The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-27
LOUISIANA.

The Iberia Sugar Bo,et still complains OF
Irregularities in the Teche mail.
Shreveport owes $94 ,960 OF OF State and S4O,-
059 81 Of parish taxes, a total of $135,Ot9 80.
Quite number of planters In Terrebonne
have been making two hogsheads Of sugar to
the acre.
New Iberia wants to elect It's own mayor In
future, and not have that officer appointed, as
is done at present.
The new Natehitoches parish police jury
report every debt incurred this year paid in
cash and $1,000 In the treasury.
st. Landry parish has twenty-four white
and eleven eolored schools, with q total at
tendance Of 1868 pupils.
On the Presuu'ile plantation in Terrebonne,
sixty hogsheads OF sugar and 100 barrels OF
molasses was made from thirty acres Of cane
The Terrebonne Progress and the st. James
LO,tisinnais are loudly denounCing the Sun
day laws lately passed In so many parishes.
The other country papers are Sabbatarians.
Mount Lebanon was visited by yiolenl
hail storm last Tuesday evening. The hal
stones were as large as peas, and continued
to fall until the earth was covered with them.
Two parishes, Claiborne and East Felicana,
held agricultural fairs last week Both proved
eminently successful, in the attendance and
the articles and cattle on exhibition.
The following are the collections OF taxes
by the tax collector of Pointe Coupee: State
taxes and licenses, s17,s72 95; parish taxes
and licenses, s1e,426 80; total, State and par
ish, S37, ,29S IS.
The sugar cane is i'm excellent condition In
Rapides, and the average will be as high as
one and q half hogsheads to the acre. One
planter made forty-five hogsheads Of good
sugar from nineteen acres Of cane.
The cotton gin on the Hard Times planta-
| ton, Ten5as parish, was burned last week.
Wash ChesIy, colored, who was in the lint
room at the time, was fatally burned. Forty
five bales Of cotton, mostly. belonging to col
ored men, were burned in the building.
| The weather which we have this week is
delightful, and we are rejoicing. The yield of
the cane is better than was first anticipated !;
one and q half to two hogsheads Of sugar is
being made to the acre. Pointe Coupee
| Pelican.
ST. John publishes the smallest tax delin-
| quent list OF any parish. There are only IS
names on the list. Some OF the delinquents,
| however, owe large amount of taxes |;
$1,000 80 being due from one alone.
Rev. John g. Graham and his daughter, of
| Summit, Miss, started from their home to
Baton Rouge last week, via Clinton and Jack
Pooles creek, ten miles north Of Clinton the
buggy was overturned and the young lady
drowned.
Some of the captains Of coast packets hav-
ing petitioned the Postmaster General to re-
move the lately appointed postmaster at
l
planters and professional men at once joined
In a counter petition. The Pelican says no
specific charge was made, and the editor
speaks OF Dayries as an excellent officer.
The Pointe Coupee police jury fixes the
parish tax for 1878 at one per cent for the
parish expenses three mills on the dollar to
pay the yearly installment of the parish
debt, and two mills for the school fund. The
jury have also adopted the Sunday closing
| law.
| After the frosts we had two weeks Of most
excellent weather. The frost thoroughly
checked vegetation in the canes, and the sun
and wind were rapidly drying out the surplus
water in them, causing daily increase in the
sugar yield, when unfortunately we had more
rain last Monday and Tuesday. The greatest
damage done by the rains Is to the roads,
which interferes with cane hauling, but, as II
remains cold, there Is little fear OF the cane
losing any by renewal OF vegetation. We
have fair prospect for mild fall and win
| ter, and certainly hope 80, for the benefit OF
sugar planters. The sugar yield, so far as we
have learned, has pretty generally been salts.
factory during the past two weeks, and aver.
ages one ,hogshead from the poorest cane
and one and half to two hogsheads Of sugar
| from the best. The yield of molasses Is
necessarily quite large, owing to the imma-
| ture condition Of the canes.-[Iberia Sugar
Bowl.