The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-18
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

Louisiana.
Houma has new fire company.
There is aEreat demand for laborers
In Lafourche parish.
The Thibodaux Bridge Company have
declared dividend Of eight per cent.
The school board OF Lafourche lately
divided the parish into ~ school dis
tricts.
Hamp Keys, member Of the Legis-
latnre OF '72, now peddles CRABS III
Thibodaux.
The stage line between Lake Charles
and Orange, Texas, has been increased
to tri-weekly service.
Two of the newly elected trustees Of
New Iberia turn out to be disqualihed,
already holding other offices.
A man by the name OF Marlborough
had his hand cut of by q circular saw
on Skaters plantation, In Bayou Chac-
ahoula, parish OF Lafourche.
Messrs. Couture, Sewall and Haskell,
praise the logs seized in Calcasieu par
ish, arrived In Lake Charles last week.
They called upon the deputy marshals
In charge OF the logs to produce an In
yer SOW OF them. This they were un-
Ak - do, having made no inventory.
aNtser was telegraphed to New Or
..1vecdt. the committee Is waiting to
oW bSsIya, helm was killed on the
Aahsfiea roa0,. four miles from Shreve-
port, whils he was taking supper with
q Mr.. Loyeless and family. Mr.. Bern,
helm had Just finished his supper, end
was seated near the window, when the
assassin fired at him with buckshot,
nine OF the bullets entering his body.
Mr.. Loveless Immediately pursued the
assassin, but was unable to catch up
with him. A man by the name OF
Prather Is suspected Of the murder.
Mississippi.
The public schools Of Leake county
open next week.
The thermometer at Carthage last
Monday stood at 81.
The Newton Bulletin suggests the
Rev. Mr.. Bardwell as Superintendent OF
Public Instruction.
Quite a number of hogs, COWS and
calves, bitten by mad dog In Water
Valley, have had the hydrophobia.
Discussing the question Of negro par
ticipation In politics, the Vicksburg
Herald says that, while we are In favor
of giving the negro every right secured
him by the amendments to the consti.
tuition, we can't see that 1t is our bust
ness to take him up and ram politics
down his throat"
At the recent meeting of the Missis-
sippi Press Association, at Holly
Springs. w. j. L. Holland, Of the Holly
Springs Reporter, was elected presi-
dent, and 9. Il. Wright, Of the Vicks-
burg Herald. and r.. II. Henry, OF the
Brookhaven Ledger. vice presidents.
vicksburg has been taking soundings
In order to test the effect Of the change
in the river current since the cutoff OPP
posite was formed, which shows that
Matthews Mills, three at the elevator,
and seven opposite the compress, etc.
Texas.
The Rusk penitentiary il to be finish
cd by the fifth OF next December, at a
cost or 100000.
Sherman sent twenty white men,
eight negroes and one woman, with her
child, to the penitentiary.
The hail storm week ago In Fannin
county did some damage. Orchards In
its line OF passage were stripped Of fruit,
and corn and cotton badly damaged.
Al barbecue was held at Kaufman on
the fifth. in the interest OF the Sabine
donations ora'ok .Yey literally subscribed
to this en- 4terpi
The L,se sctio Mayor, in Austin,
cam fonst, and resulted In
the eCHrcAao ken d DeGress, formerly
Superintean in sendel Public instruction
under Davis Experimentation There
were eight canardstes Ia the field, and
the Radicals united on DeGress and ran
him In.
The Comdache Chief says that in
Coleman and adjoining counties for
months past a state Of anarchy has
reigned and life and property have been
insecure. These counties have been
made headquarters for thieves and MUIR
derers, who have concentrated there
with such force as cannot be overcome
by the law-abiding and law enforcing
citizens
A singular accident occurred near Palo
Pinto last Saturday evening. A Mrs,
Roller, whose husband lives at Mr.. Hum
phrey's, on the river, was milking a COW,
her son, a man of rs years, standing
near with stick three or four feet long
in his left hand, the hand resting
against the left groin. While In this
position the cow kicked, striking the
end Of the stick, and driving the oppo-
site end against the lower part Of Mr..
RS abdomen, producing inguinal her
MIA, from the effects OF which he died
next evening.