The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-23
SOUTHERN NEWS.
louisiana.

Louisiana.
The Vermilion Banner has sus-
pended.
Papabots are numerous and fat in
Vermilion.
Abbeville wants telegraph line to
Olidon's ferry.
The cane crop Of Vermilion is par
ticularly good.
The trustees of the Catahoula schools
are 80 whites and II colored.
The river has fallen twenty-one feet
in Concordia in the past few weeks.
There are no worms in Carroll. The
crop is maturing fast and favorably.
They are digging down the embank-
ments and leveling the streets Of Troy.
Floyd will have a barbecue on the
10Th. Judge Wheeler will speak there
at.
st. Martinville boasts that 1t has fur
nished four judges OF Our Supreme
Court.
The Donaldsonville Tri,lae. Democrat
ranges itself in favor of q constitutional
convention.
Covington has shipped 254S cattle to
New Orleans this season, and expects
to ship 5000 more.
The tournament fever has reached
Franklin, and that town Is soon to have
display with thirty knights.
John McGuiggan, living near Shreve-
port, was arrested last week for the
murder of a Mr.. Bratcher, in Kinds
county, Miss, some time ago. He was
conveyed at once to Mississippi.
The Carroll Conservative seems to
have vanquished the Sugar Planter in
their late war Of words and wit by pat
ented pictorial puns, making sad reflec-
items on the Sugar Planters editor.
Mr.. A. Chevalon was elected mayor Of
Covington last week, after an exciting
election, by a majority Of one. Joe Vial,
Albert Bosse, M. l.. Leblanc and Joe
Steel were elected aldermen at the same
time.
Cypremort had railroad meeting
last Saturday to organize for the build
ing Of the narrow gauge road to the
Teche. Everything promises the early
completion OF the road.
Judge Keblee, of Vermilion, has de-
cided that. under the new hog law Of
that parish, farmers who are without
fences cannot shoot hogs invading their
fields. Fences, in consequence, will
have to go up.
The franklin Enterprise claims that
common field laborers have been paid
$25 month for the past ten years. Yet
even at this rate the parish is short
handed. Here is chance for unem-
ployed Northern labor.
The Iberville South wants the citizens
subject to road duty In that parish to be
COMPELLED to, work on the levees. It
also suggests that a fund of money be
raised, by voluntary contribution Of the
taxpayers Of the parish, for levee pur-
poses.
The Thibodaux Sentinel corrects the
statement Of the DEMOCRAT that the ad-
ditional tax Of two and half mills for
liquidating the outstanding debt Of the
parish makes the parish taxation twelve
and a half mills; it raises the levy to
only ten mills on the dollar-the consti-
tutional limit.
We have been informed by a gentle
man recently returned from a visit to
the Black Hawk plantation, in Concor-
dia parish, that the cotton worm has
made its appearance on the plantation
and has already done some slight DAM
age in one spot in the field. me pro-
prietor has resorted to the use OF Paris
green and hopes to check the ravages Of
the pestiferous little foe.-[Natchez
Democrat.
Texas.
The corn crop in Callahan and adioin-
ing counties has been almost an entire
failure.
Fort Worth has two -four mills that
use 1900 bushels Of wheat every twenty
four hours.
The session of the Grand Lodge of
Good Templars will be held at Denison
on the 2Sth of August.
Much sorghum is raised in Dewitt.
The Bulletin thinks Louisiana cane
could be as we'll raised.
A new election is to be held soon in
Kimball county for the purpose Of Sc
lecting a permanent county seat.
A young negro who attempted rape
on young lady in Milan county was
caught and swung to tree last week.
Col. O. N. HolIingsworth says that
the State will be able to maintain public
free schools during the coming fiscal
year for four months.
School communities must organize by
August 81 in order to draw their proper
ton of the public school fund for the
year beginning September /.
The opening Of the Texas and New
Orleans Railroad has infused new life
into the counties along the line border
ing the Sabine and Neches rivers.
A farmer of Collin county met with a
fearful accident. He fell from the top
Of a load Of wheat on a three-pronged
pitchfork, and the prongs passed
through his body, intlicting fatal
wounds.
LAGRANGE Record: We are sorry to
hear from almost every section of the
county that the boil worm is doing i'm
mense damage to the cotton crop. This
is too bad, after having poisoned to
death the caterpillar.
| Sam Peyton shot and killed Robert
Eubanks near Mount Zion, in Lamar
county, on Sunday. Peyton surrendered
to the authorities. Examination was