The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-26
SOUTHERN NEWS.
louisiana.

louisiana.
Msrksville, Avoyees parish, demands brick
pavements.
Business has been terribly dull in Avoyejles
since september.
Bonnet Care crevasse ia running worse than
ever, and eating away the left bank.
Bovee, the Tax Collector OF st. james, has cal
lected szsS, 72i this year-parieh taxes.
The negroes in DeSoto have already eaten up
what they made last year, and are as bad off ss
ever. ..s. ..- -H
Mr.. @. r. Nugent. sheriff of Grant Parish, has
qualified and taken possession of his Office with.
out any troble from the status quo.
Tree peddlers from rsrrebonne have been
passing through Iberia and selling great many
fruit trees to the farmers, who intend going into
the fruit business. "
The Richland Beacon agrees with the other
country papers 10 their structures on the printing
law. The cry has been taken up, and the coun.
try press 10 joining in 1t in very loud and excited
tones. 49, .s-...-s -.--.8z-,
Mosquitoes have already appeared in the
country, and we may soon expect to hesr their
cheerful buzz here. They have not crossed
Bayou Lafourche yet. A detective is Watching
them, and will give due notice Of their mcve-
mentH. .4.s -ka & RS. -f@
Natchitoches does not enjoy great mail facili-
ties The letters lie for eight hours at the post
Office before the mail is sent. The Post Ofice
Department., tits claimed, is in conspiracy and
anxious to avoid exciting the Red River people
with fre Ii news.
Several plantatioas Ia st. John the Baptist
have lately determined on employing Chiuese.
Among these are the plantations OF Messrs.
Burnside, Octave Hymei and Laurent Martin.
The latter has just secured some thirty Chinese
from California, and has them already planting
next years crop.
Mr.. J, R. Winchester, district attorney pro
te,nporp Of st. James parish under appointment
OF Governor Francis I. Nichols, appeared be-
fore the Parish Court OF ST. James last Monday
with motion to have his commission spread
upon the minutes Of the court:
"0n motion Of ]. Z. Winchester in The above
entitled case, 1t is ordered that the parish judge
show cause why he should not grant or refuse the
application made on the 19th day OF February,
1877, for a suspensve appeal. Rule made re-
turnable," etc.
The Judge took the matter under advisement,
and finally decided against Mr.. Winchester,
recognizing Cohen, Kellogs's appontee.
Mississippi
The Newton Bulletin calls Mr.. Singleton Mis-
sissippi's favorite Congressman.
Meridian is enforcing her vagrant law, and
tramps are scarcely allowed time to rest their
weary linbs within the incorporate limits.
The Meridian Hercm'yi is offered for sale, and
the Mer. dian Comet material has been sold to a
party at Brookhaven. Papers do not flourish
well in Meridian.
About noon Monday colored woman YVES run
over at Jacksons by car on the New Orleans,
Chicago and St, Lous Railroad, and wounded
probably fatally. Her name is Laura Carter, and
she, with her husband and six children, were
proceeding from Americus, Ga, to Vaughn's Sta
tien in this State. While stopping at the depot
she went under car on an adjoining track, not
knowing that an engine was there switching, and
was run over al stated, the car passing over her
thigh.
Dallas is rapidly completing its water.works.
Jefferson received 14l0 pound bale Of cotton.
Nine Texas railroads are building extensions
to their lines.
A new paper, the L,ling Commercial Reporter,
has bloomed at that town.
Millions of pounds OF buffalo meat will be pre-
served in Texas the coming season and potted for
use.
The young grasshoppers have commenced
work upon the tender vegetation in Northern
Texas.
Major Van do Graft has been arrested in GAL
weston on the charge of killing Rantz in Houston
during the war.
a German named Benthe, at Cat SPRINGS,
burned his house and its contents, returned
notes to parties owing him, shot his horse, and
then sent ball through his own head.
Doge, ugly skinny dogs, constitute ninety per
fact is attributable to the fondness of the other
ten per cent. of the population for "tamales."
The Castroville Era says that Mexicans are
not the only cause of trouble upon our borders.
Desperadoes and horse thieves hold high car
nival all along the ine and openly defy the off,
GERS Of the law. .I-l
Persons representing the San Juan gold mines
10 New Mexico, have gone to San Antonio.
(nearly two thousand miles distapt), fer the pur-
pose Of purchasing mules and Mexican bu,ros
(donkeys) to werk in their mines
The heavy SHOWS this winter, with the recent
rains, have had q most beneficial effect on the
growing wheat crop in north Texas. The pros
pect now is very fattersng for good crop of his
important cereal. though the acreage is not so
large as it Was last seasjn.
An Austin fossil deplores the building Of an
opera house at the capital city Of Texas, be-
cause, according to his figuring it would put
sS7. 900 per annum in the pockets of proprietors
and show peo2e. Perhaps If some one would
build the house and deed it to the community
and the show people would give entertainments
gratis, this old fogg would be happg.