The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-23
SOUTHERN NEWS.



parish
A horse was stung to death by bees at Will
Platte. st. Landry parish, last week.
Crops are better In the Bayou BGuf country
than at any time since the war.
Hon. Numa Irepagnier, judge OF the parish
Of st. John the Baptist, died In that parish
last Tuesday.
Several cases of s,lnstroke, none, however
fatal, were the result of the late hot weather IL
st. John the Baptist
Mr. Cashen, of Washington, st. Landry
parish, while washing q fish line had his
hand badly torn and bitten by gar fish.
The school board of st. Charles parish has
declined to accept the bond Of the treasurer
of the school funds of that parish ON the
ground that it was insufficient.
A militia company, calling itself the mich.
oils Guard has been organized at Paincourt-
vile, Assumption parish, with Pierre Gilbert
as captain.
The Me,idiondl lVermiion PARISH COM
plains of want of cleanliness in portions OF
Abbeville, and calls upon the city fathers to
have the existing sanitary ordinances en-
forced.
They have the genuine cotton worm on the
Spencer plantation, on Bunche's Bend, Car
roll parish; at this place they were first seen
in the parish last year. The cotton Is l1xuri-
ant and green, and we may look for a speedy
increase OF the destructive worm
The U. s. snagboat o. G. Wagner, which has
just been engaged In removing snags and OBJ
structions from the Ouachita river, in Arkan-
sas, will begin on the Louisiana portion of the
river as soon as the water is low enough to
get to work.
Last Sunday, near Twins place. two miles
south Of Delhi, W. d. ODowd,, drunken
Irishman, without any provocation, cursed a
negro named Anthony Williams, and then
stabbed him in his right side, inficting Sc
we're wound. He was arrested on the 4th
inst. near the line Of Franklin parish
The gallery of the building belonging to
Mr.. M. Zeyer, on First street in Gretna, broke
down on Sunday night last, at half-past Z
o'clock, making q complete smash up, There
were seven persons sitting thereon at the
time, principally ladies, all of whom were
more or less hurt, but not dangerously.
A little colored girl, years old, living near
Donaldsonville. broke several ,peach-stones
of green peaches, and ate the kernels. She
was discovered on the road to the railroad
station In a dying condition. An emetic was
given her by the attending physician without
effect, and she died after severe commissions
in few hours.
Westwego last Sunday, was arrested on Tues
day last on the Friedland plantation In st.
Charles parish. He gave his name as Bill
Sykes, and afterwards as jeff Dennis. He
claimed to have acted in self defense, johnson
having struck him several times with fire
brick. When arrested his head was covered
with wounds
Charles st. Martin aged 10 years, son of Pa
rish Attorney st. Martin, of st. Charles, while
swimming in the river at Courthouse Bend,
st Charles parish, was carried away by the
current A friend, Valcour Berom, went to his
rescue, and the two boys sank together Be-
rom, however, succeeded in escaping from St
Martins embrace and swan to the shore St
Martin was drowned.
The Donaldsonville Chief tells us Of a two-year
r.Nt, .xf A,,,t H. /
came victim to concentrated lye. Unobserved,
he managed to get hold of q box of the lye
and swallowed portion. of the contents
Different antidotes were administered as soon
as the condition Of the child was discovered,
but without effect. The child died the Same
day after suffering great agony.
Monroe seems to be agitated over the fire
district question. An ordinance of the City
Council compelling persons building wooden
buildings within certain fire limits to remove
them. was decided by the Supreme Court to
bated the question of ordering these buildings
to be removed, and seemed to think that 1t
ought to be done. The matter, however,
was postponed a petition protesting against
any action by the city having been presented
by number Of citizens.
Sylvan Barras, formerly resident of As
sumption, and prior to the war the manager
in chief OF the extensive Whitmel Pugh plan
tation, was dashed to death in Iberia parish a
few days since, says the Pioneer, of As
tinues, that Mr.. Barras made i'm
proper proposals to young lady in
that vicinity, as alleged by her. and that she
disclosed the facts to her father, whereupon
the old gentleman and his four sons captured
Barras and rendered him powerless by means
OF ropes. Barras was asked whether he pre-
ferred to be shot or whipped. The poor man
selected the latter alternative, supposing that
he would be soundly, logged and released
in IL.
as the sequel proved, for he was literally
fayed alive until life was extinct. The Thibo-
daux Sentinel, however asserts that this
story is utterly without foundation.
Mississippi.
Alfalfa county has nominated it's full Demo-
cratic ticket.
Aberdeen is out of debt and has over $4,000
to its credit in the bank.
The camp meeting at Crystal Springs will
commence on the 22d day of August.
Gen. ]. Argyle Smith, of Jasper county, is
candidate for State superintendent Of Edu-
cation.
INFANCY Turner, colored woman of Column
BUS, was burned to death last week by the ex-
plosion OF a kerosene lamp.
The ladies of Aberdeen have secured by
subscription sufficient funds to rebuild the
Aberdeen Female College, burnt last year.
Pamela county has Sss, 200 Of clear cash in
i.ei tiSaSui y, anu uOeSn owe a cent, ana the
Sardis Star says it's the result of wise and
economical Democratic government
Fruit and potato shippers are losing money.
says the Holly Springs Reporter Freights
are high, the weather warm, and SO on and SO
on, Ship q lot of fruit to Chicago, and YOU
will learn in a few days that it ali rotted and
the police authorities ordered it buried.
The crop prospects in some portions of the
country around Okolona are not at all prom
ising. The cotton crop, from the present
): utlook, will not be more than half an ave-
aaage yield. The early corn, where it has be
Tn worked is good, but late corn as general
fule, is not doing WELL
Abram Davis, a colored man, shot and
killed Dick Lockhart, another colored man.
at Lexington, on the evening of Tuesday last
at 8 O'Clock. His preliminary trial was held
before Mayor Cross the next morning the re-
suit of which was bond required for Davis
appearance at the next Circuit Court to the
the amount of $4,000.
Texas.
Ellis county crops are suffering for rain.
Corn is suffering terribly in Johnson county
for lack of rain.