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January 1879
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February 1879
The Yellow Fever outbreak from last year cancels most of Mardi Gras. |
March 1879
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April 1879
April 21, 1879 to July 23, 1879; A state constitutional convention is held. Lt. Governor Louis Alfred Wiltz presides over the convention called by Nicholls. With broad changes over the current carpetbag constitution the convention reapportions the legislature, reduces its authority, lowers tax rates tremendously and moves the capital back to Baton Rouge. It also calls for a special election at the time of the approval of the new constitution. Nicholls loses his job a year early and is not renominated for the post. |
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December 1879
Louis Alfred Wiltz wins the election for governor over Republican Taylor Beattie. Lt. Governor Samuel Douglas McEnery and Wiltz are tied directly to the Louisiana Lottery. Future governor Murphy James Foster wins a seat in the State Senate where he will serve until 1892. |
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| . Major Thomas E. Davis becomes and associate editor of the New Orleans Times and moves with his wife from Texas to New Orleans. Mary Evelyn Moore Davis (1844-1909) is a poet and short story writer for national magazines. Her friend George Washington Cable helps her find an appropriate home in the (then) decaying slum called the Vieux Carré where Molly Moore Davis eventually found a home at 84 (now 406) Royal street. Her stories of the French Quarter are published in Harper’s and The Saturday Evening Post and she finishes several novels. Her Friday after noon salon became the weekly social event of the artistic, intellectual and social elite of the city. The house is on the block that is razed to build the Supreme Court Building. | The Cup and Saucer Club is an informal art and literary circle that requires its members to bring their own cup and saucer for refreshments. | First Telephone exchange in New Orleans. | Trumpeter William Geary Bunk Johnson born. |
Prudent Francis Mallard |
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