The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-02
LOUISIANA.

.,,,adov night. q cabin On Mr. b. Laplace's
,llu. sstH; vas destroyed by fire. An old sick
lRn ,hInd man. who lived n the building. per
iahed In the flames.-iSt. JOHN hleciiacepe.
rI,daon Railroad Company held their annual
,,,apting and elected the following officers e
aerye the ensuing year: President, II. u
Vaughan: Directors, b. j. Morris, j. Il. Knox
WIN 3. Slaughter, Jr, L.. d. Morgan.
We learn that the negroes are leaving the
Hard Time Times and Lake st. Joseph neighbor.
hoods III Tensas parish, for Kansas, Whlle
those who left some places on Davis Benu
Island are begging transportation TO return,
and ii Is being given 70 all the worthy ones ny
former employers Madison journal
The Marksyille Buileti,, says that Leopold
Goudcha,lx's cotton gin, at Big Cane, was des-
trn,rad hv Ara On the sixth instant. also, that
considerable damage was done In Avoyelles
to buildings, crops and fences by storm
which swept through that parish In the early
part Ut last week.
municipal election is shortly to be held at
Lake Charles, La, and remarkable feature
cnnnected with the circumstance Is that the
present mayor, Mr. VIM. Meyer, publishes q
card announcing that he has served five yeara
in that capacity, and requesting the people to
select another Incumbent this Tine
On Saturday last Mr. Felix Braud, assessor
of this parish, completed the roll of persons
living In Ascension who are subject to militia
duty under the laws OF the State that is,
residents between the ages Of is and Al years
The result Of the enumeration is as follows
Whites 972 colored 2127; total 3099.-I Donald
sonville Chief
The hundred or more eolored people who
have been for some days on the banka of the
river at vidalia awaiting come boat to take
them to Kansas, have, after a very rough
time, pretty much settled down into the idea
meeting Of them held at Vidalia yesterday.
at which James Randall and G.. Z. Bowles
made speeches. The meeting finally appoint
"a Bowles and Randall delegates from Con
cordia parish to the Vicksburg labor conven-
tion to be held May 6.- Natchez Democrat.
Some time last week an alteration took
place between colored man and bis wife In
the neighborhood of Big Cane, concerning
the punishment Of their child, about three or
four years old The man wished to whip 1t
OF was whipping 1t when. the mother inter-
fered, which SO anraged the man that he
grasped the child by the feet and dashed ita
brains out against the door. The mother ran
out to the woods where she got lost and did
not find her way out until the next day, when
she gave the alarm. He had already fled, and
although every exertion was made by the
constable of that ward, no trace could be
found Of him. Sheriff Duson has taken the
search In hand, and we are under the impress.
sion that 1T won't be long before he will stand
before q jury.-lSt Landry Democrat.
A negro preacher named Jack Price, living
near Natchitoches, took II into his head that
nothing would save him from Satan but tc
take the life Of everybody he met. Last
Wednesday he invaded the plantation Of Mr.
Dolphin, on Old river, and threatened the life
Of the men working there. He was ordered
on by Mr.. Dolphin, but refused To GO, and
threatened the life Of that gentleman. Del.
phin, arming himself with q gun, marched
towards Price, when the latter sprang upon
him, and knocked him over the head with a
club. Selling the gun he fired, wounding Mr.
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gentlemen came up then, and Price attacked
them, but they escaped. The mailman then
proceeded TO break In the doors and fire
the house. A number Of persons had, III
surrender, and prepared to fire on those APP
preaching. He was then fired on and killed
The king OF noted things-shadines.