The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-27
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

| fruit III NORTH iIeut5thHA bnls year,
The estimate Of expenses of tho parish
| Of ST. Charles for the coming year 10
| $15, tbG J2a. ......
Natohitouhes expects 10 handle fifty
thousand bales OF cotton as soon as the
Nichols government ID recognized.
The moss business has greatly i'm.
proved In Latouruhe, Terrebonne,
Assumption and lever St. Mary: 1t is
one that requires very little capital and
very little work, and 10 quite profitable.
Rice ID being neglected in 81. John for
sugar. There will be u decided failing
off In the rice crop In that parish and
probably throughout the State In oon-
sequence.
Peaches, plumbs and straw berries are
mel. The 'plumb" IL q favorite fruit In
that portion OF the State.
The tberville South estimates the
sugar crop OF 1878, IL there is no over.
| flow and the season Ia as good aH the
present one, Mt an increase OF forty per
cent.
The Colfax Chronicle. Grant parish,
| welcomes the Al mills parish tax, and
thinks the parish governments can get
along very well on It,
The periuue tobacco crop OF Sc. James
parish was great success the present
year. n larger amount OF IL will be
planted the coming season than ever
before.
The proposal OF Mr.. Dolhonde to give
| d square or ground In New Mechanic.
sham for court building has been ao-
cepted by the Police Jury OF Jefferson
| parish.
Hon, J. b. Elan commenced taking
testimony in Mansfield, DeSoto county,
| February Id, to substattiate his case OF
contest against Geo. IL. Smith. The
testimony will be even fuller than that
taken by the special congressional
committee that visited Shreveport for
that purpose.
Az q colored ball at Buena Vista
school-house, In the Fifth Ward OF st.
James parish, Henry Dorsey, who was
drunk, ilred three shots In the Dir. Not
long afterwards Frank Washington,
ono Of the managers OF the ball, and
| another man went out OF doors TO con.
out some ten or fifteen minutes. Du-
| ring this time Dorsey went UP to the
| bar TO take u drink, and while standing
there some one fism the outside shot
him through the window, killing him
instantly, the ball passing through his
left aide. It Ia supposed that washing
ton shot the murdered man.
Texas.
Grasshoppers will devnstato the crops
In Colorado.
San Antonio has colored ilrenaen.
Wheat Is looking well In Delta
county, .s.... 49,. a
Washington county pays its paupers
StBo per month. taA 81 g#.E f.
The town of Nacogdoches has been
Incorporated. and II. voigt 10 Its mayor.
| I Cow ponies are In great demand In
and around San Antonio. E#
Harris county refuses longer to give
support to paupers within the corporate
limits OF the city OF Houston.
Ali over the country the grasshoppers
arc Matching out In countless myriads.
Navarro county 10 getting Ito share OF
i farms viii settle there 81 soon.
C9manche county has $2s, 100 Of bond
ed debt, and It's bonds are worth In the
New York market ninety oenta.
County prisoners are being hired cut
under law In many parts OF the htate.
Parties taking them must DO respon-
sible. @ . ~ 49,. s.....as5s a.
The first OF April has been selected as
the time for changing the gauge of the
Central tfaok from Hampstead to this
city.
Local option failed to carry In the
counties OF Lamar, Anderson, Milan,
Rurleson, Ellis, Limestone, Red River,
Smith, jasper and Comanche.
Horse thieves in Northern Texas are
becoming bold and fearfully numerous.
They entered the stable last Tuesday
aight, Ia Dallas, of Mr.. Peter Bruen,
and took therefrom two fine horses,
making good their escape.
| Thomas Goss, who has eighteen thou.
sand barrels of whisky at Aurora, Ind,
intended TO ship IL to Texas as the best
possible market; but the discussion Of
prohibition and possibility OF excluding
| whisky from Austin, great sink for
whisky In former years, has scared the
good man ut Evansville. He says the
law must not be enacted, and proposes
/ that st. Louis, Louisville and Cinein-
natl organize fund TO be used In buy.
ing votes and newspapers to defeat the
temperance people.
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Important to sugar planters Boo Trouard's
| advertisement.
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