Obits: The Daily Telegraph 1865 Obits, Morehouse parish La. excerpts These older obituaries are being transcribed by Lora Peppers at the Ouachita Parish Library. We would like to thank Lora Peppers for sharing her work with the Morehouse Parish Archives Project. Your hard work is very appreciated! ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** TIPS FOR SEARCHING RECORDS ON THE INTERNET Netscape & Ms Explorer users: If you are searching for a particular surname, locality or date while going through the records in the archives or anywhere....try these few steps: 1. Go to the top of the report you are searching. 2. Click on EDIT at the top of your screen 3. Next click on FIND in the edit menu. 4. When the square pops up, enter what you are looking for in the FIND WHAT ___________blank. 5. Click on DIRECTION __DOWN. 6. And last click on FIND NEXT and continue to click on FIND NEXT until you reach the end of the report. This should highlight the item that you indicated in "find what" every place it appears in the report. You must continue to click on FIND NEXT till you reach the end of the report to see all of the locations of the item indicated. If your obituary is not found here and you would like a special look up, you may send $5.00 and an self-addressed stamped envelope to: Lora Peppers - Phone (318) 327-1490 Reference Department Fax (318) 327-1373 Ouachita Parish Public Library 1800 Stubbs Ave. Monroe, LA 71201 These newspapers are on microfilm at NLU. The Weekly Telegraph Thursday, December 7, 1865 Page 2, Column 3 MURDER-ROBBERY.-Bands of desperadoes, with natural instincts for murders and all the other crimes in the decalogue are yet in our midst. "The thirst for money has brought many a good young man to crime and shame, and the results of the war have accelerated the march of the wicked in their career of murder and robbery. Scenes like the one we are about to relate, occur daily in the South which has been the battle field between contending armies, and where highwaymen, like vultures, hover around to batten on the wrecks of the conflicts. On last Wednesday, the 29th of November, two respectable citizens of Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, were murdered on the high road, leading from Bastrop northward through Arkansas. One was Wolff Silbernagel, whom we have long known to be a sterling citizen, and a successful merchant; the other a Mr. Levi, a merchant also, with whom we were personally unacquainted. They had been to the East somewhere and were returning home, when within a few miles of the Louisiana line, they were foully murdered and robbed. Mr. Silbernagle was found stiff and stark in his buggy with a mortal wound in his left side; Mr. Levi was shot through the head, and was tied to the buggy underneath, with a leather thong. The buggy and the victims were found about fifty yards from the road side, and traces of blood enabled the neighbors to follow the track which the murders had taken to conceal and to rob their victims. So horrible was the butchery, that a neighbor remarked, "It looked like a hog had been killed." All their money were taken except $1800, which were found in a sealed envelope in Mr. Silbernagel's coat pocket, the ruffians supposing it to be nothing more than a letter. Their remains were brought to this place for interment. Such are; substantially, the main facts of the case. Our citizens must awake to the impending danger of these times, and must organize a sufficient mounted force to capture these fiends. A small cavalry force in each parish, of twenty men, under a dashing leader will prevent much crime and give assurance that a man's life is safe. Who will take the lead in Ouachita?