Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1879-05-10
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL NOTES. =.
Bob Toombs is q champion Of con-
ccaled pistols in Georgia.
| A woman in Mt. Sterling, KY, Is
years 6fage, has been married 6 years
and has three children. j
The Confederate monument at
Columbus, Ga, was unveiled in the
presence Of 10000 people.
Missouri, saysthe G Galloway Gazette,
has sixteen counties in which there Is
not single liquor saloon. laf
The President has issued a procla-
nation forbilding white persons from
settling in Indian Territory. t
1t is generally thought that Mack
Gray who attempted to assassinate
Edwin Booth il, Chicago is insane. 9
Durant, Miss, was almost totally
destroyed by fire on Monday night
last. The total loss is estimated ut
$5O,WDO. # HGIg
A bill confering the right of female
suffrage, on woman, was recently de-
tented by one vote, in tho Massachu-
sets Legislature.
Henry Harris and Frank Price col
ored, had u razor duel in Memphis
Sunday, overa game Of cards. The
latter was killed. iilf aa'i a
Two negroes were killed and q
white man badly bruised by lightn-
ing during a thunder storm, one day
last week, in Morgan county.
Last week two negroes were arrest
ed for burning the barns Of Mr..
Moore, near Starksville, Miss. One
confessed and implicated the other.
The plan Of the four per cent bonds,
have proven so successful in Georgia,
that Gen. Gordon proposes to advise
the Louisiana convention to try it.
A strike and riot is reported to be
in progress Oh the Pacific railway ut
Winnepeg. Volunteers have been
called out, and ordered to proceed to
the scene Of disturbance.
Edward Parr, sixty years old, stab
bed his daughter, Susan Irvine, aged
thirty, in Philadelphia Wednesday,
innicting fatal injuries. A family
difficulty caused the trouble. .
The national cOlored conference
met on Wednesday. It was called to
order by Gov. Pinchback and presi-
ded over by John r. Lynch of Mis-
sissippi. The first days business was
not materially important.
On Tuesday last, a crazy negro wO.
man created quite a sensation in
Savannah, by marching through the
streets and attempting to kill all the
children she could come across, with
an axe she carried with her.
A serious riot occurred in Cork IT.
land, on the 4th, and 5th, inst, sever
al houses were wrecked, and after the
suppression forty rioters were treated
for scalp wounds. The riot grew out
q difference between rival bands.
j. r. Young and John Riley, in
Jail at Overton, Texas, for drunken
ness, attempted to escape by setting
fire to the Jail. The flames spread SO
rapidly that the men, unable to ex-
tinguish them, both burned to death.
Gray, who attempted to shoot
Booth, plead guilty Of assault with
intent to kill, and was remanded for
sentence until Booth shall have made
his statement in court and inquiry is
made into the mental condition of the
prisoner.
At New Preston, Conn. ,Egbert Cogs-
well, Tuesday, shot and instantly kill
ed his wife. He then cut his throat,
expiring almost Immediately. Cogs-
well was an habitual drunkard, and
was crazed with gum at the time the
deed was committed.
Katkoo, the Chibat Indian, was
executed in the Jail yard, at ortland,
Oregon, Tuesday by Uuited States
Marshal Waters, for the murder of
Thomas James Brown, near Sitka last
January. He maintained an appar-
emily stolid indifference to the last.
The farm house of Thomas Pool, at
Pemberton Meadows, California was
destroyed by fire Monday. Pool and
his two children persisted in the
flames. The Indians are suspected
of numbering the parties and firing
the premises to cover the deed.
A special to the Galveston News
from Hampstead, Texas, says: As
the congregation were leaving the
Methodist Church, Sunday noon, Col.
Jared Z. Kirby shot, killing John
Steele, who in a quarrel fourteen
years ago, killed the formers father.
Our county Jail is haunted !! The
negro confined in the cage hears
strange noises in the room every
night, and is getting skittish, and
wants company. In the room there
is chair, and no matter where the
tailor nuts it of an evening, the next