The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-25

captions, was as good ana conservative
as they could have selected. Nearly
three weeks have elapsed since that
opinion was expressed, and we desire, il
possible, to emphasize it and declare
that the Democratic nominees are as
safe men as could have been selected by
the Democratic party.-[Jackson Pilot,
Rep.
Ira d. Robbins, alias Latineer, was
taken from the Simpson county jail, at
Westville, August 10th, by a crowd Of
some 600 men from Lawrence, Coving-
ton and Simpson, and hung. He was
young man, barely thirty, but had been
guilty OF innHmerable murders. On his
person were found letters showing him
in communication with outside persons
| and hoped to escape. He had been guilty
of serious crimes in Mississippi, Louisi-
ana, Arkansas and Texas, in the prisons
of all which he had spent a greater part
of his life. His escapes from these pris-
ons were numerous. He was captured
| by the sheriff of Union parish some
weeks ago and turned over to the Mis-
sissippi authorities. Most OF his VIC
tins were women.
Blackman, the negro who was COM
mitted on charge of rape some time
ago, and who was among the batch OF
prisoners who escaped from jail here
some weeks since, has turned UP again
and been turned down. The Clinton
mail rider reports that he was killed
near Clinton, last week, while attempt
| ind to commit the same offense.-[ Lib
erty Herald.
On Tuesday morning last, as freight
| train No. 5 was coming north, and
when coming down what is known as
Eskridge's grade, near Water Valley, a
| freight car by some means Jumped the
i IL "A Nnp, lytY,
carrying with 1t brakeman, Mr..
Stephen D. Jones, who fell under the
car and was crushed to death. One or
| two other cars were thrown from the
track and into ditch, but there were
no other casualties.
crossing at Kosse.
This years wheat crop Of Texas Is
worth $8,000.000.
| Groesbeck is to be the future county
seat of Limestone county.
In Fayette county the boil worm is
doing great damage to the cotton crop.
Cotton worms are beginning to dam
age the crop in Coryell county.
Upland cotton in Cass county Is said
to be finer than for twenty-seven years
past.
The Dallas shoe factory 10 q success.
It's work compares favorably with East
ern manufactures.
Cotton is about fifteen days backward
in Bell county, and the worms are DAM
aging it to some extent.
The people of Comanche are becom-
ing disguised with the name Of their
town and want to change it.
| Ali L,4 io1r
ing has become general in Washington
county. A good deal of new cotton Is
already being brought to market.
Worms have destroyed the cotton crop
of Gonzales county. It is thought the
crop will not average 100 pounds OF seed
cotton to the acre.
The impression that gold exists in the
Wichita mountains has led to the lorna
ton Of party at Jacksboro for an ex'
, tensive prospecting tour in that region
A school house in Nolan Valley, seven
miles above Bolton, was burned last
Wednesday, with all its furniture and
the books OF the pupils. An incendiary
did the deed.
A gentleman writing from Navastc
? saws the weather is unprecedentedly
: warm, and that no rain has fallen fol
twenty days. Boil worms and the real
cotton worms, he says, are playing
havoc with the cotton in places.
Mrs. J. G. Forman, farmers wife
near Plano. Collin county, was drowned
on the morning OF the 10th, by falling
+ in tank near her residence. 1t Is sup.
! posed that going there to get drink Of
! water she had a fainting 1T and fell in
{ the water. When the body was dis
t. covered life was extinct.
An old German named Louis Berne
3 was murdered at Dallas on the 10th BY
: d. E. Chambers, a quack doctor, who
D committed q cold-blooded murder, ant
: then confessed that he did it for the
salvation of his soul. He said: II be
lieve that without the shedding of blooc
there is no remission of sins, and there
. fore shed the blood OF the deceased y