The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-12
SOUTHERN NEWS.
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ratna beasts OF . eoek pit.

Gretna beasts OF cock pit.
Rice planting Is going on briskly In
Jefferson.
The prospect OF the orange crop In
I.afourohe this year ID flne.
Gov. Nichols .appolntee for tax col
leetor Of the parish OF St. Charles IL
colored man. ........... 49,
A taxpayers meeting Yves held at New
Iberia. Saturday. March II, TO denounee
| Packard and uphold NICHOLS.
The Tbibodaux Bridge Company ID
puttinp down new piles TO protect the
| bridge from the assaults Of steamboats,.
Iberia parish had q norther last
Thursday and q frost Monday. but not
sufficient to do any great harm to the
| crops.
A proclamation threatening the burn
| inp Of Napoleonville IL tho "bulldo-
seTs " Of Assumption were not quiet,
was plaearded last week on the streets
| of that tcwn.
bertrand Couret aud John Marie
Msnthisu, two Frenebmen living in
Terrebonne parish. were drowned In
irving to cross Bayou Grand GALLON,
near Fausse Pointe, st. Martins, Tues
day, March =.
The New Iberia Sugar Bo,pl complains
that O great number OF old wells exist
in that town exceedingly dangerous to-
children and strangers unaceustomed
TO their location, and Of advantage only
to local reporters.
The Louisiana and Texas Novelty
Minstrels are not broken up, as we re-
ported them. but are still travelling
around the country after audiences.
| Tho troupe Ia composed OF number OF
Young men Of Thibodaux, who have
| dropped their true names for the while,
and will not make them known until
| they have attained celebrity.
Mississippi.
There are over 1a5 scholars in the col
cred public schools Of Woodville.
A county fair for Copiah county will
be held next fall under tho auspices or
tho Patrons of Husbandry.
man named Jones, indicted in Tip.
nah county for stealing cattle, fed TO
| The western part Of the State, but was
captured In De5oto county last week.
The Macon Beacon ,ors Hon. Ben
iamin Humphries for Governor. and
sl,ys "Removed by Federal troops, he
should DO reinstated by the peoples
ballots" .....,... -...
Mohammed Abben Lord, native. born
African, who has travelled around the
world half D dozen times and speaks
nine languages. ID featuring through
Mississippi.
There Ia q young lady near Cayuga,
weighs one hundred and ninety.
| Ave pounds, and 10 only ten years OF
age. In addition to this she has six
| fingers on each hand and ak toes on
each foot.
The courthouse Is to be removed
from Clinton to Cuero.
st. Louis and Austin are both receiy-
ing their vegetables from Houston.
New Orleans freight for San Antonio
still come to Cuero over Morgan's road.
It Ia limited that another State fair
will take place In Houston early In May.
One quarter Of q mile Of track is be-
ing laid per day on the Tyler Tap Rail
road.
The firemen Of Galveston purpose
having their annual parade on April
2ist, San Jacinto Day.
| Over one hundred ROAD overseers have
been appointed by the commissioners
court OF arayson county.
It is said that the loss OF stock IN
Texas from the snow and cold will
amount to millions OF dollars.
The Indications from Nueces county
are that the spring cattle will about
equal that OF an average seeson.
The frontier is free frem Indian dep
relations. The frontier battalion is
mainly employed In arresting criminals
The Hearne and Port Sullivan Bridge
Company has been organized, and the
Brazos will be bridged ut Port Sullivan.
The Herald calls for the ereotio on oil
danger signals" at such places in the
streets OF Dallas as are unsafe for horse
> men and vehicles.
) Isaac Withers was shot through the
head at Jacks boro last Sunday, and In.
stantly killed. A piece OF careless
| handling of pistol long loaded.
B A little colored boy, eight or ten years
old, son Of Aaron Bennett, OF Corpus
Christi, accidentally shot himself with
derringer on Monday morning last
and was instantly killed. He was at
tempting to cock the weapon, holding
the muzzle against his breast and push
ing the hammer from him. An inquest
was held and verdict OF accidental