The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-20
SOUTHERN NEWS.


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Horse races are in order in st job
parish.
The cane crop Of Avoyelles is nc
very good.
,Houma No. have received their en-
CINE at last.
The Baton Rouge Adrocate Is for
press convention, earnestly.
Milliken's Bend will have tourna
ment and ball, July 26, 1877.
Cheniere aux Tigres is developing a
a place to raise watermelons.
Fifty-six bushels OF corn on one acre
not fertilized, is reported in Natchi
toches.
A convict by the name Of George
Washington died in the Penitentiar,
last Sunday.
Mrs. Ware, Of Natchitoches, at
tempted to light fire with coal oil anC
was fatally burned.
Col. r. e. Burke, one of the most
prominent citizens of Natchitoches, died
in that place last Friday.
The farmers Of Concordia parish will
raise enough corn for home consump-
ton this year for the first time for many
years.
A few caterpillars have been found on
the bayous in Avoyelles. Unless tho
weather Is very wet there is nothing to
fear from them.
A fine sulphur spring has been found
within three miles of Sparta, Bienyille
parish, and that town expects in time to
rival the Greenbrier White Sulphur.
Says the Rapides Gazette most truth
fully: Judging from the appearance of
our exchanges, a number of country
editors have gone fishing about this
time.
Elopements are fashionable in Madi-
son parish, SO fashionable that young
ladies prefer to elope even il their parents
are willing. A half dozen have oc-
Cured in the past few weeks.
The school board of Morehouse par
ish finds some difficulty in securing
efficient teachers for the negro schools.
There seems to be some lack Of good
teachers offering themselves in the
country parishes.
The people Of Baton Rouge, delighted
With the proposed road to Clinton, talk
or continuing narrow gauge road from
The latter town to Liberty, Mississippi.
The lessees of the Clinton railroad
announce that it will be impossible to
build the road to Baton Rouge in time
20 take off the coming crop. It will
nave to be postponed for some time.
Mississippi.
Lefiore and Sunfiower counties have
instructed for Humphreys for Cover
lor.
Grenada county instructs its DELE |
rates to vote for Gen. Walthall for Gov
,rnor.
The Columbus Independent announ-
es that Col. W. McCardle is a candi- |
late for Secretary OF State.
They have a protection committee on
he Ltnwood Place, in Adams county.
0 prosecute thieves when caught.
The Natchez Democrat don't like the
1ea that because Denners Jackson
hould steal twenty cents worth of
hicken, that city should have to pay
rs for his.supporti in the county prisons.
All the newspapers insist that the
shall leave off all superhuous
vords from the party name, and call
he party simply the Democratic party
t Mississippi instead of Democratic
as 1t has been called.
In the case Of Jefferson Davis vs.. j.
[. d. Bowman, executor OF the estate of
os. e. Davis. recently decided in the
upreme Court of Mississippi, Justice
imrall has filed dissenting opinion.
n application for a re-argument or re-
caring OF the case has been filed in the
upreme Court and will probably be
card in October.
Texas.
San Antonio has had bounteous fall
rain.
Crop prospects in Sabine county are
lcouraging.
Both Hubbard and Lang will crate at
le Lampasas fair.
A Texarkana gambler paid $1,000 in
mes in four months. -
The cotton mills burned in Houston
re- about to be revived.
Washington county votes on local op-
on on the first Of April.
Tarrant county will make one third
ore wheat than last year.
Worms are as yet doing but little
amage to cotton in Goliad county.
A bed Of white chalk is said to have .
,en found recently in Trinity county,
exas.
The sheriff of Coryell county, with a
)sse, has gone to Brown and Coleman
'unties to hunt horse thieves. s
Some mounds in Cass county, sup
)sed to contain the ruins of an ancient
ldian city, are being excavated.
The Fourth Of July celebration at
was the grandest thing of the
nd that has ever transpired in West 4
n Texas.
Cotton worms are numerous in Jasper
unity, and it is thought that in five b
eeks they will appear in numbers suf- 2
'ient to eat up the cotton crop. :
The dog officer Of San Antonio. for
nduct and language unbecoming a I
lblic functionary and Christian gen I
eman, has been stripped Of his rank
I'd emoluments.
Mr.. Robert Trimble, who lived near
enton City, was murdered for money T
'ar San Antonio the other day. He 5
ent to the city in his wagon and while !