The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-29
LOUISA Ma.

The vote in st. Mary on the Sunday LIQUOR
law was Against the law, 1910; for the law,
| 1888.
Hon. F. s. GOOde declines to be q candidate
| Tor Congress in the Third District says the
| HOuma PrOgress.
fourteen applicants for the Office of tax collee-
| tor In st. Martin parish.
! BOssier will nominate it's candidates by a
| primary election, August II; Ouachita by q
convention, August 81 and 1errebonne by a
primary election, September IA.
A competitive examination will be held at
| the Louisiana University and Agricultural
| College at Baton Rouge August to select O.
cadet to West Point from the Ninth Congress
siOnal District.
| The crops Of this parish are reported very
good as general thing, although there is
| some complaint Of drOuth in places. The
| showers Of this week have been partial fall
/ ing only in spots RiehlanG Beacon.
| We neglected to notice the news received
| several days ago Of the fearful accident near
| Tulip. Mr.. W. K. Carr was driving in buggy
with his wife. The mule became frightened
| and ran away. Tho buggy running over q
stump Mrs, Carr was thrown out. Her back
| was broken and she died instantIy-GPort
Vincent Livingstonian.
| On Sunday last during the thunder storm
| q calf was killed by lightning in the lot ad-
lDlnlng our Office In Lafourche it partially
miles above ThfbOdaux. It also struck the
chimney at the residence Of Mr.. g. GrOs, kill
ing calf and a cat in the yard Fortunately.
no one was hurt Houma Progress.
From the best information we can gather
from all parts OF Sabine parish, the outlook
for good crops are excellent; in fact, better
than for years past. No worms are reported
The cOOns and squirrels, however, are making
SAD havoc In places, with the corn. Powder
and squirrel shot are in great demand and the
V6JnUSfppG no al
Staying the smallest Of the fat species.-[Sa-
bine Southern.
Mr.. j. Brunner, who has well cultivated
farm and market-garden just above New
Iberia, this year produced the first open cot
ton we have seen. He sent to u.s. on the
fourteenth, sample boil, and we learn he
will commence cotton picking In two weeks.
On Tuesday last Joe Kemp, who has a small
tract Of land above town, brought to our
Office fine boil also, and infOrrns ma he will
commence picking next week Sugar Bowl.
Whatever injury the rains may have done
TO other crops, they certainly have benefited
the cane. II is quite q pleasure to ride over
our fine plantations and witness how luxuri-
antiy the crops are growing. To see q bad
or an Indifferent crop anywhere in the parish
IS an tmpossibilty. The only fault-if fault
it be-i5 where the plant cane partially failed
from the last planting; but this, in our opfn-
ion, is fully compensated for by the rich stub
bic crops. IL the present crops can be taken
off without loss, such as occurred, for in
stance last fall, we predict the largest crop
the parish has made since the war-GWegt
Baton Rouge Sugar Planter.
Johnnie Cunningham, son of our esteemed
friend NJ. j. Cunningham, ESQ, was drowned
in the river just above this city on Friday
evening last, while bathing with number Of
other boys. Johnnie Cunningham, 1t seems.
was on the back Of an Italian named Louis
-, who had a great fondness for children.
and particularly this boy, and they had gone
out into the river some distance and were re-
turning to the shore when the current drifted
him and the lad into the deep and swift cur
rent below. Louis came near being drowned
himself, but managed to scramble ashore
Johnnie having, in the meantime, slipped his
hold and sunk to rise no more. Every effort
was made to rescue the body by draQs, etc,
but without success, and 1T was not found
until Saturday, some two miles below town,
/ LNatchitOches VindicatOr.
During the last few weeks the growth of
cane has been really WOnderful-as much as
rom two to three inches per day. In proof
II this, Mr.. E. G. Noveret, Of Cypremort
Bayou, on the seventeenth instant, informed
Is that on the fifth-tWelve days before-he
marked cane sucker which he saw Just COM
ng from the ground, and In those twelve
lays it grew thirty inches, that, too when it
8 usually thought that July suckers do not
5roW well. The showery weather and very
lot sunshine which we have Of late had are
ust what the cane crop need. Cane is much
arger than it was at this time last year, and
Is it has three months more to grow, planters
nave a prospect Of getting more tons to the
tcre than last season, and the plant has am
Die time to mature fully, when the yield of
sugar will, without doubt, be very satisfac-
Ory, unless the crop Is injured by an early
reeze- New Iberia Sugar Bowl