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THE NEW ORLEANS DAILY DEMOCRAT.
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF 'HE STATE OF LOTMISIAA AND OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANB.
VOL. II---NO. 253. NEW, ORLEANS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1877. PRICE, FIVE CENTS.
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POLICE VI(GILANCE.
ANOTHER PERNON C;aARGED WITH
MURDER VIMITS NEW ORLEANS.
Which Makes Three In the hort Perioted of
Sxaty Days, and Not a single
One Arrested.
The er*4s of justice have often been defeated,
too often for the good of a community ambitions
of being olassed among the law abiding. This
condition of affairs owes its origin to many causes.
Prior to the war when the administration of Jo
aicali affairs was controlled by men whose only
ambition was a record of merit, our city may well
have felt proud of its reputation. Subsequent to
that event, however, which turned the scale in
favor of negro enfranchisement and carpet-bag
supremacy, our community became morally a
bhese. With a victorious enemy same mfen
SAD, VICOWS 3e5
;da llm b& a s gtean, am I -aniEIi Sir
Inpulse was to govern, not in accordance with
law and Justice but through a method which
Luolfer inaugurated In heaven and which ended
for him on the other side of Paradioe.
Even almost to the present day has this con
dition of affairs hbld lull sway. Our pubio cof
fore have been plundered, our widows and or
plans have been despoiled. Murder and rapine
have held their own, and stern justice, in the
face of an Imploring community, has sat with a
placid conntenance and a pliant hand, the friend
of thieves and murderers.
The political complexion of every community
must meet aohange. We have abided our time
and it has come. We had anticipated that the
radical difference of opinion between our former
oppressors and those to the manor born, which
has ended in restoring the governing power to
our own people who have struggled for noble
princlples-we had hoped that it would bring
forward into office men willing and anxious to
exert their best endeavors in behalf of the peo
ple whoe whose servtnts they are. In many respects
we have hot been disappointed. But have '"
been as fortunate as regards the efficieney of d4
police ?
The poliee records of New Orleans are perhaps
one of its most interesting features, painfully so
for those who have suffered, and while we must
depreeste the sad necessity which compels us to
recall what is past, yet in the
xINTasZeZT 01or acsus,
whose servant as a public journal we are, it
would not be consistent in us to decline our share
of the work we have planned for others.
Probably during the past eight years no city m
the Union can recall so many eases of murder
which have gone unpunished. Men have been
shot, stabbed and done away with for no graver
reason than an angry word, and the perpetrators
of these crimes have escaped with impunity, re
turning after a lapse of time, ocooupying them.
selves In the daily vocations of life, unmolested.
A oase in point was the sbo)ting in 1876
OF Ozen IROERTS,
whioh occurred during the political campalan.
Notwithstanding the facts elicited at the coro
ner's inquest, no earnest effort was made to ar
reast the perpetrator of the deed. The pollee a-.
thorlties in thoes days, and their meroenares,
ease only adjunct of a huge political maohie,
and only professed to be the guardians of i s.
tice.
The facts connected with the murder, which
occurred on the night of the 27th of June, 1876,
at the wigwam of the Ninth Ward Central OCmb,
on Dauphine street, between Desire and Elmira,
are as follows:
The meeting was a special one, called by Mr.
Ferdinand Dudenhefer, president, who took the
chair. Some one in the room opposed to Duden
hefer asked that he step down, as articles of im
peachment were pendinog against him. This
motion was voted down on the ground that no
articles had been presented. The charges were
then presented and read, when a motion was
made and carried to appoint a committee of
seven to investigate the charges. The appoint
ment of aoommnittee did not suit the opposing
facticn, who desired to hear the charges then and
there, with a view of impeachment.
The meeting adjourned amidst the greatest
excitement. Roberts, the deceased, who was a
quiet, industrious man, was standing on the
platform near Dudenhefer when a party ap
proached the platform, and addressing himself
to Roberts, said, "I can prove you voted the Be.
publican ticket at the last election for $10."
Roberts replied that whoever said he had !led.
The words had barely escaped his lips when a
man with a black mnustache, who afterward
proved to be
.EAN ROI0DORIE,
pul'ed a revolver from his pantaloons pocket, and
fired, the bullet taking effect in Roberts' right
temple. Roberts fell as soon as he was shot, and
was carried to his residence, on Craps street,
where is lingered until the next day, and died.
At the time of the shooting no one present
seemed to know, or rather, cared to give the came
of the assassin. But at the coroner's investiga
tion, Mr. Dudenhefer gave the name, a.d teeti
fled that it was Boisdore, and that he had seen
him fire the fatal shot. Numerous witnesses who
were present and saw the shooting did not know
-Boisdore by name, but described him, and said
that they would be aile to identify the man. The
anlloors who were present at the investigation
immediatelv started out to arrest Boisdore, but
he was not to be found.
It was learned that he had left town on the day
after the killing, since which time he has man
aged to evade arrest. Some months ago, evi
dently thinking that the matter had been forgot
ten, he returned to N~w Orleans, and but a few
days ago was seen in a grocery store on Louisa
street, in the Third Distriot. by several persons,
one of whom mentioned the fact to a brother of
the man whom Bolisdore had killed.
