The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-20
SOUTHERN NEWS.


AVubShAHAs
The levees In front OF the Star planta-
ton and Mr.. j. b. Gasson's place In St.
Charles parish, have given way.
Mr.. w. p. Mangham has given up the
management OF the Rayvilte Beacon ID
favor OF Thos. j. Mangham, his brother,
Mr.. Morgan will have the dredge.
boats at work soon In deepening the
channel at the mouth OF the Atcha.
falaya.
It is charged that the parish oil
Ouachita has sent couple OF paupers
to this city and paid their fare on the
steamboat.
Franklin parish Of st. Mary, cele-
brated Mardi Gras after the style Of New
Orleans, and had Mas Kers, ETC., on the
streets during the day.
The planters of st. Mary are at work
putting In their cane crop. The wet
weather has interfered somewhat with
their work, but q large area will be
planted nevertheless.
Mr.. J. M. Burguieries, who purchased
the Weeks plantation, In Iberia, for
500, 600, sold 900 Of timber standing
on 1t, In the first week after taking pos
session, one-sixth OF the purchase price
OF the place.
On last Saturday night Ribbeck Bros.
sugar-house, In the parish OF Iberia,
was destroyed by fire. Fortunately oil
their sugar had recently been shipped
to New Orleans, but they lost most Of
their molasses. Insured for $4,000.
The Republicans Of st. Mary are said
to have held mass meeting few days
ago, again endorsing Packard. As.
however, the Republican parish paper
has no comments on 1t, it Is hardly
probable that the meeting was much Of
a success.
In Pattersonville, parish OF st. Mary,
last Sunday week, shooting scrape
took place between lot Of negro men,
and a spectator; a colored boy about
eighteen years of age, named Humphrey
Williams, was shot and killed. No ar
rests were made. In fact there Is no
justice Of the peace there, rs the Radi-
cal negro who was elected to that off ee
has gone away and left that portion Of
the parish without a law officer.
The mespillus In Plaquemines parish
have withStood the late severe weather
better than the orange and other ever
greens, on the left bank, and have re-
tanned their splendid foliage intact, but
both blossoms and embryo fruit have
under the frost. On the
Us III palh, tueSe t!SeS w uot SeSu W
have received any injury, and will pro-
badly yield their usual, abundant sup
ply OF most delicious fruit, the earliest
to ripen In this climate and inferior to
none in richness and flavor.
mississippi.
The Sea Coast Mirror has suspended.
Rain interfered with the Natchez Car
nival.
The subject of cotton factory is
being agitated again in De Soto county.
The Legislature has Incorporated the
"Amite County Manufacturing Com
pany."
Mrs. Jacob Kicks, of Natchez, has
disappeared mysteriously, and 1t is
feared that she has committed suicide.
The following appointments Of Trus-
tees of the University OF Mississippi
were made by the Governor and con-
6rmed by the Senate last week: Chas.
II. Otken, Summit, vicesT. s. Cartwright;
J. l.. McCaskill, Brandon, vice J. Tar
bell; A. j. Baker, Duck Hill, vice w. r.
B1rksdale.
Wheat Is beginning to grow briskly In
Johnson county and looks we'll.
A gentleman writes from Detroit,
Michigan, that he will visit Waco next
month, with view to finding a location
or colony Of from one to two hundred
persons.
The smallpox in Chambers county is
'apidly decreasing, everybody in the
having been vaccinated.
It has proved terrible scourge, par
among the negroes.
Mayor W Wheeler, of Austin, says he
has been mayor "for five years and had
never known a case Of crime brought
before. him originating in, the uss Of
ager beer, 80 far as he knows their
,rigin."
An excellent lady In Houston, we are
old, has asked for a divorce ON the
yround that her husband is not a Chris
ian. IL the poor man can't become a
christian except by a separation from
his wife, let her have a divorce by all
means.
Mr.. James, Of Indiana, proposes to
wooden mill in Austin, pro-
'ided the people Of that city will take