The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-30
SOUTHERN STATE NEWS.
LOUISIANA.

The eolorpd people who purchased the
rt,irs Of the Presbyterian church are ereouinR
u good church Oh Fourth street. Morgan
CITY Review.
Some OF our swampers have been floating
timber this week, the fallen trees III the
bayous having damned the Whter 10 the
swamps.--[ Ibsrvllle South.
ssant. w 81. Huested, with about one hun
s,rsh convicts, was III town TINS week. Inc
aonviets are to be- distributed out TO work on
s.euaral plantations. Capt. Huested informed
,,s there were quite number OF cases OF yell
lnu fever in Morgan City and Berwick City.
-{Lbetvllle South.
W. regret III learn that the cotton worms
,,re creating sad havoc throughout st. Tam
many and Washington parishes. In many
Those planters who made liberal use Of
bone dust will not lose 90 heavily, as their
s,,ttfJf, was 90 fur advanced that much of 1t
has already bebn picked. LII some fields,
where tho cotton is back ward, the worms have
appeared In such numbers that 1t is feared
nothing will tse left In day or two but the
bare staIks.-tSt. Tammany Farmer.
stranger passing through this parish
would never believe that the line stands
Of sugar cane now seen everywhere
the ground. We have often seen the CANE
blown down by heavy winds IN past years
but never have seen the cant resume its nat
nral position % quickly and 20 neriectiy a.
AZ has done within the last three weeks. ~ u
growing rapidly and has replaced the leaves
shattered by tho late storm with new ioll-
age. SO TO speak.llW West Baton Rouge sugar
Planter.
The river at this point Ia lower ct present
than IL haa been since the remarkably low
water Of 1879 when navigation was entirely
,oat ar,enfled between this point and Alexandria.
The shaft OF the Grand Duke, imbedded I'M I'M
mediately In front OF tho landing, and which,
M wears gone by, was considered extrenely
dangerous ID steamers landing at the wharf,
hi esynr,eed fully twelve OF fifteen Inches, ana
Id almost ''high aud dry because OF the
tsr,ya sand har which has formed In front oil
tt,a ritv. extending nearly half across what
was a few Years ago the best and deepest pof-
tiop of the lver.-[ Shreveport Times.
When the storm Of the first instant was
rarinr most f,irlously. two hewlldered calves
,aMsri,t shelter and safety under tho hOor q
ttte catholic church, at Franklin. that build
irg being supported by pillars sui1clehtls
high to admit Them 1t was known That tnese
calves were stil In this retreat o. the tInf
that the church was blown down. aud crushec
into 4 heap Of fragments over them ahd, q
course, 1t was supposed by those VINO hl ,ao
Che position these frightened cTeatuIes s na,
s1esx. in. that they had been mashed TO deaIl
.f,v the falling titnbers. But, when the WORK
men found them, on the fifteenth, fully four
teen DAYS from the day on which tney Wsi'
,a, completely shut In, they we're sui awe
RI their struggles to escape, during thos
DAYS of close confinement, famine and og.hy
fhnsp helnless animals had torn aud bruise,
their enaciated bodies go much, that " wa
sickening to lrok upon them. 10 enc incl
gatherings, thu workmen, I'D pity, put them '
death immediately.-tM Morgan City REVIEW.