The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-24
SOUTHERN NEWS.
LOuIslana.

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A ar(,. Mound bear was killed on Bayou
Tigre, In Vermilion parish, by Mr.
Broussard.
The Lake Providence True Repubttcd,
disappears and the Carroll C0nserra
: tue appears in its place.
The factory at the Penitentiary al
Baton Rouge has been leased to COM
pany of gentlemen who will commence
] at once the manufacture OF cotton and
WOODEN goods.
: Six thousand saw logs, worth $14 .O0(
are in Bogue Chitto waiting for freshet
, before being RATED out Of that river.
the water being low, with little pros
poet of rain sufficient to float them Out
OF Pearl river this season.
A very large area of the lands in East
Carroll are now submerged in conse-
quence of the Ashton and Bass Gre
vases, more especially the latter. The
water from the Bass break covers some
of the plantations in the parish, and
partially overfiows others by meeting
the water from Ashton, and backing up
towards the rear of the plantations on
Tensas and Lake Providence.
The back water at Rayville is rising
at the rate OF one-half inch per day. it
came to stand Friday and will proba-
bly, commence falling this week. It has
done little damage In the parish, Rich
land. Capt. IL. Conner and Mr.. j. H.
Galloway are perhaps the worst suffer
ers, about twenty-five acres of the
former, and probably fifty or sixty
acres of the latter's plantation being
submerged.
| The reorganized police jury Of Plague
mines reelected Effingham Lawrence
President. j. g j. Rivers not having
qualified as Secretary, Fred. q. Brooks
was elected to fill the position. Onizeme
I. A. Flanagan, Esq, handed in his
resignation as Parish Attorney. Ten
syndics were elected. the parish having
been redistricted into ten police jury
wards. The Observer was elected as
the official organ of the parish.
An old colored man by the name Of
Ben johnson, aged fifty years, was acct
dentally drowned on Thursday evening
in Gross bayou, opposite the Caddo saw
mills. He was employed at the mills to
saw logs in the water and place them
near the gang way OF the mills. He had
just finished saving a log In two and sat
pose of eating his dinner, and In reach
ing for something near by lost his bal
ance and fell into the water and sank
Immediately under the logs. which pre-
vented any assistance being rendered
the unfortunate man.
The Hon. Cain Sartain assembled the
STEAMBOAT colored clubs of East Carroll
on Monday evening last. There were
about $50 persons present. Resolutions
were passed indorsing the Nichols gov
eminent and the course pursued by Rep
resentative Sartain in relation to 1t.
Sartain received a hearty welcome from
the crowd present. He delivered q good
substantial speech, telling what he had
done in New Orleans, and explaining
the attitude OF the Nichols government |
towards the colored people. Charles
Henry Scott presided over the meeting,
and Peter Bax acted as secretary.
The awakening of the "old Wings"
in the South, expected SO fondlv by |
Hayes and his friends, appears really to |
have come, as the following, from the !
st. Tammany Farmer, bears testimony !
The approaching election of Mayor
and Aldermen bids fair to be q very
quiet affair, notwithstanding the ''storm
In tea pot" threatened last week.
There were indications that the old |
Democratic and Wing parties would be
revamped and the nucleus of split |
among good citizens modified, so as to |
excite endless feuds and build upon the !
debris OF defunct preiudices q sort of
"war of roses"
Last Tuesday the remains of an un-
known white man were found some four
and a half miles above Bayou Chicot, in
the woods near the public road, with
two bullet holes through the head. He
had apparently been dead five or six
days. He had on dark pants and a
snuff colored wooden shirt; his hat and
coat had disappeared, and the remains
Of his valise, pocket-book and shoes
were found in q heap. near by, where
rently thirty-five or thirty six years of
age, about five feet seven or eight
inches high, had very black hair and
two of his teeth had gold filings. A
party Of negroes were out in that neigh
borhood on a camp hunt about the time
he was killed, and they are suspected of
having committed the foul deed.
The denizens of Ironton and Ste.
Rosalie plantations, Plaquemines par
had jolly spree and grand free
blowout and lively time gene
rally last Sunday, and this is how
it came about: 1t appears that one De-
sire Forth caught @ quantity Of goods
floating down the river from the wreck
things, barrel of whisky, o cask of
bacon, boxes, shoes. etc. This was too
much luck for the liberal-minded yet
goddess Desire, and notwithstanding
the goods were marked "Henry Fer
riot" he invited in his friends and
knocked in the bung of the whisky bar
rel and allowed them to have jolly
spree. But as this did not pay Forth
his salvage, he bursted open box OF
shoes and, finding Ferrot's bill inside,
he commenced auctioning off by that,
and was perfectly willing to sell much
below cost to realize cash, and thus the
new business went on swimmingly until
all hands were drunk and the goods dis
posed of.
Mr.. Glenn Franks, who keeps the toll
bridge on Dorcheat Bayou, in Webster
parish, three miles west OF Minden, was
Shot aud MORALLY wounded on Wednes
day night, about IL o'clock, while in the
act Of retiring, by some unknown party.
Mr.. Franks and two companions, VIII
lie Kerry and John Martin. were to-