The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-02
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

The Sheriff lest o. Ri"hland has not yet quail
fed. although his comm ssion wss forwai dsd
some time ago.
Lir coin pari.h has had 10 rebate term Of the
Parish oart this week, in consequence vi the
| illness Of the Parish Judge.
| Grown people have stopped r. ing to church
and the children going to school in fIankIn
parish, the weather has been 80 bad.
| Claiborue and Uuiop parishes are over nn bv
! spple ped lera, who have come III The way rom
| Nmthwes1 Arkansas. $50 mills distant, In open
| wagons, 20 sell q few dozen apples. There's
enterprises for You.
| The f,slcwipe are the 5yn5ics elec ed by the
Prlice joy OF Pi quemines: Alex. Agsms, Wes-
| ley Gree1, Samuel Reid, Darius JOTdan, Ontzims
johnson, Phil p GatIiso", Harvey Foskej, LOWS
Hedeck and Edward sommers.
Sheriff Register, OF Tensss, has now quite q
number OF boarders. We learn, in the parish
prison. and room Tor more. At the next meeting
Of the Parish Court there will be jail delivery.
and some Of the birds will take fight 10 less
conRenial cline.
The fatboats have begun 10 arrive in ths river
parishee. tringiDg proolice - evtry descrlp'ion'
they sre goG-send TO tho plan ers wbo are
ont n corn, pork. etc md have been looking ont
for thu downward d bound steamboats, detained fJr
some weeks by the ice.
The telegraph b-tween. Aiexand 10 and New
Orleans has only been in woI king order Blk hours
since Jan. s. They get . dispatch that reads,
president Grant has ordered Ten. Augur -
recognize - and IL stops there, and they
have to wait two weeks until some steamboat
has forced iss way up the river to know Just
what the President has ordered.
The last two prisoners confined 10 the Rapides
parish jail made their escape last Sunday night:
By some means they procured fill, cut one OF
the bars Of tho wiad1w grating to their cell and
lot themselves into the yard. They then dng
under the wall, and made their exit. Thus tho
parish JAIL for the first time in long months, was
aft all ont nd Hos. taf DllaOUETB
who escaped wore coloree.
Apropos OF the arrest of the Texan, Horton,
who threatened to XII every "putty faoe Radi nj
In Nsichitoches," the hatchitocbes Repubtacdn
remarks: "fn this matter the @ tizens ac'ed IN
accord and harm niou ly. Democrats promptly
rel o. tod the threats made TO Sre Republicans,
and both aided In stopping Hoiton's career. 1hs
citizens here have IN ly dsermn ned to put an Il
fecusl stop TO the system OF outrages aud reck
less hoot,pg 10 the streets and at innocent citi-
Ems by these strangers, who come here for that
kind OF sport"
Houston Claims pJl uation Of $500
There are now one hun he'd and forty papers
published In 1exas.
The District Court at Dallas has case before
1t concerning 1872 acres Of land in thai county.
The blockade Of freight for The interior still
continues. Bad roads and no p~s.urage 10 the
Fayette county nAB biI,oDO tuab ~ btos Hpb
know what to do with, aud proposes to tnVsst
Ii in State bonds.
The Corpu. Caris' Times says that county bas
no funds IN it's treasury and has not p,id the ill.,
terest on it's bo0ds.
The jsslpns Auniy Tisdal (coIorNd) shot and
killed Norah Hawthorne near Hempstesd-
jealousy and nos jim-ia
O mapche, having voted against pr rohibition, is
building powerful jail " Folly 10 the one case
is redeemed by proper foresight in tue other.
The receipts of the G.Iveston Wharf Company
last year were about $4,000 How much he
company made from redeemed lots Is n stated
The labor supply exceeds the demand in Aus
tn, and the city proposes to take ADVANTAGE OF
the situation in improving the city ut cheap
rates.
Texas held a short-horn conY ntion In Dalas,
last week, and I'D jurntd to meet in Austin jan
ary 9th, 1878 The convention Ia In vor OF in
PRODUCING short-horns iuto Texas to improve the
stock.
The new Galveston paper started as the Gal
Uestoni0n For q week tho ed tor held ont that
it ought to be son" instead of ian" but he ha.
since been forced to Weld to nnbli' 3 ntim.n'.
That son" very nearly W ecked his paper.
Gov Hubbard coutemplaies rel ewing the pres
ent lessees Of the Peni ensiarv Ward Il Co. I ls
stated that Nc srs. Burnett Fitzpatrick, OF Gal
weston, will / he ihs institution off the states
bands and pay s2H. 900 per annum therefor, and
-
sumption.
Official information he been received at IL
tary hea quarter. at IA, Antonio that thl ty
m"re head Of cattle had been TUNED over to the
americans by the Mexioan authorities at Sara
gossa, which goes to ehow that the NJ. xran au.
thorities can oyertake Mexican cattle THE yes II
the proper pressure 10 brought t. bsar upon
them.
On Wednesday morning q wonderful sight was
seen On the opp site side OF Corpus chr sti tay.
By q mirage Mu tang Islaod, from fifteen to
twtny miles distant, wss made to loom mp and
appear ose at hand It's 9 md hills and ho'lows
c ,uld be plainly seen, the whole apparently being
eventy-fvs to a hundred feet in height.
There WAS another 'sma' h. up" on the Texaa
and Pacific Railway thu Other day. 81 ven miles
from Marshall, cansed be the coIlidiog OF q pas
senger and freight train. One locomotive and
two freight trains were wrecked. About 200 per-
soDs were on the passenger train, but fortunately
no one was hurt
The Austin Statesman speaks 70 follows Of
emigration to Texas People sending letters 10
friends in distant states, answering questions
about the prospects in Texas, should always
re member that the cities and towcs are now
overst cked with busiue-s and professional men,
| clerks, look keepers and mechanics. People
who have 8 few hundred dollars and plenty OF
muscle can do well by coming to Texas, but on =
eide Of this class there Ia little to eniice people
this country. Texaa, like very other country, is
overstocked with ,es psctable young men looking
for soft thing"
Miss Eliza 3 E. Bragg, widow of Gen. BraxFon
Bragg, has flied All inventory Of his estae in the
| Probete Court of Ga,veston. Th accumulation
Of a loog and hon rable life footed up only $1,000.
| AS the Gntuestonion says, Gen. Bragg led
high and responsible positions in life. He com.
! mauG ed vast legions of men, aud millions of
money were dirbursed under his direction and
| by his order. He might, like Lord Give, have
raised him self to opuleuce, and yet been aston
| ished at his own mode alton.
| The news Of the robbery Of the upbound Con-
cho stage, at Jscksou's crossing, north OF Men-
ardvllle, raises the suspici II that the James
brothers have retuIn ned to Texas The expecta.
ton was to get the paymaster Of the United
States army, bnt he did not go up ON the Ell
| Paso. but the Eagle Pass stage. About two
months ago, it W II be remembered, Mrs. James
| sold out her inere SITS in Missouri and left for
Texas. Her sons, who were in Kansas City re-
Gently, were, no donbt squaring up their ao-
| counts to come to Texas also. SO Mrs. James
| and her two 'innocents" may now be HvlDg n t