The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-08

70 overflow until canal, a mile long, lie
dug there. Such a canal would relieve
thousands OF acres Of the best land in
the State.
The theft Of lint and seed cotton in
Caddo has never been equaled. Buy.
ing tnls sort or cotton is contrary to the
laws and statutes of the State. and vet
the practice Is altogether unexampled,
On Saturday morning last, Mr.. Robert
valentine stopped on his toll bridge, on
Bayou Pierre, five wagons loaded with
corn and cotton seed and lint cotton,
5teten from plan ttatiehs below the eitr
Of Shreveport.
| An attempt was made by the prison
ers confined In our parish jail to escape
on Thursday last, and was only partial
ly thwarted by the deputy sheriff. They
were all fired upon by the deputy, who,
It is believed, wounded all Of them.
Ben Hall was captured and is very se-
yerely Injured in the shoulder. Dr.. r.
Beasley, parish physician, has been un-
able to find the ball. The other two,
one OF whom Is thought to be fatally
wounded, have not yet been intercepted,
| Assumption Pioneer.
A correspondent of the Natchitoches
of a case hydrophobia:
One case of hydrophobia occurred on
Mr.. M. Gai's place in Natchitoches
parish, the subject being a horse who
was bitten about three weeks ago by g.
dog that was not at the time rabid but
died with hydrophobia a week after.
Inc horse was the most savage brute I
ever. saw, his paroxysm of rage never
ceasing, and 30 violent was his efforts to
bite that he broke his teeth out and
fractured the jaw. Several horses were
bitten and one COW so badly injured that
she had to be killed. He lacerated his
shoulders and fore legs terribly previous
to being killed.
A large cave took place about one
and half miles below Bayou Sara dur
Ing the late storm. It's dimensions are
about 1875 feet on the river front, ex-
tending back about 900 feet, and Join
ing the swamp In the rear. This will
work complete and serious Interrupt
ton to travel between Bayou Sara and
points below the cave, and can be rem
edied only by an outlay Of not less than
$4,000 or more. The cave was the re-
suit OF inducing a flow Of the swamp
water to the river through ditch that
was dug some time before in bold de-
fance to law. Who the responsible
party Is. we are not informed; but we
presume the police jury will take some
"SuoA ALI uAO ultsUJCl Lb Uu6lI Il0cbluR
on the LIST prox. Apropos of the sub
ject Of caves, we note that the Bayou
Sara cut away about fifteen feet of the
levee in the rear Of A. T. Gastrells
store Feliciana Sentinel.
The orange crop of Terrebonne was
far more damaged by the late storm
than was at first imagined. The dam
ages are felt mostly in the lower por-
tons OF the parish, especially on lower
Terrebonne and Little GALLON, where
the trees are not only despoiIed of their
fruits, but denuded of their leaves. The
orange crop on the islands off the Gulf
coast suffered even more than that on
the main land. Mr.. Albert Aycock, who
has very large orchard of orange trees
on Felicity Island, numbering many
hundreds, has just returned from that
island on visit to his father on Chaca-
houla. He tells us that Of 15O, 900 oranges,
with which his trees were laden, not
more than 10000 are remaining. The
trees themselves were injured. This is
due to the salty waters which, remain.
Ing on the ground for such long time,
were imbibed in too large quantity by
the trees. thus iDjuring many of the old
ones and killing the young ones. All Of
this Is equally true Of the pecan crop.