The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-09
SOUTHERN NEWS.


The cane in st. Charles Is looking
splendid.
Il Caterpillars have appeared In ST.
Landry.
The Carroll Conservative has received
q bowl" Of cotton.
| Jefferson hopes TO be the champion
rice parish of the State.
4 Robbing stores seems favorite
amusement with the little negroes in
Mansfield.
The sweet potato crop in Ibervile, In
consequence of the long drouth, will be
a failure.
The North Louisiana Baptist Asso-
citation has been In session at Lake
Providence for several days.
Five hundred large white perch are
the result OF one days fishing by three
gentlemen In Gross Lake. DeSoto
parish.
| Some half q dozen sugar mills are
going up In Vermlion parish, and as
many moro are in contemplation for
next year.
The police jury Of Tensas ut their last
meeting appropriated $4,000 toward
assisting the engineers In making sur
vey Of the levees Of their parish.
Archbishop Perche Is travelling in st.
Landry. He has already made tour
Of almost all the western parishes OF
| the State.
The steamer Robt. i. Lee presented
| the Masonic lodge at ut. Joseph with o
very elegant chandelier on her up trip
Thursday.
Terrible thunder storms have pre-
vailed in Plaquemines for the past
week, and the rain has fallen to such
an extent a5 to make the roads impassa-
BILE.
A colored man was bulldozed In West
Feliciana last week by some other me-
gres. A female was the cause of the
whipping, and not cattle stealing.
A rattlesnake, six feet long and with
eighteen rattles, bit dog on Bloch's
plantation, in st. Landry, killing 1t
almost instantaneously.
The prisoners In the Bossier parish
jail have grown SO unruly that they have
to be kept Ia irons all the time. There
are twelve prisoners In the jail. six Of
whom are charged with capital offenses
The Iberville South pronounces as
utterly false the statement of the Don
aldsonville Chief that q man was
whipped to death in that parish for out
raging young girl.
Adam Crachel, of Berwick. had his
nose shot off, and was otherwise dan
gerously wounded by the accidental dis
charge OF a rusty pistol, supposed not to
be loaded, in the hands Of Geo. Watkins.
Livaudais Hebert, aged Is, was caught
by the circular saw In the sawmill of
Ferdinand Delaune. Assumption parish,
and YVES frightfully mangled, having
both legs cut off and his head and back
terribly cut. He survived the accident
two hours.
Alcide Mouton, the young colored
man who was lynched In st. Landry,
for the murder Of his wife, guilty of in
fidelity, showed, it is said, the most
poignant sorrow and regret for his deed
after. he had done It. 1t is
said that the mob who hung him, all
negroes, were for the most part drunk,
and openly detied the law and the off,
GERS. Fifteen OF them are now In jail,
and likely to suffer for their lawlessness.
The decision of the Supreme Court of
the State In the Lafourche election case,
1t was decided that Poll II,
which was moved about from point to
point, and no notice given of its loca-
ton to voters. was illegal, and should
not be counted, not only elects the DEM
ocratic sheriff, but gives a majority to
Messrs. Billieu and Harang, Democratic |
Of the Legislature, over the
two Republican members.
Texas.
The Brazos river is soon to be bridged |
at Granbury, Hood county.
The corn crop is an utter failure in |
Coleman county.
A German was killed In Bastrop few
days ago by sunstroke.
Web worms are making their appear
ance in the cotton in some portions of
the State.
Mr.. Gregory's boy, at Henrietta, re-
Gently nake-bitten, has had his leg am
putated.
Washington county voted on the local
option law on the LIST. 1t was voted
down by an overwhelming majority.
Four prisoners cut hole in the Hous-
ton Jail last Saturday morning about 2
o'clock, and made their escape.
The grand jury Of Washington coun-
", after a session of four weeks, con-
Guided their labors on the 31st ultimo,
having found ninety-one bills of indict-
nent.
The colored population of Denison
Ind vicinity had grand celebration on
he 1st Of August, in commemoration
" the emancipation of the colored peo-
Die of the West indies.
A man was hung at Halesboro, Lamar
county, Monday night, for horse steal
ng. His name was Shelton, alias Per-
y. He had stolen a horse at church,
,ut was overtaken at Sulphur Springs {
md brought back, but the guards were
and the man hung.
The Conanche Chief gives the follow
ng figures from the Patron Of Hus-
landry: Texas will make this year
De obtained $40, OOO. 900 pounds Of seed: :