The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1877-06-27
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana. .

MAD dogs seetn to be unusually preva
lent In the country.
| The cotton fields In East Felicians
blossomed on the 18th.
An eight-foot rattlesnake was killed
In Marksville last week.
| Shrimp In the river are fine and large
but not very plentiful yet.
The Pointe Coupee Pelican wants
sugar cultivated In that parish, instead
Of cotton.
The honey crop in Pointe Coupee ID
double what 1t ever was before. The
honey 10 being just now extracted.
The exercises at Centenary College
East Feliciana, will begin on July 9th
and continue the 10th and 18th. Hon.
j.. Jno. Ellis will deliver the address.
On Saturday evening last colored
boy, about eighteen years OF age. while
under the influence Of liquor, walked
into Bayou Plauuemine, at Plaquemine
and was drowned.
On Saturday last son OF Mr.. A Bis
set, residing below the Indian Village,
/ on Bayou PIauuemine, about IL years
old. was drowned while attempting to
cross the bayou In dug out.
The School Directors OF Pointe Coupee
meet July 7th. The directors call on the
citizens of the parish, to be present at
this meeting to offer advise as to the
sites where the public schools should be
established.
A man named Breston stabbed and
killed Mr.. James Mulley at Midway
Station, of the Clinton and Port Hudson
Railroad, in East Feliciana parish. June
9th. The murder is said to have been
unjustiflable and malicious.
A colored man. living in Pointe Cou-
pee parish, by the name OF Chas. John
son, who professed to be horse doctor.
said he could, when an animal had the
Some day last week mule had the
oharbon; he tasted the blood and on
the 18th inst, he died at New Texas
landing OF the disease.
No election for mayor Of Mansfield
was held as advertised, on account of
registration not being opened at the
time and an irregularity about the call
The election. 1t Is said. should have
been ordered by the sheriff instead Of
the mayor. In the meantime it is as
serted by some that the town is without
q mayor and town council until new
election is held.
The Clinton and Port Hudson Rail.
road offer to bring their road to Baton
Rouge as q terminus, IL that city will
loan them 100000. The company will
give in return first mortgage bonds at
eight per cent. and build the road in
these terms ''the best. fairest and most
straightforward, business like PROPOSE
tion ever made"
Sylvia Washington, eolored. was shot
and killed by George Brown, also col
ored, on Cypress Grove plantation, in
Grant parish, last week. Brown was at.
to murder q negro named
George Washington when Sylvia inter
fered and endeavored to quiet the two
men, and while between them was shot,
and died in four days. Notwithstanding,
the testimony OF numerous witnesses to
the shooting, and Of two physicians who
attended her, the coroner's jury, com
posed OF negroes, brought In a verdict
that the woman died of old age.
On Saturday last the remains of an
elderly white man were found on the
river bank, about two miles below st.
James s, Matthews, Justice OF the peace
for the Third Ward, of Tensas,
was duly notified, who summoned
a jury and held an inquest.
The body was SO much decom-
posed that 10 could not be identified. nor
could the cause of his death be deter
mined. The jury were OF the opinion
that there had been foul play, as the
body had apparently been tied up In a
sack and deposited in the position in
which 1t was found, by some person or
persons unknown.
Mississippi.
The Chickasahay is to be stocked with
fish.
Meridian cotton mills are making
heavy shipments OF goods to Ohio.
A great quantity of peaches are being
shipped from Handsboro to New Or
leans.
Stephen Brown was hung in Lexing-
ton, June Sth, for the murder Of Ander-
son Stevens.
Wednesday, August l, Is the day the
Mississippi State Democratic Conven-
ton will meet.
Col. Il. Ii. Murfee will move the Mis-
sissippi Military Institute from Aber-
4eeH 10 Pass Christian soon.
A Mr.. Maxwell, a respectable citizen
Of Tuscaloosa, in good circumstances,
suicide last week. The cause
Is unknown.
Enterprising parties are starting stock
that stock raising pays better than cot
Ton planting.
The dead body Of a raftsman, James
Beacham, was brought to Vicksburg
asst Wednesday night by two other
,aftsmen, who stated that he was shot
md killed by Daniel Carson, a fellow
,aftsman, who made his escape.
John Bush and Joe Conners, both col
bred, got into a little game Of seven up
1t Bovina, Miss, last Tuesday night,
which ended in a difficulty, in which
Jonners was shot and Instantly killed
oy Bush, who now languishes in the jail
1t Vicksburg.
Last Tuesday evening the freight
rain on the Y. and M. road, in backing
nto the siding at Bolton, struck the
telegraph construction and repairing
ears, knocking Mr.. Dennis Coughlin
off fiat, who fell under the wheels,
and two cars passed over him, mangling
lim in a frightful manner.