Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1879-03-22
STATE MIRROR.

GUS extent in Richland parish.
The Richland Beacon says the fruit
prospects are good in that parish.
Three or four business houses were
burned in Oak Ridge q few days since
The Sabine SOuthron announces
Hon. j. B. Elan as It's choice for the
next governor.
An attempt was made to assassinate
Mr.. A. Hebert in Calc,ssieu parish one
night last week.
The Madison Journal says the Kan.
sas fever is raging in that perish
among the blacks.
The clerk Of the Court Of Avoyellea
parish issued 23O marriage licences
during the year 1873. a
The residence Of Mr.. M. s. Powell
in Carroll parish, was destroyed by
fire q short time since.
A colored baby, seven months old,
| fell out Of bed and brOke its next in
Opelousas a few days ago.
An infant child was found de,sd on
the prairie near Washington last week,
supposed to have been murdered.
Two darkies had q difficulty near
Hahnville last week. One Of them
came out with q pistol ball in hii
body.
The Bonnie Lee, Minden packet,
sunk last week. No lives lost and
nobody hurt, except insurance COM
panies.
Charlie Arccneau, a young man
about twenty years Of age, while cut
ting timber in Livingston parish last
week, was crushed to death by fall
ing tree.
A little boy named Joseph Volker,
an inmate Of the New Orleans Pro-
testant orphan asylum, fell into a
well on the 10th instant and was
drowned.
The Maurepas Gazette announces q
quarrel between DIR. F.. J. Brumaeld
and Mr.. Harry Northup, which result
ed in the shooting Of the doctor and
his subsequent death.
The St. Mary CouraMt says: There
are some political grumblers not a
thousand miles from here who would
do well to run into q hole aud pull
the hole in after them.
On the Story plantation, in the par.
ish Of st. Bernard, a few days ago a
man by the name Of Gonzales was
shot and instantly killed by Joe Faulk.
They were both in love with the same
woman.
In the language Of the City Item,
"Bishop Wingfeld is winging his way
hither for the purpose Of entering up
on his episcopal duties. He will find
the field fallow, though in q good con-
dition for spiritual crop.
There was a fracas Sunday evening
on the Desbeetan plantation, in st,
Charles parish, near Red Church,
which resulted in the shooting of one
Cuba jackson. Jackson charges Ben
Christopher with shooting him.
The Pointe Coupee Pelican says
that colored boy about fourteen
years old, living in that parish, cut
off q nameless part Of the body of q
little three year old child Of the same
race. The young fiend was arrested
and lodged in Jail.
The forty-eight acquitted Natchi-
tocllians were escorted to the Bart
Able when leaving for home by band
of music, and a grand salute was
fired as q mark Of respect at their
safe delivery from the clutches Of the
radical conspiracy.
The t.Charles Echo says "the next
constitutional convention will present
in it's delegates the ablest body Of men
assembled in Louisiana for over q
quarter Of century. Thank God,
the people generally are aroused to a
sense Of the necessity Of competency
in their public servants"
"Yellow fever in Bastrop." We
find this item in the St. Mary Cour-
ant, and will give reward of ten
cents to learn the name of the bright
genius in whose imagination the news
originated. We will venture the as
sertion that the first initial of hie
nome is damphool. Clarion.
The salt mines on Avery's Island,
Iberia parish, have been leased to a
company Of English and Texan capt.
talists, who are to pay twenty-five
cents per ton for the salt aud stipu-
late to raise one hundred tons o day.
besides completing a canal seven miles
long through the salt marsh to Yer
million Bay. 1t is alleged that $780,
Ooo was some years ago refused for
this property.
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