The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-07
SOUTHERN NEWS.



Saorsd Heart in st. James parish this yesr.
Tbs Ascension Place, of Mr.. Burnside, in.
creased its sugar crop, we hear, nsar s1ms
40 per cent.
The sheriff OF Coneordia ia dsvotng bis
attention to dogs snd, in fact, cleaning them
ont OF that PARISH
In Iberia where a hole in The road gsts very
bad, instead of filing it up they change the
road and go around IL.
II IL proposed 10 put the prisoners In the
Tensas parisb jail at work to levsling the pub
lilo square of NJ. Joseph, making bitches, ETC.,
Sustesd OF feeding them OF the public expense.
st. Joseph, Tensas, has just built an Bpis-
eopal church, aud now That the church il
buiIt, finds that 10 has no preacher, and
little likelihood Of getting one.
Hahnville parish of St Charles, ha, j1st
had it's streets, gntters, sids bitches, sto., are
put ia perfect order, and now boests that it
10 the best regulated, drained and sleanest
CITY in the universe.
Over $l100 have already been contributed
by ths people If Pot b. GIoupse toward re-.
pairipg the U4lse Il YER Dixie, commonly
known ~ the P.tiu Dixie in that parish That
is the right way TO build tho ltvses.
"The very best feeling xiss 10 day between
working with ~ vim to better their con titon. "
he Patriot Uesocr1t says Tho late election
in E"t Eel Clam, with only one party in the
field, aid it,.
Tho parish tag TO bs obteined from The
people of st. James il SCI SGT 80, ard the
budget OF expenses for the same pariah Ia
SCI 557 81, which will leave just two cents
over Ia the treasury ut the end Of the year.
The plap tors in sjt Charles are busy at work
in their fl Id. Roe planting Ia progressing
rapidly; the land Il also being broken Tor
sugar pap'irg Sugar planting will begin
somewhat earlier this year than usual. A
much larger area will bs devoted TO corn thnu
the previous season.
A new paper has appeared in Pointe Con-
pee. the Poin'e Coupes PeiiCamt It. is pub.
lished a. New Road Towv, in that pari4h by
]. PIaateorgtes. Il ia tho official paper OF
Tho pariRh and Of the State. 1t proposes t,
come out 40 an eight page paper IN n very
short time. It Is independents, but an.
ntnneeH itself ~ believing that Gen. Nichols
Was elected Governor Of the State.
Mississippi.
Meridian kills, so they say, three news.
papets year.
The Yazoo Herald states that Xazoo city un.
der Denoor rule Ia Tree of dsbt her wnr
yabts at par and money enough 10 the treas.
try 10 pay current expenses until midsummer,
rbe teachers In Natcbez have consented 10
reduction of salaries, i order that the
schools shall have q current session of ten
months.
Cors cana claims population Of 1890.
Local option was declared in Hunt county
last week.
Burns one hundred and eightet nth birth.
day was 0. lsbrated with great gusto by tho
Scots In Galveston.
Denison was burnt down The ether day,
yet when they bold an election to determine
VIII, ther m engine sbsll be purchased or not,
only nine citizens vote for the engine
Dallas laughs at the local option isw that
the other couaties are adopting, and IL busy
building monster distilery. l. does not
think that tho law will abolish Risky drink
ing in Texas.
Joe Griner was killed at Los Angeles. Il
few days 500 by n party n med Hall No
cause Tor tho killing was given, save that euch
occurrences were 80 common in that country
rs not TO create any surprise.
The editor Of the Austin Statesman has
fire prospect in store for him. He helped to
get Frank L4neal ter into the Per itentiary for
r. boiDg stsge. Lancaster Is Ia prison for
ten years, but ne awears when he gets ou', 10
1887 to 60 for that editor.
The little city of Marion, near SIN Antonio,
is being rapidly dspopul4ted. Every morn
ing Is house is mis- ing. Some are bong at by
country people and removed to their farms,
whllo others are being removed TO San An
tonic.
They propose to try Tie new bridge at
Houston by driving herd of cattle over il, as
'he best test Il ridge can undergo. 1t il
thought that tbs idea .i5.snge ested 10y some Of
the tramps Of that town, who look for an Ash.
tabula and cheap beef.
On NJ ,nday Messrs Walthew & Co cleare d
the steamship Australian, from Galveston FIR
l. yerpool. with cargo consisting Of 6248
bales of cotton, and 212 800 pound, of cotton
seed OIL clbe, This Is the largest and most
valuable rgo ever cleared from G Nv, Or,
being appraised at 1904 GEO.
Tariff adopted by tho San Antonio R.
corder: Pain drunk, 500 Mix d drunk,
$500. Cocktail drunk, 1915. A drunk and
repeat, $500 A fighting d,uok, $500 A
shooting drunk, $500 and 'huug, d,awed and
quar- cred" A killing drunk, house 81 lot,
beheaoed, burnt, aud the ashes given to the
mother.ln -aw to cuss but every day.
lne prospects lot bno piAn 'bT3hppetr F2iu5T
gloomy on account of threatened disasters
fr, m the depr dalions Ct The grasshoppers.
Large numbers Of them have been hutohed
out during the past week, and it il question
whether they will remain long enough 70 in
jure the forthcomir G crops. In our opinion
they wi all emigrate before the crops gel
ont of the gioupd.
The Sac military convention meets at
Galveston, Monday, February 18th, and will
be in ion two days Eight Gu or twenty
will be represt nted, and steps viii
be taken to organize thes, companies into
regimen t., and probably brigade. Another
obj4ct OF the convention is TO take steps to
induce the Legislature, when it meets, to
create S ate militia, ard provide means for
It's support.
W. B. sandiford, Geo. Floyd, a Mr.. Mar
nsfee and three other men, who left hetel,
in Bosque county, about six weeks ago, to
hunt buff does on the Upper Oolonda, were
frozen to death durir g the sew ere cold weather