The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-06
SOUTHERN NEWS.


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The pecan crop this year will be large and
OF the best quality.
Dinah Eggleson, eolored, aged 1t6, died in
Thibodaux August I'd.
Delta complains of being overrun with
thieves from Vicksburg.
The Quarterly Conference of the Methodist
Church Is now In session at Mansfield.
Shreveport Is to have a town clock erected
in the tower of the Presbyterian church OF
that place
The stubble cane in Terrebonne, about
which there was so much anxiety at one time
liz now in excellent condition and will make a
full crop.
Bayou Cane. Terrebonne, boasts of an old
veteran of Napoleon's army, b. Lineau by
name aged ninety-five. He is q member Of
the Legion of Honor.
JOLIET and printed at Houma, is an excellent
paper, full Of local and general news. 1t is
published in French and English.
GALLON Island, in Terrebonne parish, and
facing directly on the gulf is growing in favor
and becoming great place of summer resort
with people In the northern portion of the
State.
Mr.. Dangean has dug a drainage canal on
his Mary plantation, in the upper part OF st,
Charles parish, which reclaims nearly all OF
the marsh land of the place. This land,
hitherto uncultivated, is now planted in corn.
Hogs continue to roam at large in st.
Charles, notwithstanding police jury ordi-
nance to the contrary. The st. Charles Her.
aid proposes as q remedy-not the arrest of
the hogs but of the road overseers and syn
dies who fail to execute the law.
Here is a strange advertisement of Tom
Anderson in the Opelousas Journal,
The public are hereby warned not to pur-
chase hogs or pigs from any OF the hands
living on my Camp Hamilton plantation, as
said hogs or pigs are poisoned;
THos. G. ANDERSON.
Father Joseph Specht a Catholic priest of
Milwaukee, on his way to Texas, was left
behind by q train. on Morgan's road at La
fourche station. He got to the depot just as
the train was leaving and started to run after
it in order to catch It, but after running a few
yards fell over and died instantaniously.
The black birds and raccoons, and even
bears, are committing depredations on the
especially along Bayou Black. Several plant
ers are deyising. means of preventing this.
Among others Mr. H. G., Minor, who has
smeared tar all around his field, believing
that the odor of tar would drive away these
destroying animals.
"We have been informed, says the DeSoto
Democrat, by several parties from the par
ish of Sabine, that after an investigation of
the facts the School Board of that parish
have passed a resolution declaring J. Fisher
Smith, the late treasurer OF that body, to be
u defaulter for q considerable sum of the
school money. We understand, however,
that Mr.. Smith claims that he can show salts
factory vouchers for. every dollar that has
passed through his hands, and we trust he
can do SO, for we cannot believe him guilty of
this crime, until we know it to be fact"
The body of a colored man was found on
Morgans road at the q mile post, near
a stranger in the parish, having arrived there
with friend only few days before. 1t is
supposed he was murdered by his friend, as
his pockets had been rifled., and the body
the murderer borrowed a spade from some
one living near, on some tlimsy pretense, dug
grave and buried his victim. The grave at
tracted the attention of the railroad hands
who opened it and found the body of the man,
who evidently had been killed but short
time before.
Mississippi.
The fish in the Mississippi river near Vicks-
burg are dying in large numbers.
The Democracy of jackson county have
nominated their full ticket for county officers.
The Canton Mutt thinks there is a proba-
blity Of several Independent candidates in
Madison.
A convention of teachers has been called to
meet In jackson on the 9th of August with
view of organizing teachers association.
Starkville voted on the liquor question last
week, and decided by @ majority of sixty
three not to allow the sale Of liquor in the
town.
Ed. Mayes son-in-law of T.. @. G. Lamar,
has been appointed to and accepted the pro-
censorship Of law In the State University at
Oxford.
The little town of Greenville, Washington
county, the other day voted town subscrip-
ton of $4,000 to the Greenvile and Deer
Greek Railroad.
The Summit District Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church held their quar-
terly session in Summit last Friday and Sat
urday. There were about forty ministers
present.
Aquarrel arose between Mr.. Bailey Phillips
and his Oldest son. Caswel Phillips, at his
residence, three miles from Lauderdale last
week in which his son cursed him; whereupon
n Younger son, William, who was present,
gathered piece of wood and struck his bro
Their over the head, from which he died soon
afterwards.
Henry Barker the colored man who killed
Joe Mosely, in 1875, was killed at Utica, Sat
urday, night, by Elijah Davis, colored, while
with negro named Buck. Buck stabbed
him, infiicting a very dangerous wound in the
side. Davis says he shot at Buck-that Buck
lodged and Barker caught the ball through
the brain.
There was an accident to the outgoing A. and
G. r. r. train near Meridian on Monday with
fatal result to two of the train men. At the
far end of the Warrior river long trestle the
engine ran off the track and fell to the
engineer, Joseph Osborn, and his fireman.
Thomas Henderson, We're so seriously in
jured and scalded that both have since died.
young man by the name of Frazer was
killed on Friday, 18th inst, on Grape creek
four miles north of Huntsville, by a man by
the name of Killough. The cause of the kill
fp~lwas that Killough was paying his ad-
= Fses to a sister of Frazer and while they,
ctrsss several others, were bathing, at the time
sss;ssss place above mentioned, Frazer told XII
Tough of a joke he was intending to or had
already played off upon him in connection
with his and his sisters courtship, from
which Killough made the attack, cutting
Frazers throat almost from ear to ear.
Texas.
The sheriff of Wood county has been MUIR
dered by one Cabe Dowell, district clerk
The Editorial and Press Association of Texas
meets at Fort Worth on the 4th of September
Cotton worms are doing serious mischief in
some of the river and creek bottoms of this
State.