The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-08
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

| hog CnOlera prevails TO u llLnlGeu e4-
tent In East Feliciana.
A large number OF planters in East
Feliciana have already cut their oats.
Charlton is still making it's ravages
among horses and mules In Pointe Cou-
| pee parish.
A heavy rain In Baton Rouge on Mon
day did immense good to the crops, all
Of which are doing we'll.
The Baton Rouge dog law went into
effect last week, and now every dog in
that little city has to wear q tag or be
shot.
The corporation of Bayou Sara has
adopted an ordinance forbidding the
opening OF places of business during
Sundays.
A new postoffice has been established
at Grand Marais, half way between
Abbeville and Iberia. in the midst OF @
population deserving and able to appre-
oiate the advantages of the measure.
Mr. Ernest Montague, OF Vermilion,
has received over fifty letters in the
past few weeks from persons desiring to
emigrate to that parish. The Meri-
dt0ndt invites persons having property
to sell to send it a description for the use
Of these emigrants.
LuQLo WdS IL lOW GIOuR bu6
hands OF the different schooners in the
waters in Vermiion parish. Affidavits
and counter aftidavits were made by
the dozen, and there seemed pros
poets at one time of q general row, but
1t has since quoted down.
Some time since several merchants of
Shreveport offered to donate to actual
settlers from the North and West every
alternate forty acres Of land-something
over thousand acres-between Cross
and Soda Lakes. The offer has been
accepted by a number OF families, who
will move to these lands at once.
An alteration occurred on Thursday
last on the Overton plantation, some
four miles south of Clinton, East Fell
ciana, between q white man by the name
Of A. j. Donahoo and a negro. In the
attempt OF Mr.. Donahoo to shoot the
negro, Mr.; John T. Overton, who was
sitting on his gallery, was struck and
MORALLY wounded by the ball from
the pistol.
The Yazoo Herald. Democrat nomi-
mates Gen. VIM. r. Miles for Governor.
East Mississippi wants A. Y. Harper,
Of the Okolona States. for Attorney
General.
An association OF surviving Confed-
crate soldiers was organized in Vicks-
burg, last Tuesday week, under the
title of "The Old Guard"
The Vicksburg Herald chronicles the
marriage of an old negro, on the Buckner
place In that county (Warren), whose
age was SO, to a girl Of 30. The old
negro has 81 children and 26 grand
children, some OF the latter older than
his bride.
The question of incorporating San
Marcos is being brought before its peo-
pie.
Mr.. j. A. Vanderpool was drowned on
the oath inst. while bathing in the Leon
river in Hamilton county.
Aspirants for office in Callahan county
are getting numerous. The county will
be organized this month.
The Washington Guards, of Calves
ton, took the premium at the State Fair,
as the best drilled military company.
The new Central schedule goes into
effect to-day. Through trains from
Houston to Chicago in fifty seven hours.
The cotton buyers of Galveston have
instituted suit against the cotton
presses for the recovery Of unjust
charges.
A fox. drive in the Bushy creek neigh
borhood, near Palestine, last week, re-
suited, the first day, in the death Of one
old fox and five young ones. The next
morning very large full-grown one
was killed.
The prospect for mast in the section
Of the State about Austin is unusually
fine this year, and as the corn crop will
be large there is no reason why there
should not be an abundance of pork at
cheap prices.
The reduction Of the army has COM
menced in Texas. Two hundred and
twenty-six men have been discharged,
mostly from the cavalry. Are there no
troops kicking their heels in idleness in
barracks In the other Southern States
who could be sent to Texas and station
ed on the Rio Grande?
About one thousand Merino bucks, OF
as fine a quality as perhaps was ever
brought to Texas, were received at Den
ison, from Chicago, Sunday night.
Messrs. Baker and Avery, the gentle
men who own the focks, will ship them
from Denison to Austin, to dispose of
them at that place, or perhaps at San
Antonio.
It is reported pretty generally in the
upper counties in that region that John
Wesley Hardin is in Coleman county,
at the head Of fifty we'll armed muir
derers and desperadoes, and swears that
he will burn up the town Of Comanche.
His brother, Joe Hardin, was hung in
Comanche about two years ago, and it
is because Of this that he swears ven
geance.
The Russian soldiers.
Russian soldiers upon marches sing
to while away tedium, and the solos,
always in a minor key, and monoton-
Gus, are varied by very lively bursts in
the chorus. The solo singer often i'm
provises, and is usually accompanied by
a man with a fiddle, a triangle, a