The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-27
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.


Orange trees have begun to bloom.
Chicken fights prevail in Shreve-
port.
The cotton crop Of Avoyelles for the
past season amounts to $4,000.
st. John parish will levy a parish tax
OF twelve mills on the dollar.
Clinton, East Feliciana, boasts that II
has the best schools in the STATED
A prisoner negro boy-escaped
from the East Feliciana jail last Sun
day.
Smallpox still prevails among the ne.
groes In the western part OF East Fell
ciana parish.
Fishing Is reported to be excellent In
the bays and bayous OF Plaquemines
parish just now.
The tramps in Shreveport get inside
OF box cars, bend themselves up and SO
get free tide to Austin.
The tramps at Shreveportare made to
sign written pledges that on their word
of honor they will leave the town.
The Mayor Of Shreveport has had all
the benches In front of beer saloons and
other street membranes removed.
The Teche Planters Club held a meet
ing at New Iberia, last Saturday, to de-
wise means for securing immigration.
The country papers are filled with
complicated remedies for smallpox.
The surest Is the MISREPRESENTATION.
Mississippi.
Burglaries are thriving in Vicksburg.
Colonel Hooker, of Mississippi, Is a
candidate for Speaker Of the next house.
Petty thieving has been going on to
an alarming extent in Summit the past
week.
The fruit crop in North Mississippi
has been entirely killed by the late cold
spell.
There seems to be no lack of can
didates in Mississippi. although the
election Is eight months off.
Aberdeen claims cotton receipts to
the amount Of 1900 bales, which Is
5000 bales in excess Of any year since
the war.
The mail between Clinton, East Fe-
liciana, Amite City and Tangipahoa
seldom makes two trips week, al
though the contract provides for daily
mail.
The reports in regard to the condition
of the ''fall wheat" in Mississippi,
while to some extent contradictory, are
not at all satisfactory. The indications
are that the crop will be poor one.
The Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M, Of
Mississippi, have over $4,000 in the
Treasury. By resolution passed at the
last annual communication the sum Of
$500 was donated to the Protestant Or
phan Asylum at Natchez.
Mespilus or Japan plums are found
impossible in Avoyelles. They bloom
once or twice decade, and are then
killed by the frost. However, says the
Bulletin. il they do not raise these fruit,
they look pretty in a garden.
On Friday morning last Mr.. E. @.
Catching of Edwards, shot and in
stantly killed Harvey Knox, colored.
Mr. Catching was sweeping out the
house of Womack & Co., by whom
he is employed, when Knox came up
and began abusing him in a very vio-
lent manner, at the same time making
stock whip which he carried. Mr..
Catching resented his insults by strik-
ing him over the head with a broom.
Knox then advanced upon him with a
large knife. Catching retreated few
steps, warning him to stop, but disre-
garding the warning he continued to
advance, when Catching drew his pistol
and fired, killing him almost instantly.
Catching Immediately gave himself up
to Mayor Sparrow, and on Saturday was
tried and acquitted, the testimony
showing bonclusiyely that he acted
only in selfsdefense.
Last Friday night. while Mrs. Eliza
Magee, widow of Monroe Magee, was
sitting az her supper table, in Summit,
she was shot through the heart with