The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-29
SOUTHERN NEWS.
louisiana.

Cane is slightly backward in st. John
in consequence Of the late drouth.
The Marksville Bulletin is working in
the interest Of Sunday liquor law.
Labor, particularly negro labor, is re-
| ported good in all portions Of the State.
| The crops of this year-corn, cane and
cotton-will probably be the largest
since the war.
Capt. Brown, special postal agent, is
investigating affairs In the Minden post
office.
A band Of horse thieves have been
Cameron parish.
Shreveport on the 18th. She ran be-
tween that place and Bayou Pierre
Landing.
The Vermilion Banner thinks that
the mouth Of Red River odd River will
be wholly filled up in few years by the
deposits OF mud.
The .Bien Public, Partisan journal,
seems to have very good idea Of Amer
lean geography. After describing the
burning of st. Johns On. b. 1t contin-
Baptist, Of two hundred square miles
area, inhabited principally by slaves, 3"
etc. The Bien Public had mistaken the
parish Of st. John the Baptist for the
scene Of this late terrible conflagration
Mississippi.
Tate county delegates will vote for
Stone.
There is an increase in the price and
demand for real estate in NatcheZ.
In Lauderdale county three fourths of
tho ialo5yatoc q 70 FOR T,nmrv
Copiah will vote for Lowry as firstand
| Humphreys as second choice.
Madison county instructed it's dele
gates to vote for E. l.. Ross for Secretary
of State.
Next years tuition in the University
Of Mississippi will be free. The State
appropriation is 100000.
Monroe county elected it's delegates
| to the State Convention, last Saturday,
without instruction.
The Westville NeoUs prefers the ticket
| for 1880 to read Lamar and Hendricks,
instead Of Hendricks and Lamar.
The Baptists want to have park on
the seashore, where they can hold con-
ventions, meetings and other gather
ings.
Six prisoners escaped from the Liber-
ty jail last week. The sheriff let them
out Of their cages that they might get a
little fresh air, but they preferred to
sniff it away from the Jail.
The Marshall County Convention in
structed its delegates to use all honor
able means to secure the nomination Of
Gen. w. s. Featherstone for Governor
and Col. Kinloch Falconer for Auditor.
Judge Watson having declined the
Professorship Of Law in the University
of Mississippi Edward Mayes, Esq, of
Oxford, has been elected professor by
the executive committee Of the trustees.
| Two negroes died Of hydrophobia at
Lauderdale a few days since. They
were bitten by the same rabid dog. A
great deal of excitement prevails in the
| neighborhood, and general war has been
waged on the dogs.
In Kinds county the delegates were
| instructed to vote for Capt W. A. Mont
gomery for Lieutenant Governor and
Col. Jones S. Hamilton for Auditor.
| The convention refused to instruct the
delegates for whom to vote for Governor.
A meeting of the stockholders of the
Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad
| Company will be held in Sardis on the
/ 30th inst, for the purpose OF transact
| ing important business, looking to the
| improvement Of the road.
The Corinthian tells this story: The
I shock Of an earthquake was felt very