The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-08-01
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
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wages, especially on the sugar plantaA
lions, will be lower than ever.
Army worms Second crop are re-
ported In considerable numbers In Qua
chita parish. Great danger II they
prove lively.
A great deal Of sickness is reported
In West Fellcians Among the i'll, ID re-
ported Sheriff Kaufman. "A.
II. G.. McCutcheon was elected Presi-
dent Of the School Board OF st. Charles
Parish In the place OF X. II. Chadburn,
deceased.
The country is enjoying all sorts OF
festivities, social clubs, amateur tbeat-
ricals, picnics, and everything else
This year Point Coupee parish sends
to market three hundred barrels OF ma
chine extracted honey, worth forty
dollars per barrel or twelve thousand
doliurs for the "crop.'
The Telrebonne road, from Thibodaux
TO the railroad, will soon be Ia a tit con
ditioI Tor travel. 1t has been In terri.
BILE state for some time past oil
holes and oyerflowed.
The Concordia Eagle. Radical, comes
to us with this piteous plant, In which,
however, we cannot join with II:
1.-THE outside of this issue Ii rather
Democratic one OF the disadvantages OF
the cooperative newspaper system, a.
we have no control over that side.
The School Board Of st. Charles con-
sists Of only u few officeholders q Rep
resentative, Parish Judge, Sheriff. JUS
tice OF the Peace and Syndic. To fiji
Senator Chadburn's place, the candi-
date for District Attorney has been Sc
lected.
The st. james Sentinel, Senator
Bovee's paper, threatens to suspend il
IL is not better supported. Bovee, un
fortunately, attacked Packard, think
ing his defeat In the Radical convention
here assured. And this Is the result.
Geo. Ellison, u noted desperate OF
Franklin parish. was killed at Widow
Roberts, In the Southern portion OF the
parish, the other day. The Sheriff and
q posse were after him to arrest him,
Upon seeing them Ellison commenced
retreating, when one Of the posse fired.
when about eighty yards distance,
striking Ellison in the back OF the head
Immediately killing him.
Delhi. Louisiana, has amateurs.
Dramatic Of course. and to suit the
weather.
The Lafourche newspapers seem to
forget that there is an Important cam
paign before Us. The two Radical
papers of that parish are slashing away
terribly at each other, and more intent
on scalps than Packard or Antoine.
TEXAS.
Dennison has an ice factory.
Two hundred dogs have been killed In
San Antonio this month and the slaugh-
ter progresses.
The people of Jefferson, Texas, are
trying to get up q Baptist College tb re.
Dallas proposes to inaugurate public
free schools.
Some fellows on drunk in Fort
Worth emptied their pistols In the win
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crowd of wounded.
The grasshoppers, which have been in
turing the crops In Grimes county, were
washed away by the recent rains.
The citizens OF Fort Worth have been
feasting the gentlemen OF the Texas Pa
citic.
The boys OF San Antonio are very ex-
pert at throwing, and bring down man
At eighty yards.
has organized minute companies Of its
beat citizens to put an end TO the theft.
murder and robbery prevailing there.
In johnson county, lately, the judge,
on the same day, sentenced homicide
To two years la the penitentiary, horse
thief to twelve. And yet they complain
Of crime in Texas.
The largest mortgage ever recorded
In Qrayson county was done there the
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1t filled thirty pages. folio, and required
q 5000 revenue stamp.
A Mexican, In Dallas. lately. came up
toe negro named Barney, who was talk
ina, lassoed him and tried TO drag him
out of town to hang him. Fortunately
tho negro was saved.
Houston had big excursion on Tues |
Day, In honor of the completion OF the |
second ten miles Of her narrow gauge
railroad.
w The Dennison Neus claims that the
Mayor and other public officers OF that
little town pocket Illegally some four
thousand dollars, they yearly steal from
the nymphes du pave.
The East Texan Patron has depart |
ment headed, Love Lady Locals"
What Is the meaning OF IL 7 Some new
: disguise for whisky, sure.
The German communities in Texas
are all strongly In favor OF the election
OF Tilden and Hendricks. 1t means
b honest administration, revival OF bust
ness and lower rates of taxation, and |
these are the principles the Germans
always vote for.
5a MISSISSIPPI.
Crops in the Kossuth vicinity are
doing we'll. The planters cure the rust
by scattering salt on the ground where |
the plant is affected.
The defunct Grenada Republican Is TO |
be resuFrected as the mouthpiece Of the |
Radical party IN that county in the
coming campaign.
Col. Henry L. Muldrow has been nom
mated for Congress In the First District. |
He is a native Mississippian. aged about
thirty-hve, and was splendid soldier
during the war.
A meeting was held Saturday In
vicksburg to select delegates to the
Congressional nominating convention.
DIR. q. X. Marshall was strongly in
dorsed and the delegates instructed to
urge his nomination.
Two deaths In Natchez from sun
stroke, and both OF them negroes.
strange to say.
Holly Springs has a duel between
Messrs. Lucas and Matthews. Nobody
hurt. /
iDa The people In the neghborhood OF
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