Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-04-02

tn0t Nc lnteuub, ~ IN cNkly Ooy w 10y
darrow guagc railroad track from his
Longwood plantation on tho Mississippi
river, to ono Of his stores on old river,
distance Of three or four miles. This
will DO done for tho purpose Of facilita-
ting the shipment Of n large quantity Of
cotton and seed thst is annually PRE-
vented from going to market on &C.
count of bad roads. He thinks that be-
tween 5000. and 5000 bales of cotton
will come over the road yearly, besides
. large quantity Of cotton seed. This
will make Longwood q shipping point
Of Importance, and may, possibly, be
the means of building town there ofsolne
magnitude. Providence, should there
fore, look to her laurals and lose no time
in building our road to tho hills. The
hills once reached the extension to Ham
burg is an assured fact. Let there be D
full meeting OF the directory on the
first Of April, to the end that work be
commenced on the road immediately.
Natchitoches Vindicator Last Thurs
day night we were presented with q
spnr, sent to us through Mr.. w. N.
BRAZIL, by Mr.. VIM. Smith who lives
not far from Fort Jessup, in this parish.
Thespur was ploughed up in Mr.. Smiths
field. The rowel is composed of six
long steel prongs measuring, each, four
inches from tho centre, the shank is
five inches long, with two fancy curled
pieces ut each end, next to the axis Of
the spur and the heel plate has stee
pendants from which must have danglcd
jingling bells. The whole weight, cor
roded aud lessened by the rust of years,
- pound. We might conjure up u pic
ture of ye olden time, when some Mex
lean in his gay attire and broad SOM
brero, with clang and jingle Of these
huge spurs, rode along the trails from
the far off land of the trails from the
far off land of the Montezumas, leading
o mule laden with Mexican dollars, az
he sought the trading posts at TT. Jes.
sup and Natchitoches for supplies or
pastime. Time and civilization have
obliteratod many of the strange belong
ings of the past, and only as accident
brings to light some such relic as this
cumbrons and huge instrument, are we
reminded Of its strange actors and Gus
toms.
Coushatta Citizen; A difficulty on
kenilworth plantation, a few miles be-
low town, last Saturdayaevcni be-
tween Thornton Nicolls and Wilson
Willoughby, both colored men, resulted
in Nicolls fatally wonnding Wilioughby
with % knife. Nicolls is in Jail, bond
having been refused him by Judge Lo-
gan.
Morchouse Clarion In agnarrcl over
% game of cards in the sth Ward last
Tuesday, Allen Jones was killed by A..
Tippett by having his jugular vein cut
and bleeding to death The murderer
escaped. Henry Tippctt was shot, in
the same quarrel and five buckshot
lodged in his shoulder, but he is not se-
riously wounded. All the participants
are highly colored.
Franklin Sun: On the night Of the
18th Mrs. Spaulding, who last year
moved from this parish to Edwards Sta.
ton, Miss, shot and killed o young
man named Joe Naples. The pnrticu.
lara rs near as we can CLEAN, are rs fol
lows: About 10 O'clock, p. NJ, tho cit
= liens heard the report ofa gun at til,
residence of Mrs. Spaulding and, on en-
tcring, found young Naples in dying
condition, having been shot near thu
heart with buck shot. Mrs. Spauldin.
has been arrested and we refrain from
! giving any further details until we hca
from the trial.
On last Saturday night negro nam
cd John Smith, recently from Alabama
resides at Mr.. John OBrien's, in TIN
Hurricane ncighborhood, while ASLEEP
| in his house, was assaulted, and seri
$ ously, if not fatally wounded by an I'm
- known party, who struck him on tn
= head with an AK, fracturing the skull
II The would he assassin succeeded i
0 making his escape. Suspicion points t
y n negro living in the neighborhood wit
q whom Smith had had u difficulty fe,
6 days previous. No arrest has yet bee
II made. Smiths condition is said to b
r ethical.
Is New Orleans States: The BatO
Vt Rouge CApIToLIAN has interviewed
,, number of planters on the west bank {
tho riycr rplntiyc tO granting tho rjyI