The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-12-03
AMONG OUR STATE EXCHANGES.
The Bite of a Cat.

The Bite of a Cat.
Jean Loubatie, aged nine years, died
last night of hydrophobia after three
days and nights of the most heartrend-
ing suffering.
What is strange about this case, and
what will make it memorable enc,
is the fact that the poison was not from
a dogs bite, but was inoculated by the
molars of cat.
When the young boy was bitten he
was playing on the sidewalk before his
parents residence, when suddenly a
catsprang at him and bit him in the calf
of the leg. He informed his parents at
once of the fact, who had the cat killed
and applied remedies to the bite.
All this transpired some forty or fifty
days ago, and nothing more was
thought of the case till some three
days since, when young Jean was
taken suddenly i'll, and DIR. Van Gohren
called in, who pronounced the boys
disease as hydrophobia.-N. o. City
Item.
Mr.. Thomas J. Semms who was a
member of the late Constitutional Con-
vention; in his argument last Satur-
day in the New Orleans municipal
case used the following language {:
"And it may be true that in five years
unless the constitution is made accep.
table by amendments, public clamor
will demand the assembling of con-
vention to remove the straight jacket
which has been placed on the people
and its representatives"
1t is within the range of probability
that sspublic clamor'' will do some.
thing of the kind, but it will take
particular palms, before hand, to see
that the "straIght Jacket" is put on the
lunatics who composed nine-tenths of
the last convention, so that by no pos
sibiIity, they may become members of
the proposed new one.-ishreveport
Standard.
Bossier parish wants, within the
next four or five years, thousand
white families, each with a capital of
from $500 TO $4,000, to settle upon and
improve the cheap lands, and engage
in agricultural pursuits. When each
tract of desirable land has an enterpris-
ing and thrifty occupant, each striving
to make his particular home more
home-like and attractive, then the
glorious possibilities of this region will
begin to drawn upon US, and we shall
have veritable paradise.-Bossie,'
Banner.
The business of court is progressing
slowly. Its time has been occupied
this week with the criminal docket.
Several parties pleaded guilty to car
rying concealed weapons, and were
fined thirty dollars each and costs, we
believe; a few cases were tried and
were entered. The Grand Jury scared
up some of the bar-keepers about sell
ing and giving minors liquors, but we
believe no one has been convicted of
the offense.-RichIo7a1 Beacon.
If Dan bennett was agriculturing it
out here about now he'd have to hoe
his cabbages under an umbrella-drill
his beats in skif, fish for his turnip.
green's in a crawfish net. He might
tell us then in ssmournful numbers''
ttlife is real, life is earnest"-and
"Louisiana is not as it is''-Ho,t7,ao
Courier.
Bro. Hyams of the Sugar Planter
bewails his State as a country pub
Usher thusly
We exhausted our skill and long ex-
perience last week in trying to turn
out a readable paper, but with rather
Indifferent results. When the Their
mometer is down TO 3Oo, the fierce
wind blowing in through every crack
and crevice, the roller, frozen to the
consistency of a bar of iron, ink that
sliced like cheese and the meanest
quality of printing paper and no hope
of thaw in the near future, the trials
of a poor country printer are great
The "outside" of this issue is nothing
to brag of-how much better the din
side" will turn out is conundrum we
give up.
Act No. 81 of 1880, entitled "An