The Shreveport Weekly News

Soldier Killed--We learn incidentally that a soldier belonging to the regiment was killed last Friday night by a fellow-soldier in the garrison; and through the same channel we hear that Coroner Jones held the inquisition over the body of the deceased. We are not in possession of other facts relative to this affair. The officers at the Garrison will doubtless cheerfully co-operate with the civil authorities in probing the matter to the bottom. For some time past we have almost averaged a murder a week, and we hope to be able before long to chronicle the hanging of the murderers, and restoration of law and order. The frequency of this worst kind of lawlessness is fearfully on the increase, and if crime does not go back to its lair, all good citizens will feel themselves, in order to save society from anarchy and dissolution, bound to form combinations to enact its ruthless extirpation.--Baton Rouge Advocate.