New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-11
THE PARISHES.
Rapides Parish.


We copy the following from the Alexan.
dris Democrat:
We have the same good and cheering news
to report of the crops of Rapides. Still the
good cry of no caterpillars, which can be
the only drawback of big cotton yield.
Finer cane never grew in Rapides, and the
corn crop is bound to be an immense one.
The planters of Rapides will alter their
tactics in few weeks, and commence ship.
ping corn to New Orleans. The amount of
sales will go to their credit on the books of
the merchants, who have been supplying
them the last two years with the very arti.
Gle they now will have in extra abundance.
Ben. Kouns astonished himself and every
body else last Wednesday night by waking
up the natives and landing his Lafourche
one more time at our landing. 1t was an
agreeable surprise to all, and to none more
than this paperless editor, who, on waking
Tuesdays New Orleans papers, besides a
batch of Northern and Western ones, on
his table.
CaddO Parish.
The Shreveport Southwestern has these
paragraphs of news:
G. W. Sherrod, Chief of Police, was shot
in the thigh last Thursday night in an
alteration, by Texan named John Bur
Lesson, who, with his associate, Lee W. Trim
BILE, made his escape. The affair created
considerable excitement, the police in pur-
suing the fugitives firing several shots at
them without effect. We learn that a
steamboatman who was in the neighbor-
hood got shot in the hand. Sherrod is
doing well, and will be able for business in
a few days. Mayor Tally offers a reward of
twenty-five dollars for the arrest and deliv-
cry OF Burteson and Trimble to the authori.
ties.
N,tI ,,,; ~, 40, 5;,,c. 4, f,,,r ,s,-Ii.I l.
last week there was no general season
throughout the parish, and the consequence
Is the corn on the uplands is beginning to
show the effects of the drouth. The fact is,
we need very much a first.rate rain to make
good average crop of corn on the uplands.
If we get this during the week the crop will
be something over an average. Without
the rain it win fall greatly short of it, and
we fear short of suticiency for home con-
sumption. The cotton crop looks very
promising, but our planters report signs,
and even the presence of worm on the
stalk, but it is not certain it is the cater.
pillar. On the whole from the appearance
of the crop, its f orwardness and fine grow
ing condition, we are hopeful of good
yield. .9as aHHtJ7i .g.
The Board of Trustees, elected last April,
met on Saturday and qualified, and a6-
journed until Monday, when they assem-
bled and elected the following officers: Con
troller, c.. H. Spilker; Chief Marshal, ]. P.
Brioe; City Assessor, ". S. Lewis; Ctr Sur
veyor, F. P. Leavenworth; Sexton, Warren
Hicox; Street Commissioner, John L. Gooch.
After the appointment Of the following com
mittees by the Mayor, the Board adjourned
until the regular meeting, July Z: On
finance, Ed. Eberstadt, j. W. Howard, W.
M. Turner; on claims, w. M, Turner, ].
W. Howard I'd. Eberstadt, Joseph Walker;
on streets THOMAS Bgland, +. K. Mulhaupt,
a. n.
The public roads of the parish have been
so shamefully neglected for three years that
they are now almost impossible in many
places; and if not worked soon, or during
this summer or next fall, will become en-
tiFely impossible to loaded Wagons Il
would puzzle any man to give q sufficient
excuse for this neglect of our public high
ways. Is there not as much power in the
Police Jury to compel the working of roads
as in former days! Are there not as many
hands liable to road duty in the parish!
There has been a considerable increase in
our population since the surrender, and the
increase has been principally of TINT class
liable to road duty. The power of the Po-
lice Jury over that class Is as great now as
II ever was. Il can as easily compel them
to work or to pay. Then why are our roads
left unworked-the pathways Of our trade
so entirely neglected as to compel our Gus
toners to seek other markets over better
roads! isG d .fe., er.sfs-
90. Landry ParishI
The 0pelOusas Courier, rebel concern,
thus discourses:
We doubt very much whether the new
State government (including even its-ac.
cording to the Ptcdyune-" dark colored
Count D'0rsays Of Lieutenant GOvernor),
ultra Radical and utterly despicable as the
whole concern Is TO AL white-skinned and
white-seuled men, viii be more repulsive to
their feelings than the arrogance and ihso-
lence which seem to be the distinguishing
attributes Of military rule in the South: At
any rate, whatever may be the result Of the
change in the State at large, we Of st.
Landry as we have before remarked, have
the greatest cause of selfcongratulation,
inasmuch as we have elected for our parish
officers old and esteemed citizens, who are
with us in feeling and principle, and who
honor rs as much as we have honored
them.
Wars IN A NAME.-The owner Of the
trotter Ben Butler was asked the other day
why he had bestowed the bottled hero's
name upon his horse? "Well, he replied,
Il called him Ben Butler because thought