The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-03-18
LOUISIANA.
About hundred darkies left Baton RouGo
Sunday morning on the James Howard for

About hundred darkies left Baton Roueo
Sunday morning on the James Howard for
Kansas.
The water from Grand Levee crevasse has
the Baton Rouge. Crosse Tete and Opelousas
Railroad. near Rosedale. The cars oeased 70
make through trips since last Saturday.
Saturday last, as young Albert Levet Wa.
playing with pistol, In st. John the Baptist
he pointed 1t at colored workman named
discharged and the ball lodged Ia Joseph,a
abdomen. killing him instantly.
From q private letter received Ia this city
last night from Point Pleasant, La, about
thirty-one miles below Natchez. we learn that
there was sh@0oting arsy 'sy bstweea two
point, over game Of dice, In which one snot
the other In the stomach, infilcting wounds
which 1t is thought will prove fatal Matches
Democrat.
Last week we mentioned the falling OF Au-
gust Hansen from the iron railroad bridge
into the Calcas1eu river, while he was paint
ing the bridge. Last Wednesday the body q
the unfortunate young man rose to the sur
face, and was recovered and buried. The eur-
mise that In falling he struck the pilinG un-
derneath proves correct, as his shoulder wA6
found dislocated and one arm was broken
Lake Charles Echo.
District Attorney pro tenn l.. DoPoorteF,
OF st. John, has obtained before Judge Henry
l.. Duffel an Injunction agahst the police
jury OF the parish OF st. John the Baptist,
restraining them from acting, upon thogrOund
that the jury is not legally composed. Hon
Jules Refine, legal adviser OF the police jury,
has obtained permission for the case to be
taken into consideration by the court NEXT
week.
The mandamus case to compel the ra9is-
trar to open his Office to revise the registra-
tion and to register such persons as are en-
titled to vote at the approaching munlapal
election came up before Judge McVea to-day,
and the judge decided adversely to tho
application for mandamus. It Is the opin1On
Of leading lawyers that 1t is not necessary
that there should be registration Tor the
municipal election, and that every man who
is OF age and has resided twelve months IN
the State, six months In the parish ana thirty
days In the ward will be entitled to vote
Baton Rouge Advocate.
Capt. Thoe. r. Reynolds, with the steam
tug Alert, has arrived at Oalcasieu Pass with
1900 steel rails, and will shortly bring up t6e
1000 steel rails yet at the Pass, when he VIII
probably use the Alert In transporting ehell1
for ballasting the railroad track. Yhe Gales
last Tuesday. Track will be laid across +
next Tuesday, and the same day the 1ret 10
motive will cross the bridge. Weafher per-
mitting, the force laying track from Orange
this way will close the gap between Grange
and Lake Charles by the twentieth instant,
ton to Grand Marais, 171 miles. Grand Ma~
rails Is thirty three miles east Of Lake Charles
It is estimated that the track from Gra1d
Marais to Mermentan river will b Mniehed
by the first OF April. The Merme0ten Stver
1roa Dridge e e 9eng smsaos sns ss eGs r
Transportation thither. Less than 4na mlle
New Ofl0ene and Texae Railroad IN Yeeu1tS
Itouyile. tIAke oharle0 Ncno.