The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-26
SOUTHERN NEWS.
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are in splendid condition.
The temperance revival Is progress
inc in Bastrop, and new converts are
daily obtained.
The Iowlands near Little Bonne Idee.
Warehouse parish, are overlooked. Very
few plantations have suffered.
Dr. w. y. White. Mayor Of kbbeville,
has resigned his practice preventing
him from attending to public duties.
Planters in Richland parish are very
busy with their crops. Most of them
are we'll up with their Work, and big
crops are expected.
John Young was killed at Delhi, Rich
land parish, by George Ellison, a fugi-
tive from Justice. A Mr.. Bishop, who
was standing near by, was also wounded
in the melee. .
The Irish potato crop In East Baton
Rouge Ia turning out we'll. A large
number of barrels have already been
shipped to the West, and additional
shipments are made by every up river
steamer.
The committee appointed by the Mad
ison school board to examine into the
delinuuencies of the old board, found
w. w. johnson q defaulter to the
amount of $i4e. Mr.. johnson was
waited upon and notified OF the fact,
and asked to adjust. He proceeded
promptly to do 80, and paid all demands
against him.
Dr. Warren Williams, physician of
Red River, was drowned by O eaving of
the bank ON the river road near COu-
shatta, whilst visiting q patient during
one of the dark mig hts which preceded
the present week. The doctor was rid
- hos r. \, hn SiH .sf ri
ored man, when his horse went ever the
bank or 1t Is probable the bank caved.
The horse escaped several miles below,
but his body had not been recovered by
the last accounts.
Mississippi.
Some rust affects the wheat near
Water Valley.
The farmers generally in Central Mis-
sissippi are planting more cotton than
usual.
Early Tuesday morning two negro
deck hands had fight on the steamer
one of them was severely cut and
stabbed. The negro who did the CUT
ting escaped, and has not yet been ar
rested.
The caterpillars, with their entire
families, are out early these mornings,
near Holly Springs, robbing the trees
of their new foliage. It looks really
distressing to see such destruction as
these little worms are bringing to the
timber Of that section. For four years
they have appeared in myriads and
each year seem to increase. Their dep
relations are confined entirely to the
trees.
The long forgotten, or apparently
abandoned, Mobile and Northwestern
Railroad, has commenced work again,
and last week cargo Of some five miles
OF rails, a lot Of box and fiat cars, and
other material, were landed at q point
Immediately opposite Helena, Ark. The
road will be narrow gauge, and Ia in
tended to run toward Yazoo City, with
the hope of connecting with the railway
system Of the State at Jackson.
A young gentleman, Mr.. William Nc.
Crazy, and his two sisters, went fishing
last week in Carroll county and at about
IL o'clock the sisters said they were
tired, and proposed to their brother to
go home. He told them to go on, as he
was not tired and wished to stay little
longer, but would come about 2 o'clock.
Failing to make his appearance that
night, parties went in search OF him the
next morning. They found his body
about twenty yards from where his sis
tiers had left him the evening before,
terribly mangled and lying in mud
hole. Appearances Indicated that sew
eral persons were engaged In the muir
der, and that it had been committed
with clubs, as several bones were broken
and the body terribly bruised from head
to foot. No clue to the perpetrators Of
this most foul and inhuman murder at
last accounts.
The State Grange has the snug little
sum of thirteen thousand dollars in its
treasury.
The school at Orangeville, In Fannin
county, had to suspend in consequence
Of measles.
Five thousand five hundred head Of
cattle passed north Saturday. Total up
to date, G5,GlO-a pretty good drive.
The silver mines in Mason county are
said to be getting richer the more they
are worked, and are now paying hand
somely.
Denison has reduced its police force
to one man, and on the eighth OF June
its Mayor will become an officer with
out a salary.
A party of men came upon den Of
rattlesnakes in Clay county and killed
more than 100 Of them, one Of which
had twenty-five rattles and was unu-
sually large.
Twenty seven Indians cleaned out
Crosssen's sheep ranch, near Fort
Davis, on the seventh of May. They
were pursued, at last accounts, by fifty
United States cavalry.
A white woman named Anne, living in
the neighborhood of the St. Louis
Hotel in Dallas, suicided Thursday
night by taking morphine. She and
her clover" quarreled. and in her des-
pair she ended the troubles Of this life
with the fatal drug.
A large Mexican lion was killed by
the sons of DR.. Carlton, In the northern
part Of McLennan county, last week,
which measured over seven feet long.
1t had killed q mule colt the night
previous, which it dragged several hum
dred yards and buried.
A refrigerating car left Fort Worth