The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-10
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

The new wharf at DonaIdsonville Is now
completely finished.
The new jail Of Terrebonne has been finish
ed, and turned over to the police Jury by the
contractor.
| Donaldsonville is threatened with still an.
other paper, The Cotored Kfg,'s RecOrd m
will be weekly and religious Methodist.
Crookedness in the accounts of Hon. Osca,
| Holt, treasurer Of the late Board of School
! Directors in West Baton Rouge, is charged
| About fifty acres Of the finest cane on the
| plantation of Messrs. G.. u NJ. Feite, in AS
cension, was blown flat on the ground by the
| wind one day last week.
The plan to build branch railroad from
MorganS railroad to ThibOdatIx seems to
have fallen through The town council has
declined to grant the bonus asked for by the
road.
The tasalth still continues in ASSUMPTION.
Vegetables are blighted, and short sugar
crop is threatened unless there is plenty of
rain. On Thursday the first rain for ten
weeks came.
Geo Roam, constable, attempted to arrest o
colored man named Virgin Whitmore living
Sh1pp's Bayou plantation in Tensas parish,
for for an attempt to murder his step-daughter
Whltmore resented arrest and was shot and
killed.
>, negro man, name unknown, working near
Napoleonville, getting slaves out Of the
swamp. for f. W. Pike, became very much
heated by the work, and drinking some cold
water while thus heated died almost in
family therefrom.
The Terrebonne Progress thinks the sugar
been for years. More land has been planted
this year than last. Every planter the Pro-
gress goes on, that we have conversed with.
declares that the yield this year will be greater
than that of last year.
The Attakapas Register declares that the
iatn ntr fe,<,PG
ganize q workingmen's party in that parish
One OF the main issues they wish to fight is
the Sunday liquor law, lately passed BY the
police jury of the parish, to which law they
are bitterly opposed.
Our parish prison has been condemned for
O long time, but prisoner named Hilare
accused Of larceny, remained In it of his own
free will and accord for several months, and
until those dead cats were thrown into the
sink near the jail. He could not stomach that
Lafayette Advertiser.
A colored woman living on the Pecan Grove
place in st. Mary became much incensed
against her liege lord and while he was
standing thinking over their last quarrel, she
came behind him, and with one grand sweep
the race, the razor, cut his throat from ear to
ear He dropped dead on the instant. On
her being. taken prisoner she seemed much
astonished at the turn affairs had taken, and
tHIGeSSeu IIlucn SIle1, ana said 1T was all
done in play.
A correspondent of the Satgar Bo,yl at Nor
gan City gives the following Enoch Arden
case:
about three years ago Mr.. Murphy left
his wife at Morgan City and went to the let
ties to work. Soon he was reported drowned
His wife mourned his loss, and in the mean
time accepted the love and hand of one Mr..
Cunningham, q steward on one of the Morgan
line ships, and they were duly Joined in the
holy bonds Of matrimony. Last week, while
Mr.. and Mrs. Cunningham were engaged in a
family talk, in stepped Mr.. Murphy, husband
No. 1. Husband No. 2 recognized him at
onces not knowing but what he had just ar
rived from the spirit land, as his pale coun-
tenance indicated. They had parIey, and
the matter remains unsettled as far as we
know"
The Parish Convention called by the police
jury to consider the question of keeping the
roads and levees in repair and to devise some
plan for attaining that object under the new
State law, held its session at the Court-Hou
in Donaldsonville, last Tuesday. There were
twenty-eight out of thirty-two delegates
present. b. 0. Ayraud was selected as chair
man, and Ell. 0. Minor as secretary. Josenh
Gonzales was then elected permanent presi-
dent. A committee was appointed which
suggested the following system:
l. Let every man keep up and repair his own
road.
2. Let the police jury call upon one Of the
State engineers and ascertain what amount
will be required for the keeping in reDairs Of
the levees of this parish ''--'
:. When the amount necessary for the above