The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-24
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

LOUISIANA.
Another heavy frost in Ouachita an,
yet the fruit crop is uninjured.
A new Jewish synagogue was dedi
L Gated in Baton Rouge last week.
l. Measles prevail to the extent of al
+ epidemic in Washington, parish Of st
- Landry.
A business quarrel between Laurent
:. Bazus and Ambrose Grousset, in New
: Iberia, resulted in both being shot.
Another store-h house in Franklin par
ish, that Of Mr.. Ed. Parker, was burnt
some days past by an incendiary, with
d all the stores therein.
There will be mass meeting Of the
j citizens of DeSoto parish in Mansfield
on Saturday, March "a, to devise means
, looking to the support Of the Nichols
) government.
; good one-devoting twenty-five lines OF
! notice to lost chicken, it looks as If
business was bad, news scarce, and adj
vertisements hard to get
Coushatta Is very anxious to have its
municipal officers commissioned. They
were elected last November and have
not yet received commissions, although
there is no contest affecting their offices.
Sheriff Booth Of Baton Rouge, arrived
in that city from New Orleans last Mon
day, with Triplett and Turnbull, two of
the Mount Pleasant Union Rights Stop
murderers of James Ellis, colored, In
charge.
W. Ell. Daily, young man from In
diana, who has been residing the year
past In Donaldsonville, jumped that
1 town the other day after borrowing as
much money. as he could. He took
along with him cart and mule, new
| suit OF clothes, etc.. all bought on tick.
Several negroes who officiated as
door-keepers at Fort Packard here are
Shreveport. AS small-po has pre-
vailed in the building, the city authori-
ties Of Shreveport will quarantine these
prodigal sons before permitting them
to enter the city and scatter the disease
there, as it has been scattered through
out the State, by Packard's followers.
In the town council of Donaldsonville
a resolution was introduced the other
day to the effect that the taxes paid by
the citizens of the town be paid to the |
Nichols tax collector. It was tabled, |
however, on the ground that the town |
council paid no portion of this tax |
and exercised no Jurisdiction what
ever over its levy or collection.
In the Democratic primary election
held in Baton Rouge Monday, March
10, for the nomination Of candidates for
the municipal offices. some 500 votes
were cast. There were five candidates
for Administrator of Finance, three for
Administrator Of Police and four for
Ed. Cheatham received
the nomination for Administered Of
Finance, Robert Wiseman for Admins
traitor of Police, and J. J. Wax and M.
Williams for Councilmen.
Mississippi.
Pneumonia prevails in Lagrange.
Vicksburg works its prisoners on it's {
streets now.
The Jackson fremen have their pa {
'ade May l. {
Walthall, the county seat of Sumner '
county, advertises for newspaper to I
10 the official printing. g
Cattle stealing has broken out In Tip y
,ah county, and Is furnishing q large 7
supply Of convicts to the Penitentiary. :
All the Mississippi towns, Vicksburg, |,
aatchez, Columbus, ETC., are discussing | Fl
cotton factories and are determined to t,
lave them. Iii
The records show that the State and b
ounty taxes for the fiscal year 1876 have b
'een more closely collected in this II
ounty than for any one year during the ii
asst four or five. is
The crop outlook in Lowndes is Y
avorable. Corn planting in the prairie q
cit is about finished, and the sandy 81
Ind farmers are planting. The oat Q,
rop is promising, there being good u
lands generally. u
A tramp, on visit to Summit, got :,
etween two freight cars on train No. 7, " ~
sst Saturday, in hopes of stealing a n,
de. He fell from the car, his leg y,
atching in the brake, and was soon ~
ragged to death. N
In Collierville, some burglars DESTROYS al
breaking into storehouse, found it cl
ecessary to first break into a black ia
NTH shop in order to obtain the neces- Ell
lrglary. They succeeded admirably W
both affairs. ne
The Jackson Railroad Company has NJ
zen swindled out of several hundred th
'llars by a set Of thieving scoundrels ye
no have been forging conductors Ell
smes to wood tickets and trading them tV
merchants as genuine. A man by the &c
lme Of Roam has been arrested and al
dyed in the county Jail at Coffeeville ia
arged as being one Of the guilty par tn
-. Several others living in and around So
dIeT Halley,~WnO were SAID TO be I'M Is
icated in this dirty transaction, have of
It for parts unknown. ha
Texas. W
ar
immigration going to Colorado county. be
A bridge across the Brazos at Hearne tn
now an exciting project with Hear OF
ties. to
Weatherford and Fort Worth are
over the terminus of the
xas and Pacific Railroad.
Sherman sent an agent to tender Major hi
,phens $4,000, provided he would