The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-28
LOUISIANA,

LOUISIANA.
Plaquemines suffered severely from q fire
last Friday.
The Thibodaux branch railroad will proba-
bly, be completed by Christmas.
Lafourche public schools will not be opened
until January l.
The OpelOusas C0qwter norninates Hon
John G. Moncure, OF Caddo for Speaker Of
the next House. The Thibodaux Sentinel
suggests Hon. John S. Billiu for the same
office.
Crops are fine everywhere and fully satisfy
our planters and farmers Our sugar crop
will undoubtedly be fully satisfactory as far
as quantity and quality are concerned
ITerrebonne Progress.
Nine-tenths Of our planters finished picking
cotton during the month OF October. The
shortness Of the cotton crop in this parish
may be judged by this statement. In ordinary
seasons 1t takes until Christmas to finish
gathering Pointe Coupee Pelican.
Candidates for the United States senator
ship are numerous. The Morehouse Clarion
norninateg Col r. B. Todd, of Morehouse; the
Ouachta Telegaph wants the Senator TO
come from North Louisiana, and snggests
long list Of available candidates; the Rich
land BencOn favors O. country man; the ShreVe-
port Times is for Eustis.
| We are panied to learn that on Saturday
| last, at WaVerly Madison parish. s. D. Brame
| and Ben. Flowers got into q difficulty, which
resulted In the killing Of the latter and the
probable fatal wounding Of the former. Bramo
is the same man who killed McLemore, at
| Delhi, in 1874. Both he and Flowers, it is
said. tired at each other almost simultaneous
| ly. The difficulty grew out Of q quarrel be-
tween Bramo and one OF his tenants Ray
Vile Beacon.
On the second instant n fearful murder took
| place on the Pedarre place. John Mails, allns
| f,rtlO11x O. COlored man, fancied that his wife
| tptr n him shot
| that the shot did not produce instantaneous
death, mutiatcd her skull with the stock OF
the gun. a Aftef committing the dark deed the
| murderer did not attempt TO escape, but on
his wife's funeral. He WAS arrested by JUS
tice Snee1, and will be examined by Judge
Blanchard next Tuesday pointe Coupee
Pelican.
Generally speaking, prairie sugar Is inferior
to that made on originally timbered land, but
| this year tho prairie cane seems about equal
to that made on the bayou, and the sugar
nearly the same. We were lately shown
samples of cane from the prairie places oi
Messrs. Fl. y. Bayard, Dr. Schreiner and
Others equal to that grown anywhere, and
this week, u sample Of sugar from the Peehle2
plantation was left on our table by Mr.. Viej
Darby, Sr,, their sugar maker. The colo1
| was good the grain excellent, and the yield
of the whole crop has been nearly two hogs
heads to the arpent.--I New Iberia Sugar Bowl
Last Saturday evening the gin house on the
Gus Little plantation was entirely destroyed
by fire The lessee, Mr.. Hennegan, was run
ming the gin at the time the fire occurred
We are told that it was generated by friction
Of an ider that worked on some Of the betting
Early the following Sunday morning tbs
Isaac Lttell gin, about five miles below OF
Bayou Bout was burned to the ground; sup
posed to be the work Of an incendiary. We
understand that Mr.. Isaac Littell had no in
surance on his; the other was partially GOV
cred by Insurance. In the Sun Mutual Insu
rance Company Of New characterization
JO,vnnl,
On Saturday,, the sixteenth of November
1873, at IL O'Clock p M, on Stella plantation
murders was committed. The report handec
to us is as follows: Mr.. John Conrad
~ peaceablc and respectable cltizen acting
overseer on the above plantation, hear
of his house, went out to pacify tht
rowtlies, when one Of the parties thrust 4
bowie knife at Mr.. Conrad, iDfliGting {
wound OF which Mr. Conrad immediately
died Deceased leaves wife and nine chit
!, dren In destitute circumstances, to mourn his
untimely fate- fPIaquemines Observer
Last week we were congratulatiDg ourselves
that the good weather, which had been un-
ceasngIy favorable for sugar making, prom
ised to continue for some time IT, come, but OF
Friday morning We had very hhrd rain, fol
lowed by cold weather, and on Sunday u furi
Gus storm set in, which lasted two days anf
nights. It for time greatly retards suga
making by rendering the land too soft to han
cane, and we think it likely that We may haV
q freeze before long Some planters have al
ready taken the precaution to WindrOw cane
, and we presume others will do 50 soon Still
, none have right to complain, as q bette
season for sugar making We never saw Ne7
, Iberia Sugar Bowl.
We regret to say that the fever still is wit
us. We had hoped that Yellow Jack had take
, his neDGrtllrp bllt there having been fOu
deaths this week, and those OF a very ag
, gravated type Of the fever, we cannot but ad
NIT that there is yet danger to the unaceli
7 mated who visit the town There have ais
been Il few new cases OF fever this week, an
in several Instances that we know Of, while tn
fever was severe, still it has yielded to medi
cal treatment. We also learn Of considerabl
t sickness in the country, and notwithstanding
the fact that we have had several hard frost
:, it is feared that sickness will remain with u
throughout the winter, should it continue @
, mild in the future as it has been up to thi
? time lbervile South.
On Sunday morning last little after day
: light the dead body Of Henry Bracket, cooret
the road dividing the Hood & Wilson an
, Hagaman plantations, which is about half
, mile from the lower end Of town. The bac
: Of his skull was battered to pieces, and hi
neck cut all around clear to the bone, furnish
ing one of the most CHASTITY sights ever wit
b messed. A jury Of inquest was umediatel.
impaneled by s. r. Austin, Jr, J. P and o.
Monday William Pendleton and Matt Win
! s3tOn were arrested and placed In Jail on sus
picion; spots Of blood were found on thei
clothing, and other things which tended di
rectly to implicate them in the fearful crime
On Wednesday the razor belonging to Pen
dletOn was found smeared with b1ood.-lCa1
roll Conservative.
+ Grant, Blaine mah Cnnkling.