The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-14
SOU THERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

monroe mas organized IRE company.
Mad dogs alarm the people of Bos-
sier.
The smallpox in Lafayette is now
altogether ended.
Calcasieu is rapidly becoming rice
producing country.
Full reports show that there is q
larger area of corn in Louisiana than
any year since the war.
A large amount of potatoes has re-
Gently been shipped from Bayou Sara
to st. Louis and Chicago.
The colored people were in q large
majority at the hanging. of Rousseau in
St Landry parish the other day.
Gen. W. J.. McMillen will put the
Elton school house, built by him, in
working order next week for the benefit
of the colored children of the neighbor-
hood.
At the election for mayor and alder
men of Lake Providence the other day,
Il. p. Deloney was elected mayor: G. r.
Egellv, Il. l.. Larehe, Y. M. Purdy, Nd.
nj. Pitcher and John Hamilton alder
men.
A shooting ARRAY at Dominiques
landing, Ascension parish, last Sunday,
resulted in the serious wounding Of a
colored man named Carey, lately Of
New Orleans. by Ed. Coleman, also col
ored, OF Ascension.
Houma, Terrebonne parish, by reason
of the similarity in names, receives
much mail matter that is consigned to
Homer. The inconvenience at times Is
80 great that one is driven to wish for a
change in names.
The citizens of East Carroll have petit
toned Judge Steele to have the shoot
ing of the burglar Williams, by mob
gated by the Grand Jury. This Judge
Steele has promised to do.
A disturbance took place at ball
given by colored people on Melbourne
plantation, Carroll parish, and Richard
Harris was shot through the body SO
that he died instantly. Prince johnson,
who did the shooting, is at large; Abe
Nicholson and Becky Johnson, charged
as accessories, are in jail.
Henry MCGOWAN, who has served a
term Of six months in the parish Jail of
Ascension for cutting and dangerously
wounding Moses Harrison, has made at
| fidavit before Justice Bush, of the Sec
| ond Ward Of Ascension, charging
Thomas Hampton with assisting Har-
rison to cut off atlantis ear. The case
will come up at District Court.
Mike Finn, a levee laborer at Bayou
Goula, was about going on the Cover
nor Allen. at that place, when he was
shot by Mike Nolan, a painter, and in
stantly killed. 1t seems that they had
fight previously, in which Nolan had a
bitten piece out Of Films shoulder
and Finn had bitten off the tip Of No.
lan's nose. An inquest was at once
held but the coroner a cOlOred man
named Verrett, then in an abject state
Of drunkenness, instead Of having No.
Ian arrested, rode away with the remark
that he would settle the matter in the
morning. OF course, Nolan fled in the
night and has not since been discov.
cred.
Mississippi.
Crystal Springs is shipping large
amount Of peaches North already.
Wolves are getting to be very common
10 the amicraugh neighborhood on the
Homochitto.
The Covington county Convention,
held June 2. elected delegates in favor
of Lowry for Governor and Gwin fol
Auditor.
The registrars for the various coun.
ties of Mississippi were appointed by
the. State Board Of Registration at
Jackson, June /.
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