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February 1878
Inaugural parade by the Phunny Phorty Phellows follows Rex on Mardi Gras. February 25 State Senator Thomas C. Anderson is the first member of the State Returning Board to be tried. He receives two years at hard labor, but he will be releasednext month and charges against the others are dropped. |
March 1878
On March 14, 1878, the town of Pineville is incorporated in Rapides Parish. |
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September 1878
Comus will not parade next year, as most of the money saved for parade is spent running a soup kitchen for stricken citizens all through September. |
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Another major out break of Yellow Fever starts with the docking of the Emily B. Souder, a steamer from the tropics. 4,046 die, approx. 27,000 contract it. Quarantine on New Orleans is enforced in Shreveport, Memphis, even Galveston, as the city became known as the wet grave. Mississippi and Texas officials had threatened to tear up railroad tracks and fire upon boats calling on their ports. In the Crescent City, carbolic acid and sulfur were burned to keep away the fever. Charity Hospital patients were given salt shakers filled with calomel and urged to take a pinch whenever they felt like it. Everyday as many as 47 people died as family carriages or dead wagons piled high with wooden coffins made their way to the cemeteries. |
Democrats use violence and fraud to win black precincts in state elections. | Lafcadio Hearn joins the Daily City Item which adds literary criticism, dramatic reviews, poems and cartoons. |
George F. Sheply |
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