I found this piece in the NY Times while googling for Bayou Sarah, LA in search of some ancestors based on WW II draft cards. The town doesn't exist any longer, but this event made the NY Times in October 1874.

THE LOUISIANA PARISHES.; THE DISTURBANCE IN WEST FELICIANA.MACHINATIONS OF AN AMBITIOUS GERMANCARPET-BAGGER--A TERROR INVENTED AS A POLITICAL DODGE--FAILURE OF THE SCHEME