Tangipahoa
Parish
News
August 31, 1878
Paper: New Orleans Item
Tangipahoa Parish
submitted by Christine
Walters
Local Mention:
Up to date three colored voters to one white
have registered.
Tangipahoa, Louisiana, has quarantined against
persons from all points.
Mary Baptiste
and Pierre Barboyant are in the Treme Station,
charged with
larceny.
Henry Hahn, alias Lee, who is now in prison
for the murder of Murphy, has the yellow
fever.
The cause and cure of yellow fever will be
explained on Congo Square, Sunday evening at
five-o'clock.
The Governor yesterday withdrew his
proclamation of quarantine at the Rigolets and
Atchafalaya Bay Stations.
Julia Washington was incarceerated in the
Jackson Square Station for assaulting J.
Bibolet with a dangerous weapon.
The house of Mr. Twomey, corner of Sixth and
Camp, was found open by the police lasat
night. The occupants are said to be out of the
city.
Mr. John W. Cannon, this evening, carries the
Vicksburg mail. Merchants are informed that
this is the last chance for one week to send
their correspondence to that point.
Mr. Barrow, residing at No. 30 Annette street,
discovered a negro thief in his premises; he
hurried out and caught hold of the thief, but
before he could obtain any assistance the
thief got the best of him and made his escape.
Joe Shaw, a painter, and Jack Maguire, were
arrested lasat night at the corner of Union
and Dryades street, for being drunk and
disturbing the peace. Maguire is additionally
charged
with an assault and battery on the officer.
The British residents met at the Consul's
yesterday to form a relief association. A St.
George's Society was organized, with acting
Consul H.E. Stringer as president. He will
appoint an executive comittee, and prepare
rules and regulations for approval at 3 p.m.
today.
J.B. Connors and Pierre Monret, charged by
W.H. Maday with murder, in having on the 29th
day of July last, thrown one August Coxeaux
down a pair of stairs at No. 61 Tehoupitonlas
street, inflicing injuries from which Cozeaux
died on the 6th day of August, 1878, where
examined and honorable discharged this
morning, Dr. Roaldes, Cozeaux's physician,
testifying
that death was caused by pernicious fever.
Winnie Mullahey and Mary Rollingson were
arrested at the corner of Gravier
submitted
by Christine Walters
Miss
Bessie
C.
Stevens
seventeen
years
old. and
Camille
Stevens
eight
years
old,
daughters
of
Leander
Stevens,
of Amite
City, La
were
killed
by a
railroad
train,
Sept.
22.
Monday,
September
26, 1904
Daily
Democrat
_____________________________________________________
New
ORLEANS,
January
24.—A
Picayune
Amite
City
(La.)
special
says:
Wm.
Lowry
was shot
and
instantly
killed
on the
street
by
Taylor,
the
result
of an
old
feud.
They
were
hunting
each
other
with
shotguns,
when
Taylor
got the
drop on
Lowry
and
fired, a
load of
buckshot
passing
through
Lowry's
head.
Source:
Galveston
News
January
25, 1883
_____________________________________________________
Dr. H.
A.
Casey,
well
known as
editor
of
agricultural
journals,
died at
Tangipahoa
on
Wednesday
of
yellow
fever,
aged 54.
Source:
Galveston
News
January
25,
1883.
_____________________________________________________
The
Howard's
have
received
a
dispatch
from
Tangipahoa,
saying:
"Please
send us
a
physician—great
deal of
sickness
here,
supposed
to be
yellow
fever.
Operator
and
postmaster
are
sick.''
In
response
to this
Dr.
Jennison
gone by
the
morning
train.
Source:
Galveston
News
January
25, 1883
_____________________________________________________
CASTOR,
Sept.
22.—The
number
of new
cases is
increasing.
Had a
call
four
miles in
the
country
yesterday;
found a
child
with
black
vomit;
has had
mo
communication
with the
town.
Source:
Galveston
News
January
25, 1883
_____________________________________________________
Tangipahoa
Parish.
The
Illinois
Central
Road,
from a
point
ten
miles
outside
the
city,
furnishes
excellent
shooting
grounds.
At Bayou
La
Branche,
Owl
Bayou,
Pass
Manchac,
and
further
on in
the high
lands of
Tangipahoa
Parish,
at
Hammond,
Amite
City,
Ponchatoula,
as far
as the
Mississippi
line,
the
quail
have
long
made the
country
famous.
Formerly
turkeys
were
very
plentiful
in
Tangipahoa,
but in
recent
years
the
parish
authorities
have
checked
the
hunters,
as the
birds
were
being
rapidly
exterminated.
The
beautiful
Tangipahoa
River
furnishes
fine,
bass
fishing,
in
addition
to quail
shooting.
By
traveling
up the
Illinois
Central
to
Pontchatoula,
and
driving
out to
Davis'
Ferry,
visiting
anglers
will
find the
black
bass and
rock
bass
plentiful
enough
to
furnish
amusement
for a
couple
of days.
If the
hunter
desires
to
penetrate
the
dense
undergrowth
of Honey
Island
for
deer,
turkey
and
bears,
the
services
of a
guide
will be
absolutely
necessary.
Often
men have
been
"lost"
in this
famous
island.
Guides,
however,
may be
secured
at Pearl
River
Station,
and the
trip
will pay
the
stranger.
He will
see a
virgin
forest
which
rivals
the
jungles
of the
tropics
in
thickness.
The very
denseness
of the
island
has made
it
famous
in past
years as
the home
of
fugitive
criminals.
It was
to this
island
that
Bunch,
the
train
robber,
who
terrorized
the
South
for
years,
went for
safety
after
each
hold-up.
He Was,
in fact,
killed
amid the
umbrageous
coverts
of this
little-explored
locality.
The
Picayune's
Guide to
New
Orleans
Published
by The
Picayune,
1904
Submitted
by K.
Torp
_____________________________________________________
Of
lawlessness
in
another
parish,
the
Picayune
said,
Oct. 9 :
"
Another
shooting
scrape
is
reported
from
Tangipahoa
parish,
and.
from the
accounts
received,
the
affair
was on a
par with
the many
other
such
deeds
which
have
made the
parish
famous
for the
apparent
spirit
of
lawlessness
which is
believed
to
prevail
there.
It is a
notorious
fact
that,
while
there
have
been
dozens
of
violent
crimes
in the
parish,
not a
single
person
has been
punished."
It was
only in
April
that
four
men,
apparently
belonging
to the
same
clique,
had been
arrested
in
Tangipahoa
on the
charge
of
conspiracy
by
violence
and
threats
of
violence
to
compel
persons
to leave
a place
where
they
lawfully
were.
[Source:
Appletons'
Annual
Cyclopaedia
and
Register
of
Important
Events,
Published
by D.
Appleton.,
1900 -
Submitted
by K.
Torp]
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