The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-18
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Lptiisimna.

been greatly enlarged and improved
the past week.
st. Tammany has 14-year girl. Ross
Evans. weighing 2sl pounds, and want
to know what parish can go better.
The New Orleans. Natohitoohes mai
continues Its vagaries, and arrives o
the latter town once or twice o month
They fear O wet spell In the country
It Ia beginning, rain every day and In
terfering not little with the planting
The saloon keepers Of Natehitoches
refuse to sell drinks to the premature
boys Of that little town, to the intense
disgust Of the aforesaid boys.
There Is no court business in West
Baton Rouge, and the cause they say Ii
Status quo. People do not care to
trust their cases to doubtful court.
A violent storm In Harrisonburg,
Catahoula parish, blew down several
houses and fences there, and did q
great deal of damage In the town and
In It's neighborhood.
Some little colored boys went out
hunting on Sicily Island, Catahoula
parish. the other day. The gun OF one
of these accidentally went off, killing
one OF the boys accompanying him.
Two colored men living on the John
son place, near Harrisonburg, Data.
houla parish, went out hunting and
killed each other. Such IL the rather
improbable story told by the Catahoula
NeUs.
Candidates for municipal offices are
numerous In Baton Rouge; there are
four candidates for Administrator of
Finance. three for Administrator OF Ac-
counts, etc.. In proportion for all the
offices.
A fight In Rapides on Thursday last
between John II. Hanks and Taylor
Dyes resulted In the death Of the latter.
The two men quarreled, armed them
selves. and went out hunting each other
with guns. Dyer fred twice, when
Hanks replied, bringing down his
enemy.
New Texas Landing is. tho Pointe
Coupee Pelican says, one of the most
prosperous settlements in the State: the
farms are worked like gardens, work
shops are nutAerous, and, although the
place suffered from overflow but two
years ago, IT has completely recovered
and Ia now faring better than ever.
A shooting serape occurred In Keaohi,
DeSoto parish, on Saturday last be.
tween John Fisher and John Moore,
which resulted Ia the dangerous wound.
Ing of both parties In the face and
we're fired altogether. Moore, after be-
ing severely wounded, mounted his
horse and rode home. The presumption
10 that both parties were under the In
1uenee Of whisky. Moore was q candi-
late for Recorder Of DeSoto parish on
,he Radical ticket, and although beaten
DO the polls he was counted In by the
Board, since which time he
has been making himself very officions,
md 1t may be that politics had some
hing to do with the shooting. Moore
ired the first shot.
- Mississippi.
The game law Of Mississippi forbids |
my hunting In that State from March |
]. Hunters will have to lay up until |
September 10.
Mr.. 7. Sid. Hawkins, of Grand Gulf. |
Mss, was killed by DR.. W. @. Miller,
asst Saturday, with a shotgun. The |
difficulty grew out Of an alteration.
1.-The Shoe String district Is what |
hey call the Sixth Congressional Dis
riot Of Mississippi. because 1t was made
ong and thin to rake lin oil the negro |
'otes of the State. ~
The sudden change In the weather
md the white frosts have had a damag-
ng effect on the fruit crop In Amite
ounty. Peaches and plums are greatly
blurred, IL not cut off entirely. Pears
nd apples have escaped.
A disastrous fire broke out In the vii
age OF Bay st. Louis on the morning
4 the 18th inst, consuming four
Iouses and their out buildings. The
ire was the act OF an iDcendiary. Small
n N N |
$4,000.
The lawyers OF Holly Springs have
ED meeting and gave as their opin-
rnor to assign the several District At
orneys to districts wherein they were
ot elected, and In effect removing those
ot 80 assigned, Is unconstitutional.
A burglar broke into the Circuit
Jerks office OF Kemper county, on Sat
rday night, and distracted bodily all
be court papers belonging to the civil
Q we'll as the criminal docket. It Is
bought that the intention was to alb
tract only the indictments. Great con-
lsion exists In the court in conse-
uence.
Mr.. J. B. Abney and his two sons were
utting some timber, near Union, last
thursday. One Of the sons, Frank Alb
ey, cut down tree, and mistaking the
ERECTION in which 1t was falling, ran
nder a bough. The tree fell on him,
endering him senseless. He died the
ext day. II
Last Friday night a fire broke out in
he creosote works at West Pascagoula, ]
elonging to the New Orleans and Mo-
lie Railroad Company, consuming the
ntire works. The fire was caused from {
ne carelessness OF a negro watchman
arrying q lamp through the building. 1
he loss Is estimated at about $50, 900.
In the Brookhaven election W. P.
'eggett, Democrat, was elected mayor, =!
nd A. ID. Dixon, q Conservative, mar
hall. -Four Dem ocratic and one Re-
ublican were elected aldermen; two
and two Democrats school
.ustees. There was only one ticket in ,