The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-08
SOU rHERN NEWS.
1OutsJaum.


The Baton Rouge oil works will soon be
completed.
Carroll parish had only three days Of cotton
picking last week
Lincoln parish has made 10000 gallons of
molasses this year.
schmalnskiville is the name Of Rapides
parish town.
Worms and storms have damaged the
cotton crop Of vermiion 80 per cent.
Natchitoehes has received 492 bales of cot
ton to date
The weather is growing worse and worse
for the cotton crop In North Louisiana.
The Lalse Charles Echo Ia eager for o Sun
day law, and threatens New Orleans with
this ailliction after 1879.
Work on the Bass levee, In Carroll, is pro-
crossing slowly. In consequence Of scarcity
of laborers.
Two colored women were burned TO death,
below Lafourche Crossing, by the explosion
| OF a coal-oil lamp. last week.
The tramp nuisance has been abated in
Donaldsonville by the vigorous action of the
town authorities.
In Ascension sugar grinding is In order.
The mills are turning out O much larger
amount of sugar than was ut first expected.
Dan Rice's circus is travelling through the
country parishes. The negroes however,
appear to have become wisely economical,
ana lew HIteHu III,
Grand Coteau. parish Of st. Landry, has
passed Sunday ordinance. Opelousas,
Washington and Arnaudvtlle In the same
parish, have all passed similar ordinances.
West Carroll has just received fifty families
OF lndianians, embracing lao persons, as Inn
migrants. Here is something practical In the
immigration business.
A posse from Claiborne parish passed
through Vienna with u negro charged with
outraging white woman. A mob took pos
session Of the negro near Terryville, In Lin
coin parish, and It Is supposed, hung him.
The Carroll Conservative gives the follow
ing account OF the fourth accident OF the
woman living on the Conn plantation, in
Carroll parish, has been In the habit of going
to the cotton field to work daily. leaving her
| two children locked up In the house. Monday
| morning she noticed smoke issuing from the
house, and In company with some OF the
other hands rushed toward the building, but
| by the time an entrance was effected her
eldest child, a fine boy about four years old,
was fatally burned. The other escaped un-
hurt.
The editor Of the pesote Democrat last week
lost his wife, Mrs. Mary Ellis Hewitt, In the
bloom of young womanhood, under the fol-
lowing sorrowful circumstances:
On last Tuesday morning, while sitting be-
| fore the fire cleaning large lamp filled with
oil, q part of the bottom dropped out, her
clothing became saturated and she was
ablaze in an instant. To protect her little
child, sleeping In cradle near the fire, she
seized the lamp and carried 1t out, burning as
she went. Mr.. Wimbish, u neighbor, and a
colored man at work In potato patch near
by, We're attracted by the screams, and made
all possible speed to the rescue On arriving
she was prostrate on the floor nearly burned
to death. They succeeded In extinguishing
the hames but the fire fend had done its
work Notwithstanding the assistance Of
many friends and the best medical attention,
she quietly passed away on Thursday even
ing at 10 80 o'clock p. m.