The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-13

| orders for the arrest OF the absent ju-
rors were issued to Deputy Sheriff Fred.
| Veazey, and while some few then came
/ forward and gave bonds to appear and
| answer for contempt of court, q major
ity failed TO answer at all. Thus Fonte-
lieu was compelled to adjourn bis court
over to Tuesday, and on Tuesday ne
had to adjourn again. Din
The Tiadioatoy OF Natchftoches reads
a wholesome lecture to the COUNCIL OF
| that town, which has just deprecated
| its own paper 80 per cent. There Is but
one way to conduct the finances OF q
town, and that ID cash, and o Law. for
| bidding any corporation to create debts
| without providing means to punetually
| liuuidate them, would be wholesome
and OF great benefit to the taxpayers OF
small towns.
An effort 10 to be made to introduce
the carp in Texas.
Fifty-two prisoners, and one OF them
woman, occupy the Grayson county
jail. I
Corsieana Is especially blest In the
existence OF prosperous library asso-
citation.
It is proposed to place q statue of
Gen. Samuel Houston in Court House
Square, Houston.
Since last September not less. than
100, 900 immigrants have crossed Red
River into Texas. ~ e.t. .E
Haywood Brothers brass band fright
ened team the other day In Dennison.
The damage was $50. which the Hey
woods paid. a
There is less depression of business In
Texas than In any OF the Western or
Northwestern States, and the crop pres
poets for this year are very good.
The school census of the city OF Gal
weston, just completed, shows the whole
number OF children OF scholastic age to
be Gaia, OF whom 1896 cannot read.
Judge Patterson, OF the Wise county
district, holds that q drummer cannot
be fined for selling by sample or other
wise without q license. State laws can
not restrict Interstate license.
The magnificent iron Sunset road
bridge over the Guadalupe river will be
finished, and trains will pass over, by
the 9Th instant. The bridge over the
Cibolo will be finished about the same
time.
The North Teran says that II the off,
GERS OF other counties expect their pris-
oners taken care of In the Paris jail
they must bring along the wherewithal
to discharge the reckoning. That hotel
doesn't keep o slate.
State students are not allowed in the
Agricultural College under the new
regulations. The Institution has eighty |
students now, and they are drilled In
regular order, with o uniform OF gray
with the exception OF q blue cap.
The Statesman says that during last |
week seven bsr-rooms were hauled into |
Austin from upper counties where pro-
hibition has gone into effect. A man |
who went through from Dallas to Aus
tin. says Waco ID the only place on the
route where whisky can be obtained.
Dallas has just received thirty addi-
tional car loads of iron for the Dallas
and Wichita Railroad. The grade Is |
now completed to Denton. Ten miles
Of track are laid, and they have iron on |
hand to lay fifteen miles more. This
enterprise speaks volumes for Dallas.
On Thursday of last week Nels. Har-
din and Tom Saddler, two negro wood
choppers, quarreled at the woodward
two miles east Of Dodd City. Nels. ac-
cused Tom of stealing wood which he
had corded up. The id lie was passed,
and the two men clinched. Jim John
son, another freedman, interfered, and |
Nels. knocked him down with stick. |
Tom having been released In the mean
time, seized an axe and struck Nels. a
fatal blow, cutting him almost half In
two, from the left side down and across
the abdomen. The wounded man died
Saturday night, and his slayer has left |
FOR parts UNKNOWN. 4