The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-19
LOUISIANA

Iberia will hold it's parish nominating con
vention August 26.
Considerable sickness in tho parish at this
time [Terrebonne Progress, 10Th.
Crops in this parish are better than we ever
saw them at this season Of the year.-[ [Terre-
bonne Progress.
There Is 81 movement in the fifth fthe Oak
Ridge ward Of Morehouse parish to secede to
hichland
The Pointe Coupee Record is the name Of 81
new Democratic paper, published by Messrs.
l., b. Claiborne and John E. Breauz.
On Sparta plantation, near Duckport, last
Sunday night, @ difficulty occurred between
two Irishmen, Torn Halpin and Pat McCar
thy. iu which the latter was badly cut and
dangerously wounded. Mccarthy is lying in
| q critical condition and Halpin is In jail at
Delta.
Crop prospects continue to improve. A
neighbor brought to our office @ cane with
nine red joints, and we are told that most OF
our planters can show better samples. The
rice Is far advanced, and the harvest will
commence early In August.-[St John Mes
chaceba.
Cotton is commencing to open in this parish,
and it Is believed that the picking season will
be two weeks earlier than usual Thus far
the weather has been very favorable to the
cotton crOp-nOt too dry and very warm,
causing It to mature very rapidly Marks
vile Bulletin.
have. continued to grow with more than usual
rapidity, the grass and tie-vines have kept
the hoe gang constantly at work on most
plantations, even in crops which had been
laid by" Yet, In q few localities we hear
complaints that they have not had rain suf1i-
cient.-lNe Iberia Sugar Bowl.
The delegates from this parish to the Baton
Rouge convention have not all reached home.
Like good old Moses, on Mount Nebo, they
| are quarantined off from the Promised Land.
~, MI at
having run the, parish quarantine-but Col:
| Richardson and Capt. Farmer, residents of
| this city, are over the river, waiting for ten
| days to elapse. Meanwhile there is to be
mass meeting Of old Bourbon Democrats in
| Monroe to ratify the action Of the Baton
| Rouge convention. Come er.-[Ouachita
| Telegraph.
Capt F. r. King Is announced In last weeks
| Mertdtonai as an independent candidate for
Senator from this district. In q letter from
Biount Springs, Ala, published in the same
| issue, he gives his reasons for SO doing, and is
| quite severe and denunciatory in his scathing
review OF the acts OF the parish convention, as
well as in his abuse Of Mr.. Adrien Nunez, our
seeking to defeat his aspirations by pledging
the support Of the Vermillion delegation to
George FL. Wells, Of Calcasieu, and instructing
them to vote for him first, last and all the
time, and accuses him of having ''sold and
bartered away the rights Of Vernillion parish
like dumb cattle, to the parish of Calcasieu."-
Vermillion Correspondence New Iberia Sugar
Bowl
A few days ago q notorious negro politician,
Dave Tyler by name, committed q most out
rageous crime upon the person of a quadroon
girl about thirteen Or fourteen years of age.
The girl was on her way to Sunday School,
when the brute took her out in the woods,
and, after threatening to murder her, out
ragged her person. The girl has always had a
good character, and this high-handed outrage
created considerable indignation In this com
munity. The facts In the case coming to the
knowledge Of District Attorney Hall, he at
once filed information against said Tyler and
had a warrant issued for his arrest. An officer
went to his house to serve the paper, but the
negro pulled away from him and made his
escape by taking to the woods. In justice to
the officer we will say that he attempted to
shoot the culprit, but could not make his
pistol go off until after the fleeing claw
maker had got out of reach. Every effort
will be made to arrest him, but we presume
he has gone to New Orleans, and, like his
carpet-bag friends. will plead that the
"Agreement' exempks him from prosecution.
The accused has served one or more terms in
the Legislature by virtue of the manipula-
tions Of the Returning Board.-[DeSoto Dem
Ocrat.