The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-03
LOUISIANA.

Vienna holds it's town election on the first
| Saturday TN April.
! Labor is scarce In Franklin parish, and the
| farmers are seeking for hands elsewhere.
| Pointe Coupee had procession OF CRU
saders on st. Josephs Day, Mardi Gras
style.
| The Marksvile Villager places at the head
| OF It's columns the name oil Hon. j. G. Mon
cure as candidate for Treasurer ut the fall
election.
The fruit crop this year will be abund-
ant. Pear, peach, PLAN, apple and fig trees
are go heavily loaded, that unless some OF the
young fruit is taken away the crop must be
Of an inferior quality Marksvllle Bulletin.
We have had no rain since the ninth ultimo
and the drouth begins to interfere with vege-
tation and garden and farm work. Occa-
sional showers now would be very welcome
and valuable Lafayette Advertiser.
The Catahonla Neays thinks that at the
coming election there should be no nomina-
tions for parish officers, those not being polit-
ical Offices, 50 that the people may have an
opportunity OF expressing their preferences
for individuals.
One day last week, while Mr.. J. r. Jack
son was riding at full speed in Delhi, his
horse fell and the rider was hurled to the
ground. On being examined it was found
that the riders neck was broken Franklin
Sun.
1t is an unquestionable fact that those
planters In this parish last year who woi ked
on the share SYSTEM made some money, while
those who worked their places with paid
labor land borrowed money to pay that labor
as most OF them did lost money! Franklin
Enterprise.
Another week has passed over our parched
fields and roads and not q drop to allay the
dust or relieve suffering vegetation. The
cane Is beginning to show signs of activity
| wherever 1t has not been injured, and the i'm
preston is general that one good heavy
shower will show how far the injury reaches
| with plant and stubble.-[Pointe Coupee Peli-
can.
The outlook for a large crop In st. Mary
this year is not very fiattering. FROM Cypre-
mort bayou and prairie we receive very dis
couraging news. The seed cane there Is In q
very bad condition, and most of the planters
can only plant half crop. On one place, SO
acres, but he could only plant $50 because Of
the bad condition Of his seed Franklin En-
terprise
The disease to which we lately referred, ex-
| listing among some cOlored people on the
plantation Of Gov. Mouton and the one adj
| Joining. has been aSGertained to be smallpox.
| In about twelve cases there have occurred two
deaths. Another Case has also declared itself
about four miles north OF this place. We
would, therefore, again warn the public OF the
| IOatnst,me and contagious character OF the
disease and Of the great importance OF gen
eral vaccination and adopting strict and eff
iectual measures to prevent its spread. TO
avert possibility OF serious consequences we
hope there will be no neglect or delay in the
NATTER Lafayette Advertiser.
On Friday, twenty-second ultmo, while
the train of the West Felciana Railroad cars
was on it's outward bound trip, and when ut Il
point between the plantation of Mrs. Woods
and Mr.. Wiley Morgan, II coored man by the
name Of John Davis in attempting to step
from one car to another, lost his balance and
| fell between the cars. two more OF which
passed over his body. He was picked up in a
terribly mutiated condition, and survived
but IL few moments after the accident. We
learn that Davis had been drinking freely,
and was in state OF infoxication at the time,
to which fact the accident may he justly at
/ tributed The deceased resided on the PLAN
tation Of Mr.. Morgan, and WAS within Il few
minutes travel Of his home when the tragic
event occurred that so suddenly brought his
earthly career to d close Fellciana Sentinel