The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-05
LOUISIANA.

Lincoln nominates it's candidates for parish
offices August 6.
The crops are reported to be In @ fine condi-
tiOn, and the planters are happy In the
thought OF q rich harvest HOuma Courier.
ST. Mary's delegates will go uninstructed to
the convention but you may count on their
being solid for q new constitution Franklin
Enterprise.
A large black bear was seen in Messrs
f. Webre & Co.'S corn field last week. Brun
will soon come to grief, as experienced hunt
ers are on the trail,-[St. ] ohm Meschaceoe.
We learn that on Tuesday last, an ndi-
vidual in Leonvlleby the name Of --+~ Olivier,
committed suicide by taking o gun and shoot
ing himself, dying soon afterwards Wash
ington News.
The office OF tax collector seems the one
most sought after in Claiborne. There are no
less than five candidates nominated for that
Office subject to the Endorsement Of the Dem
| ocratic primary election.
In spite Of the daily showers the heat Is
almost intolerable. Numberless cases of fever,
| q few Of which have proved fatal, are reported
| among white and black. No yellow fever
| yet.-[St. John MesChacebe.
| The latest conundrum-Whi Of those two
| mammoth spirited dailies Of New Orleans,
! the Picayauee or the Times (both with the
/! largest circulation) favored calling q consti-
| tutional convention first?-t tOuachita Tele-
| graph.
The following are the parish nominations
made by the st. Landry Democratic Conven-
tion: Sheriff, G. G. Dyson; parish judge J. 3
C. Fontenot; coroner, George PulfOrd; police
jurors, Ducondre T. Dupre, Manuel J. Rich
ard, E. Dubusson, Samuel Haas, B. E. Clark
John Donnell, son Of VIM. S. Donnell, OF
| New Orleans, committed suicide at his
fathers plantation on Bayou BCeuf Wednes-
day, thirty-tirst instant. Mr.. Kirksey, the
carpenter on the place, was at work at the
time when he heard the gun fire, he soon
afterwards returned to the house and found
the young man dead, his brains scattered
about the wallis Washington News.
| Major George Wilson came home by rail
yesterday morning from New Orleans. Soon
| after his arrival notice was served on him by
| the proper authorities to retire beyond the
corporate limits for ten days. Approaching
the efforts Of the city officials to prevent the
introduction Of yellow fever. the major, we
are pleased to learn, has cheerfuly complied
with the notice. -lShreveport Times.
| Mr., r. White came up on the Danube from
O. visit to his plantations below here, He itl-
forms us that on Saturday he had conver-
sation with several large planters, and all
Of the cotton worm. Mr.. White says the cot
ton that was well worked is more forward
than it was last year and the worm is behind
time. SO should the pest make it's appear
ancee now, the damage to the early cotton Will
not be very great, that Is, If it does not come
in such force as to eat up the cotton before the
fifteenth of September Shreveport Times.
We are getting tired of 1t, and unless our
papers are hereafter more promptly delivered
to the various points on the bayou below here,
we shall ferret out the cause OF the delay,
even If we have to employ a detective for the
purpose. 1t is a positive disgrace to the
service, great annoyance to subscribers, and
ruinous to our business. On Thursday week
all our Teche mail was deposited in the New
Iberia postotfice, and the Jeanrenette bundles
were not delivered up to Friday night, those
for Cypremort and Glencoe postoffices not
until the down trip of the steamer Matte on
Sunday night, and the Charenton package only
reached its destination by the up trip of the
steamer Matte on Monday night following
! New Iberia Sugar Bowl.