The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-16
SOUTHERN NEWS.
louisiana.

Pneumonia prevails near Bastrop.
There was frost In Lafayette last
Monday.
Cane planting is almost finished In
Iberville.
Corn Is being planted to q great ex-
tent In Avoyelles.
The bad weather has blasted the pros
poets Of good fruit crop In kichland.
A larger area of corn and cane will be
planted In Pointe Coupee, this season,
than for years.
The cemeteries Of Natehitoches have
gone to ruin. The people have more
than they can do attending to the liv-
ing.
Good and salty oysters are selling at
fifteen cents dozen In the rustic por-
tions Of West Baton Rouge. How ID
that2
"A petition has been signed by Q thou
sand negroes In Shreveport and Vicinity,
asking the City Council to place negroes
on the police force.
Messrs. Wood, Winder and others
are going earnestly, into bee culture,
and have established q bee plantation
about midway between Terrebonne
Station and Thibodaux.
The editor of the Columbia Herald
must be out OF provisions, as the follow
ing plaintive prayer bears witness:
"Wiil some OF our subscribers please
bring US in some butter aud eggs In pay
ment for their paper ?"
The Ttf,dicator complains that the
system OF dredging the stream In the
.neighborhood of Natchitoches for fish,
has completely deDopulated all the
streams of that neighborhood, once
stocked with the finest varieties Of fish.
Crop preparations in Natchitoches
have not been as manifest as formerly.
There seems to be disposition shown
by our farmers to await the final set
Element OF the situation in Louisians,
before they move on to work. lie may
be they will have TO desert the plow
handle for the musket, which they
will do Ii Packard attempts to rule this
State.
The Morehouse Clarion complains OF
the insecurity Of its parish jail, and the
frequency of undertaking, and wants a
to levy a sufficient tax to build a new
one. Unless this Is done, 1t feels sure
that the prisoners In future will always
refuse to give bond and take the chances
OF breaking out of the JUL.
A proposition is on foot to have stock
fair or market day in Baton Rouge, and
q committee has been appointed. This
committee Is to provide certain locali-
ty where stock owners can bring their
horses, mules, cattle, sheep and hogs.
All persons desiring to offer stock for
sale will notify the committee Of the
kind and number OF heads OF stock they
desire to offer, and the sales day that
they will be present with their stock.
Upon receiving this information the
committee will at once send circulars
throughout the contiguous parishes an
nouncing to planters, butchers and other
stock buyers that on such day such
and such stock will be offered for sale
at the Baton Rouge Stock Fair, and In
vite their attention to the advantages OF
attending these sales. The stock own
ers who offer either horses, mules, cat
tie, sheep or hogs for sale on these regu-
lar fair days will be exempt from any
license or tax.
San Antonio has @ company OF fire.
men composed OF negroes.
Castroville is now an incorporated
town, and is on rising ground.
One hundred and ten men are at work
on the harbor improvements at Calves
ton.
Sugar cane will be extensively cult
waited in Colorado county the present
year.
County prisoners are being hired out
under the law in many parts Of the
State.
Cherokee county invested five thou
sand dollars in fruit trees during the
past year.
Sixty new cases of smallpox have
appeared at Double Bayou, in Cham
bers county.
Galveston has appropriated $500 to
help out the firemen Of the city in their
annual parade.
The Jefferson, Texas, Leader has
moved to Austin, and will there appeal
as an evening paper.
Corn planting is delayed in Navarro
county, says the Corsicana Inde5, on
account Of the millions OF grasshoppers
there.
The spring clip of wool in Mason
county, it is believed, will not fall short
of one hundred thousand dollars rev.
enue to the county.
The Savoy Spectator follows the ex-
ample Of the Sun and other Northern
and Grapes itself in mourning
over the death Of national liberty.
The stock raisers of Young county
have lately held meeting at Graham
City and divided the county into six
districts with local organizations.
On the 9Th inst, there were sIeet,
snow, ice, immigrants, grasshoppers
and norther mixed up on the streets
Of Denison, with thunder and lightning
overhead.
A test case before Leon county jury
was decided that the local option law is
illegal, or, in the language OF the i'm
mortal twelve, mo law, and defendant
not puiltyi"