The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-11
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

In future.
The Terrebonne Progress wants Bayou
Terrebonne dredged.
The corn crop of Claiborne Is the
largest for ten years.
Assumption parish opens twenty pub
lie schools this month.
There Ia considerable sickness In the
way of fever in Ascension.
Claiborne will make 10000 gallons Of
sorghum syrup this year.
The Terrebonne parish public schools
were opened September 3D..
The are several cases of eerebro spinal
meningitis In East Feliciana.
Two convicts were shipped to Baton
Rouge from st. Charles last week.
The City Council Of Morgan City has
appropriated 800 to improve Lawrence
Park.
The assessment Of Ascension parish
will, this year, considerably exceed that
OF 1876.
st. John the Baptiste shows 2273
children Of school age; 1896 white, 1888
colored.
The first prisoner and godfather Of the
new Terrebotne parish jail was one
Joseph Sulco, an Indian.
. There are fifty-five public schools in
Claiborne parish, with an average daily
attendance Of thirty scholars.
Henry Duke, aged eleven, fell from q
cart in Donaldsonville last week, and
was run over and seriously hurt.
Amos Robinson, who escaped from the
Terrebonne parish jail last month, was
reea ptured last week and locked up.
The Sugar Planter wants press con-
vention at Baton Rouge, October ID.
The TTiune-D Democrat indorses this pro-
posal.
The Sugar Botcl declares that the
stories about the cotton worm in that
parish Iberia) have been greatly exag-
gerated.
The late rains in st. Mary stopped the
Charlton prevailing there. This, how
ever, has broken out again, though not
as bad as 1t WAS.
Dan Mason, colored. was Asoension's
contribution to the penitentiary last
week. Dan is an old evil doer, and
ish jail OF Ascension on half o dozen
charges.
Mr.. II. w. Howell, while digging
we'll on his place, struck @ soap-stone
rock formation at thirty feet, imbedded
in which several feet below in the more
solid portion Of the rock he found as
perfect an impress of beach leaf as
could be made.-[ Mansfield Reporter.
Worms have appeared in Claiborne
parish, It is thought that the crop
Is too near maturity to be much in
iured. The rust, however, 10 growing
worse. Much cotton has died in the
field. A continued drought In the
Southern part of the parish IL having q
L.. 4 A Fell fsiI1 at hx,t 0I
The low waters In Bayou Lafourche
this and last year, seems to give good
evidence of the effect of the jetties at
the mouth Of the Mississippi. The
washing away OF the embankments Of
sand at that point, admitting greater
and lower egress OF water, Ia seen In
the greater fall at Donaldsonville by
which the water almost or quite, ceases
to enter into the Lafourche at all. Let
the obstruction be removed from below
Raceland so as to give the water free
egress with a capacity of outlet suffi-
Client to let 1t off as rapidly as 1t enters
at Donaldsonville and we. will have. Of
the lower bayou, a species OF jetties
that will cause 1t to wash out deeper
channel for itself. Thibodaux Sentinel.
Mississippi.
The Port Gibson Reueille reports the
cotton worm in Claiborne county.
A shark seven feet and two inches
long was caught at Mississippi City the
other day.
The Crystal Springs camp meeting
was grand success. There were over
one hundred conversions.
The Canton Citizen tells of a coon that
was captured near Madisonville last
week, which weighed after being dressed
forty-five pounds.
George Singleton met his death at the
hands Of the Thornton brothers, IA
Walthall, on Friday evening, oath ult.
Ledger.
Our cotton seed oil mill promises to
be in full operation by the Goth of Octo-
Der. A force Of mechanics under j. Il.
Mitchell, the energetic architect. Is now
at work pushing things ahead at live
ly rate.-[Coahomian.
We learn this morning from Mr.. Kin
Lott, that the caterpillar had appeared
| in his farm and were playing wild havoc
| with the cotton. OF course they will
ipjure the middle crop and destroy the
top crop entirely il they prevail In large
numbers. Jasper Herald.
Last Tuesday night an unknown col
ored individual went to the premises OF
Mr.. Stakeker and taking chicken from
its perch. proceeded to the kitchen,
cooked it, and was about to make a
square meal Of it when interrupted by
the entrance Of the proprietor. The
unlimited guest made q hasty retreat,
leaving the savory fowl which he had
fain intended should refresh the inner
man. Canton Citizen.
| Texas.
The Sherman Patriot says that on
last Friday evening about p. m. Mrs.
Layder, wife Of Jasper G. Layden, near
the Union depot, was fatally shot by a
gun which a servant girl in the family
was removing from the bed where it
had been put. She only lived about
two hours.
Columbus Fitzgerald. a member, of
the Waco fire company, died Sunday of
the wounds from shot received Satur-