Sinoe the era of the
PUrRCIAgED PARDONS OF NELIOOCiD
we have organized a police of our own, but
uingularly enough (as in two other similar cases
reported in the DEMOCRAT within the past sixty
d vs,) the new guardians of the peace of this
community are still ignorant of the presence of
B3oiedore in New Orleans.
This condition of affaire is certainly not encour.
eging for the future, and at any rats, it is not
destined to east any lustre upon the boasted in
telligenoe and shrewdness of the supLrior ofBoers
of the force and its detectives.
G`9 THE BOOTH FAILtY.
,'ollectlons of a Family of Great Actors
-d of Some of Their Contemporaries.
i BDY K-.
u; w a tow days ago in one of the city papers
0'ticle on the Booth family. It has suggested
eI to write down my recollections of that ex
,dinary family. I will do it briefly.
oinsu Junius Booth was born in the city of
tdon, of German parentage. He was by
a Hebrew, but did not live up to his reli
. In early life Booth joined a theatrical com
}9 anl went over to Holland and Germany,
hing with indifferent success. He re
,'ied to England and traveled in the
livinces for many years, but finally set
d In London, andbocame very popular. When
:dmund Kean made his great hit at the Drary
dane, he knocked the old stage coach style of
oting into small pieces. It cansed John Philip
.emble, Young and other lesse or lights to hide
heir diminished heads under a bushel. Kean,
ºy his magnetic style, struck the public, and he
' awoke one morning and found himself famous."
Whom Such men as Byron, uazlett, Brougham,
Moo'e, Sheridan. McCauley, Jeffreys and Sidney
umitll courted him in their soelety he must have
been reat.
Booth had the same style, the same figure, the
same sutural manner. They were both magnetic
In their acting, they were rivals, and were
PITTED AOAINeT ZAGH ertlEB
by the managers. They were onoe unfortunatel'
put in the same oast-one played O1ieltl, and the
other Iago. Kean happened to be sober, while
Booth was drunk. Kean won the day or rather
the night. Just about that time Price, the
American manager of the Drury Lane and
Park Theatre of New York, offered Booth
an engagement in America, which was
accepted, and Booth came over, leaving
his first wife and bringing with him
a girl who sold lowers in Covent Garden. By
her he had live children: L. Juninus Booth, a
daughter Edwin Booth, John Wilkes Booth, and
Joseph booth, who used to be treasurer of
Booth's Theatre. The atoqr married a come
dian named John Sleeper, who goes by the name
of . one ort by
Ed. bth, t he i ot prove much of a sue
oees and returned to England, and now manages
a theatre in London. As to Dr. Booth, of Charles
ton, I never heard from him. I lived in Baltimore
for nearly ten years, just around the coroer from
the old man's, and used to sit and talk, and par
ticulirly listen to him. He was a true Democrat,
a free thinker upon religions matters. I remem
ber that he usneed to say, "I was bart in England,
but I am for all that an American.
JisBU OHRIST WAS noRN
in sstable; that is not saying that he was a
horse." The old man Booth was a scholar. He
read Greek, Latin and Hebrew, and was per
fectly conversant with the Koran, the Talmud
and the Bible.
You will remember how he appeared at the
Orleans Theatre, on Orleans street, then under
the management of Davis. He played in French
some of the plays of aollere anD Bacine, and his
success with the native and French population
was immense.
Booth's broken nose was due to a mad wag, a
fellow actor Amed Tom Flynn, while they were
in Charleston, 8. O. It happened during a drunk
en spree, when a quarrel arose and Flynn struck
Booth with a hand iron on the nose. Both were
oraly drunk. Booth, although he carried the
mark to his grave, never bore Flynn any malice,
for, as he told me, Flynn was one of the best of
good fellows.
Booth was a fine domedian as well as a trage
dian, and frequently
PLAYED THE COUNTRY CIOWN,
in the farce of "The BRview"--Jnhu Lump, and
sang the popular song of the day, The I'oacheer.
He also played Terry Sneak, a oen-pecked hus
band, In the farce of the "Mayor of Garrett."
It was very funny. He made him a cross-eyed
fellow who allowed his wife to beat him with her
parasol. He was a kind hearted man, agood pro
vider for his family, and lived upon his farm near
Baltimore, and would sell his potatoes and tuor
nips in the market or from his cart during the
day, and then play "Richard" at night. One
night I remember seeing him come on the stage
in the first act to speak the lines "Now
is the winter of our discontent," with a lighted
oigar in his mouth. You may picture to yourself
the effect. I first saw Booth play at the Waisut
Street Theatre in 1829. He appeared as Pierre
to T. n. Hamblin's af~ler in Otway's great play
of "Ventice Preserved." Old Jefferson the
grandfather of Joe, was in the cast as Renlt. It.
was a great nerformance throughout. Shake
speare was of course, Booth's favorite author. I
have seen him frequently as Richard Ill, lago,
John Lump, Jerry Sneaks, ir Odies Overreacht
Romeo, The Stranger, Shyiloak, Maobeth ran
pierre, and in tzitier have I over seen him
equaled. He was a very sareles dresser, not at
all graceful in his gestures, and generally very
slovenly in appearance, but when you looked Into
his intellectual face, you forgot all the rest. Hi.
acting was
ENTIRELY WITHOUT TRICK.
