The Ouachita Telegraph - Charles Jackson Dies at New Texas Landing

Date: Aug. 2000
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>

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The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, July 6, 1877
Page 4, Column 2
        A colored man by the name of Chas. Jackson, who professed to be a horse
doctor, said he could, when an animal had the charbon, tell by tasting the
blood.  Some day last week a mule had the charborn, he tasted the blood and
on the 18th inst., he died at New Texas landing of the diseases. – Point
Coupee Pilecan. (sic)