The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-09
SOUTHERN NEWS.

shreveport is shipping fresh peaches to
st. Louis.
Another .colored lawyer practises at the
Thibodatlx bur
There hos been another escape OF the In
MATES OF the Calnpte jail
A scheme Is on foot for starting q wagon
and pillow mandatory In Morgan City.
A French inilkman In Caddo parish was re-
GENTLY drowned while bathing in Red river.
A keg of powder went off on Its own hook
In Shreveport recently, killing and wounding
nobody.
Theeolored people In Thibodaux have jnaa,-
gufated watermelon picitigs, What q melart-
cfiUlic tandencyl
NWillihm Butler, colored was run over OF,
the branch railroad near Hetma and his head
was severed from his body.
Cotton stalks full Of voting bolls are now
1nferSperSeH among the exchanges of North
Louisiana newspaper Offices.
The.cahbage heads Of Bayou Goula weigh
invent v-nine pounds and It has not been u
good season for cabbage either
A little boy formerly resident In the parish
OF CaleaHieu, while at play with several COM
panions. last Sunday, suddenly dropped dead
Tho closing exercises of the Mansfield
Female College were marked by many dis
plays Of talent and culture on the part of the
graduates.
Mr.. Giley Hadnot, charged with killing his
brother -in-law, has been lodged in the parish
jail of Rapides, as the jail In Grant was con
sidrred insecure
A fund Of several hundred dollars he's been
raised In Calcasifsu parish to relieve the sui
fcrings OF the wives and children Of the log
men, whose logs have been seized.
Rain Is much needed on the coast below
New Orleans. The cane crops are not suffer
ing from drotfh, but they would grow much
faster II a few refreshing showers should fall
In Franklin parish the deer are complained
oil for doing much damage to the cotton. Is
not this complaint founded in the inagina-
item Of some who want to do much damage to
the deer, and detest the game law that pre-
vents them from gratifying their inclination
before August1p
The Shreveport Times hints at the sdvan-
lakes Of louisiana These fish have already
been imported from Germany and placed in
the Fresh waters of Maryland. In thia CON
nection we would inquire az to how the young
salmon are thriving In the Tangipahoa.
Texas.
TaiSntuias are unusually abundant i'm
Young county.
Abe Rothschild, the alleged murderer of
Bessie Moore, is in bad health In the Jesfer-
son jail A trip to the Hot Springs might be
beneficial.
The mosquitoes .'ana rampant In Houston
Texas which the editors there facetio,asly
call them for ramming their bills through
II IL stated by TEXAS papers that the Weld
OF wheat this year In Northern Texas will be
from 20 to 40 bushels, or about double last
years average yield.
The Houston Morning Age says the law of
Texas gives the owner right to redeem prop
erty sold for taxes, within two years, by
tefunding the purchaser double their amount.
Our reporter was told in Fort Worth yes
terday that young man named Doc Holli-
day. well known in this city, was shot and
killed at Breckenridge last Wednesday by
young man named Kahn. Our informant
stated that Holiday had caned Kahn and |
both were arrested and fined. Holiday met |
kann and attacked him again, when Kahn
shot Kahn was cleared at The examination. |
4 Dallas Herald.
The Houston telegram says that .'an elder |
dy white woman, weighing 200 pounds and |
claiming to be from New Orleans, asked a |
Telegram reporter for two bits charity. the |
first instance known of female bepuar on |
the streets of Houston" The poor Woman |
may have been allured out Of o. more nros-
pesous land by glowing immigration pam
phiets, and wanted the money to aid In get
ting back home.