The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-11
SOUTHERN NEWS.


The iajl in Bienville parish is In ter
rible condition, Another prisoner es-
capped therefrom last week.
The District Court sat only eight days
| In Grant parish. sending eight men, all
colored. to the nenitentiary.
| The parish Superintendent OF Schools
for East Baton Rouge has already To-
Gated nineteen schools, nine for white
and ten for negro children.
Farmers In from Sabine parish report
the caterpillars az having commenced
TO destroy the cotton In some parts OF
the parish. Paris Green is III demand.
The police jury of East Baton Rouge
propose to bond the indebtedness of
that parish in six per cent bonds, run
ming FOR ten years, the interest and one
tenth of the principal to be paid each
year.
Emile Rost, native of France, but q
citizen OF this State for over fifty years,
and brother OF the late Judge Rost, OF
| the Supreme Court, died at his planta-
tion on Cane river, Natehitoches parish,
| last week,
The cotton crop is very fine in DE
| Soto parish, and will be much larger
| than the last Ii there are no worms,
none are reported yet. The corn crop,
although much injured by the dry
weather. will be larger than the last.
A Mr.. s. w. Stokes, OF Vernon parish,
has discovered pasture grass In that
parish which, he claims, is native to
Louisiana. and the finest kind of pasture
for ali manner Of cattle, hogs, etc. He
is trying to introduce 1t throughout the
State.
The taxpayers of Caldwell paid $12 900
few years ago for splendid iron
sheeted burglar. proof jail. Notwith.
standing which two prisoners escaped
therefrom last week, and now the peo.
pie of Caldwell discover that their Jail
Is utterly unworthy.
August /, being the day on which deer
killing begins without violation OF the
game law, was titly celebrated in
Natchez by several hunting parties who
went out after deer. The general senti-
ment of the parties when they returned
was ''D-n the game lawl What's the
use of giving fellow permission to kill
deer unless you furnish him with the
deer to kill2"
The catepillars are in Natchitoehes
again in spots. and their appearance
produces of course, the usual excite
ment. The Paris Green brigade is out
in full force ready to slay that mortal
foe to all cotton planters. AS yet no
danger need be apprehended. The
Ttndicdtor thinks they have not in
creased In that section to such numbers
as to cause alarm among the thoughtful
planters.
A Mr.. Morris, planter. near st. Jo-
sepb. Tensas parish. La. accidentally
discovered what he calls cheap and
effective means OF destroying the cocoa
grass. It IL to sprinkle coal oil Chat In
its crude state is BEST on the gfass out
of an ordinary watering pot, putting 1t
be on each stem that goes down to the
nuts in the ground when the grass is
perfectly dry, free from rain water and
dew.
Deputy Sheriff Hogan and Sam Law
renee, OF DeSoto, attempted to arrest
polored man by the name of Henry
jackson, charged with the killing OF
Jack Davis, colored, in 1874, on the
premises of Mr.. Frank Allen, in that
parish. Henry Jackson refused TO be
arrested, and started for his cabin, 1t is
supposed TO get his gun, and was fatally
shot by Mr.. Sam Lawrence just before
that he refused being arrested after he
was shot, and that he had determined to
resiststo the bitter end.
Farmers are nothing IL they are not
sensationalists. We have heard OF
drouths. too much rain, caterpillars,
worms, ETC., from various portions OF the
State, but when Investigated 1t has been
found that the drouth hurt only a few
potatoes in Iberville. the rain prevented
the gathering of some fodder In Frank
lin, while the caterpillars have generally
turned out to be grassworms, and the
worms pure inventions Of the magma
ts,f1 al
ana farmer from libeling his own crop
In hope of sending up prices.
More gar-houses and mills have
been erected in the State this year than
at any time since 1860. Especially Ia
this suin the Attakapas, now the most
promising sugar country in the State.
Quite number OF these were built by
men who have no intention Of going
into the cane-raising business, but who
hope to do the grinding for small farm
ers. This Is the most promising feature
Of all. Small farmers, who have hith-
erto found great difficulty In grinding
their cane can now go into sugar Guilt
walton with profit.
Labor is pronounced unusually good
throughout the State, and everybody,
white and black. is at work. The labor
supply and demand are exactly equal
throughout the State, and wages have
consequently reached their true worth
In many portions of the country, there Is
demand for more labor, and planters
would undoubtedly increase their acre
age If they could get more hands. It is
probable, however, that although there
are hands enough to work the crops
now, that there will be found a scarcity
of labor when the grinding and picking
season comes, as these require large
q large extra force.
The mail is carried from Alexandria
to Leesville, Vernon parish, on mule,
which is run by A. Fl. Moore. sub.con-
tractor. A correspondent of the Tindi-
Gator charges that this Mr.. Moore, on
his last trip, begged the Alexandria
postmaster to make the mail as little as
possible as his mule was small and
weak, and he did not want to overtax
its strength. The people of Leesville,
however, obstinately protest against
this system by which thew fail TO get