St. Landry democrat., 1885-08-22
~oLEANiNes.

riddled with bullets.
Chattanooga. Tenn, continues 20 DoonA"
The tax aggregate of the city SHOWS
total assessment of nearly $,3 oVO, an
increase of $500, coo in twelve monSns'
Notwithstanding 100000 reduc1on M
iron-work assessments.
Infamed by jealousy, Michael j. hacA'ns
a dairyman of Louisville. KY, muroeFeu
his pretty young wife a few days ago "
the presence Of their infant chlla, ny
cutting her throat. and then commtSso~
suicide.
Archie Drummer, living near Gordon =
Ala, who, three years ago commiGUeO
homicide, for which he never was ar
rested, was assass mated on his farm D
few nights ago, by an unknown person
Kelly Bennett, a well-known billlardlsS
died at Atlanta, Ca, a few days ago An
hour before his death a needle which nao
entered his body while an infant thirty
years ago forced its way out of his Shout
der.
A handsome block of BUILDINGS at Frank"
fort, KY, valued at $4,000 burned a few
days ago. Ed McGougle, a brickIayerH
was crushed and killed beneath q falling
wall.
Ia A6GI6SS u1L4SA ANIL"
killed the child of another negress at
Nashville, Tenn, a few nights ago, py
forcing it to swallow concentrated rye
during it's mothers absence at a ball.
Governor Bate of Tennessee has ap-
pointed Hon. Mart S. Cockrill to repre-
sent the cattle interests and Captain JAS.
Franklin to represent the horse interests
of the State, with w. T. Webster and JAS.
| n TL-l.- ~AS-oI-. &c alknPnak1g. tn
the National Cattle and Horse Growers
Convention in st. Louis in November
next.
An Albany (Ga.) woman who took 10
into her head to destroy every photographs
of herself sent nearlyIa thousand mllesfo
the last one.
The stock of the Nashville (Tenn.) Sad
dlery Company was injured by IRE a lew
nights ago to the extent Of $4,000; fully
covered by insurance.
A "lawn'' party at Franklin, KY, a few
evenings since ended in a murder, the vic
tim being a man named Whitesides, who
was shot and killed by Huse Edwards In
a quarrel about a girl.
John Scott, ~bookkeeper for the Shelton
Touring mills at Chattanooga, Tenn, had
his throat cut on the principal business
street of the city a few nights ago. No
trace of his assassin can be found.
Fire DESTROYED the Haywood White Sui
phur Springs Hotel, at Waynesville, N.
c., a few days ago, causing a loss of $780,
600. All the guests, 200 in number, es'
capped with their effects.
A dispute arose a few days since be-
tween Dawson Smith, head sawyer at
Jackson's mill, near Irwinton, Ga, and
Fleming Ring. the negro help. Smith
pulled out his derringer, and shot Ring
dead. He then fed.
In the case of Abram Hensley on trial
recently in Madison County, N. c., ON
a charge of murder, the jury found a YER
dict of murder in the first degree, and
Henslev was sentenced to hang Octo-
Der ID.
Thomas Beauchamp, Of Atlanta, Ga,
has brought suit for $4,000 damages
, against the city for injuries sustained
: from fireworks during the recent visit OF
Hon, Samuel j. Randall to that city.
party of picnickers. overtaken by a
Iiphtning storm near Greensboro, Ca, a
few days ago, took refuge in a ten
amt house. The house was struck by
LIGHTNING, the fluid passing through in
a vertical direction, killing a dog under
IT. Miss Henrietta Kinebrough was struck
. and fatally injured.
John McIIain, one Of the most prominent
citizens in Damascus, Ca, while in one OF
the stores of that place a few days ago,
! and while it was crowded with customers,
= drew his revolver from his pocket and
emptied four chambers into his own body
and fell dead.
- To.-L~oEo- IL wGopa M fnINT Ii
: sold, Bill Walker and Lawrence ManI
! found a secreted jug a few days ago
y Thew uuarreled for its possession, wheI
Walker broke it over Mann's head, giving
him a death wound.
Angel Vale was bitten on the face by
" common spider at Laredo. Tex, a feV
nights ago, and died from the effects tn
next morning. His face was horribl!
r. swollen, and when medical aid was sum
moned it was too late to render him as
n sistance.
The Georgia State Agricultural Society
in session at Marietta, recently, resolves
to appoint three commissioners to atten'
the American exhibit in London in 1884
'e Arrangements are progressing to haV
r. the States resources represented.
le The South Carolina papers are discuss
Id ing the increase of crimes aud violence
Mt that State, and they find an ~expianatlo
I'd of it in the tolerance with which homl
lis eide is treated by public opinion and th
m lack of severity in the Judges on th
ne bench.
xe L. j. Green, living near Pottsboro, Tex
- gave his four-year-old child o dose {
he morphine a few days ago through mis-
IS. take for quinine. A physician was sol