The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-04
SOUTHERN NEWS.



ported prevalent.
The weekly Plaquemines Observer
| will soon be enlarged.
The river parishes declare that there
Is no danger Of overflow.
The Sugar Planter reports no idlers In
West Baton Rouge parish.
A travelling rope-walker and wife are
exhibiting In the country.
Dredge boats will soon be at work
deepening the mouth of Atchafalaya
river.
The estimate expenditures for the
parish Of Assumption for the coming
year is S1o,244.
The Vienna Sentinel demands an elec-
ton for mayor and aldermen. It thinks
no city safe without a government.
Lafourche raised this year 3o,s7o bar.
rels or rice, as compared with 52,6s2 In
1875; decrease ,sl2 barrels.
The ouachita Telegraph complains of
the pauper bills Of Monroe as being too
large and paupers too expensive lux
ury.
The Mansfield Reporter Is In favor of
Baton Rouge as the capital OF the State,
and thinks an immense majority OF the
people outside Of New Orleans equally
thAtuuS loE ID EeuONdl.
The Tihdicdtor thinks that It will be
wholly impossible to carry on the par
ish government Of that parish on a 4h
mill tax. It suggests a repeal Of the
law combining the parish tax.
Mississippi.
DeSoto county, Miss, has seventy.six
schools,
Winona has five candidates for mayor
and two for marshal.
A hunting party In Sunnower county,
Miss, killed seven bears In one day.
State tax for 1877 Is only SIS on the
$1,000. In 1876 1t was Sc SO, and in 1876
80 Is.
There have been already subscribed
to the st. Mary's and D'Evereux Hall
Asylums Of Natchez $e421 60.
Fifteen thousand salmon has been
placed In the headwaters of the ITALIA
hatchie river, Mississippi, and Pearl
river is also to be stocked in the same
way.
Ben. L. Fortenberry, late tax collec-
tor of Marion county, who is under SEN
tence to the penitentiary for three
years, for embezzlement, broke out of
Jail at Columbia recently, and is aow at
large.
In 1874 or 1875. the Legislature passed
a special act, for Lowndes county 1--WE
believe), authorizing the Board Of Su-
pervisors to hire out the insolvent pris-
oners confined in jail In 1876 this law
was made general. The board of Will
kinson county have acted on 1t,
We understand that the dogs, cats
and cows are going mad in and around
Lagrage. Choctaw county. The origin
M Ia 10 fn}a e.,
About six months ago fine dog belong
ing to lady was bitten by another dog
supposed to be mad; the lady being un-
certain about the result, and 10th to
kill SO valuable a dog, concluded to
keep him chained until a short time
since, when, on seeing no symptoms of
hydrophobia, she turned him loose.
He had been at large only a short time
when the fell disease appeared In the
vilest form. He has bitten a number Of
dogs, cats and COWS. so we learn, and
considerable uneasiness Is felt In the
The Tribune is new paper Of Gle
burne.
The gambling houses at Fort Worth
are to be closed.
The Gotten crop of Erath county, for
1876, was 1900 bales.
Democracy is prosperity"-motto of
the Savoy (Texas) Spectator.
Prairie dogs are destroying the grass
In Coleman county, digging 1t up roots
and all.
The new military company Of Hous-
ton will be called the San Jacinte
Rifles"
Bell county is going into cotton plant |
ing extensively, owing to the surplus Of
corn made last year.
The courthouse at Seguin is gray
granite, concrete and succeed in imita-
ton Of varfegated marble.
People at Fort Worth are talking |
about organizing q vigilance committee |
to get even with horse thieves who |
lnfest that section.
The county court Of Grayson county |
allows prisoners confined in the county |
Jail, for non. payment of fines, fifty cents |
per day for their labor.
The Empire says that farmers in |
Erath county are paying more atten-
bion than formerly to raising fine hogs. |
This spirit should be encouraged.
Capt. James Boyd and Judge W. S.
Holman have been empowered by the |
citizens Of Bolton to proceed to Hous- |
ton and confer with the authorities Of |
The Central Railway for the construc-
lion Of the first five miles Of the Hearne,
Bolton and Northwestern Railway.
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