The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-04
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

The towns OF Madison. Duckport and
Miiliken's Bend are going to have a
grand joint ball next week.
Caterpillars have appeared in Natchi-
toches, but there is nothing to fear from
them, the Tindtcdt0r declares.
Natchitoohes parish boasts Of man
who has been married thirteen times,
and all Of whose wives are dead.
A camp meeting will be held at Union
Camp Ground, Katcliff's mills. Red
River parish, Friday, September 10.
There was a considerable cave 10 the
river bank at the lower end Of Vidalia
last week, causing John Brooks to move
his house further inland.
Louis Long, colored, Of West Baton
Rouge, outraged and attempted TO XIII
a negro girl Ia that parish last Tuesday.
He was caught and Ia now In jail In the
East Baton Rouge parish jail.
East Baton Rouse sent an unusual
number of early vegetables, suoh as
potatoes and cabbage, North this sum
mer, one gentleman, Mr.. j. U. Favrot,
alone sending GIG barrels Of potatoes.
These transactions proved paying.
The cotton crop In Rapides Is fine,
but the caterpillars are over the whole
IL
Some planters are using Paris green,
while others prefer waiting for the next
crop OF the worms, which they consider
the destructive ones
The merchants of Alexandria and
Pineville. and some Of the planters of
Rapides, have prepared petition to
Joseph A. Aiken, the President OF the
Red River Transportation Line, and
have had 1t numerously signed, asking a
reduction in the price OF the freight on
cotton, In high water, from vi 80 to $1
a bale.
Young Harrison. son Of DR.. Harrison,
of Natchitoches, was bitten on the hand
by huge rattlesnake about ten days
since. Mr.. Harrison was hauling rails
and the snake was In coil under the rail
pile, when upon removing them he
fastened his fangs 30 deeply that he had
to be literally pulled off. Whisky and
tobacco were freely used as antidotes,
and. strange to say, Mr.. Harrison did
not suffer days Inconvenience.
As q remarkable freak of the mail
service between Natchitoches and Alex
andria, we will state remarkable fact,
which continues o remarkable nuisance
to the great detriment Of the public. A
few months previous to the establish
ment of daily route from Shreveport
to Natchitoches, which Is now III per-
feet running order, we used to receive
regularly our Shreveport Daily Times
inside of forty-eight hours, and now we
receive 1t regularly inside Of six days.
We have complained OF this time and
again, have sought an explanation Of
this remarkable mali freak. and for the
life US we can get neither, and yet 1t
and all reported all right at
Washington and no fines imposed and
the contractors are happy at the end Of
each quarter. We begin to believe that
Mr.. Key, the Postmaster General Of Mr..
Hayes is no mail key at all and that he
is drone on the service. I Alexandria
Democrat.
A man living In Natchitoches was con-
fined In jail there on Monday last as a
violent maniac. For some time past he
has exhibited an ALTERATION OF mind
but nothing serious was thought of 1t
until upon Saturday last, when two lit
tie children. aged about twelve or, III.
teen years, took his dinner to the field
where he was working. The little boy,
who acted quite heroically, says they
found the man lying down apparently
asleep, he left the little girl near him
with the dinner, going himself to anoth-
er part OF the field, when attracted by the
screams OF the little girl and going to
her assistance he found her violently
assailed by the man, then in violent
convulsion seemingly, who was froth-
ing at the mouth, ETC., and endeavoring
to bite the child; the screaming OF the
two children brought the mother and a
negro woman from the house, when the
maniac was fought off by the two wo-
men and the little boy for over two
hours, and not until the boy had, at the
suggestion OF his mother, stabbed him
twice with his pocket knife, did they
succeed in overpowering him. He is
even now raving and swapping at every.
the SYMPTOMS Of hydrophobia. The
name OF this unfortunate is George
Sherring.
The cotton factory at Natchez is being
rapidly completed.
The first case OF sunstroke In Vicks-
burg this season occurred Monday
evening. Joe Moore, colored, who was
serving out a sentence on the chain
gang, was paralyzed from the excessive
heat, and while en- route to the city hos
pital for treatment died from the effects
of the stroke.
And now the enterprising German
scientist, Mr.. Mas, of Meridian, be-
sides inventing the process for making
moss out of pine straw, has invented a
mode Of making gas out of resin, which
is said to furnish splendid light,
equally as good as the illuminating gas
generally used. In time the piny woods
region will be Illuminated by gas, in
stead Of the primitive pine knot.
On last Sunday morning, in the neigh.
borhood Of Meridian, three miles south
of Egypt Station, on the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad. John Lawson, a young
man, committed suicide by hanging
himself. He was found late Sunday
evening by the roaring of flies about the
decaying corpse, suspended twenty feet
in the air from the limb of tree. The
cause of his self-destruction is unknown
He had about $1,000 in cash on his per.
son.
Texas.
Stock are suffering for water ou
about Rockport.
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