t's1 Carroll Ooaserrative: A distur
Imuree took place at a ball given by
colored lpople on Melbourne planta
tiqu, anu] Richard Harris was shot
thl'rpgh the buoy so that be died in
st4tily. 'rip{ap Johnson, who did
the ohooting, is at large ; Abe Nich
olson and Becky Johnson, charged as
amecessoies, *re pi jail.... The new
Police Jury lea rp4uced the estitnated
expnmses fur tlB4 current year from
$26,800 to $f,55(L
[? West Feliciana Sentinel: The
dead body of a, white female infant
was found upon the premises of Mrs.
Nancy Floyd, in an old stable, and
covered up with ,noUs and brjiks.
Evidence addnce at the (Corotpr's
inquest pointed to Miss ~Jenpe t' yd
as the mother of the child, amd iPdi
cated that its death had been cap.ed
by herself and her mother. Tliey are
both under arrest. ...Rufin Sharper,
it colored boy about 9 years of age,
ty:as drowned while bathing in .ig
1ýa ou Sara.
ITZ St. Charles Herald : Tihe cabig
of eatm Louis laydel, a white man
vntong in the quarters of the Trinity
fiautation, caught fire and burned to
thle ground. Haydel moved his fam
ily and efrect6 out of the building and
jeturned to queneic the flames. He
placed a ladder against the house,
nuounted to the roof, and while he
was pouringi water through an open
ing the roof caved in, hurling the un
fortunate man to the rafters, where,
being suffocate.. by the dense smoke,
he became insensible aied burned to
death. r-.The residence o'Rev. Father
Suiriry, adjoinin~ Red FThurcb, was
destroyed by fre;
OA r ewv York Letter.
'J"he Vanderbilt Estate-Wood,
bull & Clalln-Fletcher Hare
per-C.stomohouse Investiga.
tica--lBrains at Auction. etc.
NEW YORK, Julpe ;, 1877.
