The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-09
LOUISIANA.

o'i 'o'SeO Mem Con.
LOUISIANA.
The Donaldsonvile Cannoneers are going
into encampment on Bayou Lafourche.
An organization of veteran Confederate
soldiers Is to be formed at Baton Rouge.
The police jury Of ST. Bernard parish has
decided not to close coffee-houses on Sundays.
A fire In Baton Rouge Friday night de-
stroyed $1,000 worth OF property; insured
for $500.
There are already thirty-nine candidates
for the Legislature in Claiborne parish, says
the Guardian.
We hear that some kind of bug is iniuring
the cane on the plantations above Franklin
ISt. Mary Enterprise
S. F. Baird, fish commissioner, has written
to Hon. Z. w. Robertson announcing that he
will place shad In the Amite river
st. Mary farmers are making arrangements
to manufacture white sugar this year "A
number of vacuum pans are being put up.
The colored people of ST. Martinsville have
organized fire company. The engine and
engine-house were contributed by two public
spirited citizens.
We are informed that the crops throughout
the parish are In favorable condition. Bayou
DuLarge has the best subbe-cane in the
parish.-[Terrebonne Courier.
The police jury Of the parish OF ST. James
has administered the affairs of its parish in
satisfactory manner, has paid off large por-
ton of the old debt piled up by its Radical
predecessors, and claims no compensation for
its services.
Too early for politics. say some OF our
friends. We say So too, but when we know
that our Radical foes are busy connecting
schemes and laying plans for the campaign;
it behooves our people to he on the alert and
make some preparation to meet the threat
ened danger. Morehouse Clarion.
Three new sugar-houses are being erected
in the Attakapas- Mr.. E. H. Levy, on the
east side of Bayou Vermillon; DR.. Carter,
few miles back of New Iberia, who will cease
the cultivation of cotton and take to cane:
and Mr.. J. MESSENGER, one mile southwest of
New Iberia. All of these will grind cane for
their neighbors as well as themselves.
We feel safe in the opinion that no town
State, parish or other locality on this con-
tinent has come anywhere near making so
clean collection of taxes as has Bayou Sara.
just think Of it; the delinquent list amounts
to only 81 AZ, and OF this Sc Is absolutely
significant sum of So Al the total amount I'M
collected Feliciana Sentinel.
DonaIdsonville had its municipal election
last Saturday The result was as follows:
Mayor, Fred Duffel; secretary A: Landry;
collector, tie between Augustin Bercegeay
and j. A. Duffel; treasurer, David Israel;
aldermen, Solomon Schonberg. Madison Car
roll, SEVERN Ricard. II. S. Bondreaux, Y.
Maurin and Ursin Landry. The Chief is
well pleased with the ticket elected
From the bayou country we obtain the
most encouraging reports in relation to the
crops. The corn has a fine color, grows fast
and is well worked. The cotton is being
scraped and thinned out, and on some places
has already received the first hght piowlnR.
Potato slips are being set out, and this crop
will be larger this than last year, with a
proper season, Of course Marksville Bull
ietin.
From nearly every part OF our parish we
hear reports of the ravages OF the cut worm
and beetles upon the young corn, cotton and
sugar plants. In many instances planters
have had to replant corn upon which vermin
depredate the most. With the exception Of
the damage done by bugs the crops are look.
fine results. There Is, however, considera-
BILE complaint about the stubble cane Baton
Rouge Advocate.
On Saturday last little Louie, son of j..
Monroe Brown Esq, aged about ten years,
accidentally shot himself with shotgun
while out hunting, the load lodging in his left
side. causing almost instant death. 1t seems
he was climbing rail fence near his brothers
Is. d. Brown's) residence, and after leaning
the gun against the fence he endeavOred to
pull it up by the muzzle, when the hammer
caught against a rail and exploded the cap
fMorehoase Clarion.
We earnestly enjoin it upon our tax collec-
tor to collect the poll tax. A large portion of
1t goes 10 the ScnOOl 1unu ana any ldliuIe 10
collect this tax falls heavilyupon our schools.
In 1877 the amount of poll tax collected in
this parish amounted to about $780, when it
should have been $1,000 We look to Mr..
Coyie to assess every man In the parish. and
we look to the next Legislature to make the
payment of poll tax a prerequisite to voting.
-tPointe Coupee Pelican.
The report is general throughout the parish
that the corps are in magnificent condition
and that the prospect Is immensely better
than 1t was at this season last year. The
stubble cane never was better, and although
this years planting has not turned out well.
the deficiency will be supplied by the forward
growth of that which is really good The
corn crop is In splendid condition, and in some
instances has had it's last working. little
rain Is needed now, but the crops can do with
out it for a short time lbervile South.
On Tuesday evening about o'clock. on
April IS, a cowardly murder was committed
on Mr.. j. A. Ford's plantation, three miles
above Collinsburg, in this parish Charles
Bowler was the name of the murdered man.
and Humphrey Holiday the name of the as
sassin; both colored men. Bowler was plow-
ing In the field. Holiday stealthily crept up
and shot him in the back, lodging ten buck
shot in his body. The poor man fell upon his
pillow, exclaming: Lord, have mercy! Holi-
day has killed mef'' He died within half an
hour. The Sunday previous Bowler and Holt
day had fight, in which Holiday came out
second best Politics was the cause, Bowler
being prominent Democrat and his assassin