr. Albert
Kohlmap, q native of Germany, aged forty
nine years.
From the Mansfield Reporter, December
We are forced to disappoint GU. anti.rail-
road friends by assuring them thas the fu-
NOR We published in our last issue ls IN
true, that the hands had been taken OH the
New Orleans and Pacific road. The hands
have not been taken OFT the road. and the
work is progressing rapidly. 1t Is SAID toat
fifty miles Of the grading will be completed
by the end of February.
ST. LANDRY. ...
From the Opelousas Courier, January 29
Last Saturday or Sunday night some
thieves tried to force open the iron chest OF
Mr.. J. L. Morris, at Chu,chville on the
A,chafslaya, in this parish, by pouring gun
powder through the key hole and then
touching it OFT. The explosion was not sui
ficient 70 burst open the chest, however,
and they were frustrated in their attempt.
Two white men accused of the deed were
lodged in our Jail last Wednesday. One Is
an freshman named Charles Dunlap, and
the other is named Henry Drought
LAFAYETTE.
From the Vermilionvilis Cotton-BoU,
February q
A most violent thunder storm passed over
this section. last Friday light, and the
lightning struck in many places IN this
vicinity. In town, We hear OF three such
places. The cistern OF Mrs kenoudet was
struck and burst by the lightning; an out
house in the yard Of Mrs Vedrines was bit;
and the house of Mr.. Zenon Decuir was
saved by his lightning rod. In the country.
q number of buildings were struck lncluo-
ing the corn house Of Mr. Similien Re
dripue which took fire and was consumed.
Captain Pharr's new hull OF the proposed
steamer Pin Hook was brought from
Brashear to New Iberia recently, and now
lies lust above Mr.. Swaim's. We presume
she is to be finished as passenger and
freight boat, for service on Bayou Yer
Million and as her name indicates run up
to Pin Hook bridge, near Vermilionsiile, in
low water. The cabin will doubtless be put
on at New Iberia.
statistics for the "Price Current Sugar
Book" reports that the last sugar cop OF
St. Mary reaches II, 900 hogsheads of sugar,
against 7S45 in 1874. This is truly surprls-
ing, He estimates that the parish made
90 600 barrels of mOlasees, also. This, to.
gether with good corn crop and an aoun'
dance of pea hay. places the planters OF st.
Mary in better position than Tor many
years past.
JEFFERSON.
From the Gretna Sentinel, February 5:
The Gretna Ferry Company have had for
some time under construction new wharf
in this town, which, when completed, Will
be something worthy OF note and substan-
tial, besides repairing roadway from the
landing, for carts and vehicles. The labor
ers have been to work driving splles and
otherwise improving that portion OF our
landing. In short time the ferry boat
will resume her old landing place.
CADDo.
From the Shreveport Times, February L:
Mr.. Charles Smith, roustabOut on the
steamer Dawn on her last trip above the
raft, fell overheard at PryOrs landing, on
the twenty fourth nltimo, and was drowned,
in spite Of all efforts to rescue him. He
was rolling on board a bale of cotton at the
time. when his hook slipped ana he fell
overheard. Smith was a German about
twenty-fo years of age, and shipped on
the Dawn at New Orleans. His remains
were not recovered.
On Thursday morning next the remains
OF Father Isidore Quemerais will be trans
ferred from the city cemetery and deposited
beneath the Catholic Church, by the side of
those of Father Pierre. Ii is known to most
of our readers that this self-sacritcing
priest was among the earliest victims OF the
epidemic of 1873. He was the first of the
FIVE priests who yielded up their lives while
nobly discharging the duties OF their sacred |
calling in those terrible days. Father Que- |
merais died on the sixteenth Of September, |
and was followed the next day by Father |
Pierre. |
From the Shreveport Times, February ?:
We were informed few days since that |
q huge raft has been formed in Bayou |
Pierre, near the Dendy or Van Aulman
place, some two miles from town. The logs |
forming this raft are 30 compact and of |
such depth as to form complete dam, thus |
retaining from inundation an immense
body of very valuable land which has been
almost valueless to it's owners during high |
water. This is certainly good news to those |
interested in lands on Bayou Pierre.
Frem the Shreveport Telegram, Feb |
ruary .:
Are our citizens aware of the fact that a |
bill has been drawn up to be presented to
the Legislature. granting charter to the |
New Orleans Pacific railroad. with Mar |
shall, Texas, as the terminus Are they |
aware that meeting was recently held in
New Orleans to further the scheme and |
they aware that the meeting was manipu- |
lated entirely by the city ring and |
against Shreveport Ii they are not, we |
will inform them that such is the case, and |
it is time for them to be ''up and doing"
Several bills have been passed by the diff
ferent Legislatures looking to railroad
connection between this section and New
Orleans, and every one of them designated
Shreveport as the terminus These bills
we're ali passed by Republican Legislatures,
and now it remains for the ring masters OF
the Democracy in New Orleans to use their
power to ignore our city. We are happy to
say, however, that our Representatives in
the Legislature have their eyes open to the
scheme, and would suggest that they be as
sisted in every way possible in guarding
the interests Of Shreveport. This is mat
ter that our Cotton Exchange should look
into.
Mrs Williamson, Of Beach Meadows,
about eleven miles from Shelburne, Maine,
a bright, ladylike and rather petite woman,
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