The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-31
LOUISIANA.

The Port Barrow levee, in Ascension parish,
Is completed.
James Diamond caught a 149 pound catfish at
College Point. parish of st. james. last week.
The st. James Louisiandis estimates the
sugar crop of that parish as fifty per cent
short.
Last week was a very busy one in Monroe, $50
bales of cotton being brought in and sold dur
ing the week.
The Carroll Conservative says the great Bass
levee will surely be built in lime to save from
another inundation thousands of acres.
The vidalia Eagle regrets to hear that sena-
tor David Young's business Is increasing SO
rapidly that he will probably have to resign his
seat in the Senate.
A shooting ARRAY between two negroes in
which one was killed. is reported to have oc-
Cured below this place in this parish. Names
OF parties Observation-Disclosures indicator.
meeting Of cotton growers will be held at
Vidalia on the 29th. preliminary to calling a
convention similarly composed. which. 1t is
thought. will meet at Vickshurg about the 5th
of February.
The police jury of st. James will exact no Ii
cense tax from physicians. although all the
other professions -lawyers. etc.-will have to
pay licenses. 1t thinks that doctors ought to be
more encouraged
The Vidalia and Western Railroad Company
mean business. They have Just COMPLETED a
new and roomy depot at Hidaia: have $4,000 Of
are grading six miles of bed from Tacony to
Bayou Cocoda
We learn that difficulty occurred in Red
River parish between the brothers arr Dave
and John, and q nephew named Thomson
who sided with his uncle Dave Carr. John Carr
was shot in the leg by Thompson. who, with
arrest them for said shooting. Sheriff shot
Dave Carr in the bowels. aud Thompson o.
capped tNatchitoches Vtndicator.
The Planters Union of st. Mary in session
mt Franklin last week fixed salaries as follows
First-class hands. s15 month with rations, or
sls without rations; second class hands, women
and children. salaries to be proportionate to the
amount of work done, payable two-thirds at the
end of the month and One-th ird to be- retained
to the end Of the year. First class femae hands
fifty cents day including rations. Ration a
pound OF pork and two pounds OF corn meal
Half an acre to be allowed each hand for his own
use. Those not agreeing to these terms are to
leave the plantations before February 1.
An affidavit was made before Justice Way OF
Wednesday evening by G. P. Bryant against
one Frank Connors. charging him with having
thrown man. whose name is VIM. Nash. into q
nearly to death. The only facts we could get
concerning the matter are, that the man Nash
went down to the Arlington place; some four or
After securing employment he was told by the
foreman of the hands to go to the cook and get
something to eat. He did SO: and while ne was
,nnors came UP behind him. seized hi i'm and
threw him into the boiling water 1t is sup
posed that the attack was made on account OF an
old feud between them. Connors was also
scalded. A warrant was issued for the arrest 81
Connors. Both men were sent to the city hospi-
tai Connors being unguarded.-lBaton Rouge
Advocate.
We yesterday learned Of dastardly outrage
perpetrated on Monday evening last, at the
store of B. Wller, Willow Chute in Bossiel
parish, by Richard Jasper, a notorious negro
who has been under peace bond for some
| time. On the evening mentioned he, accom-
panied by eight or ten other negroes, went tt
drinking it they demanded NOR. but Mr.. vii
Ter. seeing they were drunk. refused. They
make him give them whisky. using the most in
decent language. Mr.. Willer ordered them on
of the store. but they continued their demands
and threats when he struck Jasper with a bot
tie. The whole party. then seized everything
they could lay their hands upon. which the ne
| threw at Mr.. Miller. A fonT- pound.! Welgh,
aged about seven years. on the head. causing
| fracture of the skull. which the physician
learn no arrests have been made (5hrevepor
| Timts, Dec. q.