The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-28
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

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Of every sort, Ia still the complaint In the
country.
Some Of the lowlands near Monroe
are overtlowed by the rise In the Qua
chita river.
The water in the swamp between Mon
roe and the Mississippi Ia rising rapidly.
II ID Thought that this will interrupt
communication on the North Louisiana
Railroad.
There must be some practical jolsists
In Coyington, st. Tammany. A doctor
of that town offers O. reward OF $50 for
the discovery Of the parties who left q
COW in his house.
The Baton Rouge AduoCdte has hoisted
Mt the heed OF its columns u wood cut
OF the old State House ut that place, as
an indueement to the people OF the State
to move their capital back to Baton
Rouge.
The Natchitoches VindiCdt0r contains,
each week, o. number Of interesting let.
tors from various portions OF that and
neighboring parishes that make 1t an
exceedingly interesting and readable
paper.
The small. pox Is rapidly disappearing
from the country. Ia the parishes near
to New Orleans II Ia almost altogether
gone. In some portions Of North Louis
lana, Ouachita and Morehouse. 1t has
only just broken out.
The wit of the greater part of the
press of the country seems to
have been mercilessly turned on the
Sugar Planter. The profound and nu-
merous jokes poured out on the editor
Of that paper serve to relieve the dull.
ness incident upon the facts that our
politics are ended and our crops arc not
yet up.
The cattle on the Attakapas prairies
prove occasionally dangerous antagon..
lists for amateur hunters. A boy named
Britain was attacked by one OF these
animals near Iberia tho other day,
thrown. pinned TO the ground. and only
made his escape by u good shot. Inc
Sugar B0,cl warns wayfarers to be care
ful OF these animals.
All tho prisoners confined In the West
Baton Rouge parish jail have been got
ten rid of, thanks to the prompt action
of Judge Movey, district Judge Of that
district. A large number OF the prison
ers were convicted and sent over to the
Penitentiary; those that were not CON
victed were released at once. This
promptness or the Judge is highly COM
plimented by the Sugar Planter.
Mississippi.
The fire department of Jackson will
parade May /.
The Copinhan wants Col. Ben King,
OF Copiab, for Governor.
The Summit Sentinel wants the State
convention called for June 20.
The Plymouth saluted Gov. Stone, Of
Mississippi, ut Vicksburg with Is guns.
The bridge over tho Amite on the
road from Liberty to Osyka has been
rebuilt.
Kinds county promises majority OF
5000 for the Democratic ticket Mt the
coming election.
The Greenwood Oriental wants the
convention called for August 1, the
Ripley Advertiser for July II.
A negro was drowned last week in at
tempting to cross Big Sand Greek, near
Rocky Springs, on the Utica and Port
Gibson Road.
Pike county will begin the organiza-
ton Of her clubs on April 2S. Then 1t
Ia proposed that each ward and beat OF
the county shall organize club.
The Intelhgencer states that the public
spirited citizens OF McComb City by
liberal subscriptions have sufficient
lie schools In that town for full term.
In q healthy rivalry. It ia miniature st.
Louis Chicago fight. Brookhaven has
the best churches, but Summit the best
preachers; Brookhaven the most
saloons. while Summit drinks the most
whisky, etc.
The Summit Sentinel tells OF q Oh inch
salmon caught In the Tangipahoa river,
near that place, by Mr.. y. u. Roberts.
These salmon were placed In the river
two years ago under an act OF Congress.
This establishes the fact that these sal
mon are doing we'll.
The Aberdeen Examiner announces
that the Superintendent Of Education,
In Monroe county. has detected "a num-
Der of frauds on the part of teachers In
making their reports" and that the
teachers 'have been endea-
voring to increase their pay by forging
The signatures of trustees, adding the
names Of non existing pupils to the
,rs have been arrested, and II justice
should be melted out to them, will find
better suited to their depraved
minds. inside the walls Of the peniten-
larry.
The Greenwood Oriental Ia uneasy
est Vicksburg will undertake to bring
he Yazoo river through Chickasaw
bayou, and thus injure navigation in the
! azoo by dividing the. supply OF water:
says the Oriental. tat
,empt to cut this canal, we advise the
people living on the Yazoo, Tallahatchie
ind Sunilower, to resort to legal means,
IN injunction, to restrain them from the
.sk the City Council to consider we'll
whether they have the legal right to
,hange the current of n navigable river |
they have right to levy a tax
IN the city property to raise funds for
his purpose
Texas.
Marshall talks Of building narrow
gauge railroad.
The Galveston Fire Department was
organized in 1871. 1t now consists OF
light companies.
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