The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-10
SOUTHERN NEWS.
louisiana.

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OF dogs.
West Feliciana has few cases oil
Charlton.
: Another wolf has been discovered in
Livingston parish.
lied fire company.
A fine shower In franklin parish has
greatly benefited the crops.
The Pointe Coupee Pelican wants the
Poydras College, in that parish, re-
opened.
Only two of the five police jurors for
Bossier parish appointed by Gov. Mich
oils have yet qualified.
! A little son Of Mrs. Thompson, living
, in Morehouse parish, accidentally shot
himself in the hand. The wound is a
, serious one.
The Pike property in Baton Rouge
appraised after Pixies death at $115, 200,
was mortgaged recently to @. I. Howard
for 100000.
A pickpocket was discovered on board
the Robert Mitchell during her late trip
and landed at Baton Rouge. Baton
Rouge is naturally indignant at this
forced immigration.
The weather In Vermilion Is warm
and dry now. Rain Is needed. Crops
Of cane growing finely. The corn needs
rain, 50 does the cotton. Farmers are
sowing their rice crops now.
i The nights and mornings during the
greater part of this week have been
really too good for comfort In Carroll
plant has suffered accordingly. Cotton
Is not doing well. Corn Is all right and
promises an abundant yield.
We were yesterday shown, says the
Shreveport Times, piece OF rock taken
from the Rocky Point quarry, two miles
above town, which had been polished
by Capt. VIM. Kinney. The rock is of
q blush and gray color and almost as
hard as adamant, and Is susceptible of
very fine polish. The piece we saw
was as smooth as marble, and we are
told that Capt. Kinney pronounces it as
| fine rock as ever he saw. The supply Is
inexhaustible, and we learn from Col.
| Wylie that 1t is the intention Of the
company to employ a practical quarry
man, and have any quantity of this rock
prepared for building purposes, which
Wilt be cheaper than brick. We also
learn that the company intend present
ing the Presbyterian church OF this city
with enough of this fine rock to build
steps to that beautiful editfce.
| Mississippi.
| Chicken cholera prevails in Wilkinson
county.
Mr.. M. l.. Robinson, of Woodville, has
mysteriously disappeared.
| Hogs and cattle are now numerous In
| Wilkinson county, thanks to good order
1t is positively asserted that there
| will be no opposition In Yazoo county
this fall to the regular Democratic
| ticket.
Stock stealing has ceased In Wilkin-
son county, and the Republican thinks
this a good time to organize stock as
| ISOLATION.
The raising of sorghum is attracting
particular attention around Columbus.
The acreage is nearly double that Of any
proceeding year.
The Adams Light Infantry and
picked nine Of Jefferson county will
contend at shooting match at Fayette
next Tuesday.
The Peabody trustees promised the
Natchez School Board 5000 IL it would
keep the public schools Of that city open
ten months in the year. The city has
agreed to these terms and the money
has been paid.
The want of rain is beginning to be
severely felt in the country around
| Greenville, and corn in some portions
of the county cannot long do we'll with
| out. A fine rain fell on the road to
Eggs Point. beginning at the Mont
gomery places and extending within
! four miles of there.
The Granville Times desires to be put
on record as one of the party organs
that will inflexibly refrain from indicat-
ing any preference for State or county
offices until the action of our State and
county nominating conven ton, and
that it will zealously support the party
nominees, regardless Of who they may
| be.
| The special election in the Fourth
| Ward, for one member OF the Board OF
Aldermen of Natchez, to fill the vacan-
cy occasioned by the resignation Of AL
derman Williamson, took place yester-
| walk-over, being elected without oppo-
sition. The vote was small, owing to
| the fact that there was no competition.
The wheat crop around Water Valley
will be excellent. Corn Is looking pref
ty we'll, but in some localities Is begin
ming to show the effect OF the dry
weather. The same may be said of cot
| ton, except that the long wet, cold spell
just preceding the dry, kept the cotton
more in the background, and has not
fully recovered. The dry weather is
| hurting the COTTON less IMAM Ine GOTH.
Texas.
Smallpox is reported in Dewitt
county.
English cherries grow very finely in
Comanche county.
Watermelons are now on sale in the
markets of Brownsville and Matamo-
ros.
A new bank, with a capital of $780,
600, has been established at Gaines
vile.
The Irish potato crop in Washington
county is the heaviest known for many
years.
The County Court of Lampassas
county has ordered the local option law
into effect.
The Fort Worth stock yards are be-
ing enlarged, aud when completed they
will accommodate $4,000 head of CATTLE