The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-12
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

Moscuitoes are already breeding {
curses in Thibodaux. ,.u..a
Good deal of cotton Is being planteo
in vermilion parish this year.
Avovelles parish farmers show DIS
,,oaition TO REBEL against King Cotton.
Tho crops-cotton, corn and cane
.ra an all doing excellent in Pointe Cou-
pee. .,,.h ,o,a
oota which were, however, finally roo'ed
out.
Major r. H. Lanier has sold the Gar
roll True Republican to Judge y. Il.
Mors. mn
The two Ouachita papers, the rec
ornDh and Intelligencer, have CONSOLE
dated.
A white man, unknown, was found
drowned in the river, opposite Delta,
last Tuesday.
The late session of the District Court
in Tensas succeeded in sending only
two men to the Penitentiary.
The Plymouth greeted Baton Rouge
in passing with twenty-one guns, TO
which Baton Rouge replied with thlE-
teen.
Messrs. Holmes and Blower are erect,
ing a cotton press In Shreveport tnat VIII
be ready about the beginning OF neAV
years crop.
Buildings are going up 50 last IN f9TI
Vincent, says the 1rinne, tnat new INNS
will have to be erected OH 'he hnA'o w
supply the lumber.
Mr.. A. j. Bourg, OF Napoleonvlle'
whila an his way home the other nlgnC,
WAS shot in the leg and seriously
wounded by an unknown person.
Centreyille. parish Of st. Mary, Is
HAVING a new Presbyterian church
erected. which will be ready TO hold
service in about two months hence;
Mr. n. T.. Kennedy is the builder, ana
No ne church when completed will be
Tnjte an ornament to that growing little
town.
Minden ia to have its municipal cleo
ton soon. There is only one ticket ID
the field; @. s. Smith for Mayor, =. I.
Scuber for Marshal, and Wm. Haray
for Treasurer. The candldates IoL a.
dermen are mixed, three OF tnenI oe,Is
white Democrats and two negro hepup-
licans.
Col. +. r. Parker, OF Jasper, Is can
didate for Auditor Of Public Accounts.
WI. Sims, of Lowndes, is mentioned
aa a possible candidate for Lieutenant
Governor.
Both the Vicksburg papers, the COM
) ,nercial and the Herald, are strongly ID
favor Of B. g. Humphreys for Governor.
4 The story of the sheriff of Wilkinson
? being indicted by the Board OF super
: yisors turns out to be canard after all
FIX Congressman Jno. r. Lynch (col)
n Of the Vioksburg District, announces
+ himself as strongly in favor OF Hayes
n Southern policy.
Work on the Mobile and N northwestern
road was begun last week. Inc roae
will he narrow gauge. and run from tne
y river to Yazoo City, and thence to JACK
son.
Osvka held it's municipal election Ma.
W lat. or course all the officials elected
were Democrats. The negroes ran
:, colored man for alderman, but wer'
IS terribly beaten.
a Mark this: The next Governor Q
10 Mississippi will either be man W WI.
lives west Of the New orleans, ?,
70 Louis and Chicago Railroad, or y C WI,
Is be James M. Stone.-lV lckspurg ooh'
N mercial.
- A white man named Kilgore, and Dal
Jones. colored, were drowned In Iadia
hatchie River last Sunday, about nv
70 miles below Batesville. They were IN
d. dugout near the bank and the dugou
ID turned over. They lost their presenc
10 Of mind. clasped each other, and wen
down to death together.
in The whites and blacks in the Clea
10 Creek neighborhood have united an
" organized q club for the suppression 9
:. alf lawlessness. They pledge them
- selves to report to the proper author
ties all gambling, stealing ana otne
d violations Of the laws, and not 10 coul
nr
t. these crimes. The best OF Ieelins eAis'
ly between the races.
D. On last Sunday night, young whit
man named Levi Bagley, and colore
is man named Fayette Steadman,. were !
"a Carroll drinking together until a la'
: hour. They left town together, an
., when about three miles out on the Lee
% inpton road. a difficulty or dispute aros
ae between them, when Bigley shot an
instantly killed Steadman.
IL Some unknown man attempted !
re drown himself by jumping from u
o. steamer Natchez at the wharfboat
cy Vicksburg, Wednesday about noon, ~
10 was rescued by the alderman, wnen
walked away without any one MOURN
=. who he was, where he came from,
NIX why he wanted to s'shuffle off this mo
us tai coiI' in such q summary manner.
49, Last Saturday afternoon a neg
is. named John Wesley, was knocked
ds Foul river bridge, near Pascagooula,
nd the passenger train and killed. 1t
est supposed that he allowed himself TO
killed, as he told some OF his family
intended committing suicide. Condt
tor Yard stopped the train ana nsh
the body out, and left 1t with the 81
ton boss for burial.
Gov. Stone has returned to JACKS
my from the scene Of the kemper mass aS
&c, asoana with this object in view,
All visited Judge Hamm at Columbus, a.
he urged upon him the necessity Of convee
'ys ing the Circuit Court in special sessi
ne at an early day, for the purpose OF ms
.na ing thorough judicial investlgatlon
II IT. the whole matter. This will douotlf