New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-02-03
STATE NEWS.
CADDo.

CADDo.
From the Shreveport Times, January "a
We learn that on Monday evening man
by the name of Myer, living mile beyond
Cypress bayou, on the Kingston road, in De
Soto parish, was shot and killed by some
party unknown: 1t seems he had been out
hog hunting, when his horse came running
to his house with blood on his saddle. His
wife Immediately got negro living near to
notify some of the neighbOrs, who went in
search. They found his dead body on the
roadside about quarter of mile from the
house. An examination showed that he
was shot in two places. A tull charge of
buckshot had entered the breast and there
were some shot on the side of the neck.
The body was immediately in front of the
residence of Mr.. Wynn-some 200 Yards
distant. The neighbOrs dispatched a mes
senger for an officer to hold an inquest, but
our informant did not know whether or not
he had arrived.
The murdered man was a laborer, had
been in the neighbOrhood about year, and
had married q Widow Tubbs. There was
no clue, so far as we could learn, to lead to
detection of the perpetrator of the deed.
Meyer is said to have been an Overbearing
man, not a good citizen, and it was ru-
mored that he had threatened the life of
some one of his neighbOrs.
FRANKLIN.
From the San, January q:
On Wednesday last Mr.. A. E. Allen,
proprietor of the wharfbOat at the mouth
of Turkey creek, was killed by John p
Matthews. The particulars, as nearly as
we can learn, are as follows: The parties
had an alteration about some freight,
in the course of which Matthews
drew a derringer and shot Allen and
continued firing at him with revolver,
which he had been holding in his hand
while eursiDg him. After Matthews first
fred, Allen drew derringer and shot at
Matthews, missing him, and then retreated
into the wharfbOat, when he died in five or
| ten minutes, ball having passed through
the jugulRr vein. Allen was an enterpris.
| ing, industrious gentleman, good citizen,
and Mason. Matthews belongs to one OF
| the most respectable families in the parish,
and it is to be regretted that he should have
been led to commit 80 rash an act. Our
| active young sheriff has been securing the
country since the killing to arrest Mat
| thews. Posses have been sent in different
directions, but up to this writing Matthews
has not yet been captured.
LAFAYETTE.
From the VermiliOn AdvertiSeT, January
We learn that q colored man by the name
of Milien Grange was shot and killed last
/ Thursday evening, about twelve miles west
| of this place, The coroner went out yes
| terdsy morning to hold an inquest, and up
to the time of our going to press he had not
/ returned. Grange was q quiet and peace
| able man, well esteemed by his neighbOrs
and owned the farm upon which he re-
sided. Next week we will give all the de-
| tails of the affair that can be obtained.
ST. JAMES.
From the Sentinel, January q:
Last Monday evening Mr.. G.. F. Roman
went out to his front gate to secure it for
the night, and in order to make his work
more certain, lifted q post out of the mud
| to use as brace. A few minutes afterward
he went back to his house and commenced
walking mp and down the gallery,
his head. Mrs. Roman advised
him to sit down, but he said that he could
not, as his legs were stiff. A moment after
ward he said: 81 think am going to fall P'
AS he said this he fell to the floor in an I'M
| conscious state, and was taken and lifted to
his bed. In about half an hour sfterward
he expired, seemingly without pain. he
was a native of this parish, and ffty-three
years of age. He leaves wife and numer-
Ons friends to mourn his loss.
NATcHIToCHEs.
From the Republican, January 6:
The House congressional committee I'm
ished their labor here last Friday, and left
Saturday for Mansfield, Louisiana. The
White League Democracy are welcome to
all the testimony they got here in their IA
vOr, BY the weakened and milk and water
Republicans, and also the colOred men who
testified before that committee. We are
fully satisfied and SO was the Republican
member of that committee, that they could
not do otherwise and live in ward i've,
for if they had testified the truth in
reference to their vote in that ward they
would have been driven from their homes,
and, perhaps, murdered No Republican
could 90 before thai committee and testify
to the truth and remain here in peace,
The eolored men from ward i've who
testified that they voted the Demo
cratic ticket Of their own free Will knew
that they did not do any such thing, for we
had one or two to tell us after the election,
and not only eOlOred men but white men,
too, that they wanted to vote the Repub-
lican ticket but could not vote 1t and live
there. The testimony Of one Of the Demo
| cratic witnesses from ward i've goes to
show that there must have been intimida'
ton in that ward on the part Of the Demo
Gratis toward the eOlOred men, or that nc
cOlored man could live in ward five unless
he was a Democrat, or voted the Demo.
cratic ticket. If not why did that eoloreo
man have to get q certificate that he hao
voted the Democratic ticket in ward twelve
to 70 back to ward five Z 1t was to keel
the poor, helpless creature from being fonlly
dealt with. We are satisfied that the testl
| mony given in reference TO the election u
ward 1--WE can be sustained by the Repub
Leans, and so you can make all you cal
out of the testimony given by your Owl