The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-07-25
SOUTHERN ITEMS.

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| Rcgattns have reached Thibodaus. and Bayou
Lafourche is now the scene Of constant rbces.
Grant parish complains OF great deal of sick
ness light fevers. etc.
| The people of Baton Rouge promise 70 raise
volunteers enough to gar rson that town aud
protect citizens against the bulldoozers II the
| United States IL In urgent need Of Brooke and
his troops to fight the Indians.
The Democratic District Convention to nomi.
| nate a Congressman froAi the Fifth Congress
sional District In calod at Monroe Tor Saturday,
Augusta.
| The vickaburg and Monroe Railroad Is again
| threatened BY overflow between Waverly and
| Tallulah. from water coming down from the
| Arkansas river. This In the Nth overflow the
road has met with in the past twelve months
| II IL not. however. considered very damaging.
The Supreme Court OF this State In It's SEES
sion at Monroe seemed to be in state Of war
with the lower courts. Out of thirty nine cases
appealed. twenty-nine were either reversed.
| amended or remanded. Ono district Judge had
eleven Of fourteen Of his decisions reversed.
| NIL. NJ Downing, popular citizen OF Delta.
Madison parish was drowned In the river op
| posite vicksburg Saturday evening. The body
could not BIO recovered.
| Both wings of the Democratic party Of st..
Landry are out with candidates and manifes-
| toes.
Taylor Beattie a candidate for Governor be-
| fore the late Radical Convention here. renom-
mates himself for District Judge of the Fifteenth
| Judicial District. Without seeking the nom
ination either Of political party or personal
| coterie"
The recent rise in the river has caused the
water rushing through the Grand Levae cre-
| vase TO back up on the rear lands on False
| River. parish OF Point Coupee. Tho damage
| therefrom IL not very great.
The 81. Charles Herald mentions the denh at
Freetown. in that parish. Of Madame Charlotte
| l.apion. aged 10 years and n native Of the
parish She left four generations Of descend
ants. all In st. Charles. and comprising more
than sixty persons.
Mr.. W. II. Pipes. Of East Felicana a Demo-
cratic member OF tho last Legislature announces
himself rs a candidate for Congress from the
Sixth District.
It seems that the negroes got up quite an ex-
element Ia Ascension last week over a reported
riot In Donaldsonvie. Four coored men were
rumored to have been hung to large tree near
the levee. The four colored men. however
turned out, like those Of Baton Rouge. TO be
alive and well. when the country negroes came
to town. The Ra dical campaign Is beginning.
The Cypremort Prairie. parish of st. Martin
utterly uninhabited before the war, IL now filled
with farms. almost all Of them worked by white
labor.
MISSISSIPPI.
| chess by telegraph.
Sunfower county Is without Board OF Super.
visors. the old board having failed to give bonds
~ required by q late law
The Auditor Of Mississippi decides that print
Ing of1aces and newspapers are not taxable. be-
cause they have no money to spare.
vicksburg IL after the boys swimming inside
Of city limits. Fifty we're up before the Mayor.
Saturday. and still larger supply expected for
Monday. The police are kept pretty busy this
hot weather.
All tho counties In Mississippi. in compliance
with the recommendation OF Gov. Stone. are
busy getting UP historical societies and appoint
ing historians. In Copiah county a society with
DR.. n. Hanslow 10 president Ia busy getting
materials for the county history. In Claiborne a
committee Of Ave has been selected to do the
same work. Claiborne is one Of the oldes
counties in the State.
The Sunday liquor law Is to be carried out in
Mississippi, and all the bar-rooms in vicksburg
and Jackson closed Considerable excitement
prevails In consequence.
The fernando Press swears to negro woman
] named Clarey Fogg aged one hundred and
fourteen.
Three new Democratic papers In Mississippi
| in one week. The cause certainly looks promis-
| ing. Quitman Istelii0enoer. Meridian Comet.
and Houston Weekly Courier
The State Superintendent OF Education, Gath
bright. has issued circular addressed to all the
| country superintendents. counseling them to
| inaupuratA public schools and PROMISING the m
| his cooperation.
| Robt. Gleed, late colored Senator from the
| Columbus District in the State Senate. has an
nounced his intention of supporting the Demo
| cratic party in the coming canvass. Gleed Is a
man Of great influence with the colored voters
in Lowndes county and will be quite an acqui-
sition to the Democratic party.
TEXAS
| Tho Jefferson Leader complains that movable
whisky saloons interfere with the building of
| the East Line Railroad. by selling bad whisky to
| the men, and generally uniting them for work
| The San Antonio Jail is full Of prisoners.
gamblers. thieves. ETC.. to the number Of more
| than fifty. Some relief is urgently demanded
| by the people.
The Jefferson Leader returns compliments to
| drug store for a box of fine toilet soap. prais-
| ing the store and the donor to the skies. Just
let some New Orleans apothecary give us such
hint as this, it will not be compliment he will
get
| The Western Texas papers are still hammer
ing away for new State Of West Texas, The
San Antonio Herald claims that the original
founders of the Texan Republic stipulated that
Texas should be divided into four additional
states whenever any section possessed sufficient
population for admission, and hints that this
J time has now arrived.