The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1877-08-17
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

L0ulsiana.
The Hahnville pottery is to rent.
There is chance for potter.
Petitions are circulating through La
fayette parish in favor of a Sunday law.
The MiEden Democrat is another pa
per that fayor5 constitutional conven
vention.
Mr.. J. E. Mouton has been elected
president Of the school board of the par
ish of st. Martin.
Cotton worms are numerous in Union
parish, but hopes are entertained that
they will do little damage.
The school board Of st. Martin has
resolved to have eleven schools in that
parish, six for white and five for colored
children.
The Iberville South declares that the
mayor and selectmen OF Plaquemlne
are missing. Itproposes to abolish them
altogether.
The Marksville Bulletin says that the
amount Of credit extended by the mer-
chants of that parish to farmers is
wholly unprecedented.
The first bale of new cotton reached
Shreveport August 10. 1t classed mid
ding, weighed 515 pounds, and was sold
for twelve cents pound.
The rice planters in St. Charles are
commencing to cut their rice. One dol
lar and half day is being offered to
laborers and yet the supply is scarce.
The committee appointed by, the
examine the books Of the former treas
urer of the board find that he had
really paid out an excess OF money and
that the board was indebted to him.
| Joe Smith (colored) had Jack Griffin
| (colored), all of Baton Rouge, arrested
in that parish for rape on Julia Mil
berry, negro girl about twelve years
old. After making the arrest, Joe
offered to compromise the rape for q
small sum, and was much surprised to
learn that he could not do this.
Mississippi.
Considerable sickness prevails in Will
kinson county.
Vicksburg is growing because it has
to pay ten cents for glass OF lager.
There is some trouble in Wilkinson
county between the whites and negroes.
A white girl of Amite, somewhat de-
ranged in mind, ran off about two weeks
ago with negro. .......
| There is cotton stalk on the Piper
plantation, near Natchez, that has four
hundred bolls on it.
Hon. H. M. Street will be re. elected to
the Legislature from Prentiss county,
all the candidates having Withdrawn In
his favor, leaving him an open field.
The next Mississippi Legislature will
elect Senator. Among the candidates
G. E. Hooker and possibly A. G. Brown.
The Ripley Railroad will be extended
to New, Albany this year. Thirty
shipped to Ripley for the work, to be
done by contractor Hamilton.-[R Rising
Sun, 11th.
In accordance with the act Of the last
Legislature, the ievee board Of the
Vicksburg district has instructed its
collector to assess and collect three dol
lars bale on cotton shipped from the
leyee district on and after the first ol
September for the crop Of 1877.
This finishes rapid review Of tht
platform. And, we desire to add, il
our Judgment, the chief merit in tht
document is what has been left out, AIT
that-the leaving out--we indorse as
J unanimously as Sam Bard went fol
, Grants third term.-[ Meridian Mercu
: ry, 11th.
During the heavy rain Of this week
the dixie of the Lake Of the Woods in
Wilkinson icounty, was washed away
, leaving the lake dry. This accident il
to be regretted, as the lake has been
source Of much amusement to tht
young people this season. There il
talk OF joint stock company being
} formed to repair the dam.
, Last Friday morning, an insane negro
; woman, named Lucy Williams, who
, has been in Jail at Vicksburg for SOM
time, awaiting admission into the Luna
, tic ASYLUM at Jackson, jumped into the
Jail yard vault, which is about fifteel
feet deep and used as a receptacle TO
the slops from the Jail, and was suffo
Gated before assistance could reach her
We think our Democratic State Con
vention made very serious mistake il
3 not 1ndorsing the Presidents pollc
/ toward the South. We learn that Gen
| George and Col. Lamar were both il
4 favor of doing so, but were overruled
+ We are confident that nine-tenJhs
/, the people of the State desired and ex
pected that the convention would max
an expression on the subject
THAN, 18th.
We learn that on Tuesday night lat
e Mr.. u. G. Kennedy and family, who re
: side about six miles northwest OF Jack
son, near the Livingstone road, wa
aroused by hearing some one iE hi
, daughter room, where she and her gov
erness slept, and on repairing to tn
room a negro boy, about seventeen
years of age, named Henry, and VIII
has for the last year been living on tn
t place, was seen to come from under tn
bed and run out of the house, at tn
! time being in perfect nude condition
e Search was made. but he could not b
+ found until next morning. when he wa
= discovered in an outbuilding close t
. the house, when he was put under al
}, rest. That evening about sundown b
e was taken to an adjoining woods abou
o a quarter OF mile distant and hung i
G the presence of about twenty-five pei
r sons. The body hung to the tree unit