The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-01
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

| Catfish Town and Goose Hollow, two
of Baton Rouge's suburbs, are to be
lighted with street lamps at last.
The Concordia Herald, under the
management Of Messrs. Meredith u
Lemle, will appear in that parish in
q few days.
Mr.. J. l.. Rountree, former President
of the police jury Of Concordia, tender
ed his resignation at q late meeting Of
ed President in his place.
Leon Watkins, one of the Mount
Pleasant "Union Rights Stop" muir
derers Of James Ellis, during the late
campaign, was arrested last week by
Sheriff Booth of Baton Rouge in Sc.
Charles parish, and is now in Jail in
Baton Rouge.
A bold attempt was made by the pris
oners in the Baton Rouge jail last week
to get out. They had secured files, and
all things necessary to work their way
out, and had even drawn map Of the
route from the prison to Liberty, where
they were caught.
The Franklin Sun has lot OF COM
plants to make against the gnats being
severe on the cattle; also that q little
black bug is destroying the corn by
| burrowing at the root Of the stalks;
milk about Winnsborough.
An attempt was made by Lafayette
Forman, in jail for murder, to escape
from the Vermilionville Jail last week.
The prisoner had almost cut his way
out when he was discovered. The sher-
if at once conveyed him to the Ope-
lousas Jail, which is perfectly safe and
burglar-proof.
TO bring the expenses and taxes of
the parish of Concordia within the
limits fixed by law, the Police Jury of
that parish, at its latest session, re-
duced the salaries of all officials. The
expenses Of the parish were in this man
ner reduced from $27 1902 to $19,093, a
saving to the taxpayers of $17,234.
Messrs. Ed Phillips and Sam Fields
who reside in Ascension parish, and be-
tween whom an ancient feud has pre-
and got into an alteration. Phillips
leveled agun at Field who knocked it
aside. The gun went off just then,
shooting Mr.. Fred Smizer, a young man
standing by. Field then drew his re-
volver firing at Phillips and wounding
him twice. Phillips died the next day.
Smizer, also, is not expected to live.
While q wagon, belonging to T. W.
Robins, Sheriff of East Feliciana, was
returning home from Clinton on Satur-
day evening last, and when near Dixie
store, some five miles north of Clinton.
the driver was set upon by four negro
men who numerically beat both him
self and the mules he was driving.
While this was going on, Sheriff |
Robins, who was also en- route for
home, rode up and requested the ne
groes to desist. This they declined to
do, but went so far as to threaten to
turn upon him and beat out his brains. |
Being unarmed, Mr.. Robins was entire
ly at their mercy, and is satisfied they |
would have carried their threat into eX-
ecution had it not have been from the |
fact that they feared that other white |
are known to Mr.. Robins; they live on
the Frank Dixon place, in Mississippi. |
Mississippi.
May 16 was hotter this year in Natchez
by ten degrees than for five years past.
The colored people of Natchez have
organized volunteer militia company,
to be armed by the State.
Natchez has o colored fire company
that calls itself s'Deluge No. L." Noah's |
affair was, we suppose, only deluge |
No. 2.
Henry Singleton, colored. was tried in
Adams county, last week, for the muir
der Of Maria Wren. Singleton was I'M
fortunate, as he has been sent to the
Penitentiary for life and his witnesses
are in jail for perjury.
Texas.
Galveston county has cancelled $14,-
900 Of the $4,000 issue Of railroad bonds.
Grayson county has sent up pair Of
convicts for fifty five and sixty years, re-
spectiyely. Illicit love and murder.
The city authorities of San Antonio
aud those of BeXar county are at log
gerheads about who shall support pau
pers.
The work on the railroad bridge over
the Sabine Is now being pushed with
vim, and in few weeks at most it will
be completed.
Six convicts deliberately walked away
from the convict camp near San Anto-
MO. One of them is q notorious horse
thief named Tom Hurd.
The city charter of Waco authorizes
the city to suppress or license the social
evil, but the council has preferred to
license rather than suppress the same.
While Coles circus was at Hearne
Monday the doorkeeper attempted to
commit suicide by gashing his throat
though.
Judge Williams, Of Washington
has issued an injunction against
the tax levy of 1876, and to stop the sale
Of real estate properly advertised. The
grounds are that the tax levy is illegal.
Tom Green county is paradise for
the hunter. Besides buffalo in winter
and spring, bear, deer, antelope and
wild turkeys are to be found at all sea-
sons, while the numerous streams are
we'll stocked with excellent fish,
A terrible hail storm took place at
Houston last Friday. The storm lasted
some twenty or thirty minutes and &C
tually whitened the ground with hail,
the stones ranging in size from par
fridge egg to that of q hens egg. The
glass was everywhere broken in the city,
the trees stripped OF their foliage, and
gardens literally ruined. The damage
done in Houston is estimated as over