The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-12
SOUTHERN NEWS.
louisiana.

Louisiana.
New Iberia will have tournament
next Saturday.
Cotton picking will commence earlier
in Avoyelles this year than in 1876.
Horse racing continues to be Sun
day amusement in almost all the coast
parishes.
Timely rains in Iberia have brought
out corn. cane, cotton and potatoes, and
they are now all thriving.
Several planters at Boutte have raised
too much corn. One of them has 5000
bushels more than he needs for sale.
A shark, nine feet six inches long and
weighing 272 pounds, was caught in
Bayou Chene, parish Of st. Mary, last
week.
Gambling is getting corumon In st.
Charles, and the Herald calls on the
District Judge to rout the blacklegs
from that parish.
Mr.. Norbert Largue, proprietor of
the Roseland plantation. parish Of st.
Charles, has brought suit against the
Levee Company for $4,000 damages
sustained by the overflow Of his planta-
ton by the waters OF the Bonnet Care
crevasse.
Odius Dixon, alias Trammel, colored,
a former preacher. OF Shreveport, was
hung at Prescott, Arkansas. July 80, for
the murder Of his wife in 1868. Dixon
moved to Shreveport after the murder,
and lived there unobserved, as a
preacher, for eight years before his
crime was discovered.
Two inquests were held by Justice
Joseph Jones, Of the First Ward OF st.
John the Baptist; the first, July 20. on
the body of white man found floating in
the river in front Of Mr.. Edouard Poche's
place, at the Bonnet Care crevasse the
corpse was in state OF putrefaction,
part of the face was devoured by vul-
lures; dress: red flannel shirt, gray
pants, good shoes the second, Aug. l,
on the body of a celored man, near the
same spot.
Mr.. Carey, of Ivanhoe plantation,
Oypremort Bayou, st. Mary, cultivates
Misplace on shares and says that it is
more profitable than the old system Of
wages. Each tenant furnishes his own
team and implements, pays one half OF
all the expenses and gets one-half the
crop. Tenants are allowed to employ
hands Of their own. One Of these
tenants, Mr.. Williams. made 100
hogsheads Of sugar last year. All Of the
tenants are white.
The Washington Enterprise has
queer idea of Justice. A large body OF
negroes are in Jail at Opelousas for
| lynching one Of their own color. The
| Enterprise acknowledges the crime, but
thinks they ought to be let out, be-
cause their arrest is taking away work
from the cane fields in the very time
when it is most needed. Mob law has
been carried on so long, the Enterprise
think that it is little unjust to punish
men for it now: eve ask, for the bene-
fit of our friends at Big Cane" it winds
up, "that this matter will be settled
soon, and satisfactory to all parties. 1t
will save costs for all. and we know the
thousand dollars. What good would it
do to convict them? And then see the
cost, trouble, etc. II they are hung the
vacancy will soon be filled, and ten to
one by worse citizens"
| A colored immigration society has
been formed in Waco.
| Mason county has this season realized
100000 on cattle and wool.
| The heat in Galveston on Thursday
reached 80 degrees in the shade.
Two striking leaders got fifteen days
and a $40 fine for leading the band in
Galveston.
| "A u6W pOSUOulCC Ctll6u OhuuOu udS
been established about midway between
Van AIstyne and Pilot Grove.
An election will be held in Waco,
August TO- to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Mayor Byrd.
One man in Clay county, has, accord
ing to the Henrietta Journal, killed 273
head Of deer, in addition to numbers Of
antelope,
The brave battalion of the Second
Regiment, from Houston, had trip to
Harrisburg. Wednesday night, to quell
the riotous negroes who wanted more
money for their work.
At Egypt the steam saw mill ex-
ploded. destroying some property. but
injuring no one seriously. Mr.. Nun
ger, the proprietor, escaped almost
miraculously. A fireman was scalded a
little.
| The shipment of corn to Galveston
and New Orleans, from Austin and
from Round Rock, Taylorsville, Manor
and other places, is a new feature in the
farming Industries Of this section of the
State.
Many of the cooks and washervomen
!of Galveston struck during the week,