The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-12
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

The base ball fever has broken out In
West Baton Rouge. ISL
There has not been rain in Natchi-
toches since March 6.
An eight-foot rattlesnake was killed
In Avoyelle5 parish last week.
It took the police jury Of Livingston
| two days to pass the dog ordinance.
The people Of Gum Swamp, More.
house parish, are going to build a new
church near the present site OF Good
Hope Church.
There is trouble between the market
people and street hawkers of Thibo-
daux, selling products through the
streets, the latter not being permitted
except upon paying a fee to the market.
master. In consequence OF neglect
| to do this, great many seizures nave
taken place and some i'll feeling Gre
ated.
The real name Of the man called DR..
Evans, who was lately killed In Vernon
turns out to have been Sydney Cooke.
Goodloe, his brother-in-law, murdered
him, on the charge that he had married
his (Goodloe's) sister, although already
married man. 1t turns out that Cooke
or Evans, had really married, but the
woman having one husband already, the
marriage was void.
In the upper and rear portions OF West
Baton Rouge the cotton crops are pro-
nounced magnificent by all who have
seen them. In the upper bruly, the
farmers seem to have paid unusual at
tention to cotton this year and their re-
ward promises we'll In the carefully at
tended fields. They have wisely given
ample space to corn and its beautiful
appearance rivals that Of the cotton.
With the exception of the backward
ness of the stubble crop, which may yet
put In fair result, there is no cause
whatever to complain Of prospects at
this time.
Mississippi.
Col. Thomas W. Harris Is mentioned
for Attorney General.
The Democracy of Lawrence county
held their convention on the 28th Of
May.
The Democracy of Newton county
hold a mass meeting at Decatur on
Saturday, June 10th.
The Liberty Aduocate Is about to be
moved to Osyka, Pike county. There
are four papers already In Pile county.
Another floater, a white man, evil
IDENTIFY murdered, was taken from the
river In front Of Vicksburg last Friday.
The Forest Register learns that there
is some probability Of a regular Grange
ticket being put forward for the State
offices.
Sheep growing is becoming a great
interest in northeast Mississippi, and
the wool-clip Of Monroe and neighbor-
ing counties Is assuming such proper
tons as to demand recognition.
Some ten days ago o negro tenant
upon the place Of DR.. Holmes, in the
lower portion Of Yazoo county, by the
name Of Houston Watkins, was killed
by another negro tenant named Bob
Haley. They became involved in some
controversy. when Haley went out to the
cabin where they were living, sharpened
his knife upon stone, came back and
drove 1t into a fatal part Of Watkins
body. Haley was arrested, tried before
Esquire Bell and committed to the
county Jail.
Denton Is about organizing green
back club.
Dallas has sent several car loads Of
new wheat to Chicago.
Coal In great abundance has been
found in Fannin county.
Grayson county has just sent twenty
eight oonvicts to the penitentiary.
Cotton blooms are to be seen In Bas-
trop, and the plant Is doing finely.
The Wacoites are agitated over the
ordinance regulating work on streets.
Local option elections by precincts
are now taking place in various coun-
ties.
Only ten candidates for the mayora1ty
of Austin, thus far, and three wards
more to hear from.
Sulphur mines have been opened in
Montague county, which promise great
profits to their operators.
A Mexican and two negroes were
gambling on Mr.. Prennus' place, in
Fayette county, Sunday night, and the
Mexican won all the money. The
negroes then made plot to kill him
and divide the money. One was to ex-
tinguish the light and the other kill him.
When the light was put out the Mexican
was shot in the back. receivinga wound
that may result in death. The two ne
examined and committed to Jail.
The surveyors Of the four counties
have completed their labors, and estab-
lished the lines between Nueces and
Duval and Live Oak. From Duval,
Nueces county gains strip Of territory
one mile wide and fifty miles long,
though not wide enough to include San
Diego in Nueces county, that town be-
ing left one mile on the other side of the
line. From Live Oak county, Nueces
gains about forty thousand acres Of her
best land, or q strip Of territory two
miles wide and thirty long, embracing
the town of Penitas entire, and a large
number of thriving, settlements, largely
adding to the taxable property Of Nueces
county.
THE MORMONs.