The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-26
SOUTHERN NEWS.


Abboville has library society
The railfoaa station ut Gretna was burnt last
week.
A new cockpit has been established in Donald
sonvilie.
The Shreveport trarnps are made to ''move Oh"
TO MaFshstlI.
lee was III inch thick last Saturday In Eass
Felciana.
The coiorod people Of East Felicana are unan.
imously for GOV. Nichols.
Cver ten Thousand bales OF cotton are said to
BIO ut Mtnden, Webster parish, awaiting ship
mant.
The prairie country In Avoyeiles ID greatly inn
proving, and III increasing almost daily ats nun-
ber of small farms.
Sugar and inolasses OF Avoyelles still lingtr,
locked up in the parish, the roads are 20 bad ala
tho water 30 low.
Eleven hundred pounds OF perch were caught
In one moruing In Jim's Bayou, near Shreveport,
by ono fish firm, and all sold the ne&t morning.
The Dronet plantation, in Jefferson parish, right
bank, was sold by the eheritf last week fer az
3D2, about $1,000 moro than IL was expected 10
bring.
The Donaldsonville Cl,ief complains OF the new
town Ievee iusC erect, d IN front OF that ,wn as
by no means hrst-cass or safe ana liable 10 give
way any day.
There seems to exist general unwilingness
among country merchants 10 advance any money
TO planters until our present pohtcai cVmpi ca
tiobs arc ended.
The Police Jury of st. Charles il vigorously
fighting tho smallpox. smallpox hospital has
been established, to which all persons tick of the
disease will DO carried.
An insane colorod man who has been confined
i in the Assumption parlsh jail for come Tune,
awaiting trapsportatit 70 the insane asylum,
died III the jail several day ago.
Tho Minden Democrat Union Record, and all
the other papers of Mort Louisiana, are brfskly
lighting the planting Of cotton, citing the ioss OF
all planters who went in on the sll-cotton 1aea,
and calling loudly for grain, hogs-anythlng 10
beat cotton.
mississippi.
The Satartia Sentinel has suspended.
Wolf killing goes on brisky near Lexington.
A ghost amuses the people of Mississippi
The public schools for white children in Brook
haven has been closed for want Of funds.
CRYSTAL Springs will hold mass meeting April
a, and organize an immigration society.
At special election held in Newton county
last week, for the purpose of locating the court
house, Decatur was seiecteo over Ne"ton py q
majority OF ninety votes.
Five of the Mississippi railroads have just been
sold or are advertised soon TO DO sola: the new
Orleans. jackson and Great Northern, the hos.
kiusko Branch Road, tho Mississippi Cehtra
Railroad, the Scksburg and Meridian hnrosd
and the YicksDurg and Natchez Railioad.
Tho Brookhavtn Ledger put out the following
ticket: Robert Lowry for Governor, Tut Darder
for Lieutenant Governor, A. Y Harper for Alto,
ney General, w. s. Hemingway for treasurer, IL
Walpola for AudIor, Roderick Seal for Superin
tendent OF PGblic Education, and kinioch Fai
coner for Secretary Of STATE.
There was daring robbery on toe western
bound New Orleans and Mobile train SUNDAY
night last. The express messenger. Mr W
Maegett, was shot aud robbed OF d $500 packagt
at Lookous Htations at about $780, Az the traiI
was moving away from Lookout. o man enteret
khe express car, rresen ed pistol to Msggeti