Chas. H. Dozier, the Pinevslle Constable
who shot and killed Richard Gaffney, has
been tried on a charge of murder and ac
quitted.
Mr. Robert Rigs of Iberia parish has
raised a sweet potato thirty-six inches in
circumference and weighing twenty-four
pounds.
The contract for building a wharf and
collecting wharfage dues at Plaquemine has
been awsrded by the Town Council to Mr.
Louis Lozano.
Mrs. Martin, an old lady residing in St.
Francisville, fell from the gallery of her
residence and sustained injuries that result
ed in her death.
Turner WiHia:is, a colored man, was
killed on the Bodin plantation, St. Mary
parish, by Israel Allen, also colored, who
made his escape.
Conductor Pat McClannahan had his
right hand badly crushed while coupling
cars at Slaughter Station, on the Mississip
pi Valley railroad.
Not satisfied with their pyrotechnical dis
play, the people of Minden propose tb have
a barbecue in celebration of the completion
of their tap railroad.
Sparks from a passing train ignited cot
ton lying on the devot platform at Delhi,
and fifteen bales were burned before the
fre could be extinguished.
A young man named Que, while working
in his brother's sugar-house near Centre
ville, fell into the pit of the fly-wheel and
was most horribly mangled.
Messrs. Hannan & Voss, the enterprising
Baton Rouge builders, have secured the
contract for erecting the new charity hoe
pital at Alexandria for $8800.
A colored man named Jesse Dupree was
caught in the follower of the cotton gin on
the Ashland plantation, West Baton Rouge
parish, and almost decapitated.
Another gin accident is reported from
Midway Station, on the Clinton and Port
Hudson railroad, in which a Mr. Butter
worth had his hand severely cut.
