A MURDERER CAUGHT.-Sampson Row
land, the colored man who shot and fa
tally wounded a man employed by the Mis
sissippi Valley Railroad Company, on the
Mount Houmas plantation, in this parish,
some time last year, was captured a few
days ago, in Pointe Couape, and was
brought to Donaldsonvillc last Tuesday by
Sheriff Bates of Baton Rouge. Rowland
has been a fugitive from justice since com
mitting the murder, and was run to earth
by two deputies of Sheriff Bates who
tracked him to Pointe Coup6e and suc
ceeded in arresting him. The murderer re
sisted and drew a pistol, but the officers
fired upon him, sending three buckshot
through his right hand and left side, and
forced him to surrender. The prisoner's
wounds are not considered dangerous.
Full line of straw, felt and stiff-brim hats
at Mrs. M. Israel & Co's. Prices away be
low zero.
We are again unable to find space for the
communication relative to the Lemann
ville public school, mention of whicir was
made in our last issue. Teacher Victor P.
Thomas reports a total of 60 pupils on his
roll, with an average daily attendance
slightly in access of 53. He has 3O in the
alphabet and primer classes, 15 in the first
reader, 15 in the second and 4 in the third.
The school room is very poorly supplied
with the furniture essential to the proper
accommoda:tion its inmates. An old kitchen
table, for instance, does service as a
teacher's desk, the pupils sit on benches
without backs and have no desks to rest
their books and slates upon, a condition
of affairs that the School Board should do
what lies in it, power to remedy and im
prove.
