The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-05
SOUTHERN NEWS.
louisiana.


B9uf river.
Religious meetings are universal all
over the country.
The rice crop of Lafourche is the best
1t has seen for years.
The cotton crop in the upper part of
Baton Rouge Is failure.
There is some sickness In the coast
parishes In the way OF fevers.
A temperance movement has begun
In Simmsport, Pointe Coupee parish.
The cotton worms are all over Pointe
Coupee and doing great deal OF harm'
The crops Of corn and cotton on
Bayou Fordoche are said to be spendld.
Twenty-one Louisiana newspapers
have already agreed to q Press Oonven-
ton.
The Attakapas country is full OF new
mules. being offered at an exceedingly
low rate.
John johnson, colored, Of Plaque
mines. will raise 400 barrels OF clean rice
on twenty acres OF land.
A steam ferry Ii about to be establish
ed between Bayou Sara and the Pointe
Coupee side Of the river.
The difficulties affecting the More
house Clarion have ended. Judge D. j.
Norwood ia now sole owner OF the paper.
The crops between Columbia and
Montgomery are much less promising
than month ago, owing to rust, worms
and drouth.
Teachers have been selected for five
white and three eolored schools In
pointe Coupee. The schools will open
September Is.
Very little fodder has been made in
Iberville parish this year, the planters
not considering that 1t pays for the
labor Of saving 1t.
An election was held in the 10th ward
of Point Coupee, Aug. 25th to fill va
caney In the police jury. Thos. Ct.
Sparks was elected.
The second crop of worms have ap-
peared on the Liddell and Troy places In
Uatahoula. The third crop will be out
In twenty-five days.
The persimmon crop will be as large
this year az usual. They make de-
licions beer or cider, which is very nice
as beverage. Il Franklin Sun.
The worms have caused a good deal
of anxiety among the planters, but from
all we can learn there is no probability
of their doing very serious damage
[Catahoula News.
A correspondent of the Iberville
South thinks it will cost over $25, 900 to
dig out Bayou Plaquemine 30 as to
form continuous canal from the old
Postagetown dixie, and thus secure
transportation from the interior to New
Orleans, with reshipment at Plaque
mine.
The Board OF Administrators of the
Insane Asylum at Jackson, La, give
hat of nvxin RI Mt
of room, it is utterly impossible to re-
ceive any more patients. The inmates
now number 2O3, fifty more than were
ever before entered since the foundation
of the institution.
Cotton has been failing seriously since
the drouth commenced and will not pro-
duce near the quantity OF staple that
was at first expected. 1t has shed off a
great deal and almost entirely stopped
growing, while the worms, notwith-
standing the drouth, have become plen-
tiful and made their mark in the fields.
Franklin South.
Worms are all over the parish. The
reports of damage done are very con-
fiicting, the tenor, however, being that
where the cotton Is old but little damage
has yet been done, the greatest injury
being to the young and tender cotton.
worms, there will be as much cotton
left as can be we'll picked. -[Concordia
Eagle.
Diphtheria is prevalent in vicksburg
and Natchez.
J. P. Matthews is the Independent
candidate for the Senate in Copiah, and
j. B. Reid for Representative.
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mills as compared with 90 mills in 1876,
and 25 in 1874 Democratic rule.
The Vicksburg Herald urges the
President and his Cabinet to come
South, and especially to Vicksburg.
Green Clay and F. M. Sibley were
nominated in Bolivar last week for Re-
representatives., and Geo. W. Gayles fol
Senator.
The next Legislature should meet
declare the constitutional amendments
adopted, repeal all agricultural lier
laws, make necessary appropriations
and then adjourn sine die.-[Natchez
Telephone.
There are but three papers in the State
at this time that give encouragement te
the Jackson Times (Rep.J, Meridian
Mercury, whose editor was an aspirant
for the office of Lieutenant Governor
and the Vicksburg Commercially Water
Valley Courier.
We can hear of comparatively little
injury done to the cotton crop in this
county, so far, by the worms. There
are planters very apprehensive that So
rious injury will yet be done. There are
many others who do not apprehend Sc
rious injury. Over in Louisiana already
serious injury has been done in some
places, but so far as we can learn, wher
ever Paris green has been used in time
it has destroyed them and relieved ap
prehension.-[Nat Democrat.
Texas.
Rain is badly needed throughout Poll
county. The crops are little short OF
account Of the drouth.
The farmers Of Brazos are much dis
couraged by the dry weather. Tn
| ornns have haan CIT short and the worn