The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-11-03
PRESS JOTTlNGS.
All Over the State.
What Our Neighbors Are Doing.

The Donaldsonville Chief has full
of Parish Court matters:
It seems the parish judge t''es all
he petty cases in that parish anu
thereby saves expense. Why cant
they do it here
A]cidc London shot Lee Jackson
in the mouth during a fracas. Don
aldsonville complains of tramps'
Caddo Parish has lodges of Cn'tcd
Friends of Temperance. The Times
says:
Chas. W. Lowell, a genuine carpet
Dagger, who once misrepresented 'n's
parish 10 the State legislature under
Warmoth, and WIS subsequently cx-
speaker of the house of reprcscnt'
atives, died in the State of Name,
from whence he cmigratcd to Louis
lana in the days of reconstruction, on
the 81 instant. We learn that his
last days were passed in want anu
almost restitution.
The City Item New Orleans, quotes
cousols SS0ssf. Governor Nichols
has returned from his visit north.
Sunday Herald, Shreveport, an
nounces that $4,000 have already
been subscribed to the North Louis
lana Railroad Company and that the
road to the Mississippi river will be
completed in 4 short time.
We deeply regret the loss sustained
by Mr.. Hewitt, editor of the DeSoto
Democrat. His wife was burned to
death in Mansfield last week, from a
coal oil lamp.
The Morehouse Clarion says:
We learn that the Vicksburg and
Shreveport Railroad now charges
$500 per bale freight on cotton iron
Monroe to New Orleans. This is al
increase of $l.75 over the amour
charged by this road several weeks
AGO, when the Ouachita was in boat
ing order, and we think it a grea
imposition when the necessities OF
= people are taken advantage of Ivy
monopoly in this way:
I Young men como to the front!
s the demand of the Union Record. On
Contemporary has this to say of it
G demand:
r Ono of the grand impeilmcnts i
i tho way of progress, and development
4 of the resources of the South, is tha
the controlling influence seems to b
j. in the hands of those who are attic
d ed with the prejudiccs Of the past
" rather of a by-gone age and thos
prejudices stand in the way of innt
walton upon time honorcd custom
IS rendered venerable by antiquity, an
n worshipped by those old fogy ant
if bcllum advocates IF primitive sin
plcity, IA the surcst and shorte
70 route to human happiness.
" The Record has gone into the ca
Is toon business, but We cant say muc
u for the cartoons.
- OF the murder in Claiborne Paris
u the Guardian tells US
. On Friday evening, just after dar
l. two unknown men entered the Gao
l. of Seaborn Love, a colored man, Ii
n ing on the place of Mr.. Wamb'
/; about three miles from town, al
= shot Love three times, from the
fects of which he died in short tim
lie A negro girl in the house at the tin
he was also shot in the hip; the woun
~ however, is not considered DANCE
w Gus. Five shots in all were fired, al
IN the parties decamped without al
IS clue to their identity. The cause
CHI the shooting is involved in myste1
~ For, although Love wasjustly regar
u ed as a very bad man, it is not kno'
on that he had any enemy who would
nd likely to resort to that mode of
on dress. 1t is believed by many of o
citizens that he fired tho town VIII
it. was burned last December; |
Ell the evidence was hardly sufficient
ISIS have taken his life, and had Il
to been the cause of his being killed
10 would have taken place long ago.
" Such acts are to be greatly dep
NJ Gated, for no matter how bad a n
st. is, he'is entitled to the protection
the law.
The Mansfield Reporter pays
glowing tribute to the virtues Of
Wv old Wing party and bcgs that it n
y" W rest in peace. 1t prdclaims the pr
~ ent school law a failure, in which
the Join it heartily. Our friend Pc
IN gives a mighty and a just dig j
18th Smith, the North Louisiana pc
leu cock.