He was an actor, and required the aid of no
caloium lights or new scenery or dresses to make
his acting tell. As to his being always drunk, it
is untrue. I have seen him plays sober engage
ment for three weeks. He was only a periodical
drinker. The last time I met him, it was in
Charleston, 8. ., In the winter of 1852. Edwin
(we called him Ted then) was withhim, taking
care of the old man. We met at the Pavilion
Hotel. An Indian woman happened to come to
the door carrying on her back a Joad of
light pine wood for sale. I remarked, "Lo, the
poor Indian," Booth took up the lines and read
them as I had never heard them read before, and
I am certain I have never heard since.
Booth made a very good, or very bad, attempt
at murder once. It is a true story. When a
young man he was playing at Brighton, England.
A slack r pe performer was performing at an op
position theatre. The acrobat had the best of
the public, which di-gusted Booth so much that
he went over to the theatre where Signor An
tonio Diavolo (that was the rope dancer's name,)
was performing. Of course he got drunk before
going there. He hissed the performer and was
turned out of the theatre. Afterwards meeting
Diavolo on the street he called him a mountebank,
etc.; they had a fight and Booth got badly licked.
Subsequently they met again and made it up and
had slipper together. After parting An
tonio was shot while on his way home, but
survived his wound. Booth left England, and
they did not meet again until many years after
to P;dladelphia. Antonio died subsequently in
St. Louis. Philip and alphonse, his sons, keep a
saloon under the Olive street Hotel in cSt. Louites.
They told me toe story and still have in their
possession the bullet with which
THEIR FATHiER WAS SHOT.
Elwin Booth traveled with his father all over the
country playing small parts with him. In Cali
fornia, a prompter, (Ben Baker) took Edwin in
charge, and traveled all over the mining towns
and then in San Francisco,where he made a great
deal of tame and money.
Old Booth left for the East, played his last part
in New Orleans, and started for home on the
Chenoweth, and died on board near Louisville,
Ky. His remains were taken to Baltimore.
"Ted" went to the Semdwich Islands and came
back to the States, acquiring more fame and more
money, still under the management of Ben
Baker. Wm. Burton was the firsPt to bring E Iwin
Booth before the New York publio. He proved a
success. Fortune emiled upon him and he put
$230,000 in his theatre on Fourteenth
street. Here he failed to make
money and became a bankrupt. Ted,
however, can oonsole himself with the knowl
edge that Oharles W. Maoready, Charles Kean
and Charles Kemble made the same mietake
trying to educate the public up to a proper
APPREGIATION OF THE LEGITIMATE;
Jarrett, Palmer and Whestleymade$120,000 with
the moral and classical drama of the "Black
Crook." Wheatloy retired from management
with $400,000 in his pookets after beggaring
himself for four years with "Hamlet," "Rich
elieu," and the like.
Eiwin Booth married an actress by the name
ot Mary Devilo, who died young. She left an
only child, Edwina, who still lives; his second
wife was Miss Mary MoVicker, an adopted child
of James E. McVicker, the Chicago manager.
Ted is at present a teetotaler, but formerly was a
solid drinker, and in company with Billy Barry
and Dave Anderson, saw the inside of the San
Francisco watoh-honses not a few times.
JOHN WILKE9 IOOTH
JUUZ "1LiiEs ROOTH
was the handsomest man I ever saw. He was
Apollo and Hercules combined; quite unaffected
in appearanoe or manner, and possessing an eye
capable of more expression than any man I ever
conversed with; liberal to a fault and beloved by
his fellow actors. I never shall forget the last
words he said to me. We had been drinking after
the performance of "Richard III;" it was at the
Planter's in St. Louis. Ben DeBar, Corri and oth
ers were in the party. We got him to his bed
room at last, but he said, "Let us go down stairs
and get another drink." No, no, John; said I, go
to bed; you have had enough. "Don't call me
John," said he, "call me Jack." "Good
night," said I, for the last time, for
in a few weeks I learned by the wires that John
Wilkes Booth had committed a blunder, more
than a crime-killed Lincoln.
Lucius Junins Booth, commonly called June,
married Ben DeBar's sister, by whom he had a
lovely and aooomplished daughter-Blanohe.
He aeserted the mother and child. Poor Ben
took her n obharge, and supported and ed.uoted
her. June went to OCalifornia, made a fortune by
acting and gambling. Edwin is in the full poe
*masion of his talents, and made $50,000 last
meson with John T. Ford, of Baltimore. Should
the pable get tired of hit acting Homlel, Riche
lieu and other legitimate parte he can console
himself with the fact that be can pla in a
lnstrel band, as he i a very fine banjo per
former, as he often appeared before a dicern
ing public in that role with John 8. Clark, at a
twelve and one-half cent show in Baltimore.
WAM IT AN ACCIDENT OR A MuIDER 7
Vour Men EO Out FJshlng and One of the
Party Myeteriouily Dliappears.
At 8 o'clock Saturday night a party oonasiting
of Mack MoLaughlin, Anthony Edwards, Wm.
