The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-15
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

ings are going up In Homer.
The Masons of Morehouse will have
grand turnout on st. Johns Day.
Mosquitoes are worse In the country
than they have been for forty-tlv
| years.
The Baton Rouge 2ouaves will assist
IN Donaldsonvile's Fourth Of July cele
bration.
Senator Dave Young is seeking to win
back the sympathy Of the people OF Con.
cordia with picnics and fsh-fries.
The persons sent to the penitentiary
at last weeks session of the District
Court In East Feliciana were i've ne.
groes and one white man.
The North Louisiana Fair Association
vas organized at Shreveport last We'd
riesday. The association 10 for the par
isbes Of North Louisiana, and promises
TO be soon In working order.
Morehotise Clarion says. will see to 1t
that our municipal laws are rigidly en-.
forced. There Is entirely too much
shooting going on within the corpora
ton limits, both day and night. This
should be stopped.
The School Board In East Baton
Rouge have not been able to get hold
OF the books kept by j. Henri Burch,
the treasurer of the old School B oard.
Burch has been notified to turn his
books over TO his successor, Mr.. Willis,
but has not done SO. He promised to
do go by the first of this month, but he
is yet In Washington. He will proba-
bly, be prosecuted criminally.
The II. u. l.. (Rotten Egg LEGION OF
Delta are still engaged In their good
work. They faint the evening air with
their "busted" ammunition, but purify
the moral atmosphere and disinfect
society. The ladies Of Delta and vicinity
take great pride In furnishing them with
weapons of war. All street loafers and
men who curse in the presence OF ladies.
or otherwise misbehave themselves, are
The recipients Of the Legion's attention.
The case OF the State OF Louisiana VS..
Brown and Watson. at Delta.
with forging and counterfeiting
parish scrip, occupied all of last week
with the testimony. The evidence
was not sufficient to hold Watson. the
negro legislator, but the charge was
July made out against the other two.
Friday night the stub-book of Clements.
The District Clerk. was stolen and made
way with, but Sunday morning it was
'ound In the river below Delta by q
fisherman. Clements and Goens, depu-
les OF the clerk, are supposed to be the
persons who attempted to destroy the
book and IL go, they are as deep In the
mire as Crawford and Brown are In the
mud. That District Clerks office would
% q good subject for thorough inves-
igation.
Mississippi.
Starkviile is selling butter at 10 cents
pound.
The public schools of Jackson were
'losed last week.
Powers cotton seed mill at vicksburg
has been compelled to stop work for
ack of seed.
The vioksburg Herald is opposed to
tho amendment abolsshing the Office OF
Governor.
Col. J. l.. McCullum. OF the Yazoo
Jity Herald. Democrat. is q candidate
or Secretary OF State.
The two city Justices Of Natchez have
made an average OF fifteen cents apiece
Der week for several weeks past. The
,flices are very remuneratise
The postoifioe at Campbellsville, In |
fazoo county, has been re-established. |
MI mail matter for 1t should be sent via |
VickBburg. as 1t Ia on the route between |
Iicksburg and Johnsonville, on Sun
lower river.
The closing exercises of Whitworth |
Female College, Brookhaven, will be- |
In on June Is, and end on June &c. |
liiss Julia Raiford, of Liberty, will de- |
liver the salutatory, and Miss Lula |
ones, OF Claiborne county, will deliver |
he valedictory.
Last Sunday afternoon, two women
md -four men, the latter pretty
full" were out In the lake at |
in a sliff when their
'oat upset and threw them all In the
sater, at least half a mile from land.
little Billy Simpson, who runs the
hampton passenger skiff Natchez, be-
ween the ferry landing and the island,
lad just put some passengers ashore
bove the bayou, when he heard the
nd pulled out to the rescue. When he
cached them he did not risk overturn-
1g his own boat by trying to get them
lto 1t, but very ooolly and firmly di.
ected them how to cling to 1t, three on
side, SO as to preserve a balance, and
aus he towed them safely In to shore.
Burglaries occur nearly every night at
The work on the railroad bridge over
le Sabine is now being pushed with
Inn, and in a few weeks at most it will
o completed.
The State horticultural and Pomolo-
ical Exhibition will come off at Hous-
ID on the ninth and tenth of August.
will be a grand affair.
The Henrietta Journal says there Is
,llow travelling in Fayette county or
anizlng colored Granger lodges, and
the negroes.
Six convicts deliberately walked away
ON the convict camp near San Anto-
10. One Of them Is a notorious horse
lief named Tom Hurd.
The cotton worm has appeared In sew
raj localities In Victoria county and
one already irreparable damage to a
lumber Of cotton fields.
A gentleman from the East writes to
arty In Austin that he wants to buy
ON 100000 to $780, 900 acres of Texas
md for colonization purposes.