The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-16
SOUTHERN NEWS.


next week.
The estimated expenses for. Carroll
parish for the coming year are $ls,8Oo.
st. James held mass meeting Satur.
day, April IA, in favor OF the Mich Tolls
government.
Two double screw propellors are being
built by Mr.. Morgan for the Morgan
City and Clinton trade.
The City Council Of Monroe (Dem.)
selected the Ouachita I1telligencef
(Rep.) to do the city printing.
J. FL. Acklen and two friends killed
seven hundred snipe In two days hunt
ing tack OF Jeanerette last week.
Gretna is proud, and claims the dis
tinction of manufacturing more cotton
seed oil than any other city In the
world.
The Amite is rising rapidly md the
prospect OF float" are promising. 1t
will prove highly advantageous to the
wood men.
A fire In Gretna last Monday burnt
the hall Of the william Tell Hook and
Ladder Company and several other
buildings, causing loss OF over $4,000.
The Jefferson Sentinel complains that
there are number OF boys in that
town who are strongly suspected OF
arson. Tt promises them lynching IL
they are caught at 1t.
The evidence against G.. w. Simpson,
Justice Of the Peace OF Iberia, elected
on the Radical ticket, resulted in his
having been found guilty of the charge,
and he was bound over to keep the
peace for six months.
Parker, the negro who was hung in
Thibodaux for outraging a young girl.
was, it seems, an cid hand at the BUSH
ness, and most desperate and danger.
GUS character He outraged a woman
named Mrs. John Parker, at Boutte.
parish of st. Charles, two years age,
and was locked up in jail but escaped.
A difficulty occurred In Bossier par
ish, near the Arkansas line, some three
weeks ago, between Daniel Adams and
Bird Jerter, both citizens OF Arkansas,
in which the former received O severe
blow across the head from double
barreled shot gun. Adams died last
week and Jerter set out for parts un-
known.
Mississippi.
Judge Warren Cowan, Of Vicksburg,
Is mentioned as candidate for Auditor.
The Grand Jury Of Madison county,
now in session, has found quite num-
Der of indictments, principally against
hog thieves.
Kinloch Falconer, Of Marshall; En-
met L. Ross, OF Madison, and Col. Nc
Cullum: OF Yazoo, are spoken OF for Sec-
rotary OF State.
The fruit crop In Pike county at pres
emit is very promising indeed. There
will be an abundance OF peaches should
no misfortune happen to them in the
future.
Vicksburg is delighted at the idea OF
the Plymouth visiting that town.. The
Herald asks the railroad companies to
issue excursion tickets so that the peo-
pie from the country can visit the first
man. Of war which has arrived there
since 1861. Il
There was to have been q wedding
last Sunday evening In Holly Springs,
but the young man failed to come to
time. The supposition is that he was
bought off by q rival. The expectant
bride was beautifully dressed and look
ing lovely. Her disappointment must
have been great indeed.
Wednesday, July IS, has been fixed
on by the Seashore Camp Ground trus-
tees for the camp meeting at their
grounds near Biloxi. The trustees
passed a resolution that no monopoly
all persons having vegetables, poul-
try, meat, eggs, ETC., products OF the
land or sea, are invited to furnish the
same for sale at the camp meeting on
ali week days, not on Sunday"
Two negroes, William johnson and
Horace Greeley. while working on a
bridge at Bates mill, near Liberty, some
seven miles east Of town, on last Satur-
lay, got into quarrel, and the former
Selling an axe struck the latter with 1t,
quitting open his thigh, .seyering. the
'emoral artery, from which he died In a
short time. johnson was brought In the
same evening and lodged In jail.
We have seen samples OF new pro-
iuction. that with proper development
may become of great Importance and
add thousands to the wealth OF the
sunny South. We allude to the "St.
Elmo Moss" the method Of manufaotur-
ing which has been patented by Mr..
Mas Of cur city. It Is made from the
green staw of the long leaf pine. and
some samples we have seen, satisfy us
that 1t Is most excellent moss, for up
ing, etc., cannot be surpassed. It will
make good imitation OF the expensive
imported Cocoa mating, and we learn
IAN be sold for half the price, Meridian
HON estead.
Texas.
Hog cholera Is prevailing in johnson
county.
Measles interferes with the Goliad
schools.
Fort Worth polled $50 votes at her
election Tuesday. Mr.. Day
vas elected Mayor.
Gen. Cabell was reelected Mayor of
Dallas on Monday last, receiving 1160
rotes to TAO given to Thurmond.
Game is abundant In Texas. They as
tribe it to the grasshoppers. It Is an
ii wind that blows nobody good.
Rothschild was brought before Judge
at Jefferson, last evening, and
MS trial set for Tuesday next, the 18th
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