The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-15
SOUTHERN NEWS.


Bayou Sara Fire Company No. / has
reorganized.
st. Tammany has been redistricted
i into nine wards.
| A great many deer are being killed in
Franklin parish.
Avoyelles will raise the largest corn
crop since the war.
The boil worm has made it's appear
ance In Red River parish.
A grand tournament took place at
Ambrosia, East Baton Rouge parish,
last week.
Mr.. L. w. Towery, president of the
police jury of Catahoula, died at Jena,
In that parish, last month.
The Donaldsonville Council has re-
pealed the city license of $25 on drum
mers and travelling agents.
The river is going down SO rapidly in
West Baton Rouge, that they fear heavy
cavings in the banks there.
The wash i'm Tones Bayou has put
an end to the shipment of cattle from
Shreveport. The river Is too low.
More than 10000 logs of timber, most
ly pine, passed out of Little into Black
river last week en- route to the lumber
markets.
The cotton crop in Caddo is SO large
that even IL the worms come there will
be more cotton in the field than can be
picked out.
| The Sparta Times has reliable infor-
nation that an election will be called
at the proper time for q representative
| to fill the vacancy in the Legislature
from that point.
Troy merchants in Catahoula parish
speak of building large cotton gin to
gin cotton at that point. Also an oil
factory to manufacture oil out Of cotton
seed.
The Baton Rouge Grand Era, Burch's
paper, has deserted it's former field, and
will now appear every Saturday In this
city. 1t hopes to supply the place of
the late Republican.
Henry Green, a colored boy, aged II
years, was shot on the s. G. Surfing
place, in West Feliciana. by Wilson
Burch, also colored, aged Is years. and
with an old pistol and playfully leveled
1t at Green, when cartridge exploded
and Green was killed.
1t Is reported that Alcide Mouton, the
young negro lynched in st. Landry for |
disreputable character, having been |
caught In various thefts and whipped |
In consequence. He had been run out |
of Avoyelles for an offense Of this kind. |
The woman whom he killed on account |
OF intidelity was not his wife, but |
another man s, and was forty years old,
while he was twenty.
Planters on the bayous inform us that |
the caterpillars have webbed up. Such
being the case we need apprehend no
danger previous to the first Of Septem-
Der, If that early. The cotton crop this
year is very forward, and IL we can
reach September very heavy crop will
be made Marksville Bulletin.
We witnessed lively squabble last
Thursday on the steamer Hanna be-
negroes he hired in New Orleans to go
to Ouachita. He paid their passage to
Monroe, and at this place they conclud-
ed to jump him. Three of the five sue
ceeded in getting ashore, but he held |
the other two by main strength and |
awkwardness until the boat showed off |
from shore. The struggle created con-
siderable merriment.- Baton Rouge |
Advocate.
Last Sunday a negro girl, about IA
years OF age, employed as nurse In Mr..
Samuel Blocks family. In Oatahoula,
poisoned Mrs. Block by putting croton
oil In her tea. Soon after drinking the
tea Mrs. Block began to feel the effect |
of the poison, and suspicion at once
rested on this girl. She, on being ques-
toned, acknowledged that she was the
guilty party. She said that one Arch
Jones told her to kill Mrs. Block, and |
she would then be allowed to 60 home.
The girl Is now in Jail awaiting her ex-
aiming trial.
Now that the cotton worm is attract |
ing the attention Of all planters, a few |
suggestions may not be amiss. From a |
large number of directions furnished |
us, we have selected. by the advice Of an
old planter, the following, To one bar
rel Of water add one pound Paris green.
ten pounds ground elm bark and one
pound pulverized rosin, thoroughly |
mixing before placing in the water
this solution applied to the cotton plant
just before or just after the young
caterpillars make their appearance,
and while there is no dew on the plant,
is believed to be effectual beyond all
doubt; such at least seems to have been
the experience Of one Of our scientific
farmers.
Redskins are reported on the Guada-
lupe.
Wheat and oats will be sown geuer-
ally by farmers this fall.
Mr.. Jesse Forehand raised on his
farm, near Florence, cucumber that
measured five feet five inches in length.
Numerous "new bales" of cotton are
being received at various Texas railroad
towns this week. Picking is becoming
general.
Dave Hart, the leader Of the Austin
mob Of colored strikers, was fined $50
by the mayor Wednesday. This
squelches the strike in Austin.
The State horticultural and Pomo-
logical Association. at Houston, is max
ing every preparation for grand dis
play Of Texas fruits at the exhibition on
the 9th and 10th.
The Independent Greenbackers" Of
Grayson county are to have a mass
meeting at Sherman Santamher l. to