The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-17
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

Texas street, the principal business
street OF Shreveport, Is to be rocked.
Bienville thinks of having grand
political jubilee in honor of the political
freedom now in Louisiana.
Baton Rouge finds difficulty in Sc
curing enough good teachers for the
negro schools Of that parish.
The committee of examiners appointed
by the school board of Pointe Coupee.
will examine applicants for positions as
teachers June %.
The Baton Rouge grangers have
thoroughly organized their market day
scheme. The market will occur the
first Saturday in each month.
The citizens of the Sixth Ward OF
Pointe Coupee ask Gov. Nichols to ap-
point as police juror, vice r. Sepaple
resigned, some person to be elected by
the taxpayers OF that ward.
Shreveport has a Phoenix Salvage
Corps after the style of st. Louis and
other Western cities. The money has
just been subscribed, and the corps will
soon be in working order. The corps Is
devoted to saving and protecting prop
erty at fires.
The crop prospects in Iberville parish
are good. Cane 10 In good condition
Notwithstanding the backwardness OF
the season. Corn is fine, except in the
black clay lands, where it wants rain,
However, they have had showers this
week and a good average crop will be
made.
Delta point. opposite Vicksburg, has
receded COS feet since March %, and the
banks for mile above the point in
proportion. The caving is making
rapid strides towards the hills below
Vicksburg. In one or two more sea-
sons the river will wash the foot OF the
hills several miles below town.
The roads in the neighborhood OF
Sh reyeport are, the Shreveport T x,nes
declares. in terrible condition. Some
of them, in the neighborhood 4 Wal
lace's Lake, have not been reps fred for
three years and others are fu 4 of such
monstrous ruts that wag' ,s,s travel
through the open fields rat der than 90
through them.
It is rumored that ba 4 Is forming in
the river at Port Hud con, which will
necessitate the remove L of the terminus
of the railroad thence to Clinton to some
point lower down the river. Baton
Rouge is anxious to be that point. A
meeting to this cad has been held, and
every means wild be taken to secure a
road to Clinton.
The Shreveport times reports that last
Sunday evening Cornelius Brown, col
ored, one OF the members Of the Legis-
lature from Caddo, died of small. pox
contracted while lately in New Orleans.
The same paper further says: ut will
| be remembered that Sam Thomas, COL
ored, one of the Radical representatives
from Bossier, died few days since from
| the same cause"
Mr.. J. T. Dowdy. of Milliken's Bend,
La, brought to Delta Thursday, Mr..
Joseph Former, alias Dock Fortner, &C.
cused OF the murder Of Baker and his
cousin at Henderson's Landing, on
board of fishing boat, on the night of
the Sd of June. Mr.. Dowdy made this
arrest from description of Fortner in
an advertisement published shortly
after the murder had been committed.
Fortner is now in the Madison parish
Jail.
The Mississippi Central Railroad will
be sold at jackson August %.
Five hundred tons of steel rail have
been received for and will be laid imme-
diately on the Vicksburg and Meridian
Railroad.
Four thousand pounds of Mississippi
grown hides are tanned in Aberdeen
and shipped to Baltimore weekly by
one tannery.
A negro boy named Packwood, who
carried the mail from Magnolia to Lib
| erty, has been sentenced to two years in
the Albany penitentiary.
On the 4th inst. Mr.. Ross was shot
and killed while working in his field, in
Lafayette county. A man named To-
mage is charged with the crime.
It is said that DR.. Compton, whom
the last Democratic Legislature elected
Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum,
Is spending part Of his time in reOr-
ganizing the Radical party.
Starkville Times: We learn from the
corn buyers that corn Is depreciating in
price rapidly, in consequence of the
near approach of the wheat and oat
harvest. Corn can be bought now, we
are told, at so cents per bushel.
A meeting Of the Democratic party Of
Jasper county is called to meet at the
courthouse In Paulding, on Saturday,
the 3Oth day of June, to adopt plan
and appoint time for selecting candi-
dates; also to select delegates to the
State and district conventions, and any
other appropriate business.
Anegro man named Randall Johnson
was hanged Dy a large concourSo OF
citizens in Simpson county on the 5th
inst, for perpetrating a nameless out
rage on his little niece eleven or twelve
years of age. He was arrested by a
large crowd of his own color and brought
up for trial, and the execution of his
sentence was participated in equally by
both races.
The hands have been secured by
contract with the legsees of the peni-
Tertiary to construct the Vicksburg and
Natchez Railroad. The lessees require
that the hands shall be fed, clothed and
guarded while the work is in progress.
The friends Of the road have every rea-
son to believe that no difficulty will be
experienced in raising the money for
this purpose.
As the south bound passenger train
on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad was
leaving Corinth last Friday week, some
cattle were discovered on the track,