The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-01

pAfish Court Iii Tefsas had % be adjourned On
Hccgunt of the bad roads. Neither litfBHnts Nor
WITNESSES could be present.
nauides will hsId q mass meeting, February .,
of those citizens In favor OF the Nichols govern"
ment.
Milton Grange, colored, Was shot and killed IN
| Iafayette last week. His murderer is unknown.
The new Mayor and Councilmen Of Alexandria
| took possession OF their offices last Monday,
| uuder commissions from Gov. Nichols. all the
old officers Constable, Collector, Wharhnger,
etc.--were Reelected.
1 Hog stealing and cattle killing are quite pre-
| yaient moral diseases In TenHas now,, owing 70
The aearcity Oh rations and the disinclinatlon oil
| merchants and planters to open their pork par
/ rels.
Mr., 4. A. Flanagan has been elected Parish
Attorney, N. M. .Hebert ] vi physician, and Lean
Leely keeper OF the Courthouse OF Piaquem'hes
parish.
lac country Radical papers are just nov full OF
/ ionc articles headed packard recognized as
/ Governor of louisiana etc. That thing has
grown stale down he.e, but II still amuses INT lii
in the country.
The Baton Rouge ADVOCATE insists that now
that we have decent state governments that
town shall have national bank pillow factory,
cotton and wool factory and tannery. they WILL
all como In time.
81 The levees are said to have caved lii ut the
plantations OF Azsnor Lafrsnoe, and the suooss-
| sion OF the iAb3 W DEHHUUs hHb hise NV hS w.
lette place, whereby large area Of rice lands Of
pointe ala Haohs are likely to be overlooked
and rendered unproductive for this season, I'M
less these levees are Immediately rebuilt by the
Louisiana Levee Company.
Immense quantities If d. ad fish were lately
seen In the bays in the rear Of Pointe-a-la. Haohe.
The mortality seemed to be almost exclusively
confined TO the reddish. Many attribute this
| strange phenomenon TO the letting off the water
aYound Che sugar mill at Bel Air plantation; some
TO lightning and others to the late severe freeze,
wholly tbrfeeeaesa ed in this section OF the
country.
II one Austin Allen. good.looking yellow
dsrkey was killed at Uotiie tbs other day by his
halEbrother, Edward Reed. young black darkey
OF about nineteen; 1t was done without the slight
eat provocation ON the part at the deceased. IL
| appears that Austin bad leaned Ed his der
niger, and preparatory to going across The
river, he demanded to have it back; Ed. refused,
and they had tussle, Ia which Id was thrown
. by Allen. They both then got up on the gallery,
Austin standing against one OF the posts, and I'D.
near the door. Ed. asked him If he wished any
. thing and Austin replied that he wished nothing
! but his deringer. Ed. thea drew his derringer,
and, approaching Austin, asked him IT he wished
anything tthis he repeated twice., and, the latter
being too drunk to reply, the for mer co lily put
the pistol to ustns head and blsw his brains out
ed. is still at large waiting to be arrested. Aus
tin was buried yesterday
Mississippi.
Pneumonia, pleurisy, rheumatism, etc., are
prevalent in Columbus.
, Fort Hill near yicksbury, is 80 Doggy that i,
1 | 10 inpassible.
Port Gibson complains that II Ia oyerrun by
. hogs. They have abolished the sidewalks.
9 The State tax Of Mississippi will BIO Ave mills
The county tar is not to be one per cent.
The people OF Woodve will go to Natches
! Mardi Gras, although they have Rex OF theil
] own.
Pamela county docs rot know where to locate
| its county seat.
patridges are dying in the northern part O.
| the State from want Of food. poor look out fol
Q Mississippi.
d The Nacogdoches Ne,es il out again.
II is proposed to establish paper mill In
J. Texas.
= Texas peach trees are in fu;l bloom in al
4 papers outside the State.
Cattle are worth three dollars head In Re
Q fug o county.
0 Revenue statistics show that nearly 1000 bar
y rels Of lager beer were manufactured in Texa
1ast year.
King, the owner of seattle upon Thousand
hills" of West Texas, uses condensed milk in hi
coffee and punches.
The stock range on The coast 10 described al
4 fsi ing rapidly. The grass ls said 10 be 'scarct
but scattering. and little more scattering thar
II scarce"
4 Svanish- English paper ia the latest sensatio,
y | In Corpus Christi. The Gazette Gays: sit 10 in
I intended for those who can read one language
3 and not the other, and for the admiration o
4 those who can not read either"
1t takes few & barbecues and spe cial cleo
q ton in Denison to purohas fire engine. Th,
! town might burn up two or three times before al
/ that could be got through with.
/ A new town has been laid off in Texas, to b,
\ called Ferguson. II IL beautifully located. 1T
lots will be sold in few days.
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D / The case of the Teutonia National Bank vs. J
/ NJ. Wagner ct als.-the others being the suretie
/ Of Wagner-came up yesterday before the Fif.l