The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-01
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.


bad.
Dawberrles are now ripe in the coun-
try.
Jeanerette is anxious to be incorpo-
rated.
Pneumonia and measles are playing
havoc at Queuetortue.
Last years stubble In Iberville parish
has come out splendidly.
Houma fired q salute Of fifty guns on
Friday night in honor Of Loulsiana's re-
demption.
It is now thought in st. Charles par
ish that the stubble is merely behind
hand, and not rotten.
Poupperville, parish Of Lafayette. has
a new Catholic church, recently erected
on government land.
Although the smallpox prevails In
Houma, not white person has had 1t
vet: it Is confined entirely to the ne
groes.
Judge Moss, OF Vermilionville, has
fifty varieties of fruit trees in his gar
den and forty-eight species OF ever
greens and shrubbery.
In Vernon parish the cold, backward
spring has retarded planting: In the
uplands corn has been planted, but not
In the black or cotton lands.
Telegraph communication between
New Orleans and Opelousas will soon
be complete. The line is already COM
pleted from New Iberia and nothing re-
mains to be done except to tap the main
line.
The first alligator of the season was
shot and captured at the railroad sta
ton, in st. Charles parish, on last sat
| II oY,roI five fpnt in tanD tn
and was probably two years old. The
colored people ate his flesh.
The river is humping up with fearful
rapidity at West Baton Rouge. The
water from the Morganza crevasse is
now covering the railroad track about
midway between Allen Station and
Crosse Tete. Locomotive trains have
been discontinued, but hand cars keep
up regular communication.
Texas.
Mexia elects municipal officers soon.
Most of the workmen in the railroad
shops at Palestine have been dis
charged.
The most effective grasshopper COM
missioner yet seen is the fly which de-
posts the grub under their wings
with fatal effects.
San Antonio is filled up with strangers
from nearly every part OF the civilized
world, looking out for homes and points
where to stick money.
A fatal ARRAY took place Thursday,
near Manchaca Springs, between two
brothers-in- law named ToWnsley and
Ruby, in which the former was shot
and killed.
Plover are exceedingly plentiful in
| try surrounding Nan Antonio
A party of four gentlemen were out the
other day, and killed GAO in a short time.
They did this in about four hours hunt.
The Fort Worth Democrat says the
wheat crop In that region is the finest
that has ever been seen in any country.
No wonder. Such land as they have
there insures rich harvest OF every
thing planted.
Mr.. A. D. Boyd, of Paris. reports a
days wonder. On his place Is a crab
apple tree, heavily filled with young
lapples. Growing out from one OF the
branches Is a large, fragrant double
rose Just such as are found on fine rose
bushes. This tree was raised on his
place and has never been grated.
The survivors of Hoods Texas Bri-
gade, of the Army Of North Virginia
will hold their annual reunion in the
city OF Waco, on the 9th OF June. The
Examiner says Eve trust every men,
and we assure them that Waco will dc
everything possible to make their stay
here pleasant"
Hon. V. o. King, State Commissioner
of Insurance, officially notifies the PEG
i pie OF Texas that the French Insurance
Corporation, known as LA Caisse Gen.
erale des Assurances Agricoles," is sc
materially impaired in capital and finan
cial standing that 1t Is unsafe and Is nc
longer allowed to do business in the
State OF Texas.
Two COW drivers, encamped on Onion
Creek, near Austin, got into q quarrel
and one drew pistol and shot the Other
dead. He then jumped on his horse
and rode lover the hills and far away.
As both we're strangers in the locality
nobody, according to the Statesman
took any concern in the matter, and the
murdered man was buried by some ne
groes.
The notorious Billy Taylor has beer
arrested by Lieut.. Foster, of the Rangers
in Coleman county, and placed in Jail a.
Austin. Taylor was tried about two
years ago, at Indianola, for the murder
Of Sutton, and sentenced to ten years liz
the penitentiary. He, however, man.
aged to make his escape from the Jail al
Indianola during the great storm, anC
has been at large ever since.
Friday squad of United States sol
4 diers captured the two robbers who
went through the Uvalde stage coach
near that place last Wednesday. A
sergeant Of the army who had beer
plundered by the desperadoes, went il
with the coach ten miles, when, en-
countering a squad of soldiers, he in
ducedthem to accompany him in pur
suit Of the malefactcrs. After chas,
Of about twenty-fou hours, recent rains
making it easy to keep track OF the fu'
gitives, they were overtaken and sur
rendered at the muskets' muzzle. Hoer
ner, the condemned pirate. who escaped
ten or twelve days ago from the Sal
Antonio jail, was one OF the robber
caught, with the two horses he caugh
at San Antonio. He had just been con
signed to the penitentiary for ten year
and this little job makes his serving o