The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1877-08-16
SOUTHERN NEWS.
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The school census of Concordia gives
1909 school children.
Papabotes are now the main sport OF
sportsmen in the country.
The Baton Rouge 4duocate insists on
the energetic collection of the poll tax.
Tom Bates. an escaped convict from
Baton Rouge. was captured in Living
ston parish last week.
The school census of Baton Rouge
shows 1886 children of the school age,
2122 white and 1868 colored.
Mrs. Joseph Clements, living in Cal
casieu parish, on the Sabine, shot man
in her husbands employ last Monday.
A heavy storm of wind passed through
the upper portion OF Bossier parish on
Thursday last, blowing down the corn
to some extent.
The police jury of Baton Rouge has
instructed the tax collector Of that par
ish to accept warrants for parish taxes
at the rate of $2 in warrants for 81 In
currency. The warrant holders COM
plain of this as hardship.
The train from Marshall to Shreve-
port Friday evening was ditched three
| quarters of mile west Of Jonesville.
| The accident was caused by the giving
way of email bridge. Nobody was
| hurt, but it was a narrow escape from a
serious accident.
The police jury Of Baton Rouge has
appropriated for current expenses this
year $17, 900, as compared with 1922, 900
in 1876. In 1876 the police jury, Repub-
lican, expended it's entire appropriation
in seven months, whereas in the past
seven months the present has spent
only $500.
The cotton worms, we regret to learn,
are rapidly making their appearance in
this and adjoining parishes. We learn
that they have appeared in large num-
bers on Red river and on Mr.. Jeter's
plantation On Soda lake in this parish,
and fears are entertained that they will
do serious damage. A correspondent
writes us from Homer, Claiborne parish,
that the cotton caterpillar or army worm
has made its appearance in vast num-
bers in the locality of Athens, in that
parish, on the plantation of Mr.. J. A.
Aubrey, ,sand that Mr.. A. is confident
that all of his oldest cotton will be de-
stroyed in ten days or perhaps sooner.
The caterpillars are over the whole par
ish of Rapides. Some planters are
using Paris green, while others are
which they consider the most destruc-
tive. The worms have appeared in
Ouachita parish, but no serious damage
is anticipated. The cotton crop every
where Is reported as very fine, and 1t is
to be hoped that the worms, so late CON-
ing this season, will do little damage.
shreveport Times.
Mississippi.
Adams county will produce its largest
cotton crop since the war.
A negro was hung on Wednesday, by
vi GLANCE committee, five miles from
jackson. So, at least, the bloody shirt
Times says.
The Natchez Democrat, whose editor
was a delegate to the State Convention,
intimates belief that Webster, the col
ored candidate, would have been nomi-
mated for Secretary of State if he had
not been so quick to withdraw.
The bodyo of a headless white man was
discovered standing up in railroad
pond near Lebanon, and about nine
miles from Washington. A weight at
tached to the feet gave the man the ap-
pearance OF standing erect in the water.
Nothing is known of the man or the
circumstance of his murder.
Vicksburg Herald: We are gratified to
see by our exchanges that the rearing
of live stock is receiving more attention |
ever known before, and the thoughtful |
must accept it as another sign Of theap
dawn OF an era OF prosperity
such as people ought to enjoy who un-
doubtedly have the advantages of the |
best soil and climate in the world.
The Meridian Mercury has blossomed |
into an Independent newspaper, as will |
be seen from the following paragraph
"a correspondent nominates A. G.. |
Brown for Governor. It is unnecessary
for us to remind our readers that we
publish a free and independent paper,
and will not keep the honored name of
A. G. Brown out If he has friend who
wants to suggest him, because State
Convention has nominated somebody
else."
The Kinds county Gazette: The cur
rency question, too, in our judgment,
might well have been referred to. That
is a very important question. Does
Mississippi want more money, or less
A State Convention repre-
senting the intelligence, the business
interests, the wealth and the poverty of
the people Of Mississippi, should have
answered this question, and in no
equivocal language.
Since September last the cotton re-
ceipts of Dallas foot up 1884 bales.
The Herald and Planter reports recent
instances Of incendiarism in Lavaca
county.
The Sun says that the farmers Of Will
hanson county have commenced cotton
picking.
This fall Robertson county will receive
3 valuable colony of emigrants from
Delaware.
Houston has shipped five hundred car
loads OF vegetables to Northern cities
this season.
A young antelope recently appeared
on the streets Of Stephensville, attract
ing much attention.
The peach crop is very fine and
abundant in Smith county, and it is be-
ing converted into brandy.
A gentleman from the southern por-
ion Of Tarrant county says the farmers
IN his neighborhood will make more
,otton than thew CAR pafhar