The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-25
SOUTHERN NEWS.
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Rapides parish scrip ID worth forty
cents.
Mixed weather prevails In the Attn.
kapas.
Spring ducks are three for twenty five
cents In Ayoyelles.
| A fifteen foot alligator was killed In
Red River, just In front OF Shreveport,
the other day. -.
Next years rice crop In PIaquemtnes
parish will be much larger than that OF
| The past season. @ee aat y
pneumonia and kindred diseases of
the lungs and throat are reported to be
very prevalent In Calcasieu parish just
now.
The Quantieo plantation, Rapides par
ish, was sold by the Sheriff last. Satur-
day, and brought only $500. 1t con-
tanned 1900 acres. ..
Real estate In Plaauemines parish.
Judging from recent sales made, has de-
preeiated fully fifty per cent In value Ia
the last i've years.
The officials OF Madison parish. oil
Radicals. gladly accept commissions
sent by the Nichols government, with
but one exception. "a.
Strange to say, some small farmers
| uIlktl ANSR AJDe tAhV HstAfsAts SatsAt0 ts
Avoyelles parish have made q decided
success OF IL this year.
Antoine aoudreau died at Cottonport
In Avoyelles last Monday of smallpox.
He had brought 1t direct from New Or.
leans and IL 10 feared has inoeulated the
disease and scattered 1t over the parish.
Az we thought. after asserting dozen
times that the peach crop Of the parish
had been utterly destroyed and taking
IL back as often, the Marksville Bulletin
finally hits on a happy medium and dc.
elares 1t IL kind OF 30 and kind Of
aint."
mississippi.
The Macon Beacon favors b. q. Hum
phreys for Governor.
The fruit crop of northeastern Mississ
sippi is entirely destroyed.
The Board OF Supervisors OF Amite
county have resolved to hire out insol.
vent prisoners.
All the cases Of smallpox have died
out in Pike county. It was brought
from New Orleans last January In an
excursion train, # a.s aD
A Mr.. g. j. Green, Of White Oak, In
the northern part of Copiah county,
cultivated two acres iii Louisiana sugar
cane, making e7e gallons ofsyrup, worth
$a42.
Mississippi plantations sold for taxes
under Radical rule are being rapidly
redeemed. One lot Of three thousand
acres, near Natchez, was redeemed by
the owner only last week.
i burglar broke into the store of
LYMAN Brothers, Summit. The store
contained o large quantity of money, a
great deal OF jewelry, etc. The thief
apparently rummaged through all of
these, for they were found topsy. turvey.
pall.mell, and yet refused to take any
shitng but very Y ordlne ~ - suit Of
off with property worth several thou
sand dollars. Here's honesty for you.
One Won Bates. colored, living In
under an indictment for retailing, be-
came so much troubled by the circum-
stance that he attempted suicide by
tying rope around his neck, the other
end to the lirnb Of q tree and then
Jumping out. His aim would have been
accomplished very speedily had 1t not
been that q colored friend happened
along and cut him down just before life
was extinct.
Four negroes, charged with the muir
der Of Mr.. Lowry, which occurred some
three weeks since, were arrested and
brought to areenville yesterday. Mr..
Lowry was manager on the Solitaire
plantation, In the lower portion Of Pike
county, owned by Miss. Knox. From
revelations Of some Of the negroes on
the place, 1t seems that ell the laborers
on It are implicated; and that the MUIR
der was deliberately designed and
planned, and carried out in the most
brutal manner. Mr.. Lowry was enticed
into one Of the cabins at night, and then
overpowered and led out and beaten
with clubs and axes until he was sup
posed to be dead; giving evidence Of
life, however, he was then shot
through the brain. The object stated
in confessions Of some Of those impli-
Gated was, that they did not wish any
manager on the place. Truly horrible
crime.
Galveston Is now clamoring for jet
ties.
The Marshall Herald has become
daily.
There are seven candidates for the
mayoralty in Navasota.
The Texas and Pacific depot at Fort
Worth Is to be built at once.
Rothsohild, who murdered his mis-
tress, Bessie Moore, has been surrender
ed by Ohio to Texas authorities.
The position OF Recorder Of Browns
Vile Is worth $66 year, and yet there
are half a dozen candidates for the
office. " @
Sheriff Noble, Harris county, recent
ly broke up den Of horse-thieves near
Houston, and killed one Of the leaders,
named Andrew Washington. ~
Mr.. Wentworth, Surveyor Of Kendall
county, Is locating a hundred or more
land certificates on account Of the Texas
Land and Immigration Company OF
st. Louis, Of which Hon. B. Gratz
Brown is President. This company will
sell the lands, when located, at the rate