The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-10
SOUTHERN NEWS.


Thibodeaux.
Telegraph poles are at last in sight OF
VermiIionvile.
Lake Charles is greatly improved and
growing rapidly.
Al heavy freeze In Ouaehita parish,
last Thursday. has seriously injured the
peach crop, It is thought.
The Franklin Sun wants the police
Jury to pass some game laws. LIZ not
that rather State legislation?
A dog tax 10 talked OF In several OF
the country parishes to help along their
somewhat attenuated parish treasures.
Police Officer John Mooney, of Mon
roe, was shot in that town last Thurs
day by man named Bunch, from
Richland.
A harper, a violinist and an organ
grinder are travelling through the
country parishes discoursing sweet.
music to the chickens.
A widow named Davis. living on the
old Ellis place, near Winnsborough.
Franklin parish, while parching some
ceffee, had her clothes to catch fire and
was burned 80 severely that death was
the consequence.
The cotton crop of Louisiana Is short
between thirty-tive and forty per cent;
and sixty.six per cent Of the product
has already been marketed. The rapid
fly with which the crop has been for
warded 10 unprecedented.
On last Monday night the gin house
OF Mr.. ID. @. Scott, near Big Creek,
franklin parish, was burned, together
with fifty bales OF cotton that were un-
der the gin. The fire Is supposed to
have been the work of an incendiary.
The gin was insured, but the cotton will
prove total loss TO the owner.
Sometime on last Thursday or Friday
o little boat running up Bayou Macon
put out lot Of freight, leaving q guard
with 1t until 1t could be taken away. A
party of men came there and took what
freight they wanted and burned the
rest. as soon as possible q posse or
men started after the marauders, and at
last accounts had hung five OF them.
Incendiary fires have occurred 30
often In franklin parish that the
franklin Sun demands that vigilance
committees should be organized and
every means be taken to find out and
bring to justice the wretches who are
perpetrating the dastardly acts. So
long as they are permitted to go I'M
punished, no one is safe, and the SUBJ
ject is therefore one that should by all
not protect US, then the people should
protect themselves and their property.
The request of the editor of the Alta
kapas Register will be generally second
ed by the conductors OF journals
throughout the country. He says
"When anybody dies, gets married,
runs away, steals anything, builds a
big house, or whips his manor his
wife breaks his leg, or gets the stuffing
kicked out of him by a mule, or does
anything that is in any way remarka-
ND bal Iy aft1t,
about the occurrence as anybody else,
we hope you will write or tell 1t to us.
We want to make this paper good
focal journal, and it takes considerable
git.up.and-git to succeed"
mississippi.
Smallpox In Pike county.
The Meridian oil mill is proving a
great success.
ANorthern company Is about to estab-
fish large cotton factory at Corinth.
Steps are being taken in Jackson to |
reorganize the State Fair Association.
An old negro man was killed In Nc
Comb City last week by being thrown
from mule intoa well seventy-6ve feet
deep.
Woodville, Wilkinson county, refuses
to let out work on the streets by con-
tract, as has been the custom for years
past, and will require six days Of labor
on the streets, or 50 In money from
every citizen Of the town liable to. road
duty.
Smallpox is prevailing to consider
able extent In Wilkinson county, at the
Walkers, Retlervilles and Warrington
places. A we'll organized opposition to
the disease has been gotten up and, 1t Is
thought, any further spread of 1t will
be prevented.
The State fairs are to be increased.
Houston Is preparing for city park.
Corsicana wants public school build
ing.
Austin has shipped about 10000 bales
OF cotton this season.
Horse thieves and pick pockets are
having things there own way In Dallas.
Waco is now building market, and
proposes to establish line Of street
cars.
The party Of railroad magnates which
Is now In the State, was at Waco on the
first.
Nacogdoches having been incorpora-
ted, Carthage, Pamela county, proposes
to do the same.
The prairies In the Southern portions
OF the State are again green with the
spring grasses.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe rail-
read project IL experiencing revival OF
public interest.
Thirty-two families from one county
In Alabama have recently located In
and around Savoy, in Fannin county.
Fort Worth has four cigar stores run
by women. The Democrat thinks they
are trying to monopolize the retail
trade.
The Water Supply Company at Dallas
furnish pure, fresh water at one dollar {
per 1000 gallons, and are even talking Of t
these rates.