The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-02
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Il Ascension Parish has twenty prisoners in her
Jail, ten Of whom are charged with murder.
Little cotton has been picked in st. Landry
for ten days. on account of the heavy rains.
Bridges have suffered severely In st. Tam
many from late heavy rains and high water.
The colored people in Avoyelles are eniven-
ing the cotton picking season with tournaments.
dances. etc.
Another negro child burned. This time in
Marksyille: last Tuesday: parents out in the
field picking cotton.
Laborers are in demand in st. Charles. and
high wages. are being paid; 81 a day and IS
cents d night watch
Milton Gray of Franklin, shot and killed his
stepfather, Owen Tucker, in Franklin parish
last week. Family affairs.
Tho Choupique Drainage Company. Of st.
Mary has completed q contract for the drain
age Of land adjacent to that bayou.
The Iheryile South thinks that notwithstand-
Ing bad reports. the loss to the sugar crop in
that parish will be only ten per cent.
Mr.. Adolphe ,JpmonvilIo. who died in As
six children. all born Of the same mother.
Inter-rarish base ball matches are now in
order. West and East Baton Rouge so contest
ed last week, the former coming off victorious.
"A great many plantations in st. Mary and
Terrebnnne that began grinding last week have
stopped on account of the greenness OF the
cane.
The Mediation plantation, East Baton Rouge,
has been purchased by a company OF Eastern
capitalists and will soon be put III running
order
Grinding in St James is DELAYED by the rainy
weather. A planter who made short run last
week. reports yield of 81 hogsleads from 80
acres OF cane.
strike occurred on the Conway plantation
Ascension parish, last week. All the stri kers
were Immediately DISCHARGED and other labor
ers easily procured in their place.
Most of the planters in West and East Baton
Rouge have begun grinding. The cane is yield
ing very little sugar; INDEED, ca majority OF
places, 1t will not granulate at I'LL.
A great deal of cane was planted this year in
Union Claiborne, Ainc"ln otc. No sugar is
made. the farmers confirming themselves to the
manufacture of mnlasses and syrup.
The differences between the North Louisiana
Railroad Company md the new organizati, n
the Mississippi and Red River railway,, are. the
Claiborne Guardian says, nearly settled.
Homer held large immigration meeting last
X weak when a parish emigration association
was formed and a committee appointed TO So
iicit subscriptions for the Red River and Mis-
sissippi railroad.
The heavy rain of Wednesday night Thurs
fiay and Thursday night not only severely re-
tnrded cotton picking throughout East Feilcl-
ana parish. but tend.d also TO peat ont, cover
nm and wash away a large amount OF the open
staple.
The town of Plaquemine finds itself without
Il dollar in the treasury, and the levy OF taxes
for the year 50 small that the officers and PEG,
would not be wise to throw up the charter o.
the town at ence
colored settlement on lie Piquant Prairie
iberia parish will make 200 hhds sugar this
yenr, Mr.. A. B. Bayard does the grinding 1oi
Them. they paying him two flfths of the croE
for hauling, grinding and manufacturing
They expect to make 400 hhds next year.
The vidalia Eagle says the last term OF i ths
Lac tfan heretofore. The expenses would have
been materially less but for the unusual n na m
per rs y and the drawing Of additional jurors
W. la+elv referred to the mismanagement in
.,,,e banlline of mails between this place and
Nav q leans. An instance: On ne l9n INST INST
Wa NV n n1aa NOT delivered in New Iberia until tn
anh Mts week later The mail agent on the
81 la1a laws the blame on the Teche mail clerk
The complaint from the farmer 2. seHe
cus;sn, nh are louder in denunciation than