The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-18
SOUTHERN VS..
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resolved ,snt To publish Its proceedings,
on the plea OF economy.
Mr.. ID. r. Buckingham, lately APP
pojntal a member OF the Morehouse
parish school board, declines the APP
pointment.
Mr. Frank Remerez. OF Baton Rouge,
saved twenty-seyen persons from the
wrocL nf the steamer Sandy No. q, with
one small skill. ....
Mr.. d. J. Norwood, Of the Morehouse
| clarion. retires from that paper.
Messrs, Schroeder and MeFarlan will
now manage It.
| The Ouachita river and the back
| water In the swamps are rising at the
rate of four or Ave inches in twenty four
hours. Planters on the lowlands are
becoming alarmed for the safety Of their
crops.
The corporation tax Of Vienna is
seven mills and the people OF that town
are not quite go happy at being an incor-
porated city as they thought they would
be. A city Is costly experiment now
adays.
We have been told, says the Donald
sonville Chief, that meeting will take
place to-day between two committees
one of Democrats, the other OF Repub-
licans-to egree upon q list OF persons
to be recommended to the government
for appointment as town officers.
The Louisiana IntelHgencer has ceased
to exist. Capt. g. w. McCranie, Of the
Ouachita Telegraph, has bought the
presses. material, ETC., and added them
TO his office, with the intention Of either
enlarging the telegraph or issuing a
semi-weekly. May success attend him.
-. III nh
were burned to death In their cabin, on
Mr.. Anatole Lallande's plantation, near
Napoleonvile, last week. A coal oil
lamp was left burning In the cabin, and
the supposition is that it exploded and
ignited the clothing and other combus-
tibles In the cabin; and 80 speedy were
the inroads Of the fire that all escape
was cut off.
The police jury of Ascension reorgan-
lied last werk and elected II. L. Hanson
president. A committee was appointed
to reduce the estimate Of parish ex-
penses to conform with the new rate Of
taxation prescribed by law; the parish
attorney requested to report the out
standing Indebtedness and other busl-
ness Of ordinary nature transacted.
The proposed mass meeting at the
Court House, In Donaldsonvilie, Satur-
day night. to indorse candidates for
town offices was fat failure, scarcely
half dozen persons attending, exclu-
sive Of the parties who originated the
movement. The failure Of the citizens
to respond was due to suspicion that
the motives Of the prime movers in the
affair were not entirely disinterested.
It is seldom. indeed. that any ocea-
sion is so generally observed in Donald
sonville az was Thursday, Thanksgiving
Day. All the stores were closed, bust
ness entirely suspended. services held
In the churches, everybody attired In
holiday dress, and twenty-o one gun sa-
lutes fired morning and noon upon the
public square by the Cannoneers of
Donaldson.
There il considerable complaint
among the farmers Of Vermilion parish
about the worms destroying the young
corn. Many planters have had to re-
plant several times. The spring has
are also backward, cane In particular.
A large crop Of corn is being planted in
this parish. The weather has been
quite favorable for farm work
John Linwood, colored, who is a con-
stable at Black Hawk Point, Concordia
parish, was killed by Jacob Hawkins,
colored. 1t appears that Hawkins had
been making too free with the wife OF
Linw wood, who, meeting the disturber Of
his domestic felicity, proceeded to chas-
tise him, but Hawkins got hold OF an
ak, and with a tremendous blow chopped
off the cap Of Linwood's head and kill
ing. him. Hawkins was brought to Vida
LA on Sunday and lodged In Jail to await
trial.
Two fatal accidents are reported in
the Eighth Ward of Ascension parish,
About fifteen days ago middle aged
a horse and instantly killed; and some
white, was thrown under the wheels of q
cart. which passed over his body, in
Hicting injuries hortly resulting in
death. The name Of the latter party
was Joe Thomas or Thompson; that of
the former is unknown.
Henry Collins, colored boy II years
Of age, fell into the river in front OF
Braud q store, opposite Donaldsonville,
and was drowned. The boy was walk
ing upon gunwale lying in the water
fastened to the bank, when he lost his
footing and slipped off. He endeavored
to cling to the gunwale, but its Shiny
surface rendered his efforts futile, and
he sank before aid could be given him
by either Of the two persons who wit
messed the accident. Az last accounts
the body had not been recovered.
Last Sunday was quite an eventful
day for Delta. Early in the morning
Peter Carter. negro employe of the V.
s. and 7. r. r., cut his wife's throat
from ear to ear, and made his escape.
The woman's throat was sewed up by
DR.. Gilland, and she was alive at last
accounts. Later in the day another me-
gro was arrested for beating his better
half nearly to death. In Bush Bayou,
near the town, a negro was drowned
some time during the day. He was
standing up in a boat when his com
panion pushed off suddenly, and he was
thrown overheard. Sunday Is an excit-
ing day in Delta, if it is not over pleas
ant.
A short time since colored man
brutally murdered one Willis, colored,
on plantation in West Baton Rouge.
The killing was apparently premedi-
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