St. Landry democrat., 1886-06-12
State News.


from Farmersville, was destroyed by
fire on Goth ult. A piano, two bed
steads and some bedding was all that
was saved. Loss is estimated at $4,000
to $4,000.
Tallulah, Madison parish is to have
a new court house that will not cost the
parish a cent The railroad company
will furnish the funds.
At Baton Rouge, on the 2Sth ult., a
darby by the name of johnson attempt
ed to assassinate Mr.. VIM. Thielman,
while he was sitting in his store by
shooting him with a shot gun. John
son, while engaged in fight the day be
fore with Il negro boy at Mr.. Theil-
mans store, attempted to stab the boy
when Mr.. Theilman interfered. He
had been discharged by Mr.. Thielman
about Il week previously, and these are
supposed to have been the causes of
the attempt.
About two weeks since part of the
body of a man WAS found in Old River,
Natclitoches parish by railroad hand
and boy who We're out fishing. Sub
segment developments have led to the
arrest and imprisonment of man
named Palmer.
Patriot-DemOcrat: Jake Jackson,
colored. convicted last February in the
District Court, and sentenced to three
months labor on the public roads, and
assigned by the Police Jury to the work
of throwing up and leveling the side
walk around the Court House square,
has nearly reached the end of his term
of public bondage. Under the super
vision of Capt. j. A. Norwood, Jake
has done his parish some valuable ser-
vice, and is living exempIifcation. of
how much better, for all concerned, it
is for the parish to derive some benefit
from the labor of the laWbreaker, than
for him to be either shut up in idle i'm
prisoument in the Jail or to be turned
over TO the tender mercies of Major s.
l.. James guards.
The Morgan Railroad charges 6Oc IA
barrel on one or one hundred barrels of
flour from New Orleans to Lafayette,
La, a distance of IA miles, and only
4Oc. from New Orleans to Washington,
La, a town thirty miles farther from
the Crescent City on the same road.
rally sells over thousand barrels Of
-four annually, and several sell each
from hundred to five hundred barrels
This trade, which ought to go to New
Orleans. is diverted. The railroad has
gone so far, says the Lafayette Adver-
tiser, as to contract with a steamboat
runuing from Morgan City into the
Eermillion River, not to come within
eight miles of Lafayette
The dry, hot weather of the past
week has done incalculable injury to
crops throughout this section. The oat
crop has no doubt been the greatest
sufferer. The corn crop has been con-
siderably cut off and the probability
how is that hardly sutficiency will be
made to supply the necessity of the
people, il in fact, so much is made
Ruston Caligraph.
A case of Charlton has developed on
mule belonging to farmer in Iberia
parish.
Peter Choice, an old negro, was ar
rested and jailed in Bossier parish on
the I'd inst, by deputy Sheriff r. E.
Wyche, for the murder of Marshall
Fields, also colored, in Harrison coun-
ty, Texas, six years ago.
1t may not be generally known that
Mr.. Oliver Bierne, some months ago,
sold to his daughter, Mrs. Mamie Won
Ahlefeldt, all of his property in this
State, for the sum of 1,00O,0O0.-As-
cension Democrat.
On the Foster Naples place seven
miles from Shreveport, on the eth,
ult., a coiored woman, Lou Moutgome-
Nv killed her husband, Horace Mont
gomery. She cut off his head with an
AK while he was asleep.
The Louisiana State press association
meets at Monroe Monday, August 2d.
The Farmcrville Gazette is respon-
sible for the statement that a negro in
that place dug up $4,000 which during
the war farmer had buried in his