The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-31
SOUTHERN STATE NEWS.
!. LOUISIANA.

There are 4411 persons ~ school age III the
parish of Ascension. VI whom 1886 arc white
and 1871 are cOlored.
Al negro at Cyprus Grove, Grant parish, by
4 the name of Reason Rasley, few days ago
while carelassly handling pistol, ancldenty
Ehot himself through the thigh tnillcting h
severe II not fatal wound.
But they had too good u thing u last long
The TACT that cotton was dumped Into ihf
Hin-hniise every day, aud still the pile failed
To grow. at length caused suspicion As 10 thf
trna state of affairs. A watch was kept Az
The witehng hour VI midnight the festive
cocns appeared with their little bags After
they had haRged the cotton and Were making
uH the weary watchers bagaed them. -l0rl-
fax Chronicle.
On Friday evening, between and o'clock,
the gin- house VI u. "A. kimhalI, on Grigahy'a
Island, was destroyed by fire. together with
eighteen bales of cotton and ten ~ twelve
tons of seed cotton. Mr. Holmes had placed
his lantern Oh an Old ginstand near the door,
where he had been weighing cotton. On PICK
2nR it up the Gun holding the candle fell Into
basket Of cotton, and IN n,iei snhea of
Time the clubhouse Was wrapped ~ flames,
with the final result as above shreveport
Standard.
Inst Saturday night, as the steamboat John
wv. Cannon was landing nj Burnsidns Orange
Grove plantation, In this parish, Ben Nelson,
a coored man and captain nf the night watch,
i waa stabbed aud killed by one ~ the cOpfed
escape. The man had luatreled q short while
previously, the rouater reaenting some dis
play of authority OH the part nf Nelson The
Ganuon remained at the Donaldsonvila wharf
until Coroner Sullivan held All inquest Mel
sons body was buried here, under the cnTo-
ner's SLIPPERY ison. Dnnaldsunsila Chief
Last Saturday night was toerably good
night to catch cotton stanlerS. ITO less than
six having been gobbled M during rs silent
watches They all seem to have taken n par
I4
w. U. Harrison aut w. A. Kpgan. some four
miles north of GnltaS, and to get AZ II didn't
hesitate to break down the door OF q gin
house. They only got about three halea, all
told, In three or four hanls AZ the distance
UT three miles was rather too far to pack $40
much cotton, these lively mokaa borrowed the
saddle horses Of Measrs. Harrison and Raglan,
while they neacefuly slept, and made them
very effective as means Ut transportation.
On the night III Tuesday, October 2t, Mt II
O'clock, Grant parieh lost an old and valuable
citizen In the person Of Mr.. II. H. Mccain,
who died at his residence, three miles north
Of Montgomery. Mr. Mccain was about
seventy-fiye years VT age, having lived for
many years at the place whore he died. He
raised a large family of children noted fer
their fathers integrity and sterling worth,
prominent among whom Is Major II. Y. Nc
Gafn, OF Montgomery Altogether his de-
scendants will probably number three acore
SOULS In many ways he was remarkable
came tlp 10 the full standard Of excellence,
Ilolfax Chronicle.
One OF the most tlendIsh murders that we
ever heard of was committed last Thursday
morning in the townsville neighhorhood hy
one Jack Overstreet. This fellow Overstroat
killed man In Alabama some years ago, and
with hia family moved To Mississippi. Not
being satisfied there, he deserted his family
and came To Union parish, near townsville,
where he has relatives living. He settled
There laet spring, and soon afterward hts
vile Joined him, walking from Monr ". a
distance ef over twenty miles, with a large
bundle, little baby and two children just
large enough to walk. Thursday morning
the human tiend killed the woman his wife
who had. Notwithstanding his desperate
character and meanness, followed and chung
tu him with the tenacity that charactarizes
the marriage bond, by knocking her Ia the
head with mallat. As soon as the crime
was discovered the citizens Ut the neighhor-
hood Instituted search. Saturday morning
about sunrise posse discovered him III q
acOtton~h house on the farm of Mr.. White, but
he made his escape receiving only = flesh
wound. Up to going TO press no other re-
liable tidings have been heard Of him u IL
thuusht by u great many that 0verstrcet is
the murderer of Mrs Ward. OF which a re-
port. appeared in our last Issue. Vienna
Sentinel