The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1877-09-02
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

1t rained the whole Of August 27th or
the coast.
Bears are being met with and killed
in st. James.
The wires are being put UP between
Vermilionville and st. Martinville.
st. Charles parish seems to have raised
o superbuity OF corn. and planters are
Offering 1t for sale. =
Little Devil sandbar, Bayou Courta.
bleau. Is impossible to any but the
smallest boats.
st. James has organized literary So
ciety and given 1t capital to start on
by means Of ball and fair.
The Washington Enterprise thinks
the stories Of caterpillars In that parish
tSt. Landry exaggerated.
A negro beat another one day last
week on Mr.. Henry l.. Payne's planta-
tion In st. Landry so badly, with gun,
that his victim will die from 1t.
The st. Charles parish school board
has determined to have ten schools in
that parish, to be opened September /,
dren.
at Lake Providence, La, boasts that 1t
has added twenty new subscribers to
its list within the past two weeks-all
colored men.
Mr.. L. d. Martin, OF st. John the
Baptist, has discharged his gang Of
Chinese laborers, about thirty In num-
ber. The sons OF the Celestial Empire
make but poor show In the cane fields
Of Louisiana.
AT Tigerville. in Terrebonne parish,
the other day, q large rattlesnake was
killed. When cut open, six small snakes,
all alive, were found within its stomach,
which had evidently crawled there in
fright. Snakes are hatched from eggs
More sugar mills are wanted in. the
Attakapas, the Cotton Boil declares.
The small farmers desire to go into
sugar next year and propose to unite
and jointly build mills at the most con-
venient places.
We could not have more favorable
weather for the crops than during the
past month. With rain enough to
make the cane grow rapidly, yet not
too much for the proper development
OF the cotton crop, all planters are we'll
pleased. ed.--Vermilionville Cotton Boil.
Mississippi.
and instantly killed his brother, w. FL.
Bowman. at the latter's house, last
week. Both parties were colored. They
had frequently quarreled. Hezekiah
charges that the shooting was done in
self-defense.
Last night, about 10 o'clock, RATS
man named Kidd was on Washington
street In search of a police officer whom
he wished to take with him to the house
of negro woman in Shirtle Row, where
he said he had been assaulted, shot, cut
and stabbed by two men. Kidd was cov-
Grad all over with blood, and presented
a horrible spectacle, but refused the
services ofa doctor.-Vicksburg Herald.
Cotton worms are reported to be very
numerous In Concordia and Tensas par
ishes. We hear that on the Fish Pond
place, in Concordia, a tract of about
one hundred acres OF large cotton Is
swarming with the worms. Reports
also come from Morville and other
places. Some reports of worms also
come from the hills in Adams county,
IFranklin Banner.
On last Saturday night flendish as
sault was made on the up-passenger
sailants firing a shot into passenger
coach and pelting the train with brick
bats and stones. zone or two passengers
were Istruck with these missils, but no
damage done. No effort should be
spared to ferret out the guilty parties to
this cowardly and infamous conduct,
and when caught should receive the
severest punishment know to the law
for such deviltry.-[Meridian Mercury.
On Thursday morning, in the neigh
borhood OF DR.. Shackleford's residence,
a distressing and dangerous accident
befell a little two year old child. The
mothGr had missed 1t and searched for
1t, heS eyes were turned towards the
tumbled in head foremost. 1t seems
that there was no man In the neighbor-
hood to hear the outcry that the mother
and other women made, and hasten to
the rescue and the child's life. AS IL by a
miracle almost, the we'll bucket was
let down by the women, and the little
two year old grasped it so firmly,
through the instinct Of preservation,
that they hauled 1t quite up to the top
Of the we'll, and then awkwardly bump
ed its head against the curb, broke its
hold and the poor thing fell back into
down and the child quickly clutched it,
this time getting it's arm accidentally so
fastened in the chain to the bucket as to |
hold it fast until drawn up to the top
and successfully rescued. The child |
threw up much water, but at last ac-
counts was doing well.-[ Meridian Mer- |
curry.
Texas.
The Dallas papers insist on forming a |
regiment Of North Texas military COM
panies.
About fifty families Of immigrants
will settle in Williamson county in Sep
tember.
The best crop reports come from Cass
The drouth Is now pretty gen.
eral all over the State; but 1t has come
too late to injure the corn and grain
crops.
The Courier says: ga bale Of cotton
to three acres will be about the average,
drouth has done more damage than the
but both together nave done the
work effectually."
A difficulty occurred in Collin county,