The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-25
LOUISIANA.

The Auakdpds Register is for sale.
The police jury Of Plaqucmines has passed
Sunday law.
The senatorial candidate OF the Ibcrville
South is Gen. Heron. OF Baton Rouge.
The assessment OF real and personal prop
erty in the parish OF East Carroll FOR the year
1878 is 81 ,359,77s.
The West Carroll Courier, new paper. has
appeared In Floyd The editor and proprie-
tor is John A. Burns.
The Natchtochcs Findicdtor suggests Mr..
w. H. Jack, Of that parish, for Associate JUS
ticc Of the Supreme Court, vice Egan, de-
ceased.
VcrmiIlion parish has organized an immi
grafton society, with w. W. Edwards as presi-
dent, and A. ID, Martin rs secretary. small
pamphlet has been published, showing the re-
sources Of the parish.
On last Sunday, tho first instant. ut Bar
bins Landing, Q deck sweeper on the steam
boat Silver City, accidentally fell overheard
and was drowned Body not recovered
Pointe Coupee Pelican
The prisoners in the Tensas jail are un'or
tunate, and will not have very pleasant
Christmas The Jail is cold and wholly with
out fire, and to keep from freezing the prison
ers have to tramp up and down 1t all day
long.
The Howard Association OF Red River
Landing, parish of Pointe Coupee, has just
published its report. There were 221 cases of
| yellow fever In town and 30 deaths. The as
ISOLATION received only $57 and spent only
$54 81. The sick were cared for, nursed and,
when necessary, fed by their neighbors, who
request that their names be not mentioned.
| Last Thursday morning, at about 80
O'Clock. one of the boilers in the sugarhouse
of the Cedar Grove plantation, the property
of Mr.. W L. Shaffer. exploded wouudng sew
eral persons, ono W. IIookins being severely
burnt. Among the unfortunate victims are
also Tom White, colOred. and one Guilliot-
| Terrebonne Courier.
The tax collector of CaIcasieu advertises
that he will sell his own property for the
| non-payment of taxes, and Judging from the
length Of his delinquent list, his commissions
| for collection have not amounted to his own
taxes The collector OF st. Landry parish,
who has very short delinquent list has his
property advertised by the collector of the
town Of Opelousas.
The Ibervlle South declares that the negro
| makes n good sugar planter. In that parish
! T.. T.. Allan, colOred, has made CT hOgSheads
| Mitchell Jackson, colOred, 96 hogSheads. Phi
lander johnson, colored, 25 hogsheads. VIM.
| Martin, colored, was manager and overseer
of the Kuneman place. and in full control OF
the plantation, he raised CTS barrels of syrup.
All of these negroes Were formerly slaves.
A negro woman was found dead in field
on Pamela plantation, Just above town, some
time on Tuesday last, by the manager OF the
place, Mr.. II. S. Emerson. 1t appears that
she came to her death through exposure
brought on by drunkenness, as we learn that
she was in town drinking on Saturday. A
verdict was rendered in accordance with the
facts Tensas journal.
Tuesday night the Waterman at the ferry
landing and couple of policemen noticed
two men floating" in the river. Upon closer
observation they discovered that the two navl-
gators We're negroes and that each of them
| was on couple OF bales of cotton. The DO
licemen hailed them to come and give an &C
count OF themselves, whereupOn they leaped
into the river and struck out for the Bossier
shore Several pistol shots were fired at them
to bring them to, but they utterly disregard,
ed these warnings, and made the landing and
their escape. Getting a skiff the Waterman
and policemen went out and brought the cot
ton ashore. 1t was marked Pandora -the
name of Mr.. Hamiltons plantation, some
eight miles above on the river. The darkeys
had cold voyage of it shreveport Times
One Sarah , a colorcd woman 1t is re-
ported has murdered white child, eight OF
nine years OF age. named Eaves, on the But
Ter plantation, on Red river. Our reporter
gathers the following facts relative to The
ease: This murdered child with others was
picking pecans when the woman Sarah came
to them and cndeavored to take the pecans
from the children. In this endeavor sht
struck NE uf the children on the head three
or four blows, from which it died in few
hours. Dis,cict Attorney Hall has ordered
an autopsy OF The body of the child, and thu
courts will NOV, In the prosecution of The
person charged with the crime. Natchitoches
indicator.
We learn that yesterday morning at
O'Clock the steamer Danube was stopped a
Jerry Boards plantation, some forty mile:
below here, by jeff Cole, colored constable
who had Ia his possession warrants for Lot
Clark and Bill White, both colored, who Were
) on board the boat. The warrants were ISSUED
by the JUSTICE of the peace for that ward
The constable arrested the two mon and start
ed with them to Shreveport, accompanied by
} posse of two colored men. When neal
Tones bayou party Of some fourteen or fiji
; teen masked men demanded and took the
prisoners from the constable and his posse.
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