The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-24
LOUISIANA.
shipped one convict to Baton

The mortality among horses ana muleS
has been very heavy in East Carroll parish.
| A fire In Clinton last Wednesday burned
three buildings and damaged two others.
| Loss $4,000
Pineyille. Rapides parish, was visited by
| fire last Wednesday that burned three stores;
| loss $1,000; insured.
| Shreveport is being well canvassed for sub
| seriptions for Rex's Mardi Gras celebration.
| Money is literally contributed.
The school board of Bossier has established
| twenty-five schools in that parish--ten for
| white and twelve for colored children.
| An unknown man who took passage on the
Steamship Clinton, from Galveston for this
place, jumped overheard and was drowned
! during the voyage Morgan City Register.
| Travelling across Grand Levee, in carriages
or on horseback has been pretty much inter-
| rupted for the past ten days on account OF
water running through the crevasse. Il Polnte
| Coupee Pelican.
The body of an unknown white man was
| found floating in the river at the Ashton
plantation on Wednesday. The features We're
so far decomposed as to render description
impossible ESt. Charles Herald.
A little eolored girl, aged about years,
grandehild Of Dick Butcher, was burned to
| death Monday evening. She was placing
wood upon the fire, when the blaze COMMUNE
Gated to her clothing Morehouse Clarion.
| Charles Maturin colored, aged about s.
| years, committed suicide last Wednesday
| morning, by drowning himself in about two
feet OF water, IN pond on Mrs. Fanny
| Coupee Pelican.
The Minden Democrat is opposed to the pas
sage OF the bill before the Legislature, levy
ing tax to pay off the parish staa Indebtedness
can be paid off in two or three years by the
police jury without an additional tax.
The practical abolition OF the sale of liquor
in Cameron parish by the former police jury
levying parish license of $500 on this bust
ness, has worked SO WELL and to such general
satisfaction for the last three years, that the
present police jury there again fixed the IL
eense at $500 last week
st. Landry has merited and received the
| criminal blue ribbon. Out Of fifty criminal
Court in only tno were verdicts OF not guilty
rendered, and the accused in one of these iI-
stances was convicted on another indictment,
leaving but one person acquitted.
Last Sunday night the corn house on Oak
lawn plantation containing 1000 barrels of
corn was burned down. The burning was the
| work Of an incendiary, so we learn The corn
was insured for $500 in the St Mary Mutual
| Insurance Company. and is the first loss that
! the company has experienced-lSt Mary En-
terprise.
| All the prisoners confined in the parish Jail,
| eight in number, made their escape on last
Friday evening. Tools were smuggied into
the prison by outside friends of the conviets.
v. y,
| tured the same night by Messrs. w. z. Doug
lass and I'll. D. Vaughan and another one,
Bill Thomas, by name. voluntarily delivered
| himself upa few days afterwards. The 9th
ers are still at large Moreh0use Clarion.
Quite a number of colored iaborers must
| have changed places this year, judging from
| the wagons we have seen moving about dur
! ing the past two weeks, loaded with house
hold goods When will these people learn
that "a rolling stone gathers no moss, y and
that, instead of breaking up and moving from
place to place every year it would be better to
remain in some settled place and gather the
comforts OF home around them Many OF
them never will learn this fact Tensas
| Journal.
The Abbeville Meridional and New Iberia
Courier of the Teche OF the 5th reached us on
the 18th. Fast time that! The Ouaehita Tel.
egrnph of the 4th reached US on the 14th and
the same paper of the 18th reached US on the
18th. On two occasions last week the bum
| dies Of the New Orleans DEMOCRAT and Times
got here one day behind time, though the
| other city daiiies came through; Some q the
viewed by wide awake agent OF the Postofliee
Department. Opeousas Courier.
The completion of the new Bass Levee will
insure the complete destruction OF the Point
Lookout plantation. The Carroll COsse,'ra-
tine says of this:
We are pleased to learn that the planters
and citizens generally are in sympathy with
Mr. Bass, and hold that he should be fully in
IDENTIFIED for the damage inflicted upon him,
and that as q matter OF justice it is their pur-
pose to join and assist him earnestly in his
efforts to seek the redress he is entitled to at
the proper quarter. We think the police. jury
Of our parish, having, to certain extent, sn-
pervision over the levees in East Carroll,
might with much propriety, and as matter
of right in this case give expression OF their
views with regard to the destruction OF the
property of one of their fellow-citizens.
On last Sunday morning party OF hunters
I,Fk g., r arI nbf.1yf
miles from here, on a duck hunt. On reach
ing the hunting ground the party divided, and
all but one-Clay Lenelle returned to their
homes before night. Lemelle was missed
during the night and next morning search
was made for him. and towards evening he
was found in the swamp, drowned his pow
der horn floating on the water indicating the
spot where he was lying, In some two or three
feet Of water The coroners inquest return-
ed verdict in accordance with the above
facts, the impression being that deceased was
seized by fits or cramps while In the water and
was accidentally drowned Lemelle was a
colored man about % years OF age and resi-
dent of this town.-[Opelousas Courier.
The postmaste ROT the Pointe Coupee post
office informs US that on the 10th OF January,
1878, he was notified by Mr.. j. Mcdonald,
Natehez, on route 3O,093, that he would begin
on the 18th inst. to carry the mail to and from
the Pointe Coupee postoffice; also that they
would exchange, receipt and receive regis
!, 18th he did so, and ON the 18th he
did not come for the mail, but sent
deckhand of the boat to exchange mail
bags with said postmaster. Showing no au-
: thority whatever to that effect, the postmas-
ter refused to deliver to the deckhand any
mail matter. The deckhand did, however.
attempt to take the mail bag forcibly from
, the postmaster, and would have succeeded
had not some citizens come to his assistance.
, After this, the route agent did come, and the
mail was delivered Poihte Coupee Pelican.
Mexican Items.
Two Republics.l
The black vomit continues to linger in Vera
: Cruz.
Beef cattle are now being sent from Tam
pico to Havana.