The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-01
SOUTHERN NEWS.


Big Bend, Avoyelles parish, has or
gained q temperance association.
The late rains were quite damaging
to fences aud crops In Vernon parish.
The tobacco crop of Natchitoches is
more than twenty days earlier than
usual.
OF Natchitoches, has been appointed to
West Point by Col. w. M. Levy.
The parish of Natohitoches will be
redistricted into ten Police Jury wards
at the July meeting Of the Police Jury.
A French milkman, named John, was
drowned at the bluff above Natchitoches
while bathing in the river Sunday last.
The Lincoln Sentinel promises to ad-
vertise all lands for sale in that parish,
not to be paid therefor unless the land
is really sold.
There was an exciting election for
town councilman in Marksville last
Saturday. Mr.. Minoret was elected by
three majority.
Adelaide, an old colored woman OF
Natchitoches, supposed to be 115, died
there last week. Her daughter. Mrs.
Dufort, Is now supposed to be the Oldest
person left in the parish.
The police jury of Avoyelles parish
seems determined to have enough roads
In that parish. They have established
no less than eighty-four road districts
with as many overseers OF roads.
The Baton Rouge advocate has seen a
fig raised by Mr.. Philip Machel, French
Vice Consul at that place, eight inches
ounces. 1t challenges the world to beat
this.
Two men In yawl were overhauled
arrested by the citizens, upon tele-
graphic information, as murderers
escaping from Red River parish. They
are charged with the killing of one PEN
nington at Browns Ferry, Red River
parish, on Monday last. Their names
are Morgan and Petty.
Major George f. Dawson and Col. W.
Fl. Jack, OF Natchitoches parish, pur-
chased at the succession sale Of Judge
Henry Boyce 81 900 acres Of hill and
river bottom lands, situated in the par
ish OF Sabine. These lands are fertile
and we'll watered and timbered, and
Messrs. Dawson and Jack intend to set
tie them up with white immigrants.
Mississippi.
Winona is to have Christian Camp
bellite) church.
The colored people of Natchez will
celebrate July Fourth In grand style.
Sam Byrd shot and killed Andy Kane
at Harmon town, near Oxford, last Sat
urday.
There is not so much demand for
sugar cane mills in Mississippi as there
was some time agos
At mass meeting of the Democrats Of
Alfalfa county, held June 16, r. Walpole
was Endorsed for Auditor.
Rev. Knowles Shaw, the revivalist,
has been very successful in adding con-
verts to churches in Jackson.
A. B. Williams, postmaster at Durant,
has defaulted and sloped. He used to
collect internal revenue while Marker
was deputy assessor in that region.
Marker is in the penitentiary.
There are now 90 papers in the State
Of Mississippi, d OF which are daily, SO
weekly, and 2 tri-weekly. The COM
bined circulation of these papers is esti-
mated at 6O,223. This is one copy to
every thirteen Of the population.
Hendricks and Hampton as Presiden-
tial candidates in 1880 would do very
we'll il Hon. L. @. G. Lamar had not
already been selected, by the people,
for the place. Hendricks and Lamar
are good enough for u.s. Brookhaven
Ledger.
John Johnson, a German, who has
been engaged in the butchers business
in fernando for several years, and who
is subject to fits, left on Friday evening
last, telling every one that he met that
this twas the last day." and rushing at
a headlong speed towards Memphis.
Nothing definite has been heard from
him, without the dead man found in
the bayou in Memphis, which suits
John Johson's description, is the man.
His step-son, who lives in Memphis, is
pretty certain that this man was john
large family of children in INDECENT cir
cumstances.
Prohibition was defeated in both Ma
cogdoches and Limestone counties.
1t is said there are 1,14S,O17 head Of
sheep alone in Nueces and Duval coun-
ties.
The Dallas town marshal pays ten
cents for every unmuzzled dog delivered
at the pound.
The postmaster at Corpus Christi re-
fuses to pass snakes through his office
as mail matter.
The people Of Forney have gone and
done it. Local option carried in For
ney last Saturday.
The people of Victoria talk Of having
the narrow gauge road from Columbia
extended to the Guadalupe river.
Hon. Bailey Peyton, now in Bren
ham, was member Of Congress in 1924,
and is, perhaps, the Oldest ex-congress-
man now living.
About fifty colored men have formed
fire company in Galveston. They
will use the old engine of No. when
that company gets its new one.
A son Of Mr.. G. Gregory, living in Clay
county, was seriously bitten by moe
casin snake on the 4th June. Since that
time the poison has been working in his
body, and he is growing fainter and
weaker. But little hope is entertained
of his recovery.
A conspiracy by colored convicts in
the Penitentiary at Huntsville. just dis
covered and suppressed, has developed
the fact that more arms were needed in