The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-28
SOUTHERN NEWS.
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Paincourtville rejoices in summer
races.
The st. Charles Herald wants road
to Bayou DIES Alemands.
Pointe Coupee is having It's jail re-
paired and thoroughly overhauled.
Claiborne parish is fixing up its fair
nual fair in future.
The Iberville South thinks that par
ish will make q magnificent cane crop
this year, even better than last years.
Hon. Ed. W. Robertson, Congressman
elect from the Sixth District, will start
for Washington about the 1st OF oc-
tober.
The real simon pure army worm has
made its appearance in Pointe COupee,
at False river, Lower Chenal ana Bayou
Poydras.
The cotton in the northern part or
Claiborne Ia suffering severely from the
rust. which will considerably diminish
the first estimate OF the crop.
There have been most unprecedented
number of persons drowned In the river
while bathing this year-some thirty or
forty-but the boys won't give it up.
Ascension parish has an election on
the 10Th for delegates to the levee con-
vention to determine the manner In
which the levees In the parish will be
repaired.
Claiborne is expecting to make good
many thousands of gallons OF wine from
Scuppernong grapes. Two vineyards in
Homer will alone make O thousand gal
Ions of this wine.
Somebody has enjoined the Clinton
and Port Hudson Railroad from moving
it's river terminus below Port Hudson.
The suit Is on trial now in the East
Baton Rouge Parish court.
J. Ekles was drowned last week from
the coal fleet, eight miles above Baton
Rouge. He went to the bank and prob
ably fell in, as nothing more was seen
Of him until next morning, when his
body was recovered from the river.
A man named John Klock WIS picked
Mr.. Austen's plantation. It was dis
covered after his death that this result
ed from two pistol wounds in the breast.
The mans death was undoubtedly the
result of want OF care and attention.
The matter needs investigation.
The first number of the Claiborne
Guard, published at Homer, Claiborne
parish, comes to us. geographically,
1t is one of our best country papers !;
editorially, 1t Is strongly Democratic;
in addition, it Is newsy and interesting.
A. FL. MeCranie and j. I'll. Simmons are
the owners, aud d. B. Hayes editor.
mississippi.
Cotton worms are proving destructive
in Fayette.
Amite county has levied a 15h-mill
county tax.
The Batesville Blade seems to favor
independents.
Six colored prisoners have escaped
from the Amite county jail.
Natchez shoots for hams, the best
score in ten shots to take the bacon.
Two parties claimed the same wife
before the courts of Tunica county.
Madison county will make more cot
ton this year than it has made for years
past.
| The Natehez Daily Telephone having
suspended, its place will be filled by a
weekly paper.
Total expenses Of student at the
State University, $l36 per annum. Poor
boys are given chance.
The Bailey Ground camp meeting in
Marshall county will be largely at
tended. It has accommodations for
1900 people.
A panther over nine feet from tip to
tip was killed at the Bishop Payne
place, near Austin, by Clark Smith, a
few days since.
The constitutional convention fever
has spread to Mississippi. The West
Point Free South wants one called In
that State to revise its constitution.
The negroes in Mississippi have gone
wild on the subject Of railroad excur-
sions. Almost every country paper
chronicles a half-dozen of these, gener-
ally for the benefit of local churches.
Water Valley Central, August II: We
learn from DIR. Mcfarland that another
Texas excursion on a grander scale, and
embracing all points in Texas, Is on
foot. 1t is contemplated to come OF
about the 18th Of November next.
There are forty-five candidates. an
nounced in the Herald. Among these
are eleven lawyers, six farmers, one
butcher, one shoemaker, five merchants,
one railroad man, one river man, two
newspaper men, four clerks and DOCK
keepers, and the others are either IN
cumbents of office or men engaged In
general business or trading.
burg Herald.
The jackson Pilot Republican) offers
this advice to the Republicans: Fol
the Legislature and county offices il
the Republicans can elect their OWE
candidates, do tiff not, vote for every
real good man who is running for those
offices. If they are Bourbons, on both
tickets, then don't vote at all; stay al
home and attend to your work or &C
fishing; but don't have anything to dc
with Independents who in the past have
been bulldozers and kukluX, and nov
only want your votes to get into office.
| Texas.
Cooke county is securing much immi
grafton.
Cotton worms are reported in Go
manche county.
The cotton seed oil factory at Bren