The Louisiana populist., 1896-02-21
LOUISIANA NEWS NOTES.
ThibOdaux has q new hotel.

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parish in a hurry.
! Plaquemine is to have an electric
light and an ice plant.
The Great Touro fair at New Orleans
was an unqualified success.
One burglary after another is re-
ported at New Orleans from residences.
The Democrats will open the state
campaign at Shreveport February 90.
The Democrats have split in Jeffer-
SON parish and the Populists in Tangi-
pahoa.
A meeting was held recently at
Shreveport to formulate charter amend
ments.
L. A. FAINT general merchandise at
Columbia, has been closed by attach
| ment.
The box and lumber mill at Kenner
has shut down for a few days awaiting
the arrival of timber.
Gov. Foster has appointed w. +.
Perkins assessor of Calcasieu parish,
vice c. M. Richard, resigned.
The Southern Pacific company have
been discharging conductors on the run
between Algiers and Lafayette.
Some 200 of Uncle Sans Marines
passed through New Orleans few days
since on the way to San Francisco.
Gov. Foster has appointed Joseph
Charleville justice of the peace for the
Tenth ward of Natchitoches, vice N.
DeLouche, deceased.
Chas. Bouchard was robbed OF a dia-
mond scarfpin valued at $25 recently,
while at funeral in the st. Louis GEM
etery, New Orleans.
Gov. Foster has appointed DR.. F. H.
Carruth coroner of West Baton Rouge,
. vice DR.. w. G. Smith, resigned, and
Edgar Bass, councilman of Morgan City,
vice Jacques Lehman, resigned.
Mr.. George Nicholson. one of the
proprietors OF the New Orleans Plea
yune is dead. George Nicholson was
man that of whom it might be said,
Tho was man. Take him for all in
all we shall ne'er see his like again. :"
c. G. Wright, a negro wanted in
Mississippi for the murder OF his wife
last fall, in Wilkinson county, was ar
rested at Baton Rogue late the other
afternoon by William Davis, also COL
ored, and lodged in Jail for safe-keep-
ing. Wright admits that he is guilty
of the crime.
The following is the ticket as named
by the Populist state committee and
endorsed by the sugar planters: Hon.
John N. Pharr for governor; Hon.
John b. Kleinpeter, lieutenant COVER
nor; Hon. j. w. Mcfarland, secretary
OF state; Hon. John Pickett, treasurer;
Hon. Lucien +. Suthon, for attorney
general; Hon. H. P. Kernochan audi
tor; DIR. G. A. M. Cook, superintendent
of education.
Some days since negro woman,
who had been on a visit to New Or
leans with child, returned to her
home above Plaquemine, and o few
days thereafter the child took sick and
DR.. P. S. Postell was called in to pre-
scribe and pronounced the case small
pOx. A special meeting OF the police
jury was called and a resolution passed
authorizing Mr.. William b. Robertson,
the police juror in whose ward the
smallpox broke out. to take all steps
necessary to prevent the spread OF the
disease and the case was isolated.
The suspicious case of small pox
discovered few days ago near Wag-
gaman, a village across the river,
some miles from Kenner, fully devel-
oped under care at the pesthouse in
New Orleans, to which place it had
been sent. Some comment is being
made respecting the danger of trans
porting contagious and infectious dis
eases by public conveyance-as had
been done in this case-and the local
authorities claim that suspected case
should be promptly isolated and quar-
antined on the spot. Moreover, it is
reported that this and some other
cases recently reported originated in
A~SW VI AOesA4S, WAAOtO eAAC RotACub CluflCh
ignorantly exposed himself or eluded
detection, and, while visiting in the
country, implanted the disease.
At Thibodaux recently Mr.. Laurence
Cheromi, resident of lower bayou
Lofourche. who is serving q sentence,
by decree of the district court at the
last session, Of months in the parish
Jail, in q supposed fit OF insanity climb
ed into the tower OF the Jail, to which
there was but one small opening from
below, and fortifying his position by
some bricks which he had pulled out
of the wall, maintained his posi-
tion for two or three days. Sheriff |
Beary, in an effort to reach him, re-
ceived brick upon the chin, that
added nothing to the beauty of his
face, without disturbing his good tenn
per in the least. A shower bath proved
Intellectual to dislodge the prisoner. as
by means Of q board he protected him.