The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-17
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louislana.

Houma Is building temperance hall.
Fevers are prevailing in the country
to . considerable extent.
-Gerspach Il Herring's saw-mill, near
Monroe, was burnt last night.
!. A telegraph Office has been estab-
lished at Grand Coteau.
The Homer Tliad and Sparta Times
oppose the present game law.
An insurance company known as the
Mutual has been organized In st. Mary
parish.
Rain fell throughout North Louisiana
last Friday, doing immense benefit to
the crops.
The new town council Of Lake Charles
has organized and commenced Its duties
| at once.
Three prisoners, two murderers and q
horssthief, escaped from the parish jail
Of st. Mary last week.
| Central sugar factories are gaining
adherents constantly among the smaller
sugar planters OF Louisiana.
| st. James parish was lately redis-
tricted into eight police jury wards, in
stead OF ten, like Che other parishes.
Private Mccarthy. OF Company K,
18th United States Infantry, was shot
and killed by negro In. Baton Rouge
on Sunday night last.
w. D. Hall was shot and killed by W.
| $. b. Mitchiner, on the Phillips place,
near Rocky Mount, In Bossier parish,
on Monday, the 9th inst.
A telegraph line is to be built from
| Iberia to Vermilionville via st. Mar
tinsviile and Breaux Bridge. The
money therefore Is rapidly being raised.
The citizens of Franklin are raising
$4,000 for the purpose Of removing the
distractions from Bayou Yokely and
digging a canal to drain the water on
$1,000 has already been raised.
We are pleased to see at our office last
week. says the Lake Charles Echo,
Houston, Texas. Connected with the
engineers department of the Texas and
New Orleans Railroad Company, they
were here on a preliminary survey
between Orange and Lake Charles, for
the purpose OF reporting the most avail
able route between those points. The
cars have been running for several
months from Houston to Orange, and
we have an abiding faith that we will be
walked up some morning by the whistle
OF the locomotive at Lake Charles.
MISSISSIPPI.
Mass meetings and barbacues are now
In order In Mississippi.
The delegations from Clarke, Jasper
and Wayne are for Lowry.
The city of Aberdeen is out of debt
and has $5028 in bank.
The new county Of Quitman has in
structed for J. M. Stone for Governor.
Attala, Montgomery and Leake
counties have endorsed r. Walpole for
Auditor.
Jefferson county had it's Democratic
convention last week and nominated its
entire county ticket.
The lumber cut on the Mississippi
river. during the past winter is esti-
mated at LAT 600, 900 feet.
Tallahatchie river, Mississippi, is
again in It's banks. The farmers are
busy planting their overflowed lands In
corn.
According to the Liberty Miss
Herald large number Of the men,
youths and boys of that town celebrated
the 4th by getting drunk.
The darkeys of Mississippi aud Ala
bama had an Interstate base ball match
at Demopolis, Ala, on the 12th, which
resulted In glorious victory for the
Alabama nigs.
The University OF Mississippi con-
ferred the degree of d. ID. on Rev. j. s..
Moore, late OF Jefferson, Texas, and
Rev. j. N. Craig, Of Holly Springs, Miss.
Davidson College confers the same de-
gree on Rev. G.. r. Bracket, of Charles
ton, s. O.
In the city of Houston there are $685.
600 due on back taxes.
Miss Laura Strickland, OF Jacksboro,
is another victim to kerosene.
A new courthouse is being built at
Groesbeck.
The sugar cane crop Of Texas is re-
ported in fine condition. 1t Is more ex-
tensive than at any time since the war.
A child Of Major Burke, of Dallas,
was attacked by, rats while asleep and
badly bitten. about the face.
Hog cholera prevails In Freestone
county, and the farmers are losing
heavily.
Morgan leaves Houston out in the
cold, and will build up Clinton by max
ing 1t the head Of navigation on Buffalo
Bayou.
Stock raisers Of Western Texas are
going to have meeting In Corpus
Christi on July 20. Their object is to
take some action in regard to fraudulent
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