The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

Roads are bad in Red River parish.
There are some few caterpillars in
Rapides.
Fishing seems to be the principal
amusement OF folks In the country Just
| now.
Two small rains in the Red River
country last week benefited crops
greatly.
The Police Jury Of Red River parish
have created two new wards, making
seven in all in that parish.
Eight Penitentiary birds, all colored,
District Court In Grant parish.
D. Ell. Boullt, Jr., sheriff, took down
on the Bart Able last week six likely
hands for Major James, being Natchi-
toches' quota to the Penitentiary.
Natchitoches parish has had It's share
OF horrors during the past week. no
less than three persons were fatally
burned from coal oil explosions, and one
gentleman, Mr.. Jules Lambre, was
drowned In Cane river while endeavor-
Ing to save child from like fate.
At the last term Of the Criminal Dis
trict Court, held in Shreveport, Judge
Aleck Boarman, presiding, Vena. Mar
tin, girl between twelve and thirteen
years Of age, found guilty OF murder
Ing child on Col. Vance's plantation
and recommended to the mercy OF the
court, was sentenced to the Penitentiary
for life.
| A soldier Is on trial In Baton Rouge
for shooting private Mccarthy Of Co.
X. In that town. MCCARTHY, when
dying, said that q yellow man shot him.
The negroes, however, swore that
Delatt, q yellow soldier, did the shoot
ing and had him arrested therefor. Will
frey, the colored man suspected Of kill
| ing Mccarthy, was the one that made
the charge. Immediately after making
| 1t he left the town and mysteriously dis
appeared.
On Thursday, the 9Th, while Jackey
Jones was travelling homeward through
Bayou Pierre swamp, he was attacked
and beaten to death by Antoine Lewis,
Felix Lewis and Henry Fisher. After
having, killed, they mutilated and threw
found on Friday last. After brutally
MASKING his head In with clubs they
broke their victims neck, cut off every
particle Of face. broke the right wrist
and one leg, and pounded one side OF
the body until it was almost jelly.
The Dave Young faction OF politicians
In Concordta, having nothing. OF Inn
portance to exercise their immense
mental faculties on, are trying to stir
up q breeze OF bad feeling In opposition
to the teachers appointed by Gen. j.
Floyd King, acting for the school board
OF the parish. In appointing the
teachers to the different schools, Gen.
King has been guided by the recon-
liners, appointed to test in public the
mental and moral qualifications Of the
ladies and gentlemen who came before
them for certificates.
Mississippi.
Simpson county has voted to hold a
convention.
The farmers of Oxford are going into
sheep raising,
The Grand Lodge of T. o. 0. T. is now
In session at Vicksburg.
Meridian is now in Geographic COM
munication with this city.
The delegates from Lowndes county
are divided between Lowry. Stone and
Humphreys, the former leading.
Tallahatchie river, Mississippi, Is
again In It's banks. The farmers are
busy planting their overflowed lands.
A jury In Hancock county has decided
that goats were a nuisance, and that it
was not q violation OF the law to kill
them. t
Capt. T. 8. Hudson, of Lamar, who
came very near getting the nomination
for Governor about fifteen years ago, is
mentioned again for the Office.
Judge Hamm has declined the law
professorship Of the State University,
and the Oxford Falcon learns that steps
will be taken to secure Judge Watson,
Of Holly Springs.
Mrs. Payton, residing five miles east
OF Scooba, went out to feed dog, two
weeks ago, which appeared to be sick,
and it bit her on the fingers, from the
effects OF which she Is very i'll and Is not
posed to be mad.
DR.. Marshall, VINO has just returned
from the East, that the rails on the
railroad east OF Meridian, during the,
day he passed over the road, became So
hot, and not having room for the proper
expansion, actually raised about three
feet above the level of the road, delay
ing the train until the rail could be cut
off with cold chisel, when it was found
fully six inches too long.
A negro was captured in Calhoun
county and brought to this place on
Thursday, the 9th inst, by some young
men from Pamela county, charged with
killing another negro in Pamela county
about ten days ago. The negro confess
ed the crime; said he killed him with a
shoe knife, and that he expected that
he had stabbed him In over hundred
different places; that he dragged the
body to creek and threw it in.
A long standing Baptist Church (col-
ored) quarrel at Washington was on
Saturday decided in the court. That
night the defeated party set fire to the
church, and the others held divine SER
vice next day among the ruins. Thurs
day the incendiaries went to the site of
the burned building and took by force
all that had been spared by the flames.
The quarrel is wholly a personal one,
so that no question Of negro theology
can be said to have been settled either
by the arson or the theft.
A well-to-do negro man, living near
the franklin and Adams county line,