The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-17
IRERvILLE NEWS.
The Crops In Ibervigle-The Plaquemtne
EIecti0n-The ubervSlIe Parish
school board.

Especial Correspondence Of the Democrat
PLAouEM1NE, May Ia, 1878
have not written to you very often OF late
vet have done 80 oftener than the columns
Of your good paper show. What write is at
your disposal, as you knOw-to the typo OF
the waste basket as you have always ex-
pressed pleasure at receiving my communi-
cations. I have come to the conclusion that
the missing ones are TO be charged to the
ways Of Uncle Sans postoffice. In fact, !
have had occasion to complain heretofore OF
the negligence of some of the mail agents on
the river, and propose TO put the complalntln
telling shape when occasion offers again
Business, generally speaking, is dull with
us, except the cropping and lumber interests.
THE CROPS ARE FINE
and In excellent order. The plant cane fell
short and is thin, but the stubldes never were
better. Our supply Of timber will be short,
a. the water did not come high enough to
give the swamps float However, just now
our mills are well supplied and seem to be
doing big business.
Yesterday week we had our
TOWN ELECTION
for mayor and five selectmen. 1t was mixed
uu affair, though politics had little or nothing
to do la the matter. G. o. Lauve, ESD was
elected mayor, and Messrs. Wilbert, Caneza,
James and Roth the two latter colored) So
lectrnen; the fifth position for selectman re-
sulting in tie between j. L. Altrimes. a
young merchant here and Joseph Porter a
colored man and member OF the. present coun-
protest against the election; and il you give
In your Saturdays paper their reasons, they
drew quite heavily upon their inaglnatlons
for their facts.
We have recently had
ANOTHER SHOOTING sCRAPE
in our parish, In which recently liberated
convict was shot and very dangerously, Ii not
fatally, wounded by a colOred man named
Peoples, who is here in Jail awaiting results.
Our parish court is In session this week and
a number Of minor criminal cases are up be
fore 1t, mostly colored people. Our colored
folks will get into quarreis and hight ana
then off to the Justice where not unfreGuently
1t happens that both parties file complaints
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
have been opened In our parish for about
eight weeks. Last Saturday the teachers
were paid off to that date. There are about
twenty-five teachers eleven for the whites
and the remainder for the eolored. The
schools are equally divided in number, but
the larger and better are used by the colored
people; and it is pleasure to add that they
try to make use Of their schools. Our School
Board has determined to work on q cash ba-
sis, and will keep the schools open only as
long as money lasts. We believe they can
work on this year until October, when they
will close until March next
/ see with pleasure, Mr. Editor, that you
are not Russian in your sympathy in the i'm
pending conflict between the British Lion and
the Polar Bear. It is really hard to see who
can really be in our country. yet it would
seem there are Russian sympathizers. The
infamous wrongs inflicted by the Russian
government upon the Poles make most sick
ening page in history nor are the Poles alone
the sufferers Z. Z. GRACE.