St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-04-21
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

for the purpose of encouraging or promot*
ing, aiding or assisting the playing of
monte, mustang, red and black, high-bau
roulette, twenty-one, or hazard, OF VINO
shall keep or exhibit such gaming tables,
or operate the same, either as owner or e1H-
ploye, upon conviction shall be deemed
guilty of felony, and shall be fined not
less than 5000 nor more than $500, and I'M
prisoned i'm the State Penitentiary not less
than one nor more than three years; that
change of names of any of the games emu
merated herein shall not prevent the convlc-
ton of any person guilty of violating any
of the provisions Of this act."f
r. S. Walton, bookkeeper. for Sauer
& Smith, grocers, San Antonio, Tex, was
Jailed few days ago on a charge OF doctor
ing the firms books in his favor.
The case Of the United States against
stillwell Fl. Russell, ex-United States Mar
shall of the Western District of Texas, was
concluded at San Antonio the other even
ing by verdict of guilty. Russell was
charged with disappointing Government
funds and destroying accounts.
Governor Boynton, of Georgia, is said
to be about to marry a maiden of Walton
County, in that State.
While on a fishing and hunting expe-
dition the other day in the Trinity Bottoms,
William Kelton and j. Gordon, OF Corsl-
cana, Tex, Were badly burned by the ex-
plosion of quart of gunpowder; which was
set on fire by a spark from the cigar of
Kelton while he was showing the other the
amount necessary with which to load his
d ia .hni 1xY
burned, one of which he would lose. His
breast and right hand were fearfully LAGER
ated. The other was burned in the breast
and face, but not fatally.
A dispatch from Washington says the
Hot Springs Greek contract will be relet on
the 23d inst. u r 53, fFfts75sf
Miss Sarah Duncan. aged twenty
three, died at the Shirley House, Baltimore,
Md, the other night, from the effects Of an
overdose of choral. The affair was some
what shrouded in mystery, and the jury
which was called upon to make an investi-
cation could not.deterInine whether the
dose was taken with suicidal intent or not.
She was niece of William Butler Duncan,
the well-known New York banker.
A panther measuring seven feet in
length was killed near Palatka, Fla, re-
Gently. ss'71stsa ~
In Bowling Green, KY, recently, two
men named Walton and Cullender' were
playing cards, while Scott Oliver kept the
pot, fifty cents. There haFing been a mis-
deal the principals asked, for their money,
instead of a decision. Oliver declined to
surrender it and, it was alleged, without
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Fl During the month If March thirty-nine
vessels left the port r3fNew Orleans, La,
carrying ], ss6, 6l9 busaels of corn and 513,-
s64 bushels of wheat, a total. Of 2,300,5s3
bushels of grain, against 393,42l for March
of last year-an increase Of about 800 per
cent. Among the departing vessels was
the Blisc0e to Belfast with 119,5oos bushels
of corn, equivalent to3, 100 tons, the largest
grain cargo that ever left the port of New
Orleans.
For charging Illegal fees, 7. NJ. Carr.
of Louisville, KY, has been debarred from
practice as an attorney before the Interior
Department at Washington.
The contract for constructing the pro-
posed Marine Hospital at Memphis, Tenn,
has been awarded John Reed, of Memphis,
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for Sss,775.
Richard Crowley, New York, has re-
signed his position as special assistant
counsel for the United States in the prose
cution of alleged election fraud cases in
South Carolina.
The directors Of the Louisville (Ky.)
Southern Exposition the other day closed
contractwith the Seventh Regiment band
of New Y ork for the first fifty days of the
exposition, and IGilmore's band of the same
city the remaining fifty days. This in
wolves an expenditure of $50, 900.
An alleged incendiary fire destroyed
two residences at Dallas, Tex, the other
day and caused j. Rothschild and Herman
3Goslin, the occupants, loss of some
$500. f
L. L. Polk & Co., dealers in agricul-
tural implements at Raleigh, N. G., have
made an assignment, with liabilities of $751;
600, and assets $1,000. :. It was thought the
business would be continued.
The other morning the inc coming train
on the Memphis & Charleston Railroad ran
over a negro six miles east of Memphis,
Tenn, completely severing his head from
his body.asi s5i:f8 N & sti8 ft44
"A few days ago near Clinton,iJones
County, fifteen, miles from Macon, Ga, a.
nine-year-old son Of Buck Jordan accident
ally, while playing with an old gun, killed
Mrs. Wheeler, an old lady, and wounded
her daughter and her baby. sft,G
A South Carolina court has decided
that where a person adopts a perilous en-
sployment, knowing it to be such, and is
killed in the pursuit Of his ayoosccation, his
heirs have no recourse against the en-
ployer. 1s2 sisS5 aS''ti s
yohn Bassett, a prisoner held to an
swer six indictments for eattle-stealing,
died in Jail at Corsicana, Tex, the other