Wright and John Lang, took a skiff at Mllneburg
and rowed out in the lake for the purpsee offih -
lot. "Mare out E-L.Lughlio uddeblf easp
peered. When the three men who were left in
the boat returned to shore they reported to the
police that while they were asleep MeLaughlin
disappeared, and they supposed he rolled out ef
the skiff and was drowned.
OCapt. O'Neil took each one of the men into his
private otffe and interviewed them separately.
Wright stated that when he woke lip Lang and
Edwards were pulling ihe skiff ashore.
Edwards stated that when ho woke up Wright
and Lang were asleep and McLaughlin had dis
appeared out of the boat.
LIng was so inebriated that he could not make
any statement at all.
As the statembnts of these men were so con
flioting, Oapt. O'Neil looked them all up, and will
to-day make affidavit charging them on suspicion
with having foully dealt with McLaughlin.
WHO DID IT?
NeoOne seemr to Know, But Neverthelese
scrtt Wilson Was ~shot Twire.
At 10 o'clock last night, while Patrolman
Clements, of the Second Precinct, was conveying
a negro named Scott Wilson to the station-house,
the negro was shot twice, once in the left side of
his face, near the neck, and once in the back or
the nook.
Dfltoer Olemehts states that he made Wilson a
prisoner at the corner of Clio and Franklin
streets; that the prisoner walked quietly along
with him until he reached the corner of Terpas
chore and Caroundelet streets, when he resisted
and succeeded in wrenching from him (the officer)
his club, and dealt him a blow over the head
which brought
HIM TO EARTH.
The prisoner then made off.
The officer, as he states, recovered from the
blow and started in chase of his man, at the
same time calling assistance with his whistle,
which was responded to by several policemen
and citizens. When on Terpsichore between
Baronue and Dryades streets, the fugitive negro
took refuge in an alley way, and was seen to have
a pestel in his hand.
He was followed into the alley by the police
and citizens, and diaing the excitement a pistol
shot was fired by some one in the crowd, which
struck the negro in the left side of the face.
The above is Officer Oilements' statement, but
the prisoner, when taken to the Charity Hospi
tal, was found to have been shot, and the pecu
liar manner the ball ranged showed that he was
first shot by a party standing i Rdnt of him,
and subsequently by some one sanding at his
bick. Both wounds are
OF THE SAME SIZE,
and show that it must have been done with the
same weapon.
Officer Olements only accounts for one shot be
ing tired. The negro when he ran into the aley,
it is said, was seen to have a pistol in his hand.
There is no charge at the station of carrying a
concealed weapon against the prisoner, nor no
one seemed to know what became of the pistol
that Wilson was seen to have in his hand when
he retreated into the alley.
The prisoner, when at the hospital, made a
statement to a DEMOCRAT reporter, in which he
stated that a polloo officer shot him, and gave
a perfect description of a man which answers
to that of Officer Cloments.
The wtound. d mitn although shot twice was se
verely though not dangerously wounderd.
'FIRO MOOR.
. Extra Practice at the lhort Range.
The long range practice at the Crescent City
Rifle Park was participated in by several ama
teurs yesterday, but no accurate scores were
kept.
Badges for the best military practice were con
tested for by the Continental Guards, Washing
ton Artillery, Louisiana Field Artillery, Vaudry
Rifles and Mitcbell iifles.
TWO HUNDRED YARDS~-OFF IHAVD.
First Prize-Capt. Wm. Pierce, Continental
Guards, 38.
Second Prize-Lieut. P. W. Mulqneeny,
Mitchel Rifles, 34.
Third Prize-E. F. Perilloux, Continental
Guards, 33.
The next best scores were made by Lieut. C.
A. Thiel, Continental Guards, 80; J. M. Bourg,
Company B, Washington Artillery, 29; T. C.
McQuithy, Continental Guards, 29; Jules Piffant,
Battery U, Louisiana Field Artillery, scored 34,
but lost the second prize by being challenged on
his third shot.
Lient. P. W. Mulquneny, at 500 yards, open
eight, lying down, made 5 5 3 8 4 5 5 4 3 5-42.
Fire.
At about 1 o'clock yesterday a fire, the work of
an incendiary, originated in the frame cottage
house, No. 262 Bieuville street.
The property, which was owned and occupied
by Mrs. Ca.nibs, was damaged to the extent of
$250.
The property is insured for $1400 in the Mutual
Insurance Company., the furniture in the same
company for $400.
Short Items.
At a quarter to 10 o'clock Saturday night
Oficoer Meyers shot a rabid dog on Jena street,
between Constance and Laurel, the animal
having bitten a laboring man who was working
on the street.
At twenty minutes past 4 o'clock Sunday morn
ing Celestin Hardin, while under the influence of
liquor, attempted to stop a runaway horde and
%as knocked down. The wheels of the wagon
passed over his head, body and legs, breaking his
right leg. He was taken home by his friends.
George Donaldson was immured in the Third
Station, charged with having property in his pos
session supposed to have been stolen.
Bertha Gorth and Bertha German were lodged
in the Third Precinct charged wi'.h being fugi
tives from the House of the Good Shepherd.
Having property in his possession supposed to
have been s o'en is the obarre that holds John
Benjamin in the Third Precinct Station.
