The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-30
SOUTHERN NEWS.


Cotton worms have appeared in East
Baton Rouge parish.
Planters in Avoyelles are all picking
cotton and will get ahead Of the worms.
Concordia claims to be the champion
parish In crops this year, corn. cotton,
etc.
Worms have appeared on the Ash
| land, Bougeres and Home places, Con-
cordia parish.
| Cotton picking WILDE general in West
Feliciana September LIST. No worms
are yet reported.
Typhoid fever is reported In Alexan-
| dria, and the Gazette lays 1t to filthy
back yards and impure water.
Geo. Gibson, colored, escaped from
the Concordia parish last week. He
WAS under Indictment for forgery.
Terrebonne will increase It's sugar
product this year. The stubble, instead
Of being failure, Is most promising.
vallery IIafrance was accidentally
shot and killed on the Fairyiew planta-
| ton. Plauuemines parish, August 16,
whilst out hunting with friend.
The Injunction suit against the
| Port Hudson and Clinton Railroad has
| been determined against 1t, and the
road will not change It's terminus until
next year, when 1t will be removed to
| Baton Rouge.
The Tensas parish Journal the 18th
reports the cotton worms as numerous
and destructive in the Lake st. Joseph
neighborhood on ten or twelve planta-
tions. which they would "clean out" in
| two weeks.
| Crops are generally very fine. The
excitement about caterpillars has about
SISxHxrN
slight damage In the bottoms, but the
destruction has not been, and Ia not ex-
pected to be, widespread. Il Rapides
Gazette.
| It Is feared that only one-third Of an
orange crop will be made in Plaquemine
parish this year. The oranges on the
right bank, which 1t was thought had
wholly escaped the effect Of the cold
weather, prove to have been seriously
damaged.
| We are sorry to learn that what is
said to the second Matching of caterpil-
| lars, have made their appearance In
large numbers in different portions Of
the parish and have commenced eating
the cotton plants. The crop Is little
backward, but otherwise very promising.
and ravage the cotton, 1t is impossible
at this time to estimate. Some OF our
farmers are using poison, but among
many there Is O prejudice against 1t. A
continuance Of dry weather would be OF
great advantage now.-[Lafayette Ad-
vertiser.
We regret exceedingly to have to re-
port the appearance OF the genuine cot.
ton worm. This is now the principal
topic of conversation, and seriously
bothers the mind Of every one. A day
or two we had occasion to ride through
several large plantations In this and
Concordia parish, and made careful OBJ
servations and inquiry. Feeling sure
that this subject interests all the read
ers of the journal. I submit my. report.
In this end OF the parish, the
worms have not as yet done
any material damage, but in
Concordia, near the parish line, on the
Manona and Coosa plantations, we find
they are doing fearful work. Mr.. O.,
: on the Coosa plantation, says they ate
[ left he was using Paris Green. On the
, Manona plantation, our friend Mr.. b:
told us they were confined to a field oil
twenty. five acres and were doing pretty
lively work. Mr.. B. is dosing them
with Paris Green, and says II that don't
: exterminate them nothing will. we
have 1t from good authority that the
cotton on the Pittsfleld plantatiun, ir
Concordia parish, is entirely eaten up
: North Louisiana Journal.
Texas.
A disease Is killing the horses at For
ConchQ.
The cotton worm Is doing some dam
: age in San Saba county.
Clay county, Texas. has 138,600 heat
: OF cattle valued at 100000.
t The Lone Star Rifles, Of Galveston
have organized a rifle team.
f The boil worm has done considerabl
damage to the cotton OF Preston
K county.
s A narrow gauge railroad has bee
a chartered, running from Denison to Sa
n bine Pass by the way Of Lawrence.
q The continued drouth In Hopkins
o Hunt, Delta, Lamar and Red Rive
!, counties has seriously injured the crops
d The city marshal of Laredo was she
!. and instantly killed by a Mexican des
" perado on the goth. The murderer es
capped to Mexico. The Mexican author
l. tiles promise capture.
% Deputy United States Marshal Col
"a lew arrested O. d. Potts, postmaster 9
= the Grove, Coryell county, Friday las
1, on the charge Of abstracting from regis
N tered letters. He was lodged In the ia
~ OF McLennan county.
O. Crop reports from eighteen countie
= In the neighborhood Of Dallas show a
!, acreage Of 21S,5O0 in wheat, with a
10 average yield Of fifteen bushels, an
q 1884, 500 acres IN oats, with an averae
. yield OF thirty-flve bushels.
The Alamo was alive with patriotis
when 1t was noised abroad that Col: MI
r nod iycin ~,
Gov. Hubbard to raise a regiment
10 case Of war with Mexico. No privat'
I, out Of nearly 200 applicants.
- Sam r Chile q hardened convict fro