The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-19
SOUTHERN NEWS.
L0uisian a.

The total indebtedness Of West Baton
Baton Rouge Is 1880 81.
Rains in East Feliciana last week
proved quite welcome.
Fl. CRUDE, OF Donaldsonville, used
coal oil in lighting a fire and is now dead.
Centreville is to have new Presby-
| terrain church.
| Peppermint lossingers" are fash
ionable in Gretna, says the Jefferson
Sentinel.
Concordia parish has been divided
into ten police jury wards and fifteen
election precincts.
A steam ferry is to be established be-
tween Bayou Sara and the Pointe Cou-
pee side of the river.
Celistin Landry, colored, Of Donald
sonville, Is under arrest for outraglng
his own child, aged nine years.
The police jury of Concordia parish
has elected ten levee inspectors, one
for each ward.
The school board Of Concordia has
ordered sixteen public schools to be
opened in that parish and Kept open
for at least sixty days.
| A Mr.. Smith came to Harrisonburg,
got drunk, fell from his horse on the
| way DICK nOLue, buu ulSu d uASoLaDlo
death in the road.
Two murderers and horse thief es-
capped from the St. Mary parish Jail
| thief, Brooks by name, was captured at
Jacksonville a few days after.
r. T.. Villette, who came to Franklin
parish some six months ago, absconded
with wagon and horses and several
hundred dollars Of other peoples
money.
Travelling from the Pointe Coupee
postoffice to the courthouse, which has
been for two months interrupted on
account of the backwater from Grand
Levee crevasse, will soon be resumed.
A lunatic escaped from the insane
asylum at Jackson last week and wan
dered as far as Clinton, where he was
captured and shipped back to the in
sane asylum.
The Franklin Enterprise is new
four-page weekly paper published at
Franklin, st. Mary's parish. It Is the
official journal of the parish, and the
first number, issued June IA, is excel
lently made up geographically and
editorially. It will be independent
Democratic in politics.
The police jurors of st. Mary have
reduced their pay from $40 to 81 per
meeting; reduced the salaries of all
officers, whether elected or appointed
by them; cut down the fees of the
sheriff for feeding prisoners one-half;
passed resolution that no warrant
should be drawn on the treasury unless
there be in 1t sufficient funds for the
payment thereof, and that all work for
the parish should be done on a cash
basis, and generally inaugurated earn
est reform in the parish.
A heavy wind and rain storm occurred
In Ascension parish last Saturday. In
some localities considerable corn was
blown down, but the damage was not
great. The cane, fortunately, was too
small to be injured. Several fences
were Frustrated, and in one case the
limb OF a tree was broken off and blown
across the Bayou Lafourche. The storm
was local in it's character, its upper
limit being two or three miles above
town.
The committee Of experts, appointed
not long ago by the Concordia Parish
Board Of School Directors, to ascertain
whether any private schools taught in
the parish were paid for out of public
funds, report that private school was
taught at the residence of Judge W. Ell. /
Hough, whose children attended it, and
that by the judges consent the children
Of other families attended it, the chill
dren's parents paying tuition to
the teacher, and that nevertheless
Judge Hough received warrant
for $240 for the sessions of that school,
collected the money, and paid to the
other patrons of the school their pro
rata Of it, stating to them the school
had been converted into public
school. 1t appears the teacher had
been paid monthly anal by y, her her par99ne
of so high an official in very depreca-
tory terms. The committee also report
crookedness in the amounts paid for
'schoolhouse buildings. The report is
fally published.
The wells in Henrietta are drying out
on account Of the drouth.
Major j. W. Whologan was murdered
on the fourth instant, near Fairview.
John Hutchius, colored, was killed by
two unknown men, at Sandy Point, on
Saturday. A boy was with him, but not
molested by the daredevils.
On the night of the sth of July three
negroes in the Matagorda Jail escaped
after killing the jailor. The murderers
stole horses and started in the direction
Of Houston.
Mr.. N. Thomas has completed the
laying out of the new town. It is to be
known as San Thomas, in honor Of the
founder Of the future great metropolis
of Archer.
The TeEan reports that salmon are
being occasionally taken by anglers
from the BraZos and tributary streams.
They were introduced by the govern
ment, and indications point to their sue
cessful propagation in our streams, If
the people will but let them grow.