Mr. Johnson alleges that he was robbed of $22
by one Fannie Hecks, at the house No. 43 Nortn
Basin street. The police made a search for
Fannie but found that she had flown.
James F. Fitzgerald was lodged in the Central
Station charged with climbing up the gallery of
the store No. 2 Tchoutitoulas street, and also
with carrying a concealed weapon, to-wit: a
revolver.
Staub still furnishes all with the latest war
notis, in pen and pencil. He has allthe North
ern and Western papers, all the penny papers
and aJll thu pictorials. English and American.
Harper's Weekly, McGee's Weekly. Puck, Frank
Leslie. Saturday Night. Police Gazette and, in
fact. everything to makeo dull times lively and
hot weather cool.
SWELLS AND ANDERSON.
HOW TIE F IIIIlE'I ED THE QUIETF
PEOPLE O@ MANSFlIELD, O.
"Whwre Cars We Gel a Drink 7"
[Toledo (Ohil) eanday Jonrnsl.J
MANs.FHEa , O., Aug. 83---Nothlng ibis
year excert the Murphy movrement, his
creantl so much erxitermtent and started )o
mnch spocutlionr as the rooet visit of Wells
and Anderscam of tie Louisiana RtIturnirrg
Board, acconipanied by their bondrmaani; the
rebel Geon. (mantt. They came very unex
pectorily. Let me hIro remark, ihv'wever,
tiht previous 3o their arrival they bad an on
ga ennnt to mert ifHn. John H'lMrman at
C(if go. Hubr.quently this engagement was
changed to Put-in-Bay and aftwr that there
was no engagnmoernt. Why Hecretary Mnher
man failed to meet theme parties I am unable
tieay, but I kQnw 8aeretary S8herman did
ýt . a"n. -..a.n running out to Mansfield,
urftr the departure of the Illustrious trio
Meeretary She.rman took to Washingtonn. I
also know that previous to the arrival of
these distinguished New Orlnano visitor)s,
So~retary Sheorman did rot, anticipate going
to Washington until, after the lstoo Septern
her.
The party arrivedl here one week ago and
droeve up to to t Wilor House. Rush Field met
them, at the door with an elaborate smaile and
withl a very grave air weloo.nmet, theta to his
commrrodious hotel. lie took them to Ih cler
gynrun, as there was a Lutheran Convention
then in session here. The tallest of the three
went ap to the register anid put diown his name
it. (tant and two frields, New Orleans. Then
one of the party saild to. 'ield, "Where man we
got something to drink?" Rush, nAtwith
standring the Murphy movement, pointedi
thrnm out a wet place and they dieparted.
Returning, the party called for a hack. Wells
whispered in the hack drlivr's .ar, "Ih) you
know where John Shormanan livew?"
"I do," said Jehu.
"Then drive us there," saui Wells.
The party returned to dinner in about one
hour, andl Rafter dinner the same hack driver
returned, and they again interviewed John
Sherman for two and a half hours. Then
they asked for the first trrin for Washington,
whlch was 9 o'c:lok pp rm. They called for
one room and retired. At about 5 p. mi. the
party came down stairs. At which time it
Isrname noised around town that Wells anl
Anderson were there, and at least 1000 ex
cited citizens had! gathered around the Wllor
House. The party then settled their bill
took a back and drove to the Baltirmro and
Ohio depot. The next dlay at noon, John
Sherman started for Washington.
Tire trial of Wells and Andirsuon comnies off
(Oct. er 1, and I have the authority to state
that Kellogg has two letters from Sherman
saying if Louisiana was counted for Hayes,
tihe new Admilnistration would both take care
of and protect the Returning Board. Of
course, I have no positive knowledge of tihe
business of Wells and Anderson, but there htas
twin srein fearful guessing here for tile past
Weekt. (hE BU hIc.
IOUTHERN NEWS.
LouliLana.
The new wharf at Donaldsonville is now
completely finished.
The new jail of Terrebonne has been finish
ed, and turned over to the polloe jury by the
contractor.
Donaldsonville is throatened with stiltj.
ot.er paper 77Tu (itOrred- M n i Bara
will ,e weekly and religious-Methodist.
Crookedness in the accounts of Hon. Oscar
Holt, treasurer of the late Board of School
Directors in West Baton IRuge, Is charge(l.
About fifty acres of the finest cane on the
plantation of Messrs. (. & M. Feitel, in As
cension, was blown flat on the ground by the
wind one dlay last week.
The plan to build a branch railroad from
Morgan's railroad, to Thibodlaux seems to
have fallen through. The town council has
declined to grant the bonus asked for by the
road.
Tihe lnnlth still continues in Assumption.
Vegetables are blighted, and a short sugar
crop is threatened unless there is pleinty of
rain. On Thursday the first rain for ten
weeks came.
G(eo. Rlien, constable, attemptl to arrest a
colored man namlned Virgin Whitmnore, living
on Shlpp's Bayou plantation, in Tensas parish,
for an attemlt to mnurlaer his step-daughte r.
Whitnmore resented arrest and was shot and
killed.
A negro man, name unknown, working near
Napoleo,nville, getting staves out of the
swamnp for I,. W. Iike, became very much
heated by the work, and ldrinking some cold
water while thus heatedl, died almost in
tantly therefrom.
