The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-08-25
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
LOUISIANA,

watermelon question, The idea OF cry
ing lor melons In the middle OF an
earnest canvass. =
The new telegraph line from Royvilie
TO Opelousas will soon be erected. Sub
scription lists are going around and
everybody subscribes literally. It is
proposed, II sufficient money can be
raised, to build another line from Ope-
lousas to Alexandria.
The Police Jury Of Franklin parish Is
under indictment by the Grand Jury.
me following able but somewhat Pc
culiar defense Is published by member
Of the jury;
The Police Jury, then believing 1t to
be their duty to build the Jail, at once
proceeded to do so, and In letting out
the contract for building, reserved the
right to let 1t out to the best interest OF
the parish, which they believed they
dld 10 letting It out to the highest in
stead OF the lowest bidder"
The public will at once see the sense
or This. The Jury ought never to have
accepted the bid of.the lowest bidder
that very cheapness Indicated that he
would not take as much care In the
work as man who charged more for
the work.
At Oiens Il Burke's saw mill, on Lake
providence, Carroll parish, the boiler
exploded last Saturday, killing four and
dangerously wounding three men. Mr..
Oiens, the owner OF the mill, was hurled
by the explosion over fifty yards and on
the top OF an adjacent house. being
killed instantly 1t is supposed. The
other killed were Mr.. II. r. Robbins,
who happened to be passing at the time,
and two negro employees, Frank Rey-
nolds aud Lewis Irwin. The wounded
men were Mr.. p. c.. Burke, Jasper
Hughes and a coIored man. 1t is ex-
pected that all Of them will recover
The mill was erected only q few weeks
ago. The boiler, the cause Of the
trouble, was second-handed and very
defective, having remained In the swamp
twelve or fifteen years, and quite de-
cayed when purchased.
MISSISSIPPI.
A new paper, Democratic OF course,
the Oxford Eagle, springs into existence
In Oxford.
Daniel Smith, d leading Republican
OF Macon, Is locked up for theft The
Radical vote In Mississippi will be less
In consequence.
Mr.. II. II. Ware, nominated by the
Radicals for elector OF the Fifth Dis
trict. has declined the honor, without
giving his reason. One Ireland will
take his place.
Murders for the week: Water Valley,
Columbus Cook, colored, by Fayette
McFarlan, colored; Markville, Watt,
colored, by Lucy Watt, colored, his wife.
A registration committee is to be
appointed by every Democratic club in
Mississippi to see that there is no false
registration. A good idea for us to
initiate.
At a Democratic barbecue at Port
I,,aN IL 4 ha,. -.
sion thirteen hundred horsemen and
twelve hundred on foot. Large numbers
OF colored voters took part in the affair,
and were addressed by speakers OF their
own race.
They are still coming In Mississippi
Hon. w. Ct. Milsaps, a Republican mem
ber OF the Legislature from Jefferson
county has renounced Radicalism and
Is now openly for Tilden, Hendricks
and reform.
Thomas Walton, ex-Chancellor, has
been nominated by the Republican Con-
vention, at Sardis, as a candidate for
Congress in the Second District. He Is
said to be q man Of some brains and
culture, and was nominated probably
because the District Is overwhelmingly
Democratic, and nobody else cared for
the honor OF running.
Jefferson county is last becoming
Democratized. The colored people in
that county are joining the Democratic
clubs in great numbers. There Is no
doubt among the Democrats OF that
county that they will carry the. Novem-
ber election by large majority. Every
precinct in that county has a thorough
ly organized and effective Democratic
club.
TEXAS.
The first through train over Tom
Scott's road reached Texarkana Sunday
They have a big cheese factory at
A good deal Of hog cholera is reported
in Hearne.
Goliad enjoys 1O6 In the shade. We
distrust those Texas Thermometers !;
they are as hot as Texas whisky.
Dallas has cavalry company called
the Custer Guards, which is going to
offer its services to the United States,
to avenge the fate Of Custer.
Oakville is peaceable just now, but all
the devils OF the West are gathering
beyond that town and the cattle droves
are sadly mixed, and there is bad feel
ing among stock men, and the day Of
settlement can only be postponed by
the militia.
The people OF Gonzales are worried
over a lobster caught in their river, the
Guadaloupe. He was classed at first as
q cray-fish, but his genus is now recog-
nized. The only question Is how he got
there and from whose salad he escaped
LIFE IN TExAs.--Three desperadoes
conspired to rob the railroad agent at
Harwood. They took a good deal Of
whisky to screw up their courage, and
deputy sheriff attempted to arrest them
and was resisted. He summoned posse
of gallant citizens and one robber was
killed, another wounded and the third
captured. They killed an excellent
citizen named Name.
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Intimidating q Black Preacher. 8.
from the Petersburg Index.l
The Rev. J. w. Dungee, pastor OF the