The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-18
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

The schools in Caddo parish will be
opened September /.
The Iberyille South wants the steam
boat landing at Plaquemine enlarged.
Bayou Sara js going to establish q
large steam cotton gin In time for the
coming crop.
A colored man named Blind Ned died
of supstroke In Donaldsonville last
week.
A colored boy was drowned while
bathing In front Of the Clements planta-
ton, In Iberville parish. last week.
There are several cases OF small .pox
at Bruley landing, West Baton Rouge.
Several new cases are reported.
Tensas parish has forty i've road dis
triets and as many road overseers. mo
lack Of roads In Tensas.
Glenn Brown, who recently escaped
from CoDcordia Jail, was captured by
the sheriff OF that parish and taken at
once to Baton Rouge.
A portion Of the West Baton Rouge
courthouse fell down last week, fortu-
nately hurting no one. The building Is
In terrible condition.
Last Saturday q windstorm passed
through the lower portion OF the parish
of West Baton Rouge, doing some dam
age. Mr.. Lafabres' sugar house below
the Hickey place, was blown down by
this storm and considerable damage
done.
The exercises at Centenary Collage,
at jackson, last week, attracted the
largest gathering there since the war.
The commencement sermon was by Rev.
DIR. johnson, President OF Whitworth
Female College, OF Brookhaven, Miss,
and the addresses by Hon. H. l.. Pond
and Il. John Ellis.
On Saturday last, Judge Beattie, In
written decision requiring forty-five
minutes TO read, decided the contested
election cases in favor of Wilton for
sheriff, Falgout for coroner, Lorio and
Rogers for Justices OF the peace In the
Thibodaux Ward, and Brown, Schnei-
der, Basile, Foret and Galleano for
police Jurors.
Further inquiry shows that Weber,
late Treasurer Of the West Feliciana
school board, had been acting for several
years without bond. He gave his last
bond In 1879. When he was elected last
year as Treasurer OF the school board,
he furnished no bond at all, although
he had $4,000 Of school moneys In his
hand. for which he has not yet ac-
counted.
The West Feliciana Sentinel Ia very
anxious to have a press convention this
year. It insists that 1t is absolutely
necessary, and declares that IL the
papers would only meet together and
devise some way OF preventing their
being swindled in the matter OF adver.
Louisiana. journalism would
become what 1t ought to be. The whole
,trx,
The School Board Of Concordia parish
held their regular meeting last Satur-
day, July 6. The experts appointed to
examine the accounts, books and vouch-
ers OF the late treasurer, David Young,
made their report, and found that the
said David Young was, according to
law, $39. 900 short, and even to give him
credit for all he claims as discount he
Ia still over $4,000 short. The board
will make demand for this balance.
On Friday last, the 9Th instant, Aleck
Washington, Wesley Bryant, Aaron
Hinsman, FL. Williams and Ely Hall, un-
derwent a preliminary examination, be-
fore the Parish Court, OF Iberville, for
the killing of Sam johnson, on the
Belle Grove plantation, on the 10th OF
last month. The Ave accused were sent
before the District Court for trial. Hen
derson Williams has made confession
of having fired the fatal shot, and de-
sires to turn States evidence.
On Thursday last Deputy Sheriff Hill,
of Bossier, after he had given the pris-
oners their dinner, left the trap door to
the east dungeon open while he went
after water for them. During his alb
sence four Of the negroes confined
therein climed into the upper cell, and
when the deputy opened the door they
rushed upon him, forcing him to one
side, three Of them made good their es-
fell through the trap door to the floor
beneath. and was considerably bruised.
by the fall.
Mississippi.
Charles Dorsey, eight years old, son
Of q. s. Dorsey, Of Carroll parish. fell
from a clubhouse In Issaquena county,
and was fatally injured.
In the Democratic county conven-
lions of LealSe and Montgomery dele
gates were instructed to vote for Mr..
Richard Walpole, Of the Central Star,
for Auditor.
On Friday Of last week Mr.. l.. Vresin-
sky. confined in Jail In Natchez, for
UDEGdU0uluk bAS Aih1 VI LAG WAS,, Soha
mitted suicide by cutting his throat.
He was Russian-P Pole, formerly res
ident Of Bayou Sara, La, and at one
time Mayor of that city. Vresinsky
made two attempts at suicide, In the
first Of which he failed, after the excite
ment consequent on this had died away
tried again and succeeded.
Last Saturday night negro named
Macena Harris, ON the Dunbar Hunt
place near Rodney, enticed q man
named Monroe Williams into an isolated
cornfield on the place. and while there,
deliberately shot him with a shotgun.
Williams lived but two hours after re-
ceiving the shot. Word of the occur
renee was quickly transmitted to Dep
uty Sheriff Winters, Of Rodney, who
started in pursuit Of the murderer.
Coming up with him, Harris displayed a
desperate determination to resist arrest,
and before the deputy could capture
him he was forced to resort to his re-
volver. breaking the assassin leg. The
nature of the fracture is such as to ne
cessitate amputation. Harris will in all
probability die. Love provoked the