The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-01
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

Louisiana.
City scrip of Natchitoches is worth Vi
cents.
The estimated expenses for Bienville
parish fol-. the present year Is $lO,S75.
The Natchitoches courthouse has
again been robbed Of bonds, papers, etc.
The Plaquemine Dramatic Associa-
ton is amusing the people OF Iberville.
Smallpox prevails In Natchitoches,
Imported from Packard's headquarters
here.
Late sales Of land In Plaquemine par
ish show that it commands far better
prices than last year.
The merchants decline to advance to
the planters before there Is q political
settlement OF some kind.
Hubbard's Clubhouse, on Frogmore
plantation. near Musson Station, East
Baton Rouge. was burned with Its con-
tents, Tuesday evening. Incendiarism.
Amite City is doing heavy business
In the temperance line. A temperance
revival has been started there, and the
immense number Of seventy-five men
have sworn off from their daily tipple.
The stubble or two year old rattoon In
Ixafourche is almost failure. Fall
planted cane Is also failure. 1t Is said
that the plant cane, frozen last Decem-
Der, Is not coming up to make stand.
The Natchitoches Findicator insists
upon the Governor and the Legislature
supplying the vacancies In that parish
or officials who have failed to qualify
under Nichols. There are several Of
these.
The corn Is up in the country, and
the stand is good, excellent. 1t is, i'm
possible to find or hear complaint
against 1t, and everybody knows how
farmers like to grumblo and complain,
cause or no cause.
Lake Charles, parish Of Calcasieu, is
an enterprising little burgh that Is do
Its receipts Of cotton, and now gets much
cotton that formerly went to Alexandria
and thence to New Orleans.
"a delegation Of Vicksburg gentle
men were over here (Delta) last Wednes-
day taking observations, soundiugs and
surveys, and with view, possibly, of
moving Vicksburg across" says the
Madison Journal. We congratulate
Delta over Its luck.
Says the Natchitoches indicator:
sOf the 5000 bales cotton raised in this
Z I,ssslsh, 1000 go for labor. 1900 for meat,
1120 bales for shipping and selling ex
penses, leaving but 1880 bales to pay the
planters expenses and tax on
lands, mules, etc. The moral is obvi-
Ous."
The editor OF the Mansfield Reporter
has been handed skein of silk made
by young lady, Miss Ware, Of Lincoln
parish, but now OF Red River. The silk
was made from the cocoon grown in
lincoln. anu is most beautifully dyed
pink. Squire Mundy informs the ed
itor that he saw specimens OF all colors,
which would bear the closest inspection
In any market, and all wound and spun
by Miss Ware.
We make one more last appeal for
this year against old King Cotton. We
are no traitor to our king and country
as long as he treats US we'll. but when
ne fails to foster the happiness and
prosperity Of his people, then the spirit
Of rebellion wells up strong within us,
and work for a little bread and meat,
and q thousand other home comforts,
which you are not able to buy from the
North and West" says the Mansfield
Reporter.
Mississippi
Brookhayen has shipped 905S bales to
date as compared with 9S40 last year.
A telegraph line has been established
between Greenville, Miss, and Vickss
burg.
Two cotton gins were burnt last week
In Coahoma county, being set fire to by
the lightning.
The Brandon Republican is the first
Southern paper to hoist the President
for 1880, and it is Samuel j. Tilden,
again. A little premature this.
Several cases of smallpox have oc-
CURED in the penitentiary, at Jackson.
Some of Packard's st. Louis Hotel fol-
lowers must have got inside the build
ing.
Ducks, ETC., became unlawful game
after March Is. Wild turkeys, however,
can be killed up to May 1. After which
time hunters will have to put up their
guns until September comes around.
Fifty thousand dollars has already
been subscribed by some seven gentle
men OF Natchez, towards establishing
cotton factory. The amount required is
about SIC. 900. and the project is assum-
q very tangible shape.
A difficulty sprang up last week
between q couple of boys and some men
near the Scot and Newton county line,
dn which the two boys are said to have