The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-08

Jeanerette In full blast 100O people
present; 50 guns fired; fire works, pen
fires and torchlight procession. Iae els,.
ard blown up In ef1gy. LOUD ch aen i Far
| Nichols and Wilt. Jeanerette goo5u.
for another turnout, Saturday, the oth
Of May. ILL.,,
| A piraiical cruiser was captured Ply
tho sha,ifr of Assumption parish. the
nther da y at Napoleonville. The boat
Unattended TO be dealing Id rags. but
whan these we're uncovered. underneath
them was found a large lot OF sugar.
house machinery Of all kinds. stolen ply
negroes and sold TO these pirates. AL
mnst every sugar house in the neighbor-
hood had suffered. Two white and one
negro pirate were discovered aboard the
boat and locked UP.
Tom Swain, an old colored man, re-
turned from hunting, to New Iberia,
| last Saturday, and as he alighted from
| his horse in the rear of Mr. }. -.
SWANS residence, he handed his gun
to q little colored boy while he united
the birds from the pomme1 of his sad
die. His wife was near, and by her side
stood little Julius French, aged years,
| the eldest con of Capt. John French,
the pilot The bright little fellow, with
childish glee, asked, "Oh Aunt Sally,
/
to which the kind woman had scarcely
replied, 'yes. honey" when the col
ored boy accidentally discharged the
gun. the whole charge entering poor
| little julius head, literally blowing his
brains out, and fell corpse across the
feet of the colored woman. The mutt
lated body of the child was borne to his
mother, directly across the street, and
the shock and terrible agony she en-
dured none can fully appreciate.
A loose horse was discovered, last
week, In the road leading from Nate HI
toches to Texas. with saddle, bride
and saddle bags on. Some distance far
ther up the road bore evidence of
scuf1le or struggle had taken place. In
the saddle bags was q memorandum
| book In which entries were made, going
| to show that the rider was in the EN-
| ploy of Clapp Bros. & Co.,, cotton mer-
| chants. New Orleans. No body has
been found, although diligent search
was made. Is this murder, or what
The police jury of Carroll parish some
| time ago met and decided to order an
election Of the people to see IL they
were willing to burden themselves with
fourteen and one-half mills taxation,
instead of less; Of course taxpayers
always want to pay as much taxes as
possible, At the time of passing the
ordinance, this body knew that the
Supervisor of Registration was in New
Orleans and not at all likely to prepare
for an election, yet they advertised for
the twenty first Of April, but mott single
citizen ever inquired where the election
was to be held, but treated the ordinance
with the contempt Ii deserved. We sup
pose. SAYS the True Republican, thatthis
very intelligent body will now order the
parish Judge to mandamus the people
to vote.
sHog and hominy' or ''all cotton" Is
the question in Mississippi.
A new post office has been established
at Three Rivers, in Jackson county.
The Grand Jury Of Harrison county,
Miss, pronounce its jail unsafe for keep
ing prisoners in.
The Board of Supervisors of Harrison
county propose to lease out prisoners at
fifty cents q day. This custom is grow
ing quite the fashion throughout Mis-
sissippi
The Crystal Springs Monitor tells Of
two gentlemen from the North who have
settled down near Hazlehurst and
planted acres of cucumbers and over a
thousand fig trees. This looks like q
new branch of industry springing up.
The American Society of Civil Engi-
neers, that were lately on visit here.
stopped at McComb City, Wednesday,
on their way back. The special train
on which they were made the distance
between New Orleans and Canton 1.-TWO
hundred and six miles) in five hours
and fifty-six minutes.
The caterpillar is doing much damage
to the forest trees in the northern por-
| ton of Chickasaw county, and It is
/ Par ho& veil ~ HnN hnp va,
| to the character of trees (the black Jack
they now infest, but they will ere long
become very destructive plague.
| J. ?. Gilmer. who was recently killed
In Kemper county, was the man who
shot Peter Crosby, the colored sheriff OF
| Warren county. in 1875, a murder which
was made the basis of many bloody
shirt speeches at the time, 1t having
been charged to the Democrats by ultra
Radical papers.
An effort is being made to establish
charity hospital in Waco.
Escaped convicts are reported as Turk
ing around the suburbs Of Houston.
They are sinking shaft near Gaines
Vile with tbs expectation of finding
coal. There's plenty of it In that
country.
The postmaster at Meridian is wash
ing machine agent. druggist and
minister, and wears all these honors
lightly.
Two men were scalded to death and
other persons hurt at Pierce Junction.
seven miles from Houston, by the en-
CINE running off the track.
The Bolton Journal records the seduc-
ton of Miss nj. S. Eddington, of Bell
county, by John Richardson. of McLen-
nan, and her death from poison.
A fierce storm, with rain and hail,
passed over Mason county, doing great
damage to fences and crops. Near Ma
the depth of three or four feet.
Thirty-fve Indians, or bogus Indians,
made raid In the vicinity of Castro
Vile, Medina county, and cleared out
several horse ranches, having pTUttftt-
Gated " about two hundred head. Citi-