The little daughter of Mr. Cal. Colvin of
Ruston fractured her arm n' two places by
falling fromher 'father's gallery.
Leonard Hughqs of Amite City shot
Lewin Carrier through the abdomen with a
pistol. ,He 'dida't knuw it ias loaded."
Mikh ý iantedis the palrish of
&t. Mary, on a charge of shooting with in.
tent to kill,.pas been arrested in Houmas.
Isaac Taylor, colored,'residing nine miles
from Shreveport, was bitten on the little
finger by a rattlesnake while lifting a log.
A young man named Schumway, aged 21
years, eloped from Baton Rouge with a
young girl named Chideeter, who was only
11.
Judging from present Indications, the
Obaerr thinks all the orange trees in
Pointe-a-la.Haehe iombined will not bear
100 oranges.
Abraham Lincoln Post, Grand Army of
the Republic, of Denver, Col., has for
warded a contribution to the Baton Rouge
Confederate monument.
Marshall Davis of Algiers, during a
drunken spell, stabbed his wife, a servant
girl, and an interfering stranger, with a
pocket knife, none fatally.
A piece of plank fell from the steeple of
the new government bqalding at Shreveport
striking George Thomdu, colored, on the
ari, and nearly severing it.
Mr. Adolph J. Lafargue, editor of the
Markaville Bwules, has been appointed
Clerk of the Twelfth Judicial District Court
for the parish of Avoyelles.
Iev.Johan East, a Baptist minister re
,iding in the fourth ward of East Baton
Rouge parish, while at work on the roof of
his house, slipped and fell to the ground,
b reaking is neck.
Thobterm of Marsh 26 blew down a con
iderale lot of feamocl in int . Coupde,
lndamoedthbpeprg yep Mr. Lorli's plan
tatin S or ix feet from its foundation,
'using $15,000 worth of damage.
