The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22

inst The Farmers Association u
i Joined In q protest and called for a mass
meeting to be held at Sardis to elect
delegates.
The government commission OF en-
( gineers met in Vicksburg last week.
! They took soundings OF all the points
In heriver off Vicksburg. These sound
ings show that since June is the river
has filled fourteen feet opposite Ryan's
Mill, eight feet off the railroad depot,
seven feet off the elevator, ten feet of
Crawford street, ten feet off Clay street.
They favor q plan for protecting the
caving bank on the Louisiana shore by
carpeting them with willow mattresses
from Grant Canal down to the Delta
point, which would keep the channel
where 1t now is; but OF course this alone
would not preserve our harbor. They
will determine whether dredge-b boat
would be effective for that purpose, and
II not, will make survey OF the threat
ened cutoff at Paw-paw Island, and ex-
anime Old river and Ohickasaw bayou,
with the view Of bringing the Missis-
sippi or Yazoo river into the lake, and
thus establish current in front OF
Vicksburg.
Hog cholera prevails in Palestine.
State warrants are quoted at 80 cents.
M. L. Park is supposed to have been
drowned day or two since in the Big
Wichita, near Cambridge.
The Victoria Aduocnte says the grand
jury Of Dewitt found forty indictments
for murder against individuals.
Eleven prisoners confined in the Nc
Kinney jail made their escape on the
9th inst, but were recaptured and car
ried back to prison.
The train of Santiago Talmantes
arrived in San Antonio from chihuahua,
Mexico, with 100000 in silver. This
was the most valuable train OF the sea-
son.
gang Of counterfeiters have been
discovered camped In Brushy Greek in
Williamson county, where they were
engaged in making counterfeit half dol
lars. They have put quite an am cunt
In circulation.
The people Of Leon Springs, about
hydrophobia scare. A rabid dog about
two weeks ago bit all the dogs in the
neighborhood nearly, besides a number
OF hogs, COWS and other stock, and they
are all going mad.
A few days ago, at the Prairie Grove
church In Hopkins county, just as the
meeting was breaking up, Andrew Ham
ilton rode up armed with a double bar
relied shotgun. He put the contents Of
one barrel into DR.. Roebuck and tho
other into Mr.. VIM. Smith.
Wednesday a detachment of men
from Lieut.. Halls command started to
Uvalde with the notorious King Fisher,
where he was to have hearing on
habeas corpus. It was reported In San
Antonio that about forty OF his friends
would attempt his rescue, and he was
informed that he would be shot on the
instant Ii they did.
Stock raisers of Western Texas are
going to have a meeting In Corpus
Christi on the twentieth OF July. Their
object is to take some action in regard
to fraudulent branding and stealing OF
stock. This evil is now regarded as
great as ever were the depredations Of
Mexicans.
The Holly Springs Reporter has lost
it's temper and wants to re-enact the
Charleston Convention scene--it wants
to seeede. Hear it: "There seems to be
much prejudice against North Mfssis-
sippi in the other sections of the State
that we for one would be glad to see the
northern belt Of counties annexed to
Tennessee. We would then no longer
be known as the hateful North Missis-
sippi, that never fails to gobble up all
the Offices in the State"