The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-04-27
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
LOUISIANA.

Baton Rouge Advocate. April 25.l
It Is the general talk on the streets
that certain ex-Judge attended the
wedding of colored couple the other
night and that he not only kissed the
bride but joined in the kissing plays
and kissed all the negro girls in the
house. Some are even uncharitable
enough to hint that another Davis
scrape may come out Of this sort OF busi-
ness yet.
tPointe Corpee Republican, April 221
The weather since our last issue has
been "as fair as the dream of q poet.
Farm work Of all sorts has progressed
well and rapidly Our planters, for the
most part, have finished planting cotton
and corn. The area planted this year
will be smaller thnn that Of last. on ae-
count of the water being higher.
tAlexandria Gozette. April AL
We are informed that VIM. Prahm
was killed at Chieot. st. Landry parish,
on Epmdey evening last, by n colored
boy about fourteen years of age. IT
seems that he and the boy had diff
Guilty in Mr.. Sam Hayes stable, where
upon the colored boy struck him with
the stable shovel upon the head. ftac-
turing his skull, causing death Instantly.
MISSISSIPPI.
At the upper end Of Deer Creek. ut
Evan 8 the levee was cut which let the
water into Black Blayou and overtlowed
eight or ten places along Black Bayou.
The side levee at Moore's on Williams s
Bayou. gave way. and overilowed four
or five places in the southwest part OF
Bolivar county. md two or three in the
upper end of Washington county, add
ing still more water TO Black Bayou
swamp But with all this. the river
front Of Washington county. the Deer
Creek lands. Lake Lee and Lake Wash
ing county. embracing the finest parts
Of the county. have escaped inundation,
and planting Is being pushed with vigor.
We arc thankful for the sympathy ex-
pressed by your correspondents, but do
not wish the public 10 think we arc en-
tirely out Of sight.
GYazoo City Democrat. April 81
Capt. j u. Tiuney and Judge Warren
County had n shooting scrape ut ~ Dem
ocratic ward meeting. in Vickeburg, on
Saturday night last. As is too often the
case in such rencontres, the combatants
missed each other. and one shot Sc
riously wounded an unoifending by
stauder, Mr., John Groome.
WOODY lie Republican, April 221
The Vicks ,urg HeraM mentions the
rather remarkable Instance of n de-
tected thief committing suicide to es-
cape punishment. He had stolen two
pigs, grand larceny now. and preferred
going to the Devil than to the peniten-
tiary, and went.
The Marshall CTexas) Hcrdh thus
criticlses Gov. Coke's message to the
Legislature:
lit occupies, in small type. twelve
| columns OF that paper. 1t is an able
State paper. While it Is long. 1t is con.
else, clear and full OF interest or all
the messages that have emanated from
the executive mansion, it is conspicuous
for its comprehensive and thorough
knowledge OF public affairs. the ampli-
tude of its details. the wisdom OF its
dom with which all the questions Of
governmental policy are discussed"
ALABAMA.
The Montgomery Stote Jomnal, Of tho
oath inst, states that on Saturday night
at about 10 o'clock, the sky was bril-
liantly Illuminated by meteor OF very
large size, having the appearance Of a
ball Of iron at white heat, with sparks
Of variegated colors flying from it in all
directions. When passing from sight,
the meteor appeared to lcngthen out,
and instead Of being round it looked to
be about II yard long. with u trail OF
sparks Of every color imaginable.
| The meteor passed from east to west,
and the sound which followed 1t was
something like that which follows n
bombshell when flying through the air
after being fired from u mortar.
| About three minutes after the atmos-
pheric bombshell had passed out from
sight terrible explosion was heard,
similar to the noise produced by the
! firing Of heavy cannon on water. A
lady residing near Hammer Hall was in
the act of drinking water from u tin
dipper, and was raising the dipper to
her mouth when the explosion occurred.
and it shook the dipper so much as to
| frighten her considerably.