The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-13
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!. ~. simmons has been elected
parish treasurer 81 Claiborne.
THE cat crop Of Fast Feltriana IA
double what IL ever was before.
The parish prisoners In Tensas arc
busy on the roads. bitches. etc. Of that
parish.
IL rained Monday. Thursday and Fri
day In Tensas. and yet the crops hardly
got enough Of IT,
Hon, n. II. Kidd, of Jackson, Ia to de-
| liver the annual address at Arizona Col
lege, Claiborne parish.
The salary OF the president of the po-
lice jury of Morehouse parish has been
reduced from $500 to 800.
The police jury of West Baton Rouge,
at its session on Tuesday, passed an
ordnance closing stores on Sunday.
The people of Clinton. East Felicana,
voted last Monday in favor of licensing
liquor saloons by q majority OF three to
!; one.
| Mr.. B. r. Morris was elected mayor of
| Clinton at the election in that place on
Monday, and Fl. B. Vaughan. J. A. White,
| Albert Mayer. W. FL. Hartner and r. H.
Diamond aldermen.
Mr.. John L. Overton, the gentleman
L. IA. y.
Donahoe on the 31st ult., died at his
plantation. four miles south of Clinton,
Sunday evening last.
Last Friday, at the picnic at False
river, one of the negro employees fell
overheard and was drowned. A hand
some sum of money was collected and
turned over to his wife.
II. B. Martindale was elected mayor of
Covington, parish of st. Tammany, at
the election held there last Monday,
and DR.. J. T. Chambers, 7. 0. Sully, Jr.,
James Taylor and J. Daniels aldermen.
The Hickey plantation, in Iberville,
which was completely devastated by the
crevasse of 1874, has been parceled out
among four neighboring planters, and
there remains now nothing whatever of
the old New Hope.
A colored boy, who lived on Mr..
Michel Hebert's plantation, in Jberville,
undertook on Tuesday to climb into q
cart. loaded with corn. By some I'm
accountable accident, he fell in front of
the wheels and was crushed to death.
On May 30 four white men In Baton
Rouge parish went to the place Of Mr..
Benjamin Borsky and taking out two
negroes, severely whipped them. The
people of Baton Rouge were determin-
ed to have none Of this whipping bust
ness, and an investigation was imme-
diately made and tho four men guilty Of
this outrage arrested and locked up to
await trial.
The election for municipal officers Of
Bastrop. last Monday, was warmly con
tested by the different candidates, there
being OF least five tickets In the field,
but everything passed off quietly and
every voter cast his ballot for the men
of his choice. Politics were eschewed |
altogether. The following gentlemen
were elected S. I'll. Stivers, mayor.
Counclmen-S. Sugar, J. S. Handy, G. |
Newton, u. i. Buckingham and J. S.
Heller.
The Lexington Adrertiser has the |
name Of Hon. Roderick Seal at it's mast
head for superintendent Of education.
A. B. Williams, postmaster at Du-
rant, has gone where the woodhne |
twineth, carrying with him three hun
dred and fifty dollars belonging to the
Postoffice Department.
Col. Sam 2. Steele, leading Missis-
sippi Radical, and at one time registrar,
tax collector and colonel of militia, has
gone the way of other Radicals, and been
sent to jail for stealing registered pack
ages from the mail.
w. @. Johnson, who recently died in
Vicilsburg, Wills five thousand dollars
to the Blind Asylum and the same
amount to the Lunatic Asylum. The
residue of his valuable estate he leaves
to John A. Klein and son.
Tho foolish prosecution which was
instituted against W. Il. Hewett, Esq,
Of Natchez, in Issaquena county, when
he went there to take testimony in the
Lynch Chalmers contest, and which he
1np f0 10 n icyp, i1on
The Yazoo Herald Democrat gives the
proceedings Of the organization Of q
volunteer military company last week.
The candidates for captain were Frank
lin Payne, of the Union army, and Stan
hope Posey, of the Confederate. Payne
was elected by one majority, and Posey
elected first lieutenant by reclamation.
A man named John r. Walker was
killed by ID. w. Mills, at the latter's
residence, near Dickens Ferry in Jack
son county, on the 3Oth ult. 1t appears
that Walker had chloroformed Mrs.
Mills and outraged her person. A coro
ner's jury, after investigating the case,
returned verdict of justitiable homi-
eide.
The Meridian Mercury chronicles the
death of we'll known negro at Marion,
this State, who died on the 31st Of May,
dSeu eighty years. WIZ Was tuo plOpSl-
ty of James Madison at the time he was
President, and was one of the Presi-
dents servants in the White House
during the war of 1Sl2-14. and saw the
British troops when they captured
Washington.
The Greenwood Oriental tells Of the
arrest of Mr.. George W. Wall, for kill
ing colored boy, a year ago. Mr.. Wall
was at his mothers residence. near
Shellmound. and when he heard the
sheriff and his posse coming he crawled
up the chimney, but Mr.. Jim Carnes
saw him through hole in the chimney,
and Mr.. Wall was forced to come down.
Mr.. Wall is highly esteemed, and hence
the Oriental makes no comments.
A few days ago two citizens of Arkan-
sas agreed that they would come to Mis-