The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-09
SOUTHERN NEWS.


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Measles Is prevailing in Lafayette.
A slight frost in West Baton Rouge
last week harmed nothing.
Pointe Coupee supplied Baton Rouge
with two prisoners last week.
Shreveport had little snow Sunday.
No harm to any person or anything.
False river is rising rapidly on account
| OF the swamp water running into 1t from
Bayou Cirier.
The steam ferry Is now running on
Lake Charles, making regular trips be-
tween Lake Charles and Bagdad.
Bayou Sara was slightly flooded by a
rain Tuesday, and had to call In it's
draining machine to take off the super
nuous water.
Candidates were numerous at the
| West Carroll election last week. A cit
izen OF Richland, 80 the Beacon says,
was one Of them.
Baton Rouge will close all It's stores
on Thursday, May 10. Thanksgiving
Day. A great celebration Is announced
for that occasion.
Bayou Sara Is trying to close its stores
on Sunday. Its neighbor, st. Francis
vile, Is Disguised apparently with these
Puritanical blue laws.
Blackburn reviles the Legislature be-
cause it did not elect him to the United
States Senate. He thinks he deserved
1t for voting for Gusts as Senator In
1876.
st. Tammany Ia doing fine business
In tar, and hopes soon to rival North
Carolina. A vessel brought from Gov.
ington, last week, the largest cargo OF
tar ever sent from the parish.
The Plaquemines Observer claims
that three-fourths OF the parish indebt.
being Illegally contracted by 9. g. Pack
ards gang, pretending to act as police
jury.
The st. Charles Herald does not like
the new Parish School Board; at least
it objects to McCutcheon and Darens-
bourg, two OF its members, not that it
charges them with dishonesty, but with
incapacity.
The lumber business in Plaquemine
Is rapidly increasing. 1t hopes soon to
be the first lumber port In the South.
The saw mills in the neighborhood are
constantly increasing in number and
In their business.
The acting Mayor of Clinton calls on
the merchants OF that town to close
their places OF business and to the la
borers to cease their labor, Thursday,
May 10, in order to celebrate the Louisi-
ana Thanksgiving.
Many planters in the Attakapas have
not only advanced wages from $13 to
$l5 per. month. dncluding rations,
house, fuel, garden and stock privi-
leges,) but have contracted to pay wages
Ia full at the end Of each month.
A mass meeting Of the citizens of
H. nj
culated that the petition asking for the
division Of the parish Of Carroll con-
tanned forged signatures, and thanked
the Legislature for its action in dividing
the parish.
Alta meeting Of the Tensas parish
School Board, last Tuesday, the board
declared that, owing to the present
state Of confusion as to the contract
with teachers, the board did not feel
authorized to guarantee the payment OF
any OF the salaries Of the teachers en-
ployed by the late President OF the
board.
A meeting of citizens Of Concordia
parish was held the other day to raise
funds for the endangered portion of the
Marengo levee back of Granville. This
levee has been caving very rapidly
during the past few days, and the other
night the greater portion Of the levee at
one point caved In. For distance of
four hundred yards the levee has gone
In to the crown. At the most endan-
gered point there is but ten feet, and
that is momentarily caving off. There
are from fifteen inches to two feet of
bank along this front, but the ridge upon
which the levee is built Is very narrow.
only about thirty feet between the base
and deep slough which connects with
r al, Nannnr1to Ao ms Hoio
funds have been raised the people will
60 to work on 1t at once.
Mississippi.
Sunday excursions between Vicksburg
and Jackson are now regarded weekly
institutions.
John Roach, colored boy, living on
the Davenport place, near Port Gibson,
killed little negro girl on the same
place last week.
Wilkinson county will manufacture
its own ice in future, Messrs. Turnbul
and Brewer having erected an ice ma
chine in Woodville, on the vacant lot
next to Robinson's drug store.
The last term of the Warren county
court sent sixteen men, fifteen negroes
and one white man, to the penitentiary.
II each county does as we'll, the peniten-
tiary will get 1900 convicts per year.
A little girl was killed on the Ash
wood place, Wilkinson county, during
the severe thunder storm OF last week.
She was going home from school at the
time of the accident with other children.
It is said that General George favors
giving the colored people representa-
ton on the Democratic State ticket, and
that he thinks the nominee for Secre
tary of State should be a colored citizen.
The idea Is not altogether bad IL it be
desired that the Cancellation, harmony
policy shall be continued. Vicksburg
Herald.
On last Thursday break occurred in
the levee above Robertsonville in Goa
homa county, which the water is now
running through, and out into Hush
puckana Bayou, thence into Sunflower.
No cultivated land around the break is
likely to be overfowed unless there is a