The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-09-02
LOUISIANA NEWS.

The parish of Assumption has also refused
to establish quarantine ordinances.
Coal has been found in immense quantities
and of q superior kind, In Catahoula parish.
Terrebonne has united with Lafourche and
established quarantine also against oil in
fected points.
Saturday the seventh day Of next Septem-
her. has been fixed for the meeting Of the
| Eighth Senatorial nominating convention.
| Thomas Vilmont Rodrigue died at his resi-
dence In this parish, on the twenty-ninth in
stant OF yellow fever, according to the oplnlF
| of DR.. Joseph A. Blanchard. his able attent.-
| ing physician.-[ Assumption Pioneer.
| at a meeting of the parish executive COM
mittee, held last Saturday, August II, Col
| William Mouton was selected as the delegate
from this parish to the State Central Commit
| tee We consider the choice as an excellent
one.-ISugar Bowl, Iberia parish
AS we go to press we regret to learn that
| Mr. Dudley Avery declines to accept the
nomination for Representative, This will be
@ great disappointment to many. The parish
executive committee will have to choose
another to fill the vacancy New Iberia Su-
gar Bowl.
The Senatorial Convention held at Rayville
on last Saturday. the twenty-fourth instant,
nominated Hon. G. FL. Mouton,, on the third
ballot, to represent the Eleventh Senatorial
| District. Judge M0utOn Is an able lawyer, q
pure citizen, and we will be proud OF such a
| representative from our new district, as he is
sure to be elected Lafayette Cotton Boil.
At the convention held in this parish on
Monday, the nineteenth instant, to nominate
a candidate for the House OF Representatives
from this parish, we are glad to announce
that Mr.. Conrad Deballon got the nomina-
ton. We believe, notwithstanding the strong
opposition to Mr.. Debniilon, that he will be
elected by O. large ajorty,-lLafayette Cot
ton Boil
The Republican Parish Executive Commit
tee, we understand, will hold a meeting at
the hall of Vilmond Hubark, in this place, on
! Saturday night, the thirty-first instant fol
the purpose Of appointing new parish eX-
ecutiye committee, and also to organize the
Republican party thoroughly for the coming
ca1npaign.- Lafayette Cotton Boil.
T Not q single case Of yellow fever that we
know of now can be found within fifty miles
f Of New Iberia-none nearer than Plaquemine
on the Mississippi river. No more cases oc,
curing among the telegraph men camped
= in Darby woods; all danger in that direction
is passed, and the men leave for their western
field of labor on Monday next,-[New Iberia
Sugar Bowl.
The growing sugar cane is delighting thF
planters hearts. Great canes, six feet long
are now being sold on the streets daily-suct
? canes as would make planter happy to fint
+ In his fields on the first of November. Th
. rice is being rapidly harvested, with the bes
. weather for that purpose that has been ex
;; perienced for years LThibodaux Sentinel
I'll On yesterday mOFnlDB MfSt YlctoIiH ioupo
:. J. who resides two miles below Thibodaux, at
! tempted to light fire, by sprinkling coal oi
a = over the wood from q can OF oil The fame
caught in the oil, caused the can to explode
scattering the liquid over her clothing, whicl
took fire and caused her death within tW'
hours.-[Thibodaux Sentinel.
On the Moss plantation, below town, a kline
r of pitched battle took place last Sunday be
! tween the Poles living there and lot OF na
tive share hands living on the same place
), Weapons were drawn and used. The Pole
, charged O. ln mititnire, and their antagonist
q retired from the field before the charge, ant
+ the battle ended in victory for the Poles
r None killed. Two wounded. young maj
g was shot in the arm, and one OF the Poles
had his head badly cut with a BRICK Frank
lin Enterprise, August "a.
It seems to be understood now that ex-COn
= gressman Darrall will not be an aspirant TO
:, reelection from this district and that Co
|, Beattie, Of Lafourche, will be Mr. Acklen'
q opponent. DIR. Darrall with his usual keen
n ness, probably scented an ingloriOus defeat
q and with the exercise of cOmmendablc dis
cretion declined to become martyr. W
4 believe Col. Beattie will poll larger .vot
= than any other candidate who could be p1tte
=, :, against Mr.. Acklen, but whetherit IS possibl
: to defeat the active and successful youn
! member Is q contingency upon which "
q hang serious doubts Donaldsonvllle Chle
. Republican.