The Terrebonne Progrenss thinks the sugar
crop of that parish will be larger than it has
been for years. More land has been planted
this year than last. Every planter, the Pro
Iress goes on, that we have c(onversed with,
declares that the yield this year will be greater
than that of last year.
The Attakapas ry'listir declares that the
laboring elements of St. Mary propose to or
ganize a workingmen's party in that parish.
O(ne of the main Issues they wish to fight is
the Sunday liquor law, lately passed by the
police jury of the parish, to which law they
are bitterly opposed.
Our parish prison has been condemned for
a long time, but a prisoner named Hilaire,
accused of larceny, remained In it of his own
free will and accord for several months, and
until those dead cats were thrown into the
sink near the jail. He could not stomach that
and left his lodgings last Monday night.-
I Lafayette Advertiser.
A colored woman living on the Pecan Grove
place in St. Mary lbicame much incensed
against her liege lord, and while he was
standing thinking over their last quarrel, she
came sbehind him, and with one grand sweep
with that formidable and favorite weapon of
the race, the razor, (iut his throat from ear to
ear. lie dropped dead on the instant. On
her being taken prisoner she seemed much
.astonished at the turn affairs had taken, and
expressed ntuch grief, and said it was all
done in play!
A correspondent of the ,S'ufar BotIl at Mor
gan City gives the followigti Enoch Arden
case:
"About three years ago a Mr. Murphy left
his wife at Morgan City and went to the jet
ties to work. Soon he was reported drowned.
His wife mourned his loss, and in the mean
time accepted the love and hand of one Mr.
Cunningham, a steward on one of the Morgan
line ships andr they were duly joined in the
holy bonds of matrimony. Last week, while;
Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham were engaged in a
family talk, in stoppaed Mr. Murphy, husband
No. 1! Husband No. 2 recognized hinm at
once not knowing but what he had just ar
rived from the spirit land, as his pale coun
tenance indicated. They had a parley, and
the matter remains unsettled, as far as we
kntow."
The Parish Convention called by the police
jury to consider the question of keeping the
roads and levees in repair, and to devise some
plan for attaining that object under the new
State law held its session at the Court-House
in Donaldsonville, last Tuesday. There were
twenty-eight out of thirty-two delegates
present. B. O. Ayraud was selected as chair
man, and H. . O.Minor as secretary. Joseph
Gonzales was then clected permanent presi
dent. A committee was appointed, which
suggested the following sysl..n:
1. Let every man keep up and repair his own
road.
2. Let the police jury call upon one of the
State engineers and ascertain what amount
will be required for the keeping in repairs of
the levees of this parish.
3. When the amount aecessary for the above
p.rpose shall have been ascertained let the
polics jury a rkrte what amount of parish
iq"enses for L87s ea be crAlietol, appropriate
that amount towards the abvoe purpose amn
if thery oaly wnl, they can a s refliy ol,tain
the written application of a manjority in vahue
of tile tax payer" of this pariah to kley Ia spe
ctal tax for the balaner, that will be n.estsary
to protet this parish from overflow, under
M'etion 1O~ of act No. G( of 1977.
The report of the Ccommilttee was thl~a sub
mitted, and unanimously adoptmnt.
A black man, was arrest el for theft Ihs(sm
treville last week and a white man for mur
der, said to have ooen conmnittitl thro. years
ago in the swamp, by throwing a black man
off a skiff and drowning mrn. The wh.to
rjman was turned over to two citizens who
were not members of the temrperatre organi
zation, and the coneeqouence was that the
whit man escaped, while thr negro was hold
fast by the clutches of the magistrate. The
colored man's friends, learning of the situa
thin of affairs, became much. exctto4 there
ý r f'honi hild not be hold
prisoner, and kt! and behold they
arrm.d themselves with clubs arnl brlckhats
,oyi,ter shells and various other artliles of
warfare, aad aulvanced to , the attack. But it
scenms that a few of the young men of the
town were on the alert, hadl themselves on a
war footing, and told the colorerl Ieple that
if they ma.1e the attruk they would settle the
balance. It was all ended in a most ignoml
niorue retreat by the attacking party, and the
thief I belleve is in jail. But the worst part Is
the threats made by the c.lored people while
in their anger- -that if said colored man was
not let loose as well as the white man, the
town would II In ashoe before mnorning.
Ml Mlmulppl.
" Kosciusko is promised a telegraph line
The State appropriation to tlu University
of Mississippi it 1,0( $ 0 per annum.
Holly Springs Reporrtr, Aungust 30: We un
dlerstand there will he an Indepsendent tickot
in the field in this county at, an early date.
The Friar'rsPoint cotton sHwe oil mill enter
prise is being pushed vigorously aheld, with
a view to have it in operation by the 20th of
October.
A reunkon of the solider'sr of Company 5
Fifteenth Mississippi Volunteers. was held
at Water Valley, August 22. Short speeches
were made by various members of the old
regiment. lHon. Van H. Manning delivered
Sthe address on the ocKasion, Instead of (Gon.
Walthall, who was exIpeted to speak.
A dificulty occurred in latartia on Wedt
nesday last, in which Frank Cotham was shot
and instantly killed by one A. Langrin.
