The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-09
LOUISIANA ITEMS.

| we TAKE the following from the Plaque
mines (St. Sophie) Sentinel of the 9th inst
| CROPS AND WEATHER. cane is look.
ing well, considering the drouth in the
greater portion of the parish during the
past six weeks. The work of cultivation
has progressed finely, and the plant is al
most wholly fire from grass.
The rice crop throughout the parish is
good. In some places the plant is more
than two feet high, and every where is luxu.
RANT and promising. The work of "grass-
ing" has been going on for week or more
on number Of farms where the crop is ad-
vanced.
The orange orchards promise also an ex-
cellent yield.
During the past week showers fell at
Pointe-a-la- Hache and at other points above
this. Six weeks to-day since rain
enough to wet pocket handkerchief fell
at st. Sophie
PAINFUL ACCIDENT.-Last Sunday after
noon Mr.. John Conrad, manager Of Deer
Range Plantation, lost the first Joint of the
thumb of bis left hand while lingering
some cartridges of breech loading gun. A
cartridge, before it was fixed in the cham
Der of the breech, exploded, and the ball of
the thumb was SO lacerated that amputa-
ton was necessary In addition to this mu-
tilation of his thumb, all the fingers of the
same hand were severely wounded.
The Plaquemines Sentinel of the 9th inst,
in making mention of the fact of Schooner
Texas Ranger, loaded with sugar, having
last week struck on the wreck of the sunken
steamship DeSoto, in front of Woodlawn
plantation, on what is known as McCalFs
Hats" was capsized, and the cargo lost, says:
The steamship DeSoto cleared from New
Orleans for New York, with a cargo of cot
ton, December 31st, 1870, and while d scend-
ing the river it was discovered there was
raging fire in the hold in the cotton. The
vessel was at once "beached," and was there
consumed. The machinery and some of the
stamnchest timbers Of the ship renamed.
When the river is low, the wreck of the
DeSoto can be seen; but when the river is
nigh, as 1T is now, it is hidden from view,
and its whereabouts known only to pilots
familiar with the lower Mississippi. 1t is
certainly dangerous obstruction to CON-
merce. Not long since steamship run foul
of this wreck, and incurred damages to the
extent of $4,000 There ought to be a buoy,
or some sort Of signal fixed at this place.
The hull of the schooner Texas Ranger
drltted as far down as Mr. John Dymond's
Belair plantation, where it was moored.
1t contained, however, had found
a depositing place in the river.
The Sparta (Bienville parish) Times, of the |
3Oth ult., has the following: The anxiety
for rain felt by our farmers has been relieved |
in most parts Of the parish by the appear
ance of rain clouds on Last Issn the nr''-@e "rA
The dr"r-ss dlscontented sssaS3 tuesday evening.
= ..vu.n has caused some Inconvenience
and, in some portions, injury to the pros
poets, by preventing seed from putting
forth, and thus preventing good stands from
being acquired, though, with this exception
and the general backwardness of the crop,
the prospect is at present brighter than was
to have been anticipated under the circum
INCENDIARIsM.-Burned the morning of
oath inst, the steam saw, grist mill and cot
ton gin, of our esteemed fellow citizen j. N.
Pool. The fire, the supposed work of an in
cendiary, occurred Immediately after Mr.
Pool. with his family, left his home to go to
church. The loss is estimated by Mr.. Pool
from $4,000 to $4,000. J. l. Teagle has been
bound over by Judge Boone, to appear be-
fore the Grand jury for investigation, on
tie charge Of having committed the deed.
The st. Joseph (Tensas) Louisianian, OF
the 9th inst, says:
Ram has fallen this week in some sections
of the parish, greatly reinvigorating the
parched plants, which had almost withered
under the intense heat that has marked the
past few weeks. But more rain is wanted