CAMERON PARISH NEWS

A JUSTICE 0F THE PEACE SHOT. New Orleans, April 26.—News has just been received from Sheriff Miller, of Cameron Parish, announcing the assassination of Justice of the peace Cicero Stephens, a prominent citizen. last Saturday night, by some unknown person. Justice Stephens was returning from the Johnson's Bayou Debating Society, about 10 or 11 o'clock at night, and was killed al out 40 yards from his home, when- the body was found the next morning with nine buckshot holes in the breast and neck. The deceased man and Mr.. Abbey Pevote rode together a part of the way, separating near their respected homes Pevote says he heard the report of a gun only after separating but he did not think much about it as there is a lot of hunting in the neighborhood.. Justice Smith the following day held an inquest on the body. The verdict was "died from a shot from some unknown party". April 27, 1885 New York Times

Blown Four Hundred Feet. New Orleans, La., Jan. 25.— Saturday evening, in the canal in Cameron parish, the boiler of the steam tug Edna exploded, killing a German cook, Fred Smith, and throwing Capt. Benjamin F. Moss 400 feet into the woods, injuring him fatally. The engineer escaped uninjured.

THE LATEST DELUGE. The Death List at Sabine Pass Now Reaches One Hundred. Seven Families Drowned at Johnson's Bayou, La— THE CALAMITY IN THE SOUTH. NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 16.

—A special dispatch to the Picayune says: The relief boat. Lamar has returned to Beaumont from Sabine Pass. Only two houses are left in the latter place. One hundred and one person are missing The boat could not get within twelve miles of the town, but over a dozen tow-boats have been sent there, and are at work saving life and property. The Relief Committee aboard the Lamar consisted of twenty citizens from Beaumont and abort forty from Orange. They traveled up the Neches river between four p. m. and midnight, which was on extraordinary trip, fraught with fearful danger. Twenty-five of the committee were left at Sabine Pass to recover some of the bodies, many of which are reported to have been washed dozens of miles over into Louisiana. The exact extent of the storm-swept district is yet unknown. From reports brought by the committee it is certain that the flooded district embraced an expanse of country many times larger than at first supposed. The gulf seems to have moved over the laud for miles in one high, unbroken wall of water. Ninety-one half-clad, shivering wretched victims of the storm were brought up on the Lamar. Blankets and bedding were immediately gathered from house to house for the comfort of the heart-broken sufferers, every one of whom has some dear friend or relative among the dead. Nearly all the refugees are sick and prostrated from exhaustion and hunger.

.—A special from Orange, Tex., says: At Johnson's Bayou whole families were swept away. Not a house was left standing within five miles of the lake. The loss of property along the Cameron Parish gulf coast and for some distance west of Sabine Pass by the storm of Tuesday night was fearful. The entire country east and west was submerged drowning thousands of cattle and ruining crops. No lives were lost at Leesburg or Calcasieu Pass, but the following are reported lost at Johnson's Bayou, La.: Albert Lambert and family, Marion Lukes and family, George Striever and family, L Charles Blanchet and family, Rexford Grey and family, Frenesware and family. Decatur Review Oct 16, 1886