The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-08-15
SOUTHERN NEWS.
LOUISIANA.

LOUISIANA.
There is some sickness In Claiborne
parish.
The roads and bridges Of the parish of
East Baton Rouge are In bad condition.
There are only three prisoners In the
st. james parish prison, alias insane
The Delta Sentinel, q new Democratic
sheet in Madison parish. has come out
for the campaign.
The roads around Dorchete and Ho-
mer, Claiborne parish, are In very bad
condition.
The changeable weather in West
Baton Rouge has caused q good deal OF
sickness In the parish.
Vermilion is to have a new paper
Democratic, Of course-to be published
at Abbeville, and known rs the Vermil-
ion Banner.
Lake Providence, Carroll parish, Is
soon to have Democratic paper. We
hail the prospect with delight. Every
parish in the State should have one.
w. II. McVey, so says the Oatahoula
Ne,cs, has been appointed Registrar OF
Election In Catahoula parish.
The Shreveport Telegram tRep.) calls
Vests amendment to the harbor and
river bill "absurd."
The st. james Sentinel gives the fol-
lowing very thorough account OF affairs
In that parish: muddy. Base ball.
Delicious rains. Crops better. Water
melons played out"
| The water in Silver Lake, Caddo
parish, has fallen sufficiently to enable
| trains to Shreveport to run around to
| the warehouse on the river front. This
| Ia the second time the railroad folks
| have been compelled this season to
move the freight depot from the river
| to the Market street Office.
The Catahoula Ne,Cs rejoices over TIE
nomination of Cuthbert Jones, Of that
parish, late a graduate OF Heidelberg
University, having been appointed Con.
sul to Tripoli--'an Office OF dignity and
handsome profit.
II you haven't seventy-f1ve cents In
money to pay for the Amite City
Democrat for the campaign, send US
eggs, butter, chickens, cornmeal. water
melons, or any country produce, to the
amount Of sevCnty-five cents. Any
| thing, 1--WE amt particular"
The West Baton Rouge Sugar Planter
says that Oscar Holt, now Tax Collector
of West Baton Rouge, and lately APP
| pointed United States Internal Revenue
| Collector for the Second District of
| Louisiana, has not yet accepted the
nomination and will even decline to do
so unless he Is allowed to have his place
OF business located In the parish OF
| West Baton Rouge. That Is parish
| patriotism with vengeance. @
| MISSISSIPPI.
| Sixty converts are the result OF the
Crystal Springs camp meeting. Truly a
good crop.
building was blown down by the storm
on Thursday last.
Judge j. A. Orr, late Republican
Judge, has telegraphed to Colonel
gress In the First District, pledging him
his hearty support.
Capt. p. 9. Hall, colored, ex-Collector
OF Customs at Vicksburg, comes out for
Tilden and Hendricks, and will stump
the State for them. O. 8. Garrett, u
| friend Of his, follows suit.
| Mr.. Hugh McSwine, Of Garner Sta
tion, died on Monday evening last from
the effects Of a dose Of morphine given
him by mistake for quinine. Mr.. Nc
Swine was a merchant and q most ex
cellent citizen.
| John Scott and Curtis Alexander, two
prominent colored men Of Oxford coun-
| ty, insist upon the color line as the only
salvation OF the Radical party In Missis-
sippi. The negroes do not seem in
clined to follow them.
| Murders for the week: Summit
Jefferson Conerly, cOlored, was killed
by Elias Garner, colored.
Stewards, Macon county-Tom Poe,
colored, killed by Scott Smith, colored
Scooba--Tom Hearst, colored, killed
by one Scott, colored.
| Noxubee-Two negroes killed; assas-
sins in both cases negroes.
| Altogether, rather colored affair.
A municipal election was held In Pass
Christian last week. DIR. A, X. Northrop
was elected Recorder; P. Curtis, Treas
urer; and Messrs. Elliot Henderson,
Nicholas Holley, Victor Decondreaux
and Joshua Brown, as Councilmen.
Last week, JEFF Conerly, the negro
man who was murdered in cold blood
by Elias Garner, brother freedman, In
| Macon county, was buried with fresh
laid egg In his right hand, under the
superstitious belief that his murderer
would appear and sit upon his grave the
first night after his interment. A num-
ber Of negroes waited at the grave to
murderer did come and visit the grave
of his victim. Fresh eggs can now be
utilized.
Judge Hill has recently made an order
directing that the Grand Juries for the
next term of the United States Court.
for the Southern District Of Mississippi,
shall be chosen by lot, from q certain
number OF citizens, to be designated by
the United States Commissioners in the
several counties Of the district. As a
majority OF the Commissioners are
Democrats, we presume better Grand
Jury than the thing recently In session
| in Oxford, will be selected.
The last Grand Jury was composed,
with one exception, Of Radicals.
Sam Heron, the jailor Of Macon
county, had two Of his boarders down
in the Jail yard Tuesday, pursuing the
avocation usually piled by .washerwo-
men. When Sam displayed his kind
ness by drawing a bucket Of ''clean"
water for them, he looked up to find
that the place that once knew them,
knew them no longer. They had scaled
the yard walls. and were OF upon the
wings Of the wind.
! One or more Of the principal bonds