Acting Governor McEnery has
signed the death-warruants of Villere
Powell and Achille Thomas of St.
James, the convicted murderers of
Theogene L. Onudet. The execution
isa to take plaice September 3.
A party of Now Yorkers recently
made n trip arond the world in seven
ay-five days, thus excelling the feat
represented to have been nccom
plished by the hero of Jules Verne's
tale, " Around the world in Eighty
.Days."
Dr. Tanner accomplished his wonto
deful font of fasting forty days, and,
what is juut as wonderful and con
trary to precedent, ate quite heartily
soon after concluding his fast and ex
petienced no ill effects from the in
dulgence. The hardy doctor is rap
idly regaining his lost flesh
An old couple believed to be John
Bender and his wife, head of the ne
fariotis family of murderers whose
bloody deeds have made them noto
rious all over the country, have been
nrrested at Fremont, Nebraska. They
will be taken back to Kansas, the
scene of most of their depredations.
The steamboat Bonnie Lee ex
ploded her boiler last Monday night,
while proceeding up Red river en
route to Shreveport, and sunk in five
minutes. The second clerk, the bar
keepler's son aend several members of
the crew were lost. Boat and cargo
are a total loss. The boaunt was valued
at $12,000 and insured for $9,000.
Several persons were killed and
forly wounded by at railroad accident
at May's Landing, New Jersey, on
Thunrsedy. One excursion tarin irn
ipto the tenr of anotlher, the locomuo
live penetrating half way tlhrough the
jrenr coach, whiclh was crowded with
passengers. Many of the injned w.re
hlorribly sca:lded by escaping stennm.
