The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-22
SOUTHERN NEWS.
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rha ama1l. pox has reached st. James
narjah in its northern travels, and IL go.
Ing up. stream as fast as steamboat.
The Kellogg tax collector OF kichiana
turned over willingly Oil MS BOOKS
Nichols. In q most gentlemanly man"
ner.
The Collette and Harlem levees,. in
plaauemines parish, are both being
rapidly replaced and will soon be COM
pleted.
There was black frost and freeze IN
Ouaehita last Thursday. But little
damage, however, was done TO the Veee-
tation.
The Bossier Banter emphatically OPP
poses the removal of the State capital TO
Baton Rouge, and laughs at the Idea Oh
such thing being possible now.
Kellogg's tax collector in Ouachita
will hold on to the books IL he Cannot
get the taxes. His name. like tnat OF
almost every other Ouachita Official, 10
Ray.
Jesse D. Tompkins was elected Parish
Treasurer for Carroll parish. by Inc po-
lice Jury, and will try to furnish the
parish government with money enough
to keep 1t alive, II he cannot do the
same by the State. ..........
It Is generally believed that the
orange. banana and mespiluB crops OF
Plaquemines parish have been ruined
by the many frosts and the extreme
cold weather that has prevailed there
during the winter: so we will have to
wait another year for them.
The Catahoula Neps requests the
Representative from that parish, Kev.
Mr.. Routin, q Republican, to join the
true Legislature, aud cites the fact that
1t was non Radical votes that. elected
him to the Legislature, as all the other
candidates on the Radical ticket were
defeated.
The Plaquemine lumber trade. will
suffer greatly from the. lowness OF the
water this year. The logs are still in
the swalnps and likely to remain there
forever. oh. for erevasse. rain,
slight overtiow-something to relieve
the swamps from their present desert
like dryness.
The Pipes plantation, parish of West
Baton Rouge. and containing 800 acres,
but no sugar house or other buildings,
was sold the other day to q Cincinnati
gentleman for $4,000, which, is at the
rate OF $2b an acre. Western buyers OF
sugar plantations are now becoming
pleasantly frequent. III.
Hunters have grown to be such ter
rible nuisance In the parish OF West
Baton Rouge that the planters are ar-
resting them as tresspassers ans lock.
ing them up. They break down fences,
burn the grass and shoot cattle and
tame fowls. Nothing but q strict game
law or a night In the lookup will cure
this weakness. liam. -f
The Leveque levee, just completed by
the Levee Company, in West Baton
Rouge, IL not regarded as safe and able
to stand the water. It Is built on
sandy foundation and ia apt to give
way, levee and all. at the least high
water, and open up several thousand
acres of sugar land to the ravages Of
the river.
Mississippi.
The city Of .Natchez Is debating
whether 1t shall levy privilege tax
or none at oil.
Some fiend attempted to throw the
incoming passenger train off the track
near Jackson, the other day. by placing
O eross-tie across the track, between
Mount ALBION and the Four Mile bridge.
It was discovered In time to prevent q
very serious accident.
The whitman debt, which has long
been hanging over Adams county,
was wiped out by the Board of Super
visors authorizing its payment out of
the general fund. This will leave the
county without any debt but that for
the school and railroad bonds.
Natchez proposes to get rid of her
outstanding warrants. The Board Of
Supervisors Is empowered to make pro-
vision therefor, in one Of these three
ways:
1st. BY the levy of q tax In one year
to take up the whole amount SO deferred
(which in this case Is impracticable).
2d.a BY the levy of IN annual tax,
through several years, to take them up
Sd. BY the levy OF a cash
tax, the money 80 raised to be sold for
the warrants SO outstanding to the low
est bidder.
The Galvestonian says business 10
brisk In that city.
The spring wool clipin Nueces county
will be good. ...s
Corsicana has shipped $4,000 bales of
cotton this season.
It la said one hundred Scotch Presby-
terians will settle in Navarro courty.
Prohibition has triumphed In Liberty
county, and was defeated In Matagorda.
Runnels county Is fast filling up with
cattle. and many new farms are being
opened. 81
Eastland county Is going to build a
jail. Civilization Is progressing in that
country.
The Dallas and Wichita railroad has
now iron enough on hand to lay fifty
miles Of track.
httry n Hts prevails at Corsicana.
Some few deaths have already occurred,
confined to children.
It has been three years since the
ground was wet one foot deep in Hill
county, yet fair crops have been made.
The farmers of San Saba are blowing
deeper than ever. The result Is largely
increased yield per acre In all the crops.
In defiance of the local option law,
G. Haynor is erecting the buildings for
the first distillery ever established in