The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-05
SOUTHERN NEWS.
louisiana.

splendidly in Iberville.
Moro land has been planted In Con-
cordia this year than ever before.
Fast Feliciana boasts Of eight compa-
MES of militia. J.. @. Riley is Colonel.
The Baton Rouge AdUocate Is working
earnestly for the removal OF the capital
to Baton Rouge.
More attention has been paid to the
raising OF hogs In Rapides than at any
time since the war.
The Lake Providence True Republican
says that a schooner from Lake Michi-
gan Is now visiting that portion OF the
river. -
The cold weather in Assumption for
the past two weeks somewhat checked
the vegetation, without, however, doing
any real harm.
There was light frost In Baton
Rouge Friday morning. No harm was
done to the crops. because there was
nothing to do harm to.
The Morehouse Clarion wants the
Town Council of Bastrop to rent a house
out of that town for the smallpox pa
tents, and thus save the town from an
epidemic. .-...
The mail route between Wlnnsboro
and Harrisonburg, via Prairie Landing,
has been partly discontinued 30 as to
run only between Winnsboro and Prai-
RE Landing.
On Wednesday, May 10, the most Rev
erend Archbishop Perche will preside
over the ceremony OF translating the
relics of st. Fortune to st. Xavfer's
Church, Lookport, parish Of Lafourche.
The police Jury of Richland will assess
the following parish ta aeh, General
contingent fund, II mills; salaries, II
Z mills. Total. 12a.
The people of the Ouachita valley
thought ell danger of an overflow, for
this year, past, but II the present
weather continues week or two longer
the consequences may be disastrous In
the extreme. .r5.--.e j, ..t
The waters Of Calcasieu river and tri.
butaries still remain 30 low as to ma
terially affect the milling and other mer-
camille interests OF this parish. There
has, however, been sufficient rain to sup
ply the wants OF our agriculturfsts.
t Mississippi. #r
Osyka held it's municipal election
Tuesday, May 1. er
Two hundred acres OF land have been
bought near Osyka for cotton mill.
It is believed that there will soon be
$1,000 convicts In the Mississippi Peni-
Tertiary. Hs b. I'D
Twenty-six miles OF the Natchez,
Jackson and Columbus Railroad are
completed. A-s. +.sasaa
Pontotoc, Water Valley, Carrollton
and other towns have temperance So
cietles In full blast.
The Winona Aduance learns that Gen.
T.. O. Walthall emphatically declines to
permit his name to be used In any man
ner in connection with the office OF Gov
ernor. -
The Tidette Is the name Of a new
paper just started at Coffeeville by Mr..
L. q. McCorkle. The editor has our
best wishes for the success Of his new
enterprise.
Mumps prevail in Erath.
Austin has organized Board of Trade.
Houston's $4,000 sewer is caving in.
Coryell county scrip is worth rs cents
on the dollar. .z..4 IN, -.,s..s ...
Gainesville will be postal money order
office after July l.
Large droves of horses and cattle are
on the move In Western Texas.
The 7. and P. road will be finished
to Weatherford by the 1sthIof July.
An interesting protracted meeting is
in progress at the M. E. Church in Fort
Worth. The meeting continued until
the 1st of May.
The Chief thinks 1t is getting time for
the citizens Of Comanche to offer some
inducements to the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe road to come to that place.
The hands belonging to John W.
Gammet's herd Of cattle, in Shackel-
ford county, refused to permit its in
spection, and were all indicted by the
grand jury on the 21st.
Callahan county will be formally or
ganized In June. Its voting population
Is now nearly three hundred and fifty.
The military telegraph line from Fort
Griffin to Concho passes through Gala
han City.
Major Jones and the Rangers have
captured twelves desperadoes In kim
ball county, and are making it hot for
the remainder. He has three hundred
men, and is ransacking every part of
the county.
The Schulenberg ATgus says the rains
that the ground Is SO thoroughly soaked
that the crops are safe, even If it should
rain no more. H.E.s
The Pierce road is not likely to be ex-
tended to New Brauufels. The people
of that place promise Col. Pierce 1915, 900
il he will take it there, but the PROPOSE |
ton has not been accepted, and has
probably been abandoned.
:. An escaped penitentiary convict, a
negro, was captured near Marlin, and |
turned over to two men to be delivered |
to the authorities. While on the road |
they were surrounded by eighteen or
twenty men. who took the negro and
shot and stabbed him to death. The
negro when captured was on stolen
horse.
A Rusk correspondent of the Palestine
Ne,p Era writes: This county will GER
tainly have an enormous surplus Of
fruit this year, all danger from frost
now being past, and every tree being
full of young fruit. Farmers report ia
yofablv AZ to crOD rlrOsDects and all