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

The Board Of Assessors are at work IN
most of the country parishes.
BDuf river Is very full, and has been
rising all the week. It Is getting out
the banks In places now.
cord wood taken in pay for sub
scription to the st. James Sentinel Also
cigarettes, parish scrip and perique
tobacco for sale.
A travelling company OF lightning rod
men are marching through ST. Charles.
The public schools Of st. Charles were
closed on August 1, because the school
funds were exhausted.
The two Radical papers Of Lafotrche,
the Republican and Union, are at IT
again for the printing contract.
Tripplett and Turnbull, the colored
buildozers, were landed safely in jail.
The KepubtiCGa need not have been
50 anxious.
The Baton Rouge AdrOcate complains
Of the manner i'm which Mr.. Mathew
Reilly, an old citizen Of Bayou Sara.
who was drowned In the river, was
buried by the coroner.
One Of our country exchanges, an
official journal, by-the-by, has nearly
the whole OF one OF its articles In Italics,
not, however, because it wishes to be
impressive. but because 1t seems to have
; given out of BREWER and nonpareil.
A glorious horse thief of CaddO par
ish. John Cavis, alias Thos. Williams.
alias Thomas, was captured by a negro
boy Thomas at thetime was oittciat-
ing at negro church ia the neighbor-
hood.
The Shreveport Times says that it Is
In daily receipt Of letters from Illinois
asking about that Sc ctioD OF the country.
Come one, come all we welcome all
immigrants from Illinois we want ILL
nOis farmers, but no more Illinois Gov
} ernors just yet awhile.
The Shreveport papers are highly in
dignant with the somewhat unscru-
pulous manner In which rival Texas
cities have of fighting 1t, by charging
that yellow fever Is now epidemic in
, Shreveport. 1.-The report was current
on the street last night that this terrible
scourge yellow fever) had again made
its appearance in the unfortunate city
of Shreveport, and that there are now
several dangerous cases OF 1t under
treatment" says the Dallas Mail. This
is devicesof the enemy that we OF New
Orleans have had too often to suffer to
mind 1t much.
Two negroes, Nathan Pitman and n ed
Jones, living near st. Francisville, West
Feliciana, quarreled over a string OF
fish which Pitman is said to have stolen.
Jones was killed.
EVERY able-bodied male person in
the parish. except those who may furn-
ish an able bodied substitute, ministers
OF the Gospel In the actual exercise Of
their profession, physicians practising
; their profession, the State and parish
! officers, Clerk, Sheriff and Recorder.
but not their deputies, the Parish Judge
and magistrates, from the age OF sixteen
to forty-five years old inclusive, shall be
subject to road duty, and be placed, set
; apart and ordered by the present and
subsequent Police Juries to work any
road or roads in the parish Of Rich
land" Good and sensible idea.
TEXAS.
Business is improving In Houston.
Bonham is full Of emigrants from the
older States.
The Waco Reporter gives up and re-
tires from this world of sin and woe.
Every town i'm Texas is chronicling its
first bale of cotton.
Cashmere goats are being imported
| into Texas by the express companies.
Several members OF the Texas Legis-
lature have bolted, resigned their posi-
tion and returned home.
The Mormons are doing heavy pros
Ietizing business in Texas, and even get
advertisements in the papers.
Bishop Garrett, OF Texas, has been
made a LID. Some Mississippi col
lcRG u1u IL.
The Texas Catholic, after suspension
Of several weeks, has been revived and
made its appearance again. 1t is edited
, and published by Messrs. Sells a.
McKenna.
The Waco Daily Examiner, and so do
the Texas oranges, want q local option
, law for Texas.
Austin boasts of from 1O2 to 1l6 in the
shade and l51 in the sun. Where in
lAl. Il hnir
thermometers
The City Marshal complains that the
people Of Houston will not pay their
taxes as they used to do. They are
, fully fifty cents behind, as compared
with previous years.
The Waco opera house was to be
finished this week and ready for the
, atrical performances at the coming fair.
Mr.. G.. B. Medley, near Houston,
raises the finest kind OF grapes, seed
less and the size OF pigeon eggs. In
appearance they resemble muscadine,
but are said in reality to be scupper-
nong.
An Indian warrior with his arms,
trinkets, etc, were blasted out Of a
solid rock the other day, near Bonham.
How in the world did he get there
;, San Antonio has fatal sunstrokes. 1t
is said the thermometer stood 149 in the
sun at noon. We don't know whether
to credit this or impute 1t to the types.
Ought it not to be 109?
! Dallas, last week, rejoiced in the
hottest weather probably ever felt in
this country. 1t stood ia in the shade
almost all day, and produced plen-
teous crop OF sunstroke fully one-haif
of which proved fatal. Three fatal
cases occurred on Sunday. 1t is said
that in some places the thermometer
rose as high as 140 in the sun.
4 Waco boasts of two unbroken mails
in succession, and claims that it is
owing to the alteration of the gauge of
the Central Texas Railroad.
A report prevails in Dallas to the
effect that yellow fever, Of very malig
nant type, has again broken out at
Shreveport. II this is SO, too much at
tention cannot be paid to sanitary mat
ters in the State. Probably a business
enterprise this Shreveport yellow fever