St. Landry democrat., 1888-08-25
LOUISIANA NEWS.

Two hundred dollars has been ap-
nropriated 10y the Police Jury of ST.
| James parish to aid in the State FAN
to open at Baton Rouge on the 1st OF
| October.
An agricultural club has lately been
organized in Lincoln parish.
| The RHston canning factory has sus-
! pended operations for he season, hav-
| ing pnt up tI'lrtythree thousand cans.
| In franklin parish few days since,
| George 1nuIig, colOred. WAS shot and
| killed hy unknown men. InceLiaryislu
| the cauSe.
! AT Columbia. on Wednesday of last
week George w. Barton was shot and
| seriously wounded by deputy sheriff
Welch.
Pref. Thos. D. Boyd has been made
President of the State Normal School
of Louisiana at Natchitocles.
On Tuesday of last week, Gracien
Boutte. colored. of New Iberia. return
ing from hunt, accidrntly shot him
self t,y pulling his gun from IA wagnn
and died from his wounds two hours
later.
Morehouse parish has appropriated
eight thousand dollars to its central
public school.
A telephone line is heing established
between Monrue and Columbia.
The construction nf the New Orleans.
Natchez anu Fort Scntt railroad will be-
gin about the 1st Of Oct.
Nacliitoches Democratic Review
Siblty Lake ia filled with dead fish. on
wi,ich ti.s huzzartls are feeding. Thp,s
have been ki,ts..! by the drought, which
has dried mp the watea' VI the lake, thus
rendering their escape impossib,e.
The value Of property assessed in As
esnsion parish is S2.023, $50.
On account OF low water the LII
fourche liz .tst ifavigabie.
On the 15,h inst. the State Board of
Education was in session nc Baton
Rouge and on ths. 16I appointed school
bsards for the different parisiles.
The assessment of property in St.
Mary parish the present year foots up
50, ,S67, 400.
Near Shreveport on the 18th inst,
Phillip Lee and Pleas Thornton got in
to a dispute ia which the latter war
sta 'bed to death by the former. The
parties were colored.
General Manager Ike Fitel, Of the |
Southern Artesan Well Company of
New Orleans has been to Alexandria |
with a view to making arrangements |
to bore a well at that place
Since above was pGt ~ type the con-
tract has been signed. Ee trarBs TO de- |
liver the well complete for $4,000.
A new weekly paper, eth, CAPITAL |
Item" is spoken of at Baton Rouge.
Brad Gibson. one of the negroes who |
broke jail at Talulah some time since. |
wap c2ptpred at Eagle Bend "a few days
ago.
Allen Eaton, the murderer af J. A. |
Ia Franklin parish, was lately /
.ftested on the lue of Ouachita aud
Caldwell parishes.
A. Waterloo, Pointe Coupee parish,
, few aaye eiuce, Sidney Brunei, col
,red, Committed suicide by shooting
himself through the lseaTt.
In New Orleans last Sunday evening
1t $50 o'clock p. m. Sam Gibson, COL
,red, was shot and killed by his broth
.r Alexander Gibson, who claims that
be shooting WAS accidental.
A Merchants and Planters Bank in
he city OF Baton Rouge is called for by
citizens of East Baton Rouge parish.
The CeffinweIl electric light plant val
led'at SIG 600, and the Caldwell. Carriage
yorks were destroyed by fire On the
gth inst.
Near Big Cypress Bayou, Bossier par
sil, 0n the night pf the 14th inst, a ne
,ro was Iinchrd for Lyrak,ng into a
tore and stealing u lot of InoIey.
Mr.. Jos w. Carew, formerly editor of
he st. Charles Herald, has bougght the
'eannerette Pilot from DR.. Gowen and
dr. Euasey.
At Tangipaiisa On the 14th inst, a
hirteen- -year-old boy sf AF }phltei,ead
attempted to commit suicide W hang
lis mother scolded him.
The tiig Lest velocity of the wind last
sunday night in seW Orleans is quoted
t sixty miles I'LL hour.
The damage to crops from the late
viGG and rains il said fn be more ap-
aren't on the lower Mississippi from
'ointe Coupee down. The rice and
ane crops have. more or less. been all
nder water, and are badly broken
own. Morgan City suffered most in
oint of buildings destre yed, the moss
actpry. Presbyterian church, Morgan !
.ine iron sheds. two large pile drivers, {
ash and blind factory, Morgan City
lcademy, and number of small resi-
ences are g total loss.
On the 20th inst, at No. Isl Dryades
Ileet. New Orleans, an Italian named
Iypolite Denier committed suicide by !
aooting himself through the heart. {
disappointment in love matters the