The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-12
SOUTHERN NEWS.


| LOutsfan4.
Franklin will have a tournament on
October and4.
Grinding will be earlier this year in
| West Baton Rouge than the past season.
Another negro boy was drowned at
Baton Rouge while swimming In the
river.
The police jury of Tberville is going
to replace the Levecque levee in that
parish.
All stores opening in West Baton
Rouge on Sunday are to be severely
punished.
The Jews of Clinton are oomtem-
plating the erection Of synagogue in
that place.
| Wages for rice laborers in Plaque
mines range as high as -. The supply
is hardly equal to the demand.
| Daily showers In the coast parishes
are interfering somewhat in cotton pick
ing, and at the same time developing
the caterpillars.
| Noel johnson, colored, onflned in the
West Feliciana parish Jail, escaped last
week. The Sentinel charges the escape
to the gross and culpable negligence of
the jailor.
If the weather continues good In
Plaquemines, the rice crop, notwith-
standing decreased acreage, will be as
large as any previous one and much i'm
proved In quality.
At the municipal election held in
Jackson on Monday last, Mr.. Alfred
Hazard was reelected mayor and
Messrs. Joseph Flonacher, w. H. Pot
ter, A. Levy, Alex. Ripley and G. L..
Pond, trustees.
The police jury has passed resolu-
ton calling on the taxpayers of the par
ish to assemble in convention at the
courthouse In this city on Monday, Oc-
tober 1, to take into consideration the
question OF raising tax for road and
levee purposes.
The army worms have devastated all
the cotton fields in this parish. with, a
| few exceptions and these few will prob
ably share the same fate. According to
the most moderate estimation, the crop
will be reduced at least one half La
fayette Advertiser.
| We are panied to state that during the
last ten days the cotton Of this parish,
In consequence Of the heavy shedding
Of the young forms, has deteriorated at
least twenty per cent. The worms seem
to be doing but little damage, and, with
q few weeks Of propitious weather, q
tolerably fair crop may yet be made
| East Feliciana Patriot-Democrat.
Last Wednesday night, on the place
Of Col. Fl. A. Kennedy, near Vermflion-
vile, q bloody and fatal tragedy was
enacted among some colored people.
One Alexis Boireau went to the cabin Of
Isaac Nelson and ordered Celestine to
move out her furniture, and on refusing
to do so, he forced her outside and
struck her. Nelson went out imme-
diately and found Celestine lying on
the ground In a senseless condition,
and upon demonstrating with him, Boz
reau stabbed him in the arm and then
fed.
| The vigilants of Lafayette have been
brought to justice. They lately warned
a colored man named Jean Baptiste
Celestin to leave the parish. He made
an affidavit declaring that he was in
fear of death or great bodily harm from
certain parties named, by reason OF
said parties going to atlantis house, on
the twenty-fifth Of August, 1877, which
pose of arresting him; and further, that
he was ordered by said parties to leave
the parish OF Lafayette within five days
from that day and to remain away for
twenty years. The names Of the party
threatening him were given and thir-
| teen OF them were arraigned and put
under $500 bonds to appear before the
parish court, and further, to keep the
peace for one year.
Cattle are dying around Victoria from
| want of water.
The San Antonio fair commences on
the 30th Of October.
I A disease among the cattle In Will
hanson county causes them to go blind.
Perry Davis was hanged at Waco on
the 30th ult. for the murder Of Police
man Neill.
Longview and Gregg county will vote
on local option on the 18th. The race
will be close.
The Alamo property in San Antonio is
offered for sale at $4,000. San Antonio
will probably buy it.
The Denison Daily Cresset has been
enlarged to q seven column paper and
the name changed to the Herald.
A man by the name of Clay was shot
and killed near Gainesville the other
day by one O'Neal. O'Neal escaped.
During the great fire at Paris the
water in the cisterns lasted less than
half an hour, after which the engine
was Of no more service than a dump
cart.
One Taylor Pounds is charged with
setting fire to Paris by pouring oil on
the floor Of saloon and igniting it..
He fled the town, but was arrested and
is in Jail.
In the Paris fire about twelve blocks
/ were consumed, including three sides
of the public square. More accurate
estimates of the loss make it about
$3.50, 900. The fire was more disastrous
in proportion to the size of the town
than was ever before known in Texas.
Mayor Cummins calls on the people Of