The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-25
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

louisiana.
They have almost daily showers In
Baton Rouge.
Crop prospects In Caldwell are better
than any year since the war.
Scarlet fever prevails In West Baton
Rouge.
West Baton Rouge will have to build
new courthouse.
Covington is to have o fiddling match,
$25 to go to the best fiddler.
~ There will be tournament at Belle
Vale Race Course, West Baton Rouge
parish, August II.
The Society for the Prevention OF
| Cruelty to Animals will have to move to
| Columbia. A Mr.. Behen there drove
his horses 80 fast that one fell dead
! when taken from the carriage. while
the other is left wholly unfit for use.
The Franklin Sun is getting up a list OF
the Louisiana papers favoring a press
association. There are a great many
names already In that list.
West Feliciana boasts of snake
charmer, who, with a finger wet with
spittle and few cabalistic signs, cures
people bitten by rattlesnakes.
Morehouse IL now certain of making
fine corn crop, the best known for
several years. Prairie Mer Rouge alone
making enough to supply the whole
parish,
The water is gradually receding from
the track Of the Crosse Tete Railroad,
and In q few days hand cars will be in
Crosse Tete country. Regular steam
trains, however, will not be put upon the
track until some time next month.
Dave Young, Senator, ousted school
treasurer, embezzler Of the school
funds, etc., Is waging war on the
schools inaugurated by the new school
board. He sends, it is said, trouble
some colored boys to the negro schools
to interrupt the teaching, annoy the
other scholars, wage war with the teach.
ers, ETC., hoping by these means to
break up the schools.
The proposition to extend the Clinton
Railroad to Baton Rouge has for the
present been abandoned. The reason
for the delay is stated In letter from
d. @. Hardee, Esq, OF Clinton, to be
that the proposed extension cannot be
completed In time to take off the pres
ent crops, but will be pushed forward
within the coming year. For the pres
n
Hudson down to Port Hickey, about
four miles, which, for the present, will
answer all purposes for good landing
place.
Mr.. VIM. Hewitt on Tuesday morning
last shot and killed one r. j. Johnson
with shotgun. Mr.. Hewitt is q resi-
dent OF the fourth ward OF Franklin,
and Mr.. johnson was his employee.
The quarrel which precipitated matters
in the case was Of q domestic nature.
Mr.. Hewitt, In consequence, had forbid
johnson of his premises; the latter
complying at the time with his request,
but returned the following day, when
Inc o orsS Mr. s new hs fn
but the judge being out Of town he re-
turned home.
Mississippi.
Seventeen hundred negroes went on
the late picnic from Meridian to Vicks-
burg.
Natchez is going to turn the old grave
yard back OF the Cathedral into public
park.
Six of the candidates suggested for
Lieutenant Governor Of Mississippi are
editors.
Teachers in the Natchez public schools
nave peen getting only $25 month.
The Natchez Democrat insists on an in
crease in the pay.
A meeting In Lauderdale county in
the delegates to vote for Joseph
Bardwell, ST., as candidate for State
Superintendent Of Education.
The northern district Of Issaquena
county passed q resolution on Friday,
at Skipwith's, instructing for Judge
Warren Cowan for Auditor.
A mass meeting held at Scooba, KEN
per county, July 21st, instructed dele
gates to vote for Lowry for Governor,
Falconer for Auditor and Horn for
Lieutenant Governor.
Texas.
The City Council of Galveston has
ordered a fire alarm telegraph, to cost
$4,000.
The fifteenth of next month is the
day upon which the Texas and Pacific
Railroad Is required to have its line
to Weatherford or forfeit its
subsidy.
The 100000 OF State bonds, author
lied to be sold by the Fifteenth Legisla-
ture have been sent to New York to be
placed on the market. Controller |
Darden, the States legal financial
agent, has gone on to attend to the
matter.