The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-09
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

$3432 n In its treasury.
More cotton has been ginned In Iberia
this year than ever before.
There is q great demand for levee
laborers In all the coast parishes.
Three convicts started from Donald.
sohV1lle for Baton Rouge last week.
Mr.. s. D. Pearee has been elected
Parish Attorney by the Police Jury Of
Lincoln.
Smallpox has broken out on the
Stirling plantation, near franklin. par.
ish Est. Mary.
The Ouachita river was reportad To
have fallen q little last week. but was
still In coed boating order as far as
Camden.
| 1t will not be many weeks ere Donald
sonville is provided with first-elass
wharf OF truly metropolitan style and
proportions.
Twenty-Five and thirty ducks at o
shot Is the average in Ouachita Just
now. Duck have never been so plenti-
full there as now.
| From the 1st of September to the LIST
Of January Trenton shipped 10, 1874 bales
of cotton and Mo hroe lila. They are
making close contest of it.
Freight traffic over the Texas and
Pacific Railroad is very heavy at pres
ent:, On Wednesday last sixty-tive
loaded freight cars came into Shreve-
port.
All the country towns Of the State
Baton Rouge, New Iberia. etc.-will
celebrate Mardi Gras with grand fancy
dress and masquerade balls, Better
come to New Orleans.
The Morehouse Cdri0u has dopued !
tn "a Ha hi ijfp npt @ nf hn Ipyr "A
BepubhcGn, and now makes it's appear |
ance as q twenty-eight column paper, |
with q brace Of editors-Messrs u. I, |
Norwood and A. H. Milestone.
The people Of Lafayette are very
much afraid that the present good |
weather there will ruin them. It is so
splendid that the fruit trees have yielded
to the temptation and are in bloom. In
q short time o cold spell will come
along and spoil all.
The late tax collector Of Ascension
has effected final settlement with the
parish treasurer. The total Of collec-
tions from date OF previous settlement
to and including the 9Th ult. was $1946,
of which 1929 was tax of the year 1876.
The amount Of that tax uncollected is
but S1714.
Mississippi.
Natchez promises to be well attended
on Mardi Gras.
Hardy Flowers and his son were
killed in o difficulty at Edwards, Miss,
by King SCARBOROUGH.
The Oxford Falcon reports an accident
on the railroad, six miles below Oxford, |
by which Mr.. W. L. Martin, section
lost his life.
Some eight or ten convicts escaped
from Tchulala city few days ago, and
IRE still prowling through Honey
Island. They are yet wearing their pri-
son uniforms.
The Circuit Clerk of Allen county and
The Sheriff Of Leake, report money in
their county treasures, and their coun-
ty warrants at par These counties
have evidently been bulldozed.
The McComb City Itelhgencer calls
attention to strange but true fact that
q movement is on foot to obtain emf
grants from this country to New South
Wales. Those who desire to make the
venture are required to have some trade
Dr. occupation, or else relatives in Aus !
Lralia. They are promised supplies of
food and bedding on packet ship, and
also on their arrival at Sydney to be
permitted to live on board the vessel for !,
,wo days, and those DESTROYS OF going
20 the country districts are promised
rec passage by rail and steamboat.
Galveston wants her harbor fortified
San Antonio is trying to put down
monte banks.
The birds I'm Texas have commenced
work on the grasshoppers.
The Galveston municipal election
axes place on the 9Th Of March.
A two-horse wagon got stuck in the I
in San Antonio, and stayed there
or several days. T
They are arresting Migrants by the
Wholesale in Dallas, and putting them
0 work on the streets.
The spiritualists Of Houston have O
Inc choir, regular meetings and sean !,
es, and membership Of eight hun v
lred persons.
Special agents Of the Posto flee De-
are investigating the effairs Of :
he Dallas postoffice. Postmaster Nor
on has been temporarily suspended,
ut his friends claim he will come out
Ii right.
A large number of cattle have died on .
be Western Texas prairies this winter,
uu parties are preparing W 20 OUT ana G
kin them. The people complain that
ne wrong parties are skinning the cat
e-that is, those who do not own them.
Recently four men, who had taken
heller and q nights lodging in stray
aboose on the railroad near Palestine,
ere accidentally shut up, and nearly
II life. They were shut up four days
nd nights without "bite" Of victuals.
inally one Of the men managed to cut I
hole In the wood so they could batter
le door down, and liberty was regained. =
is not supposed they will want to Al
Ike another ride Of that sort very soon. 81
they do they may have to buy tickets N
hotter climate than Texas. u,
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s0ne japanese Usages.
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