The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-04-30
SOUTHERN ITEM
LOUISIANA,

LOUISIANA.
The st. James Sentinel says that .Ief,
Thompson is prompt at repartee but
met his match the other day. Beinp
waited upon by q committee Of citizens
IN reference to building the leyee at
Milliken's Bend he replied that il the
planters would furnish the money he
would furnish the brains and the Leyee
Company would do the work. The com
mttee objected on the ground that the
quota OF aid which he proposed to con
tribute was inflnitesimal
The police jury OF Pointe Coupee have
passed rigid Sunday law, compelling
all business places Except butcher
baker and apothecary shops) to be closed
on Sabbath day.
The Property Holders Union OF tho
parish OF Red River has recommended
the appointment Of Ben jamin Perrot. n
| colored citizen, us n Tax Collector o!
! that parish.
| New IBERIA Sugar Bowl)
| The stubble cane is better than was
ever before known at this season: plant
cane, though in some places backward.
Is growing finely, but will not every
where make good stand, owing either
TO rotten seed or badly sprouted cane.
Corn Is now growing very fast whore
up, but the last rains were so hard that
the earth was packed and since baked
by the sun in that condition planters
are much annoyed by the cloas, which
prevent securing good stand of cotton
as well as corn. However, before this
is IN print, we hope for rain.
Messrs. j. q /. Lockhart have put
chased the Victoria" date Generes.)
and "Viego" plantations, on the Atcha~
falaya
Mr.. Rivers, OF the st. Charles Hotel.
has purchased the Hawkins plantation.
Two negro jurors, near Pattersonville.
borrowed horses to attend tho court
Reaching there they sold the saddles
and brides and turned the horses loose.
They have been arrested.
Farmervlle Record. April al
Miss Emily Auld, a young lady about
IL years old. committed suicide, on the
10Th inst. by hanging herself. She was
found dead in an empty corn crib, hang
ing by rope fastened to one of the
rifters. The crib was small-the walls.
probably. not over eight feet high. The
rope was attached to the rafter about
fourteen inches from the plate. and her
feet hung within. eighteen inches of the
floor. An empty barrel was standing on
one side of her, and board was fasten-
ed in the corner two feet and q half
from the floor, upon which. evidently.
she stood while fastening the rope to
the rafter. Her neck was broken
TEXAS.
The San Antonio Herald has graphic
account Of how highway robber came
to grief, and we regret that our space
forbids reprinting it.
Mr.. Gavin Woodward, q live stock
dealer well known ia those parts, was
returning on business from San Marcos
Gnp Ant Il, -
about five or.six miles, he was suddenly
set upon by two bandits, who, revolver
in hand, issued from thicket and de-
manded his money.
NOW, Woodward was cool man, but
his pistol was not Immediately within
reach, so he temporized with the rob
bers. answering their demands mildly
and jocosely, till their sus spicions were
allayed. All the while one Of the rob
bers held his cooked pistol leveled ut
breast. MY friend" re-
marked the traveller, please do not
handle your pistol so carelessly; / am
muzzle little" The robber seeing his
victim apparently so quiet and passive.
lowered his weapon, when Woodward,
putting his left hand in his pocket,
Dstensibly to reach his money, with the
light seized his pistol and before the
'obber could recover his guard. fired,
md lodged a ball in his hip. The
Wounded man fell; his companion
'ushed to his assistance and Wood
ward seizing time by the forelock,
'purred bis horse, bounded away, and
vas soon out of harms way.
1t is supposed the two robbers were
he same ones who perpetrated thu
stage robbery.
The Dallas He,dM says that as the
outh bound train passed out of Plano,
! child was seen sitting on the track.
The brakes were turned, but il was too
ate ; the cow-catcher struck the child
N the head and hurled it from the
rack. The child is not expected to re-
over.
The Marshall Herald tells OF two
'ouDg men who were out hunting wild
urkeys. One Of them seeing something
rawling in the bushes, thought it was
turkey and fired, putting seventeen
uckshot in the body Of his companion.
A negro boy named Blocker, standing
n his own door, at Austin, near the
reight depot, was brutally murdered on
night by a ruffian who rode
p to the house and shot him in the
orehead, killing him instantly. The
flicers are on the murderer's tracks.
tHinds County Gazette. April 2el
While business is extremely dull In
he towns, owing to the absence of the
sual customers from the country, it is a
and cheerful reflection that
be great agricultural interest, upon
Thich the whole country relies for sup.
ort, is going forward with life and
igor. Large crops of corn and the other
ecessary products, and remuneratiye
rop OF cotton, the present season, will
lace the people Of Kinds county in a
etter situation next fall, in every re-
pect, than they have been since the
ar.
BrOther-in-Law Casey's Den.
Daylight is at length to be let into
nat den of iniquity, Brother-in-la
asey's New Orleans Custom house.
he House Of Representatives passed q
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