The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-19
SOUTHERN NEWS.
louisiana.

b. planned OF In the country, now tits to
! much rain.
The Shreveport fire department, at Ii
annual meeting the other day, re-electe'
all Its old officers.
4 The Vicksburg and Monroe road will
repair the bridges and trestling on IL
/ line this summer.
The amateur dramatic clubs OF Houm,
b are showing an earnest rivalry ant
theatrical performances are OF a3mos
a daily occurrence.
The police jury of Richland parish hal
0 changed Its tax assessment, and will
Q levy tax Of only eight mills, instead oil
9 ten as originally ordered.
& A colored woman named Maggie was
8 accidentally shot and killed at Alto
3 Rlchland parish, by gun accidentally
3 discharged In the hands of q oolored
. man.
. The assessors at work In East Felici-
D ana meet with such indignant opposi'
! ton to the tax on dogs levied by the
, police jury, that the Patriot Democrat
fears the tax will cause trouble to the
parish In future.
The corners jury In the Bernheim as
sassination case-a peculiarly aggra-
waited one-found that the murder was
done by one Prater, a grocery man, who
was angry with Bernheim for having
started an opposition grocery.
| A jackson parish correspondent of
the Lincoln Sentinel says that deer are
80 plentiful In that parish that they
commit depredations on the crops. The
correspondent wants to know whether
1t would be violation OF the game law
to shoot them.
A strange man, named James Casey,
apparently. about forty years Of age,
| fell from his bedroom window at Mr..
Menuet's boarding house, In Franklin.
sometime during the night OF Monday
| last, and was SO severely injured by the
foil that he died within two hours after.
A gang OF small negroes were up be.
fore the Mayor Of Shreveport, the other
day, for chicken stealing from Mr.
Hirsch. The stealing had been done by
ingeniously fastening corn to fishing
line ana thus getting the chickens out
OF the yard without breaking In there
The little rascais afterwards sold these
very chickens to thbtr original owner as
fresh spring chickens, and had already
got got rid of some 16 or IL when their
trick was discovered.
Mississippi.
The Liberty Adcocdte has moved and
become the Osyka Ne,cs.
The Haudsboro Democrat wants the
date of the State convention fixed for
August O.
The Vicksburg and Meridian road
will run fruit cars on the line direct to
st. Louis or Chicago.
The senior class Of Oxford University
have raised fund to erect a monument
to the memory Of the University Greys.
Hon. J. Il. Meade has retired from
the WestvilIe NetCs, and Mr.. g. N.
Jones, formerly OF the Sunny South,
has taken charge.
The Directory Of the Mississippi VAL
ley Company met In McComb City on
the 9Th. All the old officers Of the COM
pany were reelected.
Capt. Thos. Fl. Woods has written O.
letter to the Meridian Mercury, declin-
ing to allow his name to be used as q
candidate for the Attorney General
ship.
Lowndes county sent one dozen con-
victs last week to the penitentiary, all
colored, making q total OF " colored
convicts sent to the penitentiary in q |
month.
A number of farmers In Marion county |
the coming campaign, and call upon the
various candidates for Governor to ex-
plain their position thereon.
Tom Young and Arthur Bryant, two
colored hack drivers Of Vicksburg, had
q lively scrimmage the other day. Bry-
ant forbid his wife going to picnic, on
account of hard times. She went. and |
he beat her for 1t. Young, who lived
next door, tried to interfere. Bryant
tried to draw his revolver, but before he |
could do this Young had his out and
fired four times, wounding Bryant In the
arm, neck and side. The wounds are
thought to be fatal.
DR.. r. E. Jones, and Mr.. r. B. Mimms,
OF Crystal Springs, and Messrs. N. L.
Fulgham and N. K. Mickey, of Burton
ton, Q delegation from Copiah, to exam
Inc the Natchez and jackson Railroad,
attained by the projected extension,
were at Wyche's, In Fayette, on Mon.
day, en- route for Natchez, They report
the people along the projected line as
enthusiastic for the completion of the
road. At Utica, four merchants have
offered to build mile, each, OF the road,
on Its running near Utica.
VIM. Siveley. Esq, of Utica, has SUBJ
scribed $4,000 to stock, and $500 for the
survey. Residents all along the route
are coming up with offers of assistance.
uo CouplollOu VI Zig EOdu 10 JACKSON |
will soon be settled fact. Burtonton
has already subscribed over $500 for
the survey.
Texas.
Waco has shipped $500 bales of cot
ton this season.
Lice are destructive in the cotton
fields Of Fannin county.
It Is misdemeanor to brand stock in
a brand not recorded.
Too much rain has lately fallen In
counties Of the State.
One Cox. from Guadalupe, was MUIR
dered in Prairie Lea last Tuesday by
four bloodthirsty fellows named Car
penter, Parsley, Spring and jackson.
A party Of three gentlemen from Illi-
nois have just been visiting Clay coun-
ty, where they purchased $1,000 acres
OF land, and they and friends will settle
upon it.