The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-10
SOUTHERN NEWS.


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In almost all the country towns great
improvements are going on, and an ex-
large NUMBER OIL he"
houses being built.
]. Enpemoser, Esq. editor ana pro-
prietor OF the Monroe Htettigencsr, mas
retired from that paper ana sofa Che
same to Mr.. w. I'll. Gayle.
w w. Patteson was elected president
and Rev. +. e. g. Doremus secretary 81
the Lincoln parish school board at the
organizing meeting, last week.
In Franklin parish. says the S'na,
some few have commenced tie scrape
cotton and others have not yet nnlshed
planting. Corn, where 1t 10 up, IS look
ing we'll.
Thanks to high water, the swampers
are getting out their logs now, ana the
lumber business will not surfer In oon1
sequence Of dry swamps. It's an III
wind,' etc.
Gold weather had a bad effect on cot
ton in Tensas. The late planted cotton,
as a general thing, has not yet come up
and Ia a little behindhand, In conse-
auence Of the cold spell.
The True Republican says that the
levee at Lake Providence. ls 80 snaky
that it ID dangerous to drive upon 1t or |
near IL. and advises all passers by TO |
drive around by New Town IL they wish |
to avoid erevasse.
The water In the back bayous OF
Tensas is coming up rather too last, ana
back country farmers are alarmed ~
probable overflow. Strange to say, the
rise In these swamps IS mucn more tapio
than the rise in the river.
On Wednesday, I'd inst. at war
saw. BAYOU Macon was rising at the
| nj T., in X
| ing less than two feet OF high water or
general overflow mark. At such a stage
snch q rise is considered tremendous
| rate. There Is danger in the river yet'
| Almost every farmer in the State Is
putting In more corn since the news u
| the European war has been conflrmed.
The early intelligence of this war, com.
| ing lust as it did at planting time, Will
be- responsible for large increase III
next years corn crop and consequent
falling off in cotton.
The negroes are doing as badly IN
Shreveport in the mortality reports as
they are doing here, the report aor Tue
past month showing three deaths among
the negroes in town to one white, 81
though the two races are about equal
that Ia. the negro death rate In ShreVe..
port is three times Us great as that OF
the whites.
The commission named In the BODY OF
the act that abolished the parish or Car
roll. and created in lieu thereof the par.
ishes of East and West Carroll, held
their first meeting on Tuesday last at the
office OF DIR. N. Houghton, In the town
of Providence. The commission organ
lied by electing Gen. Sparrow, Presl-
dent. and Major s. d. Oliver, clerk. 1t
decided to give the creditors OF the
parish seventy-five days In which to
present their claim. At that time the
finances OF the old parish OF Carroll Will
be settled up and It's debts divided be.
tween the two new parishes OF East ana
West Carroll.
: There are some queer practical Jokers
in Opelousas- who may some DAY
. get into trouble for their wild pranks.
Some weeks ago a poor OLD mana
, stranger-who had INDUCED In rather
too frequent libatiops, woke up one fine
morning to find himself as black as a
coal HEAVIER and as slippery as an eel.
He had been blackened with lampblack
and smeared with oil or lard by these
. Jolly jokers. A few days after another
Q party was served in pretty much the
g same manner. Last Tuesday morning
g a third or fourth victim OF these harm less
jokers was found, lying on the side.
= walk, In the neighborhood OF the place
where these jokes are usually perpe-
trated, drugged Git Ia said) and stupe'
! fed. and blackened so that his most in
! innate friends could scarcely recognize
= him. At noon on that day he had not
J. yet recovered from the effects OF the
n drug administered to him, and coulo
o remember nothing that had happened
The matter was Immediately brought tt
=, the notice OF the Grand Jury, then ID
; session, but no law could be found tt
II
g A coal bed has been discovered In
70 Palo Pinto county.
The distillery in process OF erection q
vt Dallas will cost 100000.
Robbers frequent the highways In thu
suburbs Of San Antonio.
Fort Worth is to have another Ma
,, tional bank on the 18th.
Indian and Mexican cattle thieves ar
stealing cattle along the Dry Frlo.
A drove of 1000 beeves arrived at For
i Worth last week, the first OF the season
). There was a heavy frost and little ict
I at Texarkana on the morning OF April
4 the 30th.
: Lage herds of cattle destined for Tar
e rant county, are now water bound soutl
: OF the Brazos river.
J, A great flood came down the Brazo
y on the 18th ult., sweeping away tn
J. bridge near Hampstead.
q The fair directors offer handsom
70 prize for the best drilled company Il
,. the State, and invites Dallas.
l. Mr.. John Glassford, a native OF Han
# over, Germany, was drowned while at
a tempting to cross Onion creek.
\ The grain fields out in the Phillips
10 Hancock Stringer neighborhood wer
st whipped down by the hail until the
q are valueiess.
u From all over Texas comes the new
10 of the departure OF the grasshoppers
u They leave without having done al
u serious damage.
~ In 1876 the earnings of the Texas Cen
~ trail 10 January were $340,6 Tai
20 wear during the came month the