The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-05-02
STATE NEWS.

Monroe is to have new Courthouse
There ale no vacant buildings in Ba.
ton Rouge.
Monroe and Trenton have been con
nected by telephone.
There are several cases of small poz
in West Baton Rouge.
The municipal election in Washing.
ton takes place on Monday.
The Parish of Assumption hae IS,
562,70 in her school treasury.
Geoge E. ElMs has been appointed
Parish Surveyor of St. Landry.
Cattle stealing is becoming an occu
patton in the Parish of Ouachita.
Two serious difficulties have recently
occurred in Natchitoches Parish.
Crops are somewhat bach ward in
East Feliciana; much rain is needed
The Town of Thibodaux boasts of
having the largest and best Jail in the
State.
Little or no iStprest is taken in base
ball matters by the Natchitochians this
season.
The Shreveport dailies are grum-
bling at the high p,ice of fresh meat
in that City.
Most of our country exchanges favor
the nomination of Francis T. Nichols
for Governor.
Two hangings are announced to
take place in the Parish of St. Mary
on the 1lth inst.
For the week ending Saturday, April
28th, thore were as deaths from small
pox in New Orleans.
The United States District Court is
now in session at Monroe. No cases
will be tried until the 9th inst.
On account of tie recent severe hail
storm in Grant Parish, most of the
cotton will have to be replanted.
Mr.. Hunter c. Leake, Editor of the
Feliciana Sentinel, will shortly marry
Miss Katie D. Ellis, of Thibodaux.
Johu F. Loveless has been appointed
Clerk of the Fifth District Court, Par
ish of Richland, in place of ]. N. Pitts,
deceased.
The new steam fire engine of Ope-
lousas, has been christened blanche, !"
after the beautiful daughter of F.. F.
Perrodin.
The Parish Police Juries of Lafa-
yette and West Feliciana have each
one hundred dollars to
the Charity Hospital fund.
The annual celebration of the Don.
aldsonville Fire Department, to con-
sist of Grand Parade and Ball, will
take place on Sunday, the 18th inst.
Col. Edmund Richardson has been
chosen President of the
Grand Cotton Exposition, which is to
be held in New Orleans in the Fall of
1884.
We have every reason to believe
that the 10th Annual Celebration of the
Shreveport Fire Department., which
took place yesterday, was a grand
affair.
Crops are we'll advanced in Ouachita
Parish the stands are. good, and the
growth fine and rapid. More corn has
been planted than usual, and the pros
pect for good yield was never better.
Lawlessness, rnffianism and rowdy-
ism seem to be on ike in New Orleans,
end the authorities are either uuwil-
ling or powerless to repress the spirit
of crime and brutality which disgraces
the community.
The Grand Inter State Drill and
State Military Rifle matches, under
the auspices and control of the Louisi
ana National Guard, takes place in
New Orleans on May 18th, 10th, 18th,
18th and 10Th, 1883.
Owing to i'll health Mr.. Oglesby has
resigned the Office of cashier of the
New Orleans Postofice, and Postmas
ter Merchant has appointed Mr.. John
H, H. Taylor, now cashier ofthe Uni
ted States assistant treasurer, in his
place.
The petite Weekly Press, of Baton
Rouge, is terribly put out at the pres
ent manner in which the Post Office of
that City is conducted. That journal
SAYS the doors of the Postoffice are not
open until nearly eight o'clock in the
morning.
The following personal card, signed
by w. S. Calhoun, appeared in Satur-
days issue of the Colfax Chronicle
"F. W. Baker, Attorney at law, No. Is
Carondelet street, New Orleans, La,
is an honest thief, a refined liar and
finished squirt" These are, indeed,
words "with the bark on Them"
The Governor has committed SEN
fences of death in the cases of Regis
Duguy and John Austin, both colored,
to imprisonment for life in the State
Peuitentiary. Both the above were
tried, convicted, and sentenced at the
January term of the Nineteenth Judi.
cial District Corut, Parish of St. Mary.
The Claiborne Guardian says: "An-