The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1877-08-31
SOUTHERN NEWS.
IMulsiana.

The townsville camp meeting has ad-
journed.
Some malarial fever is reported in
Morgan City.
The orange crop in the Attakapas will
be large.
Persons bringing cotton to Monroe
are entitled to free ferriage.
Morgan's dredgeboats are dredging
out Berwick Bay.
| Gen. O'Marah 10 still working in the
interest Of immigration to Caddo.
The boil worm is doing much damage
| In the lower part Of Carroll parish.
Caddo expects soon to have cotton
mill, erected by Western capital.
| The German Methodists have been
holding camp meeting just back OF
Covington.l
| The bottom bolls of the cotton in
| Madison are rotting from tne nlgn
growth OF the weeds.
Concerts, balls, tournaments. etc., are
every tlay things In Delta. 1t is begom-
ing truly lively town.
| Suits are being brought in Caddo
against people who refuse to work on
the public road. The road laws will be
rigidly enforced.
The Carroll Conservative thinks that
the next thing we. ought to turn our
| attention to, after closing Tones bayou,
Is the Bass crevasse.
The merchants Of Pointe Coupee ap-
peal to the police jury to protect them
against planters who sell goods to their
hands without paying license.
Cotton on the sandy ridges in Carroll
parish is shedding fearfully, which, with
the inroads of worms. will make the
crop in East Carroll much shorter than
has been anticipated up to this date.
The Red River Transportation Com
pany has declined to give in to the
prayer Of the merchants of Alexandria
to reduce the freight on bale Of cotton
from that place here from $l so to Ill.
Alex Tins. colored, deliberately shot
his wife's head off on Friday night,
August II. He is In prison at Rayville.
The shooting was done on the Mann
plantation. above Floyd, West Carroll.
Mr.. Thos. w. Mann. who lives eight
miles from Floyd, in West Carroll, was
called out after dark on Saturday night
last and shot at by some would-be
In front of him, and one blue whistler
passed through his coat, just grazing
his shoulder; his escape unhurt was
truly wonderful. There were two OF
three persons engaged in the devilish
work, and directly they fired they ran
away.
Vicksburg thinks of having q county
fair.
Island grass Is being shipped from
Biloxi to Europe.
The Handsboro Democrat wants the
Board OF Registrars In the various !coun..
ties abolished, and have the work and
expense turned over to the counties.
Worms is now the almost universal
cry. They seem to be on nearly every
place In and around Adams county and
Concordia parish. We hear also that
the Black river country Is full OF them.
| l-[Natchez Democrat.
The Republican executive committee
Of Adams county met at Natchez last
Saturday and reorganizcd. A long de-
bate ensued as to the policy to be pur-
sued by the Republicans. Some favor
| ing an ultra and other q conservative
policy and fusion with the Democrats.
| There was great deal Of talk on. the
streets yesterday about the removal of
the wharfboat, the elevator and coal
landing to points below, and some OF
| the gossipers could name the very day
when the removals would take place
and the exact points at which they
would be located. The truth is that the
Wharfboat Company will maintain the
present landing as long as possible, as
1t is more convenient for their business
than any place they could select, but It
undertake to dredge out the lake at
their own expense. All that our citi-
zens can reasonably ask them to do, Is
to keep the wharfboat where 1t Is as
long as boats can get to 1t, and this we
believe they intend to do. As yet no
steps have been taken for any Of the
removals mentioned Vicksburg Her
aid.
Drouth is ipjuring cotton all over the
State.
The Collin county fair will commence
October 16.
The frontier battalion will be reor-
ganized next month.
Gov. Hubbard will speak at the Bel.
ton and Dallas fairs.
The Lamar county fair opens on Octo.
Der "a and continues four days.
A lady In Coleman county gave birth
to four well-developed children re.
Gently.
Freight rates on live stock from San
Antonio via rail to New York have been
increased forty per cent.
The Liberal League at Houston is to
be reorganized. It has branch organi-
cations throughout the State.
Gov. Hubbard has accepted an invita-
tion to deliver the opening address al
the Capital State Fair Association.
Robert Eubanks was killed at his
hnyna naar Paris on Sunday 10Th inst
by Sam Peyton. who gave himself up
Smith county complains of the long
continueddroutn, and Tyler OF the north
winds that have prevailed through the
summer.
A considerable amount Of sickness
prevails in the town of Cameron anc
Milan county, which is proving quite
fatal, especially with children. AL