The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-27
LOUISIANA.


suspended.
Tramps are growing worse and worse In
Morgan City.
The Evergreen planters In Avoyelles made
hogshead and half Of sugar TO the acre.
Some sugar is being shipped from the Teche
country TO Texas. Is the Gulf city TO become
our rival In the sugar trader
Thu. New Iberia sugar Bo,cl thinks that the
loss Of cane by the late freeze has been exag-
gerated. Ii estimates the damage ut not
over 10 per cent.
Work on tho levees in Pointe Coupee parish
isactise. The parish will have 10 raise money
30 pay for Q good part of this, as the State
quota IL exhausted
Willis Alexander. O negro, was. killed Ia
MugEinsville by Mr.. Charles Madisq VINO
detected him In the act of robbing his sta
ble.-l shreveport Times
On the Ewel and West plantations, In
Avoyelles, not single pound OF sugar could
be made this year. and tho whole crop OF cane
was converted into molasses.
The old TaluIah- Delta quarrel has broken
out anew. A petition Is now being widely
circulated In Madison parish, praying t0r Lhe
removal OF the parish scat from Delta TO Ial-
lulah.
The Arizona cotton factory, situated In
Claiborne parish, Is to be sold on the first
Saturday In january ut sheriff $ sale. Inc
factory Is in perfect order, ana COST originally
100000.
A difficulty occurred among some colored
laborers on q. O. TaYlor's plantation, some
three miles north Of this town. in which cane
knives were freely used Two OF the COM
batants were badly cut IThibodaux Sen
tinel.
We were mistaken In saying that the Ter
rebonne Progress and st. james L0aisianais
we're the only two papers In the country OPP
posed to the Sunday law ordinance The AS
sumption Pioneer and vt. Bernard Eagle are
also opposed to this Puritan measure.
On Wednesday last, during tho performance
OF Coles circus In Bayou Sara, q difficulty
occurred between colored man named Wes-
Icy Glover and two white boys named Frank
Vresinsky and l.. Reeche, In which Glover
was shot In the head and instantly killed.
yresinsky, who did the killing. Is only four
teen years old.
Patrick j. Watson, q colored member OF the
House of Representatives from Madison par
ish, has been tried and acquitted on an indiet-
ment for cOunterfeiting and procuring the
forging and eounterfeiting OF parish scrip
drawn against the witness fund. There are
four other charges OF d similar nature pend
ngagainst Watson.
The st. Tammany Farmer says that quite
number OF young men from that parish were
persuaded to go from Now Orleans to work
as day 4laborers on plantations on the river.
and that when they got here they we're dis
missed on the pretense that enough laborers
had already been secured, and that their ser
vices were, therefore, not needed.
Mary Blsland and Margaret Garland col
ored, lived In the same cabin on Hon. +. s.
Goods plantation on Bayou du Large, Terre-
bonnie. Their children had o quarrel. The
mothers took 1t up, and In the fight that en-
sued Mary Bisland was terribly cut by the
other woman with o large bowie knife, and
died ten days after from The wounds then in
ilicted.
:. We have been told that Messrs. Kissack
Bros, being unable to start their mill In time
lost their, entire cane crop and discharged
their hands, and that Col. Brown lost about
forty acres Of cane and DIR. A. Duperier a con
siderable amount We have no doubt this
was. all standing cane and If 1t had been
wtndTuwed, even after the freeze, could have
been saved Iberia Sugar Bowl.
Mr.. r. Peray, engineer and deputy United
States surveyor, proposes to shorten steam
boat navigation from Abbevile to Morgan
City by sixty miles, by opening a new route |
from Lake Peigneur to tho mouth OF Bayou |
Petite Anse In Vermilon Bay. via Coulee and
eleven miles and there would be drained |
%, 900 acres of some of the richest land in the
State. The cost is estimated at $4,000.
There was negro ball at an old unoccupied |
house, near the Lewis plantation, last Satur- |
n.ay night 70 report says, and the next morn
Bd Just one less, one OF the number answering
TO roll call In the next world. row ensued |
and O negro was put out of the house, and he,
In seeking revenge, shot the first man that |
darkened the door, taking him between the
sye5 In the forehead but he got the wrong
man killed his friend instead of his enemy
IND iS at large yet, we are informed. Rich
and Beacon.
On last Monday morning. shortly after
an explosion occurred at The sugar
house on the plantation of Mrs. Lufroi Tros-
lair There were two cylinder boilers, and
is the engineer turned on steam to start the
Mill one OF them burst, splitting In two, one
,ortion Of which cut down the chimney,
many OF the pieces being thrown several
hundred feet. The other boiler was thrown
ome fifty feet, but did not explode. The en-
Iineer was slightly hurt, while the fireman
vas killed instantly, and one or more hands
eriously injured The unfortunate sufferers
we're Oil coored employees. = lThibodaux
sentinel.
Henry Williams, colored, killed one james
henderson, also colored, at Haynesville, in
Jlaiborne parish, on Monday the 10th inst
The parties went into the woods to play
ards. Williams won from Henderson 81 and
Ills knife. Henderson refused to give it up
nd began cutting at Williams with his pocket
,nffe, infiicting two wounds upon his arm,
vhereupon Williams reached back to get his
tick, the deceased still cutting at him.
Williams knocked him down, and as he
tarted to rise struck him again and still
bird time He then went up to the town;
old that he had killed Henderson, and that
g would be found lying In the woods. No
ne believed him, although he showed the
rounds upon his arm and cuts in his cloth
ng. The next evening, however. the body
vas discovered and Williams arrested and
rought before Judge Scott.
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