The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-29
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

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Pointe Coupee Is shipping honey to
New York.
The whooping cough prevails in West
Baton Rouge.
The new assessment Of East Felici-
ana Is $845, 100.
The Pointe Coupee Pelica1, insists on
dog law in that parish.
Cotton worms have at last appeared
In Carroll and Madison parishes.
River shrimps ere selling in West
Baton Rouge for five cents gallon.
The seventh annual Claiborne fair
will begin November Is and last three
days.
The Sugar Planter characterizes the
corn crop Of that parish as "enor-
NOUS"
The dry weather In st. Martin has de-
stroyed the cotton worms wherever
they have appeared.
The Steamer Camelia. running be-
tween here and Vaudeville, proposes to
sue the Farmer for $4,000 damages, for
libel.
Charlton is still bad on Bayou Sale,
parish of st. Mary. The country is full
of dead mules, and q few hungry buzz
yards are wanted.
The st. Tammany Farmer declares
that Covington is rapidly improving in
morals, and will soon be one Of the most
orderly places in Louisiana.
The Columbia Herald complains Of
the new school board Of Caldwell parish,
and demands that the examination for
teachers of the public schools be public.
The DeSoto Democrat and Opelousas
Courier both think native white teach
ers for colored children are far better
than colored teachers. Few Of the latter
are competent to teach the public schools
Of this State.
The police jury Of st. Mary wants to
pay the officers Of criminal justice in
that parish, Justices, Of the peace. dis,
trict attorney, constable, ETC., stated
salary in cash, instead of the regular
fees fixed by law.
st. Martinville will enjoy races on
September / with 300 and 5000 stakes
respectively. On the 9Th races will take
place at Fauss Pointe, and OF the 22d
again at st. Martinville with 5000
stakes, entry $3.50,
On Thursday night the prisoners in
the Jail at Lake Providence all broke
out and are now at large, including the
murderer of the two men at Hender-
sons Landing, and a negro who killed
woman above Vicksburg about a year
ago.
Cotton worms are reported to be very
numerous in Concordia and Tensas par
ishes. in Louisiana. We hear that on
the Fish Pond place, in Concordia, q
tract Of about 100 acres Of large cotton
Is swarming with the worms. Reports
places. Some reports OF worms also
come from the hills in Adams county
Natchez Democrat.
The police jury Of st. Mary has in
structed its president to wait on the
sheriff and have him to turn over all
the persons convicted Of crimes and
sentenced to hard labor to the road
overseers, who are to be sworn in as
deputy sheriffs, for the purpose Of work.
| ing them on the public roads. These
convicts are to receive compensation
| for their work, this compensation to act
as set-off against the claims OF the
parish against them.
The levees in West Baton Rouge are
beginning to cave. A break occurred
last week on the front Of Joe Walkers
place, extending down to that OF A. 7.
Bird, some 300 feet in length. A crack
about the same distance. There will be
work for the State engineers there be-
fore long. G. j. Barrow, Esq, presi-
dent Of the police jury, has notified the
board, with the expectation that they
will act without unnecessary delay.
Last week a piece of carelessness
happened at the Orphans home, which,
we think, should not pass unnoticed,
but should be subjected to a judicial in
quiry, and IL the facts are as they are
currently reported, the offender should
be severely punished. A boy at that
place, about six or seven years OF age,
asked women for some breakfast. She
gave it to him, and after he had eaten,
she caught hold Of shot gun, pointed
| it at the boy, and said: Il have given
YOU your breakfast, now I am going to
kill you" She pulled the trigger, the
| gun went off and the boy was killed.
She is very much grieved about it. She
| didn't know the gun was loaded. She
| would not have killed the boy for the
| world: vet the boy is dead and she
killed him. Franklin Enterprise.
Mississippi.
| The school enumeration Of Adams
county shows 8437 colored and 1850
white children.
Emanuel Hardy, colored Republican,
is trying to get up an independent Dem
ocratic movement in Copiah county.
Worms are very destructive on the
Hatton place, near Natchez, and it Is
reported half the crop has already been
strippediof its leaves.
There is an independent Democratic
candidate for sheriff in Wilkinson coun-
\ ty and the Natchez Telephone seems to
think he will be elected.
Another negro baby was found
drowned in Town creek Yesterday. This
is the second in the last month or so
Strange, isn't it ?-[Jackson Times.
| The rising generation Of Vicksbure
guzzlers and tobacco chewers anc
smokers. Sorry to say it, but it is 6
notwithstanding Herald.
Holly Springs Reporter: The crops
are generally laid by, the farmers leav'