New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1885-08-19
VOLUME I--NUMBER so.

was presented Cy MS blooming WIG
with living responsibilities, in the
shape of three larged size babies,
two girls and boy. Mr. Boudreaux
is certainly the happiest man we
have seen in a long time. We met
him at the store of Mr.. st. Martin
with his team laying in lot of pro-
visions, he seemed determined to
supply the nursery with the ''sin.
ews of war.r-7eyrebonne Times.
DR.. 4. G. Ford, a physician of
prominence in Shreveport, has been
at Crew LAKE and investigated the
Riley murder affair. He believes
that no great cruelty was used,
that Riley died month after his
fagellation Of dyseDtery, which dis.
ease in conjunction with pneumonia
has been quite prevalent in the
camp, three of the guards and ten
of the convicts having succumbed
10 it. He reported provisions
abundant and of good quality.
The employment of convict labor
on plantations is wrong and ought
to be forbidden. Such convicts as
have been sent to the penitentiary
for venial 0ffenses with short terms
to serve might be under stress
and in certain emergencies en-
ployed on the levees to avert over.
flows, but in no Case ought crimi.
nails having long terms to serve for
great crimes to be suffered outside
of it's walls, and none ought to be
placed in competition with honest
laborers on plantations, We notice
thatthe 3bsrvilie South takes about
the same view of the matter.
On the evening of the 11th inst,
during the thunder storm, the Cath.
Olic church at POinte COupee, which
is situated about one mile above
Bayou Sara, was struck by !ightr
ming. At the time, number of
colored people were present, attend
ing the funeral of little boy that
had died in the neighborhood. Some
of them were considerably stunned
by the shock, and one of them bit
his tongue nearly in two. The
body, which was on trsssels on the
gallery, was knocked several feet in
the yard. The steeple was badly
broken. This is the oldest church
in the State.-Er.
In response to call of the Pointe
Coupee Banner, number of lead.
ing citizens of that parish met at
the court house on the Sth, and
after duly organizing passed resolu.
tons to the effect that it was the
sense of the meeting that a levee
convention to lie called the Nor.
ganza Levee Convention should be
called to meet at Baton Rouge on
August Oath, 1885. Said conven.
tion to be composed of delegates
from all the parishes lying west Of
the Mississippi River, north and
west of Bayou Lafourche and east
of the Atchafalaya, the object of the
convention being to devise ways aud
means for the speedy building and
fascining OF Morganza levee. All
parishes and parts of parishes ard
Morgan's Central Railroads and the
Texas Pacific are requested to send
delegates to said convention, and
also that Gov. McEnery be invited
to be present. 1t was also resolved
that the Board of State Engineers
be requested to make survey and
measurement of Morganza creyasse,
with estimates of the amount of
earth work required to he built, the
quantity of lumber necessary for
fasceniDgs, and that copies of the
resolutions be sent to the Police Ju.,
ries Of all parishes designated in
the resolutions, ard further that the
papers in New Orleans and those of
the country Interested in having the
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