Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1879-04-05

GENERAL NOTES.
The Indiana Democrats want Hem
bricks and Bayard nominated for pre-
sident and vice-president.
The Commercial says, Judging from
appearances, the entire unmarried
portion Of Vicksburg will join in the
holy bonds Of wedlock immediately
after Lent.
One San Francisco paper in the
morning reported the accidental death
Of a deaf and dumb girl. 1ts evening
rival, not to be outdone, gave her
last words.
The colored people of Natches,
Miss, propose to erect 4 colored or
phan asylum.
There are nineteen ex-C Confederate
officers in the y. s. Senate and but
four Federal officers.
Col. P. s. Layton was convicted In
the circuit court Of Clark county,
Miss, last week, Of assault with In.
tent to kill.
The Corinth, Miss, Record says
"No true Democrat will advise q
scrub race" and the Brandon Repmb.
lican lifts its hat and cheers the senti.
meDt.
The peach crop promises we'll IN
Mississippi.
Miss Nettie, daughter Of ex-Gov
Hubbard, Of Connecticut, married
her fathers coachman.
Miss Sarah Galloway, beautiful
girl of Seaford, Delaware, eloped with
Charles Ross, her cousin, who stole
her money and jewelry and then de.
serted her without assuming the
marriage VOWS.
Geo. G. Douglass stabbed and in.
stantly killed King Bryant in Bel
county, Texas, last Friday. The de.
ceased was q tenant on the plantation
of the former.
The Greenback Congressman hav,
fused with the Republicans on mat
tiers Of political import.
Frank Hall, q railroad clerk at Lea
ry, Ga, was arrested last week
charged with embezzling funds to the
amount Of 1880.
Bill Howard, the negro who out
ragged little twelve-year old Glars
Pond in Kansas City lately, has bee,
captured by the people Of that mora
community and lynched. The moi
then cut his body down and burned
it amid yells and howls Of delight.
Judge J. NJ. Elliott, Of the Court O
Appeals, Kentucky, was assassinstet
in Frankfort last week by Thomas
Buford, against whom he had decided
q suit. The assassin was arrested
and lodged in Jail.
A Californian, whose family buria
ground is close to a race course, SELL
seats on his fathers monument t.
spectators.
Texas papers are calling upon tn
Legislature for a law which shall
provide some adequate punishment
for carrying concealed weapons, ant
some recent events out that way ais,
seem to demand it.
Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island
is the only member Of the Senate VIII
has been continuously a member from
March 4, 1861, to the present time.
A fire in Greenville, Miss, on tn,
Goth, destroyed two Of the main bust
ness houses.
A dispatch to the London Dali,
Telegraph says that forty five person
were arrested on the night after tn
attempt on the life of General Vol
Drentlem, chief Of gendermerie. Som
were Of such high rank that the,
were not sent to common prisons
They incluGI officers of the guard
court chamberlains and two daughter
of prominent ministers. =
One of the largest roosts Of pigeon
probably in the world is in Ora ysol
county, Texas. 1t is said to be eigh
teen miles wide, forty miles long ant
contains millions of birds.
A young man in Freestone county
Texas, recently fell dead while I'D
ding at a ball.
Atlanta, Ca, has q sun bonnet fac
tory that gives employment to sixt,
white girls at from three to five dol
lars per week.
James Ellis, a colored blacksmith
in Americas, Ca, who, by industr,
and economy, has acquired a compe
tency and quite a lucrative trade il
his profession, on learning that hi
old mistress, Virginia Ann Wisham
was in very reduced circumstances
without even a shelter--went befor
the clerk of the superior court, an,
made her deed to.a small place il
Macon county, thus giving her a hom'
in her old age without fee or reward.
The Sioux City Journal contain
startling reports Of the ravsges Of des
tructive prairie fires up in the BIZ
Sioux Valley, and throughout South
ern DekOta. The first on Saturda!
were of unusual force and destructive
beyond precedent.
A merchant of Edin, who was II
Sioux City on the 3lst, told most har
rowing stories of the prairie fires IL
that section. From his store, thl
town occupying an elevated position
he counted thirteen farm-houses i,
flames, and says more than forty il
that vicinity have lost everything
houses, barns, seed grain, etc. Sew
eral persons were burned to death.
At Texarkana, on Friday last, San
Crowly, a freight conductor on tn
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