The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-08
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

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Cotton picking is progressing rapidly
throughout the State. Ma
The rice cropin Avoyelles in suffering
greatly for want Of rain.
One third Of the crop is the damage
the worms will do in Red River parish.
The damage done by the cotton worms
In Natchitoches Is fully twenty per cent.
Natchitoches has raised more then
enough corn for home consumption this
year.
There are an unusual number of New
Orleans drummers in the Red River
country this season.
The friends of temperance in Marks
vile propose to have q grand fair at
that place in October.
The jetties at Coushatta bar have
proved quite success. The Dawn and
Kouns passed safely through.
The poison met with signal success in
Natchitoches, and was completely victo-
rious over the worms in every instance.
The Alexandria Democrat thinks that
Paris green has proved more destruc-
tive to the cotton worms than arsenic.
The health of the Red river section
is not good. Bilious complaints, ehills
and fever, and colds and pneumonia
prevail,
Caterpillars are doing incalculable
injury In Sabine, and utterly. running
all fields where Paris green has not
been applied.
A white man named Morgan was
drowned at Kenilworth plantation,
parish Of Red River, while bathing last
Sunday. He was very drunk at the
time.
The steamer Texas, running to Grand
Ecore, got as high on Red river the
other day as Gunney's bar, where the
freight was transferred to smaller
boat.
The ex-Republican politicians of
Natchitoches are endeavoring to form
the negroes Of that parish into native
American societies, secret.
Shreveport will have an immigration
meeting at the Opera House, September
s, to form an immigration society In the
interests of North Louisiana.
Mr.. Joseph Fellows, of Natchitoches,
raised two acres OF sugar cane, not for
sugar but to supply his cows and hogs
with green forage during the entire
summer.
Edward Reed, colored, was found
guilty in May and sentenced to be hung.
He Is still lingering in the Rapides par
ish prison. The Democrat wants the
sentence carried out at once.
John johnson, of Ten Miles, parish
of Rapides, was killed last week by
some unknown party. He was at the
house Of relative, playing the fiddle,
when he received eleven buckshot in
his back, causing instant death.
DeSoto parish has conducted % con-
victs to the penitentiary, ~ colored and
white. Strange to say, the only white
convict escaped, jumping off the boat
while en- route to Baton Rouge and
swimming ashore with his shackles on.
The police jury of East Baton Rouge
at it's last session adopted very sensi-
BILE ordinance, requiring a license OF
$1,000 from all persons buying seed cot
ton. The real intention Of this ordinance
is, no doubt, to break up the traffic in
seed cotton, and we hope, for the benefit
of the planters, it will have that effect.
Shreveport and DeSoto have ceased
their Bayou Pierre-Tone war. The peo-
pie Of DeSoto living near Bayou Pierre
will be satisfied with tumbling dam in
Tones bayou. leaving Bayou Pierre to
be improved by opening up such navi-
cation as would supply the wants OF
those whose property lies contiguous
to it.
A bright mulatto fellow, apparently
aboat thirty years OF age, is laboring
on the streets Of Coushatta working
out a fifteen days. sentence imposed
upon him by Mayor Patton under the
vagrant law. He landed here Sunday,
we believe, and on Wednesday morning
the authorities had him situation,
such as 1t is.
The caterpillars have eaten up the
cotton crop Of this parish-the work Of
destruction is complete. Where plant
ers have used poison they have saved
their cotton from the worms, but only
to be as seriously injured by the long
drought we are having. The brilliant
prospects Of a few weeks ago no longer
exist and If we make half crop we
are doing well.-[Marksville Bulletin.
By way of interlude to the annoyance
line, the paper bag Of the Thursday
mail was left behind, and only reached
here Saturday evening". forty-eight
hours after it was due. It is pity that
the postoffice and coach driving line are
not reminded, by a timely fine, Of these
little indiscretions, which we only
snatch now and then as news Item
alexandria Democrat.
The Jews of Summit are soon to have
a synagogue.
A. B. Hurt is the nominee for repre-
sentative from Montgomery county. s.
Considerable dissatisfaction with the
county ticket is expressed in Lafayette.
Capt. J. M. Wells, it is Stated in the
Pilot, has spent four months writing a
book about the Kemper county riot.
The captain probably expects to make
his everlasting fortune out Of the work.
The two political parties of Bolivar
county held a fusion convention at
Rosedale on Monday last. G. w. Gayles
was nominated for the Senate and
Green Clay and f. M. Libby for the
House Of Representatives.
The disheartening report comes from
every section OF the county that the
ance in many Of the fields. Should the
rains continue, great injury will be done