The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-18
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.


iii West Feliciana.
Irregular mails are general COM
plant In the country.
The Israelites Of Bastrop have organ
lied q B'Nai Birth lodge.
Less cotton than usual is being plant
ed In East Feliciana this year.
Heavy rains have generally interfered
with field work In the country.
More cane has been planted in st.
Mary's parish than any year since 1861.
The stubble has. proved very bad IN
pointe Coupee. and the sugar crop will
suffer In consequence.
Some damage was done to fruit trees
and vegetables In Baton Rouge by the
rain and wind that prevailed there
Thursday morning.
The old wharf boat. @. T. Dumont,
recently replaced by new one, sunk at
the foot Of Principal street. Bayou
Sara, during the rain storm OF last
Thursday.
On Wednesday evening Cato Shep-
herd fred into crowd OF workmen on
the Ridgefield place, near Thibodaux,
and wounded a man and woman. Inc
scamp then ran away.
Oliver Thompson, OF st.. Tammany,
was killed Thursday, April IL, by the
falling OF tree. He was eating his din
ner while his son was chopping down
the tree. It fell suddenly and unexpect-
eddy, terribly mangling the old man.
The grand crevasse Is running rapid
Iy. The Pointe Coupee swamps will
soon be filled in consequence. The Gre
vase Is proving extremely uncomfort-
able to residents of the parish, and
threatens to do great deal of damage
In the interior.
The Shreveport Times has had to offer
q strange apology. Some wag paid for
q marriage notice and had 1t inserted in
the paper. The next morning 1t ap-
peared that the notice was bogus, and
that the two persons thus joined to-
gether had not married. The Times, in
consequence, has bad to offer an awk-
ward apology for the insult to the lady
and gentleman involved.
A party OF men were engaged some
five miles below Columbia, Caldwell
parish, making slaves. On Wednes-
day morning, 18th inst, while in camp,
respectively LIE Feibre and Gerodo,
both French. It seems the difficulty
arose about cooking breakfast. Gerodo
attempted to push Lie Feibre out OF the
door, when the latter, selling lamp,
struck Gerodo on the head, whereupon
Gerodo drew his knife and stabbed LIE
Feibre in several places. LIE Feibre Is
lying In critical condition.
Mississippi.
Mississippi liz repairing her lunatic
asylum.
Aleck Simmons, oolored~ was MUIR
dered near Port Gibson last Sunday, by
one Harry Hills, colored, 1t Is supposed.
Mr.. Rushbrook, Of Brandywine pre-
cinot, near Port Gibson, was struck by
lightning O few days since, while cut
ting tree, and killed instantly.
The Enterprise Courier dominates
Capt. Charles A. Jennings as a can
didate for attorney general before the
approaching nominating convention.
A band OF gypsies Is travelling through
Mississippi, stealing and trading horses
and telling fortunes. When last heard
from they were lingering near Canton.
The Cotton Exchange of vicksburg
passed resolutions few days calling on
the board or supervisors to repair the
roads OF the country which are reported
in terrible condition.
Seven negroes broke out Of the Stark
vile jail the other day. The other pris-
oners chose to remain behind. Three
of the seven were recaptured the same
day; the others escaped.
There liz rich belt Of mari extending
from vioksburg across the centre of the
State to the Alabama line, and this
mari is a most valuable fertilizer, and
has been successful wherever tried. 1t
is being extensively used just now.
Last Thursday, four negroes in two
akiffs, went up Willow Bayou from
Vicksburg, after loads Of wood. Two
OF them finished loading little before
the others and got off to return to town
by 6 o'clock in the evening, leaving the
others, Paris Speed and Mccullough. to
follow. as they thought, shortly after.
From that time until yesterday morning
nothing had been seen or heard OF
Speed and Mccullough. 1t will be re-
membered that o heavy storm came on
that night, and the waves must have
been fearfully high on the lake. The
two negroes who got home safe say that
they were almost numbed by wet and
cold, although they did not experience
the worst OF the storm. They hallooed in
the darkness for their belated comrades
and heard no answer, but went to their
homes without any misgivings. The
Tough caused their relatives and friends
to make search for them. and yester-
day forenoon the skiff, full Of water,
was found In the lake, near the mouth
of the bayou, the load of wood floating
around, and Speeds dead body lying In
the skiff, cold and rigid. The skiff with
its CHASTITY passenger was towed down
to Spengler's mill, where an inquest was
held by Coroner Hossley, q verdict Of
drowned" returned, and the remains
committed to the family Of the deceased.
Nothing has been seen or heard OF Nc
tCullough, who must be dead also.
Texas.
Green flies are thick in MeLennan
county.
All the old Aldermen Of Paris have
been reelected.
The Dallas and Wichita Railroad will