The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-27
LOUISIANA.

Heavy rains have caused Red river to rise sew
eral feet.
The levees are down, in large number of
places in Iberville parish.
The debt of the parish of Ascension is
s24, 1874.
Bossier sent five convicts-two white and three
colored-to the Penitentiary last week.
Bossier has resolved on the establishment of
Sixteen schools eight for colored and eight for
white children.
The Lake Providence Conservative has finally
come to the conclusion that we want new con-
stitution sadly, and will work in that interest.
The past week proved very unfavorable to
cane in Assumption parish, the weather being
continuously cloudy and rainy.
All the lumber mills are now working In Cal
1sieu, and large shipments of lumber are
being made to Galveston and Corpus Christi,
Jail deliveries seem to be in fashion lust now
All four of the prisoners in the Bossier parish
jail escaped last week.
Shreveport holds her municipal elections in
few days There are 92s voters registered. 44o
white and 48s colored.
The first shipment of molasses from Iber-
vile parish was the shipment of twenty-four
barrels OF new syrup last Thursday from the
kleinpeter plantation
A little difficulty between two negroes at
Homer. October 49,. resulted in one of them
chopping the others legs off with an axe and
A violent storm visited Natchitoches on Sun
day, doing considerable damage to the unhat-
vested crops. blowing down the corn and beat
ing down considerable amount of cotton.
The mayor Of Baton Rouge has issued a call
for an election in that town. on November 26.
for an approval of subscription of $4,000 to
the Clinton Railroad Only taxpayers will be
permitted to vote at this election.
Subscription to the Red River and Mississippi
Railroad seems to be going on. very literally in
Shreveport. The Times says that $35, 900 has al
ready been SUBSCRIBED, and that the committees
appoi ted to solicit subscrip ptlons expect soon
to have $4,000.
Weare having now just the kind of weather to
cause the sugar planter to feel greatly encOur-
aged-clear, dry and cool. A continuance of the
present favorable atmos pheric condit ons until
unground cane can be windrOwed will insure
lucrative sugar d.-Donaldsonuiue Chief.
The Gem plantation. Ascension parish. which
started in the earliest in that parish 70 grind,
did not make at all a good show, as fifty acres
turned ont only ten hogsheads Of sugar The
plantations that started in grinding early have
all ne badly.
While Mr.. Louis Smith, his wife, two children
and his sister law were returning in q ssif
from the Mississippi side # West Pearl river
where they had been to church. the current
It. it. Mr Smith succeeded il sd saving his children
and sister in-law. but his wife was drowned.
An attempt was made last Monday to assassi-
nate Thomas Green Davidson. well known for
ngston. A. about foartI en- mi a es from Port Vincent
while en- route to that vii age. Mr.. Davidson was
riding in a carrige with another gentleman and
when they had arrived at q point about four
teen miles from Point Vincent a man concealed
in the switch cane fired into the carriage with a
double barrel shot gun. One buck shot struck
Mr.. Davidson in the neck; but the wound is not
dangerous. The party who committed the deed
has not yet been discovered.
Lafourche parish is singularly unfortunate
in the matter Of coal oil explosions. Last week
two of these explosions were chronicled. A
little girl on the Milodea planta ion, six miles
below Thibodaux, placed Q coal oil can on the
stove until it was heated. when it exploded and
caused her death. A woman hamed Had ey,
residing on the bayou just alb We Thib daux.
the same day, was filing lighted lamp with
OIL when the lamp exploded, burning the
woman to death and seriously injuring her
father