Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-03-01

Vinion Brandon, colored, shot the
dusky daughter Of Wesley wilkins,
because she refused to marry him,
hitting her in the face with one buck
shot and in the ribs with another.
Brandon is in Jail. The girl is not Sc
riously hurt. y Last Sat-
urday Orange Benjamin shot anoth-
er negro named George Peace in the
LETT breast, while engaged in a drum
ken row, at the store of Mr.. A. M.
Trust, eight miles below Colfax.
Peace is badly hurt, but his wound is
mot considered dangerous.
! Monroe Bulletin There never was
in the history of Monroe time when
money was so scarce. Men who
have been flush for years now ask
indulgence. 1t is getting to be con-
sidered big thing with everybody if
they cal. but make ends meet.
Opelousas Democrat: John Sonnier
who was convicted at the last term of
court, for the murder of Andre Prud-
homme some ten years ago, and SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for life,
having failed to obtain a new trial
from the Supreme Court, was turned
over to the penitentiary convict camp
near Washington this week.
Shreveport Standard: We learn
from our friend Mr.. T. G.. Pegues, of
DeSoto, who was in the city yes
terday, that most distressing casu-
atty occurred on the plantation OF Mr..
JOHN j. Marshall, Jr., in the northern
part of DeSato parish on last Thurs
day night, by which two little color
ed children were burned to death. A
colored man named Thomas Bray
boy, workingon Mr.. Marshall's place,
went off to church in the neighbour
hood, accompanied by his wife, on
the night in question, leaving at home
locked up in his house his two little
children, aged three and four years.
During the absence of the parents the
house caught fire and was totally con-
sumed with everything in it, the poor
little children pelishiDg in the flames.
= Opelousas Democrat: A few win
tiers in succession like the present one
has been, would make cattle raising
in this country, except where they
are fed, a losing business. The prai-
ries are dotted with dead carcasses, in
the fields the bitches are often com
pletely stopped up with them. Buz-
yards, carriOn-crows, cur dogs, hogs,
and other consumers OF carbon, have
not been equal to the emergency, and
many carcasses are never touched /;
but the continuous cold weather pre-
vented the whole country from being
pervaded with stencil. lm
Natchitoches indicator: One night |
last week two colored men attempt
ed to burglarize the store. of Mrs. c.
FREEDMEN, at Montana on Cane river,
about twenty miles below this city.
In forcing open the store door they !
gave the alarm by ringing a bell az
tached thereto, for that purpose.
This aroused Mr.. Friedman, who an
swered the summons with a double
barreled shotgun. The robbers
were so closely pushed that they
jumped into the river to escape. One
named Melville BUou was drowned |
in the attempt to swim the river. A
second attempt to rob that store is
not likely t" occur very soon. rarj
.# t- j. Pc.
Monroe Bulletin: Last Thursday |
night Jack Hunter and Peyton Hall,
both colored and both charged with |
larceny, took it into their heads to go
forth and earn their bread, Their
mode of deliverance was an old one
and neverdisappoints its undertakes.
Humanity prompted our Police Jury
to put a ventilator in the upstairs
rooms and various prisoners have ex-
ercised their genius in displacing the
iron bars in the ceiling without inju-
~ to the house and no considerable
expense to the parish. After gaining
the roof a rope blanket is made to
shorten the leap. Heretofore the i'm
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