St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-12-10
A TRAGIC love affair has occurred at

A TRAGIC love affair has occurred at
New Orleans. Henry MEME, stalwart
Young blacksmith, was engaged to Margaret
Massey, an unusually pretty blonde OF -.
The girls mother had higher ambition for
her daughter and forbade her lover the
house. The two thereupon determined to
end their existence. They met, according
to previous engagement, to carry out their
tragic resolve. After a hurried embrace
and a few passionate words OF love, the
Young man drew a revolver, placed its muz-
zle against the left side of the young girls
neck and fired. Supporting her in his arms,
he placed the pistol to his own head beneath
the left ear and sent ball through the base
of his skull. The wretched lovers then fell
to the pavement in each others arms. In
the pocket of the man was found letter,
signed by both the lovers, detailing their
desperate resolution, and bewailing the
Indebtedness which drove them to their
fate. The wounds did not prove Immediate
" fatal, but it was not thought that either
could survive.
LOUIS BURKE and John Booker, ne
groes, were in Jail at Oxford, n. c., charged
with robbing and numbering Charles Lynch,
a jeweler. The other night an armed body
of fifty or sixty men visited the Jail and
forced the jailer to deliver up the murder
ers. They made full confession OF the
crime, after which they were carried to the
outskirts Of the village and hanged to a
tree.
A SAN ANTONIO (Tex.) dispatch of
| the 1st says: Sheriff j. E. Martin and Louis
Henry, returning from serving citations,
were waylaid and foully murdered six miles
| below Rio Grande City to-day. The Sheriff
was collecting taxes, aud was robbed OF all
he had. Citizens have appealed to the Gov
ernor by wire for State troops to come to
their rescue, as four similar murders have
occurred recently. The murders are attrib-
uted to MeXicans.
AT Big Spring, Montgomery County,
Va, John W. Burnett shot four times his
father -in-law, Fred. M. Northcross, caus-
ing instant death. Norihcross was unarmed
and begged Burnett not to shoot. There
was bad feeling between the two, growing
out of family difficulties, but the murder
seems to have been without immediate prov
ocation and wholly uDjustitiable.
By the bursting of a boiler in Mann's
Oil Works, Yazoo City, Miss, six colored
employees We're injured, some at least IA
tally.
THE infant son of George Harfrance,
at Akron, O., fell into a tub of hot water
while his mother was scrubbing the floor
and was scalded to death.
Two negroes, Jordan and Craig, were
caught and confessed to the assassination OF
Robert Catlin, near Huntsteld Landing,
Miss. on the 18th of November. Their in
tention was to kill Mrs. Catlin. Suisse
quently the negroes were hanged by infu-
rated citizens near Shepardstown.
A BOILER explosion in Douglass &
Sons saw mill at Jacksonville, Texas
killed three white men and fatally injured &
colored man.
WHILE several boys were skating or
a pond at Leominster,, Mass, one named
| Walker, aged twelve, broke through the ice
His father, Arthur Walker, went to his
sons assistance and both were drowned.
DR.. L. C. NARwooD was burned il
his residence at Whiteside, Pa. Mrs. Me-
Carly and Mrs. Reed met like fate al
Scranton, Pa.