The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-09
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Ianlslana.

Blackberries will soon BIO ripe.
/ Cane river is rising rapidly.
/ A new Baptist church Is being built
at Monroe.
Colds and pneumonia prevail in
Avoyelles.
The Marksyille bulletin declares that
Avoyelles needs thousand laborers.
The weather in the countr-- has been
excellent for the past two weeks.
Apoplexy Is becoming quite common
In Iafourche among cattle, horses, etc.
The firemen of Opelousas had their
procession, like those Of our city, on
Sunday, March 4.
Two men. both colored, left East Fe-
liciana for the Penitentiary last week.
1.-THE cry Is still, They GOMEZ"
The Vienna Sentinel came to us upside
down this past week-~the result of
patent insides.
Two deaf mutes are giving panoramic
performances Of Bible subjects in the
country parishes.
Clinton, East Felieiana, Is getting
rapidly out OF debt under the able adj
| ministration OF Acting Mayor Morris.
There are thirteen prisoners In the
| Ouachita parish jail eight OF the num-
|
men. .z. ........ .--..
J, H. Darrall, near Centreville, parish
OF st. Mary, has sold his sugar planta-
ton there to an Ohio gentleman for
$4,000
The Columbia Herald wants to know
what has become of the City Council, as
they have not been heard from for sew
eral weeks past.
Parson Toney Luke (colored), Of
Shreveport, has turned out to be q
Beeeher and created quite q scandal In
his congregation, the most aristocratic
colored congregation OF that city.
Life in Clinton is uncertain, owing to
the shooting Of hunters in the swamps
just opposite the town, the bullets cross.
ing the river and whistling through the
streets In lively but not pleasant man
| ner.
The Police Jury OF Vermilion has
awarded the parish printing to Mr..
Addison. As he Is not the owner of any
paper, the Vermilion Banner wants to
know how the printing is going to be
done.
Mississippi.
The police authorities of Vicksburg
are busy with suspicious individuals.
The steam gin on the plantation in
Washington county OF George Worth,
| ington and ID. @. Green was DESTROYED
by fire on Thursday, Feb. %. It was
burned In daylight, and the result OF
friction In the gin stand.
Five thousand dollars In Adams coun-
ty railroad bonds were sold this week
at seveDty"two cents, the purchaser
being jackson capitalist. They were
| bought as an Investment. The bonds
had No. coupon on them.
Last Wednesday afternoon, Coroner
Jordan, Of Port Gibson, was called
upon to hold an inquest over the body
of q colored child, which had died sud-
denly some time in January, on DIR.
Bucks place. A jury was summoned,
and witnesses produced; the most i'm.
portant Of which was little colored
girl, who stated that the night before
the death Of the child, she had seen
colored woman named Martha Ann
| Turner hit it over the head several
times with the heel Of her shoe. The
| body was exhumed, and upon examina-
ton by DIR. Thomas, 1t was found that
the sknll was fractured In three places,
the points Of the nails in the shoe heel
were also found on the skin. The wo-
man was subsequently arrested, and Is
now In jail.
Waco has organized street railroad
company.
The houses In Galveston are at last
to be numbered.
The health of Gonzales county is said
to be not good.
The bell In the Second Mission, at San
Antonio, was cast In 1872.
Local option went into effect In John
son county last Monday.
The mortality among stock on the
Lower Nueces was not as bad as at first
thought.
Smith county Furnishes persons who
play at tenpins.
Several families Of Hoosiers have set
tied in Caldwell county.
Negro labor has been superseded by
white labor on several farms in Colo
RADIO county.
Wild turkeys only bring Is cents a
piece at Oakville, Live OAK county.
An immense bed OF stone coal has
just been discovered in Young county.
on lands owned by the heirs Of Gen.
Albert Sidney Johnston.
The ladies Of Dallas are making an
effort to reclaim the lost Of their sex in
that city A good move, and they de-
serve to be encouraged in every way
possible.
Some enterprising German has estab-
lished the Wochenbl0t at Fredericks-
burg. It Is pretty paper, but what 1T
talks about is more than this deponent
knoweth.
Gold has been discovered near Brown
wood by some parties who were digging
cistern. Further developments are
awaited before we can advise parties to
rush frantieally to Brownwood and go
to digging for wealth.
For the tenth time Major John s.
Vandegraff has been arrested and taken
to Houston for the killing OF a man in
that city during the war. Isn't it about
time this threadbare case was disposed
Of?