The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-24
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

Calcaeieu has q large area OF its lands
in rice this year.
The late freshets swept away the
Bayou Bmuf bridges in st. Landry
parish.
The crops of Caddo parish are very
promising, and the planters are assured
OF large corn crop.
The Sugar Bort favors the cencreter
as the most economical apparatus for
sugar manufacture.
The citizens Of North Louisiana are
endeavoring to organize an Agricul-
tural and Mechanical Association.
Opelousas fishermen have recently
been capturing unusually large turtles.
not OF the kind whose voice il heard in
the land, but of the kind Mark Twain
met in the East
The citizens of st. John the Baptist
have opened public ballroom. Better
mind, lest modern Soldenic Herodias
should come up there and dance off the
bald-heads Of st. John.
William Langley, said to be noto-
rious Texas desperate and murderer,
was captured recently in DeSoto parish
after two years chase. His last VIC
tim was murdered In Lee county, Texas.
The Mansfield Dramatic Association
proposes to give an entertainment to
defray the cost of fencing the Mans
field cemetery. where hundred Oonfed-
crate dead, who fell in the battle of
Mansfield, are buried.
The city of Shreveport furnishes the
poor folks lime to whitewash their
houses. and the Shreveport gas COM
pany gives 1t away to any citizens who
want it for disinfectant uses. One gen
erous corporation and one liberal gas
company are discovered in the same
spot.
Mississippi.
Wolves are complained Of along the
banks of the Homachitto.
Steel rails are being laid on the Vicks-
burg and Meridian Railroad.
Two little boys living near Grenada
were buried under fallen embankment
about week ago.
Parties in Meridian are raising silk
worms and hope to open a lively silk
Louisiana female stockings are made
of raw silk.
Two young men promiscuously popped
at each other with "the petulant pistol"
in Vicksburg. and unfortunately shot
another disinterested mule who was
honestly at work pulling dray.
According to the Port Gibson RereiHe
the prevailing feeling OF the masses in
Jefferson and many other counties is
that they are under moral and political
obligations to reinstate the gallant vete-
ran, Gen. Humphreys, in the position
from which he was once expelled by
Federal bayonets.
Texas.
BRENNAN is sloppy with watermel-
ns.-[Statesman.
A company is erecting a cotton factory
in Somerville county.
Some gentlemen are going to start
pork packery in Austin next fall.
A party Of Ohioans, few left out of
office, are In Jefferson county prospect
ing.
Some Of the wheat crops Of Northern
Texas are yielding thirty bushels to the
acre.
Johnston county boasts wheat fields
that are yielding forty bushels to the
acre.
Flattering crop prospects have given
a considerable impetus to trade In North
Texas.
Dallas has an ice machine for which
is claimed O. daily capacity OF 10000 to
$4,000 pounds.
A thrifty granger living thirty miles
from Waco raised 81, UUU bushels Of oats
on his farm this year.
Rural exchanges are svmptomatically
huvial just now, from an unusually
abundant fruit crop.
The epicures Of Jefferson are reveling
over an abundant feast Of fresh buffalo