The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-08-11
SOUTHERN NEWS.
LOUISIANA

LOUISIANA.
The Lafayette farmers are shipping
a good deal Of corn.
the schools In Farmersville, Union
parish, opened Monday, August 2.
Candidates bribe the papers In Ra-
pides with large watermelons.
The Monroe kifles nave supplod
themselves with rifles.
Grand Marais swamp, on the Teche,
| ia to be drained.
A camp meeting is being held at
Downsville, parish OF Union.
The Opeloilsas Courier wants French
made again legal language In Louis
lana.
was held at Ambrosia. parish OF East
Baton Rouge. Friday, Aug. 8.
Petit WiItz, OF st. Martin. colored, 10
,12 years old. He Is full Of the history
OF early Louisiana. =. A.,
parish OF st. John Baptiste, Thursday,
Aug. 3. The crop Is said to be excel
| lent
Monday, Aug. 7, the st. James bolt
ers will hold II dihtrict nominating con
ventiOn.
The sugar house on the Crescent plan
tation, In JerrebonDe, was blown down
last Monday by storm.
/ The cultivation Of rice on the Alta
kapas prairies Is becoming popular. j.
Tbe celebration OF the Changers OF
Union parish. at Grange Institute, is
said to have been a grand affair. !.
Mrs. Maxwell. Of Abbeville. parish OF
; Vermilion. recently came near dying
from the effects Of q spider bite. she was
quite delirious and Tor several days her
. life was despaired OF.
Andrew johnson, colored, OF Natchi-
!, toches, duarreled with Moses Fortune,
colored. and threatened to kill him,
whereopon Fortune thought 1t wise 10
meet johnson privatly and shoot him III
? advance.
There is n great deal OF typhoid fever
around Bastrop, Morehouse parish
!. !, There is also, says the bsstroP ne
. drophobia in the parish" 1t is raging
we Understand with great violence:
The drouth and hot weather still con
= tinue In Rapides, damaging the corn tt
/, a great extent. The cotton, however
! is doing well there Is no talk OF cater
y pliers, the heat is too intense for them
they will have to wait fora more favora
: bic year.
0 The steam tug, A. G. NcDougal, Capt
. Booth, arrived at Shreveport. the ONE
: day. direct from the Niagara river, niD'
8 miles from the Niagara Falls, via LAKE
) Erie. Muskingum and the Ohio river
0 Can't. Jobn Roots, an old time Red Rive
), steam boatman, IN ct her atCair and CANE
q along on her 70 this point. Capt. Root
.. purchased her for his own use In towns
u saw logs for his saw mill In the Sulphu
:. fork. He will take her above the rafi
. and expects to take sound1ngs ol
. the lam, by running through the over
,, flow. He will do 1t IL anybody can.
r. The Texas fig crop is excellent:
a Texas Legislators have reduced thei
y own pay to two dollars day.
Camp meeting at Fiskville, an
n weather over 100 In the shade.
y The new Austin State House Is almoi
= In the Texas budget the following ar
|. the appropriations made Tor the publ
y. schools: For 1877, $610, 900; for 10"
a. $s20, 600; for 1879. ?s2o, 600.
~ The City Council Of Houston propos
~, ~ to sell the city's stock In the Mario
no no Gauge Railroad. The papers compiai
r., of this.
Il The Supreme Court is half centur
49, behind with it's decisions. The Iexs
no nc papers call on the Legislature for son
- remedy, without saying exactly what.
-, There are now about one thousan
~ visitors at the Lampasas County Spring
-. r. Many Of them live In camps. and the
'' is still room in the hotels and boardln
ot houses. -,
1t ';t In a county just adjoining to thl
- Texas, there was massacre OF equ
~ atrocity to the Hamburg massacre, al
~ In which many more were killed, whlt
III -, comparatively few OF the people OF Il
III North ever heard OF at all, we su
to pose.-[ Waco Register.
los Gov. Coke has issued his proclam
ho tion declaring Brown county no long
10 ~ frontier county, and liable TO l
TO cursions OF hostile Indians, and that (
10. ,aa and after August 10 the law regulatll
-. 700 the keeping and bearing OF dead
Nv weapOns will be enforced in that count
-. mo This is perhaps the only county IN g
"a, State that isn't frontier county.
:" The drouth which has prevailed
5,a the north for month or more mas III
~ bad effect on the growing cotton Gro
n .nu The abundant rains up TO the iast
10y June had the effect OF giving mu
lc. water TO the weed. In this condition
"a. a., has been badly prepared to withsta
N III the hot sun and high dry winds OF 7
ga @e1 month past. There Is much cOmplal
'nu among the cotton planters, and the fe
o ia EXPRESSED every day that not me
ea' ea' than a half crop will be picked.
Ace MISSISSIPPI.
The Port Gibson is fully organized
EN- boasts nall uoZoh oihins
raj clubs.
McComb City is looking up and ca
her attention to the sale OF quite q nun
tia Of lots. .,
eSt The Natchez Democrat complains u
nh. the Adams county Democracy is not
cen all organized. ,.u,.a
re. Hilfiard House, coiored, was killed
;ib- Bay St. Louis by fellow w-laborer nan
Iew Albert Douglass.
' The negroes around Morton
unanimously Democratic. Ihey mel
grand barbecue the other Gay. =,
The Kinds county Gazette says Il
yht, the Radical county convention ut II
for mond few Gays ago, was composSo
In insf aixtAen OF the faithful.