The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-27
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

Louisiana,
Bastrop has an amateur paper, the
Sponge.
The Daily Bulletin Ia a new paper pub
liahad at Alexandria from the Democrat
Office.
The Grand Jury OF Avoyelles parish
reports the parish jail insecure and in
bad condition.
A hail storm passed over Anacoca
prairie, Vernon parish, last week, doing
considerable injury to corn, vegetables,
etc.
The weather In Natehitoches is chang
able and unsettled. The cotton Is back
ward and In many places puny and
sickly.
The convicts laboring on the New Or
leans and Pacific Railroad are now busy
building a bridge over Bayou Natchez,
Natitoches parish.
Vernon parish Is doing badly In corn.
LIN some places, corn has been replanted
three times with poor prospects OF OBJ
tanning stand even now.
A Joint resolution providing for o sur
vey, by the State Engineer, on Bayou
Buuf, commencing at Washington, in
st. Landry, and extending up to the
mouth of Bayou Robert, In the parish
of Rapides, to determine the locality
and number Of locks necessary in order
to make the bayou navigable in low
water, passed our Legislature. The work
will begin soon.
The North Louisiana (5t. Josepb)
Journal says: In conversation with
some OF our Oldest and most reliable
planters, they all agree that the pros
pect for good crops is the best we have
L. = a. Al III, In
There are a few points threatened with
back water in the swamps, but the re-
ported decline In Red river, with the
consequent fall Of the Tensas and other
streams, will relieve the swamps before
any material damage can be done. The
river Ia also falling on our front.
vicksburg Herald: Mr.. Dickson, SEQ
rotary OF the Cotton Exchange, received
Yesterday q specimen OF wheat grown
on the echo" plantation OF Messrs.
Mattingly 81 Flowerree, Madison par
ish, La, which equals any we have seen
In the best wheat growing sections OF
Tennessee and Kentucky. The stalks
are large and strong, and the. heads
evenly and beautifully filled with large
plump grains. Ii any one doubts the
adaptation OF our soil and climate to
this valuable cereal, let him call at our
Office and examine for himself.
Mississippi.
The Magnolia Herald dominates Gen.
| il. McNair for Auditor.
Ike Braxton, colored, killed George
Byrd, Dolored, on Mrs. Smiths planta-
ton, near Brookhaven, May %. The
quarrel arose over q pair OF shoes.
Wheat, oats and rye fields In North
Mississipni look Furnishing. Many
clover lots are now yielding rich har-
vest of most nutritious food for work
and cattle, thereby saving hay, corn
and fodder. Hogs are also being fat
tened on this rich pork-prcducing crop.
On the 2Oth inst. Capt. r. J. Jeffreys,
a prominent and highly esteemed citi.-
zen Of DeSoto county, Miss, shot and
instantly killed himself on the porch OF
his residence In Horn Lake. Capt. j af-
freys was sixty years old, and whether
his death was accidental or Intentional
cannot be determined from the circum-
stances.
Mr.. VIM. g. Andrews, living In Pa
nola, one mile from the Tallahatchie
river, left home on horseback Tuesday,
and up to Friday morning had not been
horse had been hitched near the river.
and breaking loose, had come home.
Mr.. Andrews tracks were traced to the
bank Of the river and lost. The river has
been dragged, without any discovery. It
is evidently a case OF murder or suicide.
One day last week Edward jackson
and Alfred Lenoir, two colored men, liv-
ing on Mr.. Ben Martin 3 plantation, in
Copiah county, near MartiDsville, be-
came involved In difficulty about some
old grudge that had existed between
them for some time. 1t appears that
jackson approached Lenoir with a shot
settle that matter between them, and
Lenoir answered in the affirmative.
Thereupon Jackson shot Lenoir in the
head, killing him instantly. jackson
made his escape and Is still at large.
Calves in Van Zandt county are dy-
ing OF murrain.
The corn crop on the Rio Grande is
going to be very large.
Life in Waco for ten days makes one
subject to the street tax.
The law makes it a misdemeanor to
buy stock with a brand not recorded.
Texas has an area Of $4,000 square
miles, not counting disputed territory.
Corpus Christi is controlling large
wool trade. It Is thought four to Eve
millions Of pounds will be handled.
The City Council Of Galveston has
| levied an additional tax Of thirty cents
on the hundred dollars, at which the
people Of the city are highly indignant.
The survey Of a proposed line Of rail-
road from Denison to Gainesville has
been completed. A report Of the cost of
| construction will be made in few days.
The prospects are that the road will
shortly be built.
The Corpus Christi Gazette boots at
extended to San Antonio, and making
connection with a line from Austin. It
says that business Is overdone in both
these cities, and that Corpus looks to
| the trade of Mexico.