The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-10
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

| SOUTHERN NEWS.
L0uislana.
The fishing Ia very fine In Moreau
Lake this year.
The " Fourth" picnic OF the Alligator
Club was great success.
| The closing exercises OF st. Joseph 3
| Convent were brilliant and interesting.
Some OF our country exchanges are
| jubilant at the Returning Board indict-
ments.
The citizens OF Baton Rouge have al
ready subscribed $3O, 900 for building the
| b. II. &c g. r. r.
was complained Of by the papers In all
the country parishes.
The Lafayette Advertiser wants more
mosquitoes In that parish "to sting vic.
| Tins into little activity and enterprise. :"
st. Joseph has rifle club which uses
the Creedmoor targets, and has adopted
| the rules OF the National Rifle Associa-
| ton.
The people OF Claiborne parish take
theis wheat to mill as regularly as they
| do t.&eir corn, according to the Homer
p& nte Coupee parish Is Rssiduously
| TAXI care Of the bee, and in conse-
queroe her honey crop will be doubled
| this year.
M. Hood, OF Livingston, recently
captslred nine wolf puppies and has
thern chained Id his yard. Il Patriot
DenE,crat.
While swimming in Garrison Bayou
near Baton Rouge, on Friday. some
BOYS found a human skull with brains
In 1t. The body was not discovered.
Ouachita parish bonds, which sold
before the election at forty cents on the
dollar, are now worth eighty-flve cents,
according to the North Louisiana Jour-
nal.
The Sugar Planter OF West Baton
Rouge complains that the cane In that
parish Is suffering severely from
drouth, and that efsterns and wells
have dried up.
Certain editors of parish papers mild
ly insinuate that certain other like
editors take advantage OF fishing exour-
sfons to get drunk, and are out fishing
nearly all the time.
"A babe In a house is a we'll spring of
pleasure" IL you want the pleasure
Increased three fold, use In the nursery
"Terry's Salicylic Soap" is the way the
Clinton Patriot Democrat imparts a
startling piece OF information.
Mississippi.
The Fourth was principally celebrated
In the rural portions OF the State by
fishing parties.
Mississippi will go through the great
est Of campaign agonies-the prima-
rles-next week.
Several farmers and planters near
Church Fill are organizing an extensive
stock raising company.
The Holly Springs Reporter says Mar
shall county has less candidates In the
field than any In the State.
The remnants OF the Republican
party were thought to have held a
meeting in Jackson last Saturday.
On Friday the mercury Of the Their
mometer In the United States signal
Office at Vicksburg stood at ninety and
nine."
Natchez was deserted by patriotic
pleasure seekers on July fourth, but
still large part OF the population re-
manned.
The wheat crop Of the northern part
of the State is fine, but some portion of
it was damaged by the floods which fell
about month ago.
A young man while blowing near Ash
land last week had his mule killed by
lightning, but escaped himself with a
slight injury In the leg.
The Brookhaven Comet says never
glass Of whisky has been sold In the
town limits Of Brookhaven, though 1t
has population OF 1900.
On last Friday as Major Lamar Fon-
tame and Mr.. Jesse Brumfield were re-
turning from survey through the
woods, just east OF the Poplar Grove
upon the charred remains OF q human
being, evidently peddler. The ashes
Of the heap were filled with buttons,
buckles, hooks and eyes and other ar
ticles. The ashes were apparently
fresh, and the burning only few weeks
ago. Yazoo Herald Democrat.
Texas.
The Fourth was celebrated with ap.
propriate honors at Forth Worth.
Texas beer saloons are supplied with
huge fans run by water power. A good
idea. !
Tasselling corn was killed by the frost
near Decatur on June 9th. Something
unprecedented.
Gov. Hubbard has assumed the re-
sponsibility of retaining Capt. Halls
company Of Border Rangers in service
few months longer.
The Dallas Commercial remarks that
all sorts of business are briskly
moving, responsive to the present
movement Of the heavy wheat crop.
A white man and colored woman
having been married in Houston re-
Gently, the Graham Leader says, con-
corning the groom: '"The colored citi-
zens have entered protest against this
degradation Of their race"
A Nevada Trick.
Somebody in Nevada has been play
ing trick with the laws of that State
which Is somewhat similar to the trick
played in Missouri by the Chief Clerk Of
the House Of Representatives. In Mis-