Langrin was arrested and had a preliminary
trial before ,Jhustice t oll yesterday the result
of which we have not learned. (Jur Inform
ant was unacquainted with the particulars of
the diffllculty.
Mr. James C(. Bradly, formerly a resident of
this county, was killed at Bolen, Quitman
county, On Saturday last, by one Capt. Por
ter, who is In charge of a boat with saw mill
attached. The particulars of the unfortunate
difficulty, as related to us, are so contraudll
tory that we dec:lne to give any of them. It
is thought by some that his death was the
culmination of a pro-arranged plot for the
purpose. It will be, perhaps, dillicult to ar
rive at the truth in regard to this affair, as
there were none present but the hands work
ing for Porter. It was with difficulty that
Mrs. Brady could procure the body of her
husband for decent burial, the parties present
at the time of his death having prepared to
bury him without' oven a coffin; and it was
not until his body. hla4 saon sent 9oL.thra
times that they could lie inducod to glve it up.
Vicksburg Herald Auaust 29th: A most
distressing and fatal accident occurred near
Mackville, Saturday, the particulars, as near
as we can gather, being as follows: Thomas
Shelby, .Jo. Thomas and H. E. Shannon, while
riding along the public road on their way to
attend a political convention at Mackville,
were very much annoyed by a dog barking at
the horses which they were riding. Young
Shelby pulled his pistol and fireld at the dlog
without effect. ? Thomas then drew his pistol
and fired, but through some unaccountable
cause the ball took effect in Shelby's spine,
producing alnmotstlnstantdoath. Young Shel
by's death Is greatly deploredi, and by none
more than Mr. Thomas, the accidental cause
of his untimely ldeath. His demise casts a
deep giooinm over the whole community In
which he lived. He was possessed of tie
most anmiable and generous qualities, and his
untinmely Ioss will not soon be forgotten.
Texas.
There will be no county fair ,n Parker this
year.
Nota drop of rain fell at Austin during the
month of August just past.
Travis county farmers have made a great
deal of sorghum syrup this year.
The Denison Daily lHerald is the exponint
of the straightout Greenbackers In Texas.
In (Gregg county the caterpillars are finish
ing up what cotton was left by the drouth.
A rich gold lead has ,been (discovered near
lHoney Grove, and the country is going mad
about it.
The Wllirnamson county fair, at Georgetown,
comnmences October 'Jth, awl will continue
four days.
The first numbher of the Denison Daily
IHeraal, the workingman's organ, has made
its appearance.
The prisoners in the Harris county jail first
atte3n ptld to saw out and then to burn them
selves out of jail.
Longview, on the Texas and Pacific road,
received and shipped 17 09( bales of cotton
during the year ending August 31.
Twenty-four prisoners broke jail Sunday
night in LaGrange and escaped. A posser
was soon In pursuit, and one of them was
captured and another killed.
Wagons and men have gone to San An
tonio to work on the extension of the Galves
ton, Harrisburg and Sarn Antonio railroadul
west from the Alamo. The road is to be ex
tended toCastroville next year.
Total receipts of cotton at Brenham for the
year ending August 31st, 25,120 bales; ship
mnents 24,34i bales; on hand 172 bales., Tihe
reeoipts for the week ending Thursday, the
:3th, were 330 bales.
Two men, narwed Ward and Taylor, were
shot by unknown parties near San Saba last
we k. They had been required to give bond
for horse stealing and were getting their
Kbond(l filed when they were attacked and killed
Their murderers are unknown, but are sup
posed to be the parties who shot Wadsworth
in the Llano county jail.
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THE WEATHER YESTERDAY.
The following is the "temperature" at the
various points named, as reported by the
Signal Service telegrams furnished by Ser
geant Brown, of the Signal Bureau, and indi
cating the state of the temperature at the
points named, at 3 p. m. yesterday:
Cairo 7 degrees, Cincinnati 76, Galveston
90, Keokuk 63, Latrosse 66, Leavenworth *6,
Louisville 74, Memphis 78, Nashville 76,
Omaha 65 Pittsburg 75, Shreveport 90, St.
Louis 69, St. Paul 71, Vicksburg 88, Yankton
(D. T.) 70 Augusta (Ga.) 84, Corsicana (Tex.)
90, Mobile 88, Montgomery .0J, Savannah 78,
New Orleans 80, and Key west s6.
Drowned.
A man named Wm. Turner, aged 35 years, fell
overboard from off the steamboat Era, sixty
miles below the city, on Saturday evening, and
was drowned. Body not reoovered.
Gold Soapina.
If yon don't find Soapina whir1 Is manufac
tured with borax the best of all soap, J. H. Kel
ler. 110 Gravier street. the inventor and patentee,
will pay you double the price you paid for it,
DOIESITIC NEWY.
The A ldmlnlhtratlon Oppose A to Free Trade
WAvnrI.unroN, Sept. .--A memlber of the
Administration, now in the city, commenting
upon the more enlarg(ed operatlont of the
free trade .noveratnt, remarked to-hday: Not
withstanri5g the efvtsn of the fre traIdere,
It. will be himpossiblqbto reeonWfloe their meas
ures with the vlewsentertainji by the A(ilnln
lstration as to the necessithiesof the govern
meat. As the revenues now stand, the re
riptes areobut slightly in excees of expendi
turee. While there is no disposition to in
erea..e the duttes, there cannot, with al.van
tago to the government, be any redlictih.
