Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1879-05-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
LOUISIANA NOTES.

Tho Temperance Council is flour
ishslg at Lake Charles.
The saw mill men in Calcasieu
parish are on q sort of strike.
Cbas. II. McCouley, was robbed Of
$500 in the st. Joseph hotel last
week. a.aa
Louis johnson has been acquitted
Of the murder Of DR.. Alexander 1T
Pass Manchac January, 1877.
The postoifics ut Hahnville is badly
managed, if we are to judge by the
tone of the st. Charles Herald. e
A shooting scrupe occurred in St.
Charles parish last week between Il.
}. Sellers and Frank Trepanier.
The Pllibodaux Silver Cornet Band
realized ono hundred and seventy five
dollars from an excursion last week.
Corn in Ouachita parish is about
knee high on an average, and the
stand is reported to be very good.
DR.. J. G. Gordy the grand lecturer
of the Masonic order ofLouisiana, de-
livcred two lectures in Monroe last
week.
A negro named Green Mcdaniel
killed DIR. GriAin's COW in Lincoln
parish and now Green reclines III
Jail.
The Sparta debating society decided
last week, that Louisiana should work
against the negro emigration to
Kansas.
A white man by the name of Thorn
as, was murdered, in Tensas parish
last week, by VIM. Sykes, q negro,
in cold blood. o
Rouge Dunbar, a negro, from Tan
gipohoa was last week sentenced to
seven years in the penitentiary for
manslaughter.
The Pointe CoupetsPelican, reports
q destructive hail storm on False
river, which will neccssitate the re-
planting of q large corn acreage.
Reading matter was scarce in the
Viena Sentinel last week, and the
editor charges it to the arrival of
"little stranger at his residence.
Two darkies got into q difficulty
at Delhi, last Sunday morning, over
a game of cards. Result, one killed
and the other dangerously wounded.
An abundant crop of Irish potatoes
has been raised in Pointe Coupee par
ish, this season, and over 500 bushels
have been shipped to the western
markets.
The Sparta Times says thousands
of dollars were saved in Bienville last
year, by home raised syrup, and the
farmers are planting more extensively
this year.
The negro who whipped his step
son to death in Richland parish few
days ago, has been captured. He i'm
plicates the mother of the boy in the
brutal outrage.
The Patriot Democrat says: We
understand a negro horse thief was
hung near Thompson's Creek, and
distant about two miles from jackson,
on Tuesday last.
The Gretna Courier is a very neatly
printed and creditably edited paper.
1t is far superior to the average coun-
try journal, and deserves well of the
good people Of Gretna.
The Webster Tribune warns people
against sending money to the Bur-
Gngton Hawkeye, saying that their
subscriptions may be received, but it
is not certain that they will receive
the paper.
Bob Bell, a colored resident of
Washington, while out hunting last
week, accidentally shot himself in
the eye, literally tearing the ball from
its socket and otherwise dangerously
wOunding him.
Stock raisers and planters in Rich
land parish complain that wolves
have become very troublesome in that
parish, and that they have killed per-
haps as many as two hundred head Of
calves this spring, and as many more
of lambs.
A large namber of ladies Of New
Orleans have addressed petition to