The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-11-30
State News.

We .are panied to learn that on
Saturday last. at Waverly, Madison
parish, S. d. Bran'e and Ben Powers
got into a difficulty, which resulted
in the killing Of the latter and the
probable fatal wonnding of the form
rr. Brame is the same man who
killed McLemorc, at Delhi, IN 1874.
Both he and Powers, it ia said, fired
at each other almost simultaneously.
The difficulty grew ont of quarrel
between Hrame aud one OF his tenant.
-[Richland Beacon.
Says the Washington News, any
decent honest man in the South, and
particularly in Louisiana, who is not
a bondbolder, should hesitate for
moment to give, not his vote only,
but active support to the Democratic
party, is mystery beyond compre
hension, and leads ono to doubt the
political honesty of any one who, at
this time pretends to see an advan-
tage to our country or any part of it
by the success of Radicalism.
The reports from the planters con-
tiuue to come in favorably. The cane
is yielding we'll both as to quantity
and quality. The season is remark
ably fine for grinding-everyt|ing
being favorable to the saving Of the
crop and the obtaining OF fine yield.
Thibodaux Sentinel.
Last Friday the steam gin honse
on the F|unker place in this parish
was destroyed BY fire together with
about ll9 bales of cotton. The fire
originated from sparks from the
chimney. Capt. Steele, of Ouachita
City, was cultivatiug the place. There
was no insurance. Ouachita Tele-
graph.
The ballot. boxes, poll books tally.
sheets and returns of commissioners
to the sheriff and the sheritf's returns
of election is St. Mary we're abstract
ed from the Court House on the 9th
inst, carried to the rear of the engine
house, and there completely Destroy
ed.
Last Wednesday four young No
groes met a white man below town
and without provocation beat the
man nearly to death. His head Is
very badly out Baton Rouge Ad-
vocate.
| Full and official figures from fifty
four parishes in the State make the
vote for State Treasurer as follows
for E. A. Burke, Democrat, 76,026 ;
for Gardner, National, 1855; a
majority for Burke of 43,338. The
total vote of the State for treasurer
will not be over 100000 tho vote f"r
Congress will probably be some 5000
greater than this. The highest vote
cast, that for parochial Offices, will
amount about l35, 1000, a decrease OF
$4,000 from the vote of 1876. The
heaviest falling of in votes has been
in New Orleans, which shows a de-
crease of25 per cent, and in Baton
Rouge, Iberia, Lafourche aud other
parishes where the yellow fever has
pre- vailed, preventing registration and
interfering with the election. In
Baton Rouge, Ascension and Lafour.
che the loss in votes is fully 60 pei
cent, in Pointe Coupee it Is 40 pei
cent, while in Assumption, Terre'
bonnie and Plaquemiune the loss If
votes is considerable. 1t is curious
circumstance that those very parishes
in which the vote is the highest thu
Republicans have gained most. AL
the parishes returned "a having faller
off in votes having been carried b!
> the Republican except Orleans.-N
> 0. Democrat.
Tom Anderson follows Wells. O
Anderson, however, it must be SAT-
: that he made a much better run thar
, his fellow. member of tile Returning
3 Board. There are whole parishes o.
Red River where Old Mad did not &c
. a single vote. His appeal to his fel
q low. citizens to return him to Con
gress as a vindication of the return
o ing Board has secured him spar
thousand votes. Anderson contente
= himself with simple State Senator
J. ship, and sought his home, St: Ian
. dry, for endorsement. He had wo
J.. many triumphs in St. Landry ha
IT carried the parish by six hundre
,, majority only two years ago, when
Il went overwhelmingly Democratic {
u the State ticket. But only sorro
> and failure awaited him there tn
a time. Those "Anderson Domocra
D. who used to rally around him in da!
% past, have vanished. An analysis
J the vole of st. Landry shows that 9:
T. actly 46 Democrats, so.called, in Il
IL parish voted for him. Buried und
+; a majority of over a thousand, it
10 likely that Anderson, after two ia
10 lures to get into the Senate, will col
q tent himself with a retired count
life in future.-[N. 0. Democrat.