The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-06
SOUTHERN NEWS.


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seventy cents.
Richland expects to raise parish rev
enue OF $4,000.
Caldwell parish is planting an unusu
ally large acreage OF corn.
The fruit crop of Terrebonne will bt
extraordinarily large this year.
Eight thousand dollars are the estf
mated exnenses for East Feliciana fol
the current year.
Mr.. A. ID. Lafargue has ended his con
pection with the Marksvills Bulletin
Mr.. A. J. Lafargue will in future man
age 1t.
The coroner of East Feliciana has moi
held single inquest since the inaugu
ration of the Nichols government In
January last.
The present term of the District
Court, now sitting In Pointe Coupee
| will be the longest sinee 1868, in conse
quence of the heavy criminal docket.
The Shreveport Times complains that
Shreveporters cannot sleep OF night be.
cause of the night disturbers who pass
their time In discharging firearms and
singing hymns.
L. j. Larkin, the Packard. Kellogg
Tax Collector OF Madison parish, hur-
ried off to New Orleans to settle the
moment he heard that the troops were
to be removed from the State House.
DR.. Grin 2. Cahagan. of Coushatta.
died suddenly the other day, from a
dose Of chloroform. He had an attack
Of collie, and took the chloroform to re-.
lieve him. An overdose brought death.
The weather for the past week in
Tensas has been rather mixed" sun
shine and showers, with occasional
thunder and lightning, eliminating on
Friday morning in thunder shower Of
some weight.
A runaway couple from Vicksburg ap-
peared at Winnsboro the other day, but
were refused marriage by the clerk of
the District Court, because they had no
permission from the father Of the girl.
she being minor.
:, Two negroes got into o row at the
Tessier place on Red river, in Natchi-
toches parish, during which one of the
dusky citizens was Killed by the other.
The sheriff was after the murderer, who
made his escape however.
The fifth annual parade of the Morgan
City flremen promises to surpass any
previous effort. The Thirteenth United
States Infantry band will be In attend
ance, and the affair will be grand in all
it's appointments. The procession will
come off May 7th.
One Walworth, In Shreveport, in fool
ing with q loaded pistol, shot his friend
Martin seriously, II not fatally. He was
arrested for the shooting and held to
await the effect OF the wound, but Mar
tin, the wounded man, insisted on going
around to the jail and standing his bail.
John Binnion, Emma Binnion, and
other witnesses, testified before r. Ell,
Clark, Justice of the Peace of Richland
parish, that all the stories told by Sam
Moore. late of that parish, as to his
being chased from the parish by bull
dozers were utterly false and untrue.
Moore's story. has already been pretty
well ventilated.
Mr.. John Bludworth and his son were
sitting In room in his residence. in
Natchitoches, during the storm on Mon
day evening last, and bolt Of lightning
striking the house stunned them severe,
ly. Mr.. Bludworth was hurled violently
10 the floor, the blood driven through
his ears and nostrils and otherwise
bruised his son was not SO seriously In
iured. Both, however, have recovered
since, although nearly killed.
Mississippi.
Vicksburg will improve its cemetery. |
Wheat is four feet high near Water
Valley.
Kinds county proposes to go into rice
culture.
The seashore camp meeting will COM
hence July 8.
Hogs are dying in Central Mississippi
rom cholera.
Home made butter is drug in almost
very place In Mississippi.
The steamer Steadman is reported
ost in some OF the creeks tributary to
PEARL river.
More papers have hoisted the name OF
len. Robt. Lowry for Governor than
ny up to date.
The young ladies OF Whitworth Col
sge, at Brookhaven, have decided to
'ear calico on commencement day. A
God idea and we'll worthy Of imitation.
The city of Vicksburg has issued its
ltlmatum In the bond compromise
uestion and authorized its agent, Geo.
|. Klein, In New York, to return at
nee II its terms are not accepted.
The Camp Meeting Association have |
ssolved to begin the next camp meet.
70 at this place on Wednesday, August
J. Many improvements on the grounds I
nd buildings will be made, and ar 3,
lngements are in progress for meet.
y or more than usual interest Crys-
u Spring Monitor. {
Texas.
The first clip of wool from Laredo has {
cached San Antonio. !
The Erath county courthouse will be t
nished by the first of July. {
Fort. Worth has taxable real estate !
DIV OF 81 ,25O,O00. Last year lit was less
ian 100000. l
Several hundred head of hoEses were :,
Id at Hallettsville, the otheE day, at !
to 81 per head.
Escaped convicts continue to prowl '
ound and depredate in Falls county. 2
I'd the people are complaining loudly. /
A detachment of State troopst under /
rgeant Watson, has been doing good r
rvice In Goliad county during the term /
the District Court. '