The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-03
SOUTHERN NEWS.


parish amounts to $3b00.
.Auguste Baptiste, oolored, Of Morgan
City, was drowned in Bayou Long last
| Thursday.
Morgan City ia at work on It's streets.
and I'd theoretically extending and i'm
proving them.
Morgan City boasts that she has fewer
men In her limits OUT OF employment
than any town ID he United States.
Donaldsonville has got an Ice ma
chine. and is now fully prepared for
summer and mint iuleps.
ST.. Charles parish boasts that ft has
not had u single new case of smallpox
for d week. All tho persons sick OF Ii
are convalescent.
"a new disease lasyngites has APP
peared In the country has appeared In
several country papers. This Is o new
disease indeed-new to the doctors.
All the Thibodaux fire companies will
assist In the Houna procession April 4.
The fire parade business seems 10 be
flourishing extremely we'll just now In
tho country.
The Shreveport Times tells OF thir-
teen year old boy OF that town who Ia
one OF the most inveterate drunkards,
and who has not drawn sober breath
In i've months.
Now that the circus has gone, and the
trapeze man Ia hurt, the people OF Thi4
bodaux are reduced, In the amusement
line, to conferences causerie," what
ever that may be.
The brass band Of Franklin has
erected platform near the courthouse,
evenings serenade the inhabitants Of
that little city. In this matter Franklin
ID about century ahead OF New Or
leans, which only occasionally gets gra-
tuitous music.
A negro living Ia Ouaohita parish, Tay-
lor Walker by name, left this world q
few days ago In the following manner
On Saturday night at about 10 o'clock,
some one entered Mr.. Frank Longs
house. Long rose to light the lamp,
when he was Immediately struck on tho
head, and the blow was repeated until
he fell down insensible. Ills wife was
dragged by this midnight marander,
Taylor Walker. from her bed some
thirty yards to Che corn crib. outside the
house. The husband, recovering his
senses, started after his wife: he was
again knocked over the head bya plow-
handle, from the effects of which blow
he died about twelve hours after. Mrs.
Long, rs soon as she was released, ran
to her fathers house and alarmed the
neighborhood. Taylor Walker was seen
next day several times In the neighbor.
hood. About 4 o'clock In the afternoon,
the nelghbors having assembled, search
was made for Walker, and he was found
at his cabin, with o small sack filed
with provisions ready for flight. He
disappeared mysteriously the same day,
and Is supposed to have been hung.
Texas.
Fifteen newspapers have failed In
Austin In ten years.
Almost every Texas paper has grass
hopper column just now.
The Changers are to have grand
festival at Bolton on the 3D. Of May.
A fine new bridge has Just been com.
pleted over South Fork, Parker county.
Two negroes waylaid and shot another
negro In Ennis the other night. They
were arrested.
Daniel Lee, an old man, was shot and
killed by O son of q. M. Smith, near
Bonham, last week.
The Dallas Mail states that the Dallas
and Wichita Railroad will be completed
to Denton by the middle Of July.
The State Of Texas takes possession Of
the State Penitentiary April q. The
has been under Lease some
time.
Comanche Chief: The most difficult
question for Texas farmers to decide
seems to be as to whether 1t Is better to
live on corn than to starve on cotton.
The good people of Comanehe are ex-
ceedingly anxious to have the operation
of the law suspended which authorizes
the people there to carry concealed
weapons.
They are at It again. A single rob-
Der attacked the stage running between
Bastrop and McDade on the Esd. The |
driver was forced to cut the mail sacks, |
but the robber got nothing. A gentle
man passenger was robbed Of $12, but a
lady passenger was unmolested.
]. D.. Reed, Of Goliad county, has
started 5000 beeves to market. Capt. |
Kennedy will drive 10000 head Of cattle !
to Kansas; Capt. King 10000, Major
q Bluntzer 5000, John McAllen $500,
Quinlan. Montgomery & Go. $500, J.
Reed 1000.
Some of the citizens Of Dallas are en-
gagged In new enterprise in Montague
near the foot Of q range Of
The object is to procure
sulphur for the manufacture Of acid. |
A specimen OF the sulphurous ore has
been forwarded to Washington and sub
jected to chemical analysis, and is said
to contain forty per cent of pure sui
phur.
Last Monday night, one Of the prison
ers IN the Hopkins county jail, John /
Houk, undertook to burn his way out,
when the smoke became SO dense that |
some OF the prisoners could bear it no
longer and gave the alarm, and frus-
trated the plan. It was hazardous I'M
dertaking, but Houk has nine years
term before him in the penitentiary for |
stealing, and in view of this is willing
to take the desperate chances.
A Texas sheep raiser says there are
about 1000, 900 head Of sheep on the
borders of the Rio Grande, the finest
sheen raising country In the world He |