The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-04
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Oadd0 parish Will nave twenty-five
public. schools this year.
Claiborne raised this year $4,000 gal.
Ions OF African cane syrup.
The Convent of the Sacred Heart, In
Houma. will open September 8.
Rust and worms will cut down the
Ouachita cotton crop one-half.
Fine rains through the Attakapas all
the week, and the crops greatly bene-
flied.
Donaldsonville will have another
camp meeting excursion to this city on
the 22d.
No worms have appeared in Ascension
parish, and O fine cotton crop is there
fore expected.
The stubble cane in Ascension, which
has been very unpromising,i Is improving
in condition and promise.
A colored man was accidentally killed
last week In telling q tree on McCoy's
place, in'Richland parish.
The dry weather in Richland has
caused cotton to shed great deal and
ruined the pea and potato crops.
Sydney Smith, the little son OF Mr..
Frank Smith Of Berwick, st. Mary, was
drowned at Hanson's shipyard last week.
The cotton worms have done their
work In Cameron, but the yield Of cot
ton in that parish will be good notwith-
standing
The Claiborne Guardian thinks the
stand of the Alexandria Democrat
against q constitutional convention not
unreasonable.
The seizure of logs by officers in Cal
casieu, st. Mary, etc., has materially
advanced the price of lumber in that
part of the State.
The TerrebonDe Republican declares
that the planters of that parish have
ceased altogether to buy on credit and
will purchase nothing until they have
the money to pay for 1t.
Crops In Claiborne will be good. There
ia some rust, but 1t will affect the cotton
but little. The potato crop is failure,
and others success. The worms only
appeared the last week in August.
The Franklin Sun thinks the cotton
crop Of that parish will be cut short one
fourth In that parish by the worms; the
Riehland Beacon estimates the damage
In that parish at one third the crop.
A private letter to us from reliable
and successful farmer residing near
Port Hudson, informs us the crops In
that neighborhood, having been injured
by the dry weather, are not 80 tlattering
as they were some time since. The cot
ton he reports as shedding badly, also
caterpillars in the young plants. Pa
triot Democrat.
There seems to be some confusion In
Terrebonne relative TO the justices of
the peace. These were elected by wards,
and their jurisdiction confined to the
wards by which they were elected.
Since then the police jury of the parish
has changed the wards, their limits,
etc, altogether. The question that
arises Ia whether these officers are con-
stitutional officers, whom 1t is impossi-
BILE to legislate out Of office, or not.
The matter Ia under discussion among
the lawyers Of the parish.
DR.. w. T. Jordan was in our Office on
last Tuesday, and gave us some impcr-
tant information concerning this little
pest Of the cotton planter. It 10 the gen.
eral impression, he says, that there are
twenty-five days between the crops" Of
the worm but he has ascertained by
actual experiment that there are only
nine DAVIS between them-that is, just
nine days after the old worm webs up
the new crop commences work. lie TOOK
few chrysalides, on the day they
webbed up, and kept them where he
could watch them, and he states that on
the fourth day thereafter they developed
into flies, and, being supplied with fresh
cotton stalks, they commenced deposit
ing their ova, and that on the fourth day
thereafter the larva Matched out and be-
came vigorous, greedy devourers OF the
cotton leaves within few hours Rich
land Beacon.
That over nine hundred square miles
of the most populous country in the
South is destitute of mail route and
postoffice, Ia hard to believe. Yet such
ID really the case. From Homer to Col
linsburg, on Red river, the distance is
forty five miles, and here is a strip OF
country twenty or thirty miles wide by
forty-tive long, without single mail
route or postoffice. The people send
from ten to twenty miles for their mail
They persistently refuse to subscribe
for papers, for the good reason that they
have no place to get them. Many state
to US that petitions have frequently been
sent to the department to remedy this
evil, but until lately without effect
claiborne Guardian.
From all quarters of this parish come
unfavorable repots Of the cotton crop.
The bright prospects OF few weeks
ago have become gloomy and the out
look is very discouraging. Owing. to
the long drouth and excessive hot
weather the plant is shedding its forms,
and in many places there Is a serious
complaint of rust, which Of itself would
cut the crop short. One Of our eastern
Texas correspondents thinks the crop
in the neighborhood of Elysian Fields
will not average a bale to seven acres,
while some Of his neighbors think 1t
will not average bale to ten acres.
The same discouraging reports come to
us from Bossier, DeSoto, and surround
| ing parishes. -[Shreveport Times.
Mississippi.
The weather in Monroe is just the
thing for cotton.
| Natchez, Miss, boasts Of the finest
market house In the State.
The Fayette and Natchez Railroad
| will reach Red Lick in time to carry of
| the bulk Of the cotton crop.
Oktibbeha county has seven candi-