The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-26
SOUTHERN NEWS.
LOUISIANA.


Natchitoches wants fire company.
| Sabine is raising 13-inch apples, and
| in abundance.
The washwomen Of Mansfield have
struck for higher pay.
The rice crop Of Lafourche this year
will be a great success.
Vermilion is enjoying nice showery
weather, just the thing for the crops.
| An unprecedented number of sugar
houses are going up in the Attakapas
country.
The colored people of Red River are
holding big meetings at Springville and
Star Plantation.
Jasper Blackburn's paper has left us,
and now Jasper Blackburn himself
goes. He moves to Arkansas.
Crops in Sabine parish are reported in
fine condition, the citizens happy, and
money in moderate quantities.
The Tindicdtor complains that the
bureau of immigration Is run in the in
terests Of New Orleans and the Teche
country.
The parish school board of Iberia has
resolved on the establishment OF six
teen schools in that parish eight for
| white and eight for colored children.
Inc DuDtlC SCuUDlB vi IiblhyobGo dIe
crowded with children. There has never
been so many children attending school
before.
The Cotton Boil wants planters to
give up planting stubble, and declares
| that the experience In past years ought
| to have convinced them that this Is false
economy.
The type, etc., Of Blackburn's Homer
Ilidd has been purchased and will soon
| be used in getting out sound Demo-
| cratic paper to be called the Claiborne
| Guardian.
Contrary to all expectations and sur
misses, the rice crop OF this year will be
considerably larger than that Of last.
Bad prices caused many persons hither-
| to in the business TO give 1t up for sugar
this year, but the yield is 50 large that it
will make up for all deficiencies.
Anegro from Vicksburg broke into a
negro woman's house at Delta, Sunday
night, and was caught in the act OF get
| ing away with some OF the plumber.
Monday morning he was tried, convict
ed and sentenced to six months in the
penitentiary. That's the way to do it.
| lVicksburg Herald.
The Natchitoches Indicator thinks
that the reason why the Red river just
below the break at Tones Bayou is 50
low. is because it has not yet had time
to cut channel through the sandbar in
the main bed OF the river. It thinks,
also, that the low water navigation will
be much better In a month from this
than at present, If the body Of water
continues to fall.
Caterpillars, lots of 'em, are getting
in their bad work on the Hollingsworth
place, few miles below here. They
| Ice m hn
on Mrs. Porter's place, and Paris green
is being distributed among them quite
freely. We believe it Is too late for
them to do much harm to the CROP
[Coushatta Citizen.
The Mansfield Reporter is waging a
vigorous war on Shreveport and de-
clares: Our people and the people OF
several counties of Texas have borne
the imposition of Shreveport monopo-
lies and forced trade uncomplainingly
for years. We know you have got us
penned and cornered, and we have made
several efforts to get out through the
railroad and Bayou Pierre, and now you
had as well to, know we are going to get
out or over, or we are going to scratch
uader."
While on the New Orleans sugar
levee, recently, we observed that steam
ers were bringing in considerable guam
titles Of sugar Of last years crop. One
steamer from Bayou Lafourche last
week took down nearly 200 hogsheads.
This gives evidence OF financial ease on
the part of the shippers. We hope to
see the day when a majority of planters
can be so independent that they can
hold their crops until the market suits.
Lafayette Cotton Boil.
Mississippi.
Cooper's Wells has now nearly 100
guests.
Vicksburg dominates it's candidates
September A.
Brookhaven, which already has seve-
raj excellent papers, is promised yet an
other.
Alabama was successful in the inter-
State base ball match with Mississippi
at Demopolis on Thursday.
Gov. Stone begins his canvass Satur-
day at West Point. All the candidates
for State offices will be present.
Some of the papers of the State are
demanding that the next Legislature
repeal the lien law.
Dan. B. Seals has been nominated as
the candidate for the Legislature from
the Hancock Pearl district.
Large numbers of blooded sheep
Cotswold and other breeds-are being
imported into Monroe county from Ten
neSSee.
1t is said there is a negro woman liv-
ing in the vicinity OF Moss Point, in
Jackson county, who has given birth to
seventy-two children.
An alteration took place between
DR.. Ferguson and Mr. John Caron at
Beauregard last week, in which the lat
ter was wounded.
Clarke county is threatened with a
big law suit on the part of the white de-
scendants Of the original ChoctaW