The PhIladelphMa Custom-Heoue Report.
W&smEIJ uW,. lept. 9,-.1i: M.; c
tary or the Inv(etfgating commftttnof M'
l'laliphia Burstomn-house, handed in his re
port latyoYestordray. The report shows that
the affairhtof that office areon but little better
onmdition than these of the' same establish
rnent at New York. The condition of the ap
praissLr's (alc is iess satisfnctory than the
oll;s of collector tiod survsyor. Excesslve
sampling of sugars and other articles was
shown to have been the sour(5r of much lesi
to irnporters
The Hecretary of the Treasury will give the
repolrt his immediatt eonsideration. It is not
imrpobable itit the rde applied to the New
York Custom-House, of appointing new oftl
core to carry out the necessary reforms, will
be idopted for i'hllladlphia.
The ilnlng Troubles.
WIaL.4EBAaK1,, Sept. !-l-epourtdof intiml
dation still comer in. from outlying districts,
and a now (lispoitoton of troops was made
yesterday.
(Gen. Hlancock remained over to-duy for the
purpose of investigating affairs with the
view of ascertaining the necessity of United
States soldiers in this vicianty. It is expected
that a permanent garrison will be established
here this winter.
Cleveland Conventlons.
(Crvaa.NiD, Sept. Nh-.The Republican con
vention for C(uyahoga county met at Cleve
land yesterday, and put in nominati(m a full
ticket for live lRepresentatives and one Sena
tor to the Legislature, all pkledged Garfleld
men. The 8tate platform was reaffirmed,
especially that pledging support to the na
tional Administration in its efforts to secure
to all parts oflthe country the benefite of
local self-government, and to render pure the
administration of the civil service of the
country.
The greenbackers also held their county
convention last evening, and went through
the form of putting a ticket in the field.
To oBe anged.
NORBIHTOWN, Pa., Sept. 10.-The Board of
Pardons lbat-Thursday refted to -mtmout
the sentence of Thos. F. Curley, aged 19, to
prison for life, and to-morrow morning he
will be hanged here for the murder of Miss
Mary Ann Whittey on May 19, 1875. They
wore both employed on a farm in this county,
and because she refused to corroborate a
falsehood he had told his employer he killoed
her with an ax.
Mexican Troops for the Frontier.
WAHHINGTON, SHopt. 9.-Information hasr
been receolved at (ion. Ord's headquarters, at
Brownsvillo, that 1500 regular Mexican troops
are about to embark from Vera Cruz to the
rnouth of the Rio Grande for service on the
Rio Grando, and to replace the local military.
The regulars are cormmanded by (,en. Gon
zales.
A Brooklyn Conflagratlon.
BI1ooKLYN, Sept. 9.-A fire broke out in the
sash and blind factory of Joseph Rankin, on
Grand street, this morning. Loos on ma
chinery and fixtures'$8000; Insurance $7500.
A Philadelphia Fire.
WAHFITNOTON, Sept. 9.--A fire in Philadel
phia this morning destroyed the greater por
tion of Helgler & Smith's paint works. Loss
$50,%00, partly covered by insurance.
FOREIGN NEWN.
The Bogus Omman Pasha.
(.L VLANN, Sept. 9.-The Leader to-day
publishes an account of the operations of
Clay Crawford, said to be Osman Pasha, dur
ing the year of 1873 In Cleveland and vicinity,
the time when he has been reported as being
In the employ of the Kh~tilve of Egypt. The
account contains letters written by him In
the fall of '73, after Gen. Reynolds professed
to know he was in Egypt. The Lvewd:r says
that Reynolds must be either mistaken in
(late or in his whole story, or his identllfa
tion is a humbug.
The Two Armies In Asia.
LONDON, Sept. 9.--A dispatch from Erze
roum datedl Friday, shows that the Russians
are confining themselves to a defensive atti
tude of their centre, and bringing up artillery
from Alexanilropol to defend their camp at
Baldervan in the event of an attack by Mukh
tar Pasha.
Gein. S. Terzukassoff, on the left, Is fortify
ing his position near Agair, in the plain of
Erwan.
Italy and Mervia.
LdNDON, Sept. 9.-A telegram from Rome,
denies that Italy would approve of Servia's
entry into the war. The Italian government
continues to counsel Servia to be prudent.
Civil War in France.
LONDOxN, Sept. 9.-The Berlin Post says
that civil war in France is inevitable.
Austria and England.
LONDON, Sept. 9.-A dispatch from Vienna
says that it is reported In semi-official quar
ters that Austria has declined to give a defi
nite answer to the proposition of England to
mediate for the settlement of the Eastern
question.
$liver toaplna.
Silver Soa .na, Gold Soavina. Pearl Boapina
('an be found with all grocers. unless he is Dre
judiced against home manufacture, or Is an
enemy to the South.
Buy your buggies and carriages from L. T.
N-dduz, 85 Carondelet street, near corner Orh
.'i~th