The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-18
LOUISIANA.

The Columbia Herath notnihhH" , Tun f. r.
Kidd for Congress from that, the fittn, Con
gressional District.
The Vienna Sentinel Endorses Col. J. 8.
Young. Of Claiborne, for member OF Congress
from Che Fifth Congressional District.
destructive fire In st. Francisville Satur-
tlay. April 0, destroyed an entire square, val
ued at 5000 None Of the buildings destroyed
were insured.
John Martin. OF Webster. was fined s25 for
killing a deer out Of season. The Minden
Demorrnf says this Is the first conviction In
that parish under the new game law.
There Isl woman living on Capt Dittos
place on the Island who has 100 living de,
scendants, One of her daughters has had
over twenty children LCatahoula News.
The town election passed Off quietly last
Monday, Judge Oren Mayo being elected
Mayor. and David Young. !. Friedler and 7
N. Humason, Councilmen.-l Concordia Eagle.
At an election held in Evergreen the follow.
ing gentlemen were selected as mayor and
Del. Charles Irion, Fl. W. Miles ). A. Hollins-
head and G. W. Duvali.
Charles Finnell, q young man of twenty one
years, WAS thrown from his horse saturday
night and killed He had been in Nidalia all
day attending court, and wHs ON his way
home when the calamity occurred.
s. M. Lowry, Esq, lost fine mule last
week from the gDats. DR.. W. +. Rapp also
lost two, and Mr.. John HIT lost one. Many
Others have doubtless lost stock that we have
not heard Of We understand that some
thirty or forty head died In the vicinity of
Delhi within d few days. Franklin Sun.
The st,bbe cane in this parish is very back
ward. which makes tho outlook Tor large
crop this year not very promising. 1t is TO be
hoped, however, that this warm, spr,ngy
weather will push vegetation, and that tn"
cane will vet come thick and grow vigorous
Iy.-ISt. Mary Enterprise.
The West Feiciana Sentinel complains of
a case Of buIldoziDg in that parish, where two
colored men were whipped for stealing silver
SPOONS RI insists that this sort OF thing shall
cease; that the courts can now be trusted to
punish all crimes. 1t calls on the Democratic
party to see that the laws are executed and
That all such outrages are punished and all
lawlessness suppressed.
The reports from the growing crops OF
sugar cane In this vicinity are not encour-
aging Many planters have no hopes OF a
good stand, whilst others are apparently sat
isiied From below tho city the reports are
81 Sone hat the e
yet come out better than present appearances
indicate Thibodaux Sentinel
We have seen several prominent sugar
planters who have little TO say about the
coming crop. Cane planted n the ran pre-
planting, by far the largest, still! shows a
poor stand Stubbles are generally sound.
but grow desperately slow. The rain OF last
Monday has improved the outlook. lHouma
Courier.
Mitchell shot and killed his brother, Philip
Mitchell in front of the Rene LeBan plan
tation, on the east bank of the river. In this
parish 1t seems that Moses asked his brother
Tor a chew of tobacco, and Philip refused TO
give 1t to him Moses got loaded musket
and put hole through his brother, Killing
him Instantly. The murderer Is now in Jail.
and it is rumored he Ia crazy lberville
South.
The fine rain of last Monday and the warm
weather which followed has had wonderful
effect on the growing crops, and caused bet
ter feeling to prevail among all classes. Cane
is now coming up well-of course. we mean
the stubble and last fall planting: The best
cane left standing in the field and burnt off
and cut down since tho freeze. The spring
planting has not turned out well, and very
poor stand may be expected lberville
South.
Copcordia parish has had another killing
scrape This time the tragedy occurs at
Rivers Landing, and results from q case OF
loving, not wisely but too well. The partlcu-
lars are about as follows: For some time past
a colored man has been paying his addresses
to the wife of one VIM. Platter. Of course
Platter demonstrated with tho deceased but
his circumstances were only met on the part
OF the deceased with threats to take the life Of
Platter. On Saturday last the deceased, after
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Plater's house. Platter, seeing him coming,
went into the house, and. getting his shot
gun. emptied its contents into the body OF the
importunate lover, killing him instantly.
At Duckport, Madison parish, on Sunday
morning, white man named G. X. Monroe,
living with negro woman, assaulted with a
pistol q negro named Scott Brooks, for call
Ing his (Monroe's) alleged wife a liar. Brooks
was sitting on fence when Monroe went up
behind him with his pistol and was about to
shoot, when the negro tumbled off and ran.
Monroe followed, and shot him In the f1eshy
part Of the thigh, when Brooks took refuge
under the floor of an adjacent cabin, where
his pursuer shot at him again, striking him a
CHANGING lick on tho head. While Monroe was
thus trying to complete his work, William
Turner, a negro who had gun loaded with
turkey shot, came up and told him not to
murder helpless man, when Monroe turned,
leveled his pistol ut Turner and threatened to
shoot him. At this Turner raised his gun
quickly and lodged its contents in Monroe S
head, producing wound from which he died
In about three hours. Turner went to Delta,
gave himself up, and a coroner's jury re-
turned verdict of iustifiable homicide.
Brooks injuries are only slight Vicksburg
Herald.
Moet 4 Chandon is neither too sweet nor too
dry.