The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1877-08-07
SOUTHERN NEWS.


Thibodaux College had its celebra-
tion last Thursday.
The corn crop In Terrebonne is the
| largest since the war.
Charbon has disappeared from the
Fordoche country, Pointe Coupee.
| The Woodville district conference OF
| the Methodist Church met in Clinton
last week.
| The school board Of Ouachita has
elected W. G.. Head, colored. secretary
of the board.
The eolored people OF Richland are
going to have tournament at kayvllle,
August 10th.
Clinton 3 lately adopted Sabbath law
| Ia very strict. even drug stores being
closed on Sunday.
Mr., J. r. Griffin, Of the Franklin Sun,
died at his residence In warsaw last
week.
A new paper, conservative In politics,
| is about to be started In Thibodaux by
an ex- Republican, 1t is said.
The corn and cotton planted In Pointe
Coupee since the water receded is said
to be promising.
The Marksville (Avoyelles) Bulletin
SAYS The cotton crop is very forward,
and picking will commence this year
earlier than usual.
The wash around the dam in Tones
bayou is now twenty feet wide and six
deep, and unless 1t is soon stopped will
prevent navigation on Red river.
The property Of the Vicksburg,
Shreveport and Texas Railroad has been
assessed for taxes at last. The State as
sessment is for $S13,O00 the parish of
Ouachita assessment for $4,000. Three
years taxes are payable, and nine years
due.
The crop prospects in East Feliciana
were never better since the war. The
yield Of oats has been more than the
most sanguine expectations Of the farm
ers led them to look for; an abundance
of corn, as q general thing. will be
made, while the prospect for cotton
crop was never better. Peas and sweet
potatoes will also be made in abun-
dance.
Mississippi.
The crops in Carroll are not very en-
epuraging.
Seventy-seven convicts were sent to
the State penitentiary in June.
The Meridian district conference of
the Methodist Church met at Enter
prise last week.
A negro living In the western part OF
Amite county deserted his wife and
family to run Off with white woman
OF very bad reputation.
A fatal affair occurred at Shubuta,
August 2, at II o'clock p. m. The rail-
road construction train was lying over
there and the negroes Of Shubuta ban
tered the hands OF the train for a fight.
The city marshal, Mr.. w. j. Bachelor,
In 1nn xrnf ~ ryt tn r int 4 1r n
was shot, the ball entering the inner
angle Of the left eye, passing through
the left hemisphere Of the brain, caus-
ing death in a little more than an hour.
There have been fourteen arrests made
among the railroad employees.
A tight took place on the edge of
Washington and Yazoo counties last
week. Mr.. McMurtry had warrant
for the arrest of one Carter, a negro,
who had made murderous attack on
Mr.. Taylor. Some negroes assisted
Garter in resisting the arrest. and one
of them was killed in the fight that en-.
there were some thirty-odd white
men, acting as a posse. and
they came upon Carter 80 suddenly,
In the quarters, as to surprise and cap
ture him, hid between two mattresses,
with q Winchester rifle along with him.
This happened on a large plantation,
occupied by negroes alone, and they
had all arranged to defend him. The
programme was, that. at the first ap-
proach Of white man one Of them was
to blow tin horn, and all were to get
ready with their guns and shooters.
But the squad of special constabulary
with McMurtry came upon them SO sud
denly that the fellow forgot to blow
the horn and the rest of the negroes
were afraid to carry out their part. Car
ter, after being arrested, remarked that
1t was their purpose to have resisted.
At the time the negro was killed he was
armed with pistol, had fired upon Mr..
Taylor, hitting him in the hand and
grazing Mr.. Martins thigh. Martin
fired in return infllcting 2 !. mortal prtaI
been bad, desperate, fearless negro
Is said to have once attempted to get up
riot at Little Rock. Ark, and is said
to have been conspicuous in the Clinton
riot in 1875. Mr.. McMurtry was tried
for the killing of the first negro, at the
fracas at the cabin where Carter and
some eight others were fortified, and &C
quilted.
Houston has a newly organized row.
ing club.
The San Jacinto bridge, on Bremond's
Narrow Gauge Railroad, has been COM
pleted.
Mrs. A. D. Gregory, of Lavaca coun-
ty, was killed by runaway team on
Sunday last.
The sheriff of Hill county captured,
last Friday, eight horse thieves and
sixty head of horses, at one haul.
Prairie chickens are plentiful up
about Mckinney. DR.. Fonte and Jas.
u. White bagged one hundred in one
day.
A heavy rise in the Lampasas the
other day carried off a number Of bath
houses much to the temporary discom-
future of happy bathers at the Springs.
Jim McCIanahan, who lives near
Palestine, detected two men stealing
his horses a few evenings since, and
firing upon them, he killed one and
wounded the other.
The remains of a man, supposed to be