The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-15
LOUISIANA.


Mr.. A. A. Goodwin. of Alexandria, saws
there are uudoubted indications that the cot,
ton worm will appear early tlils sehsoh' a''u
| In great numbers Grant Cffonleie.
An unfortunate difficulty occurred In this
| totvn m "Wednesday last between nj assrs. L.
]. Dueota and Arthur NJ. tirlnlnt,, IN Wn i,,l
| tha latter was shot and Killed Mafksyiile
| Bulletin. s..,., T., a..
| rlvar onnt,ste st John Baptist parish, On
| the fourth instant Papers found on the body
indicated that II was the corpse of Dudley
A. Crawford, Of Cleveland, Ohio.
last week little negro girl about fourteen
years Of age, child q IN Monroe. was
airi were playing IN ilatboat, when she fell
everboard and drowned before help could be
| bad-tGrant Chronicle.
| The best days work SO far accomplished
on The new road. beyond Berwick, was that
we're laid. by the time we 60 To press the
section at this end Of the road will have
| j,ined that Of the section In the region of
Bayou Sale. There is every reason to look
III The completion Of thIs road with hope for
bright future for Morgan City Morgan
City Review,
We learn from Mr.. John Bondurant that
the total number Of negroes that have left his
plantation Is not exceeding thirty-flve, and
| that hs has filed their places with other
their property az extravagantly low rates.
started for Kansas, but most Ut them were
| nut off at Point Pleasant, and are now scat
| tered along the river there at different plan
| tations. We suppose the money gave out
after going few miles. Tansas Journal.
In a difficulty, that occurred on the twenty
third of March, Charles Castro was killed by
Elijah Hornsby. who ls now In jail in New Ibe-
ria IL In said that a beligerent attitude on the
part OF the accused necessitated the firing
upon him by the sheriffs posse, who went
out ID arrest him. Much feeling seems 10
exist on the subject Of the homicide among
the people In the nelghborhood Of Bayou RI
geon, where the tragedy occurred New Ibe-
ria sugar Bowl.
I Mr.. Andre Deshotels, residing near Vile
Poland Chester cross, which weighed, after
being cleaned, sB8 pounds net. He was only
three years old. and attained this enormous
weight by the simple process OF eating plenty
Of The cheap corn and potatoes raised by his
owner last year. Now, who will cay that fat
pigs cannot bs raised In IT. Landry Who
will cay that 1t is cheaper to raise cotton Mt
and cents and buy pork from tho Vest
Opeousas Courier
The salt mines will soon be In operation
The American Rock Salt Mining Company
have a lease Of them, and Mr.. +. A. Glass.
general manager, 10 busily engaged In having
the railroad repaired and houses fitted for the
workrnen. The bar ut the mouth u Bayou
| Petite Anse has been sounded by Mr.. y. A.
| Hensoldt civil engineer, and the great dredge-
boat Gen. Bragg is daily expected to arrive
| and begin work. dummy will convey the
salt from the mines to the bayou. where 1T
will be shipped by boat to market. Mr.. Glass
| expects tO have the mines working ny June
l1.-[Petite Anse Amateur.
| The Legislature III 1877 pissed q law re-
curing that D tax Of eight mills should be
levied ON real and personal property In those
parts Of the State subject to overflow. I'm
| der this law all real and personal property la
this parish west OF the highland hills are
subject to this tax, and the tax collector has
4 been instructed To collect 1t. part of this
city, known rs Catfish town. we learn comes
! In for share Of this taxation, which will
raise the taxes Of the inhabitants Ut thatpart
OtItown, for State. parish and city, TO about
thirty-four and d half mills, divided as fol-
| lows: state eleven mills, lsvee eight mills,
narish eight mills and city seven and half
inills.-lBaton Rouge Advocate.
Az Tho season is gradually changing from
cold to warm weather, tho planting eommu-
coming crop. The warm days and nights.
some ten days since gradually warmed tho
earth. and vegetation at once felt it's genial
effects. The plant cane and corn made rapid
progress in tho attainment OF stand. Inc
| jirat Ia doing well at this time although the
cold nlghte Of the past week were ,lnfavora-
BILE and caused 1t TO lose Its healthy green
color 1t Ia still coming up, and good stand
of plant cane may be looked forward to with
but little disappointment. The prospect for
a good corn crop could not be better at the
present writing. The ratoOns are little
slow. but seem 70 be sound and promise a fair
stand, particularly those Of the first year.--
Assumption Pioneer.
We are Informed by Capt. Il. +. Mosely
} that q tornado passed over the space OF conll-
try about four miles south Of D'Arbonne be-
tween 4 and o'clock On the evening OF
Wednesday, the ninth Instant. It's course
was from west TO east, commencing ut Mrs
Crawford's place and extending to Mr.. Isaac
Hinton a place SO far az our informant could
learn. 1t turned Mrs. Crawford's house up
side down, destroying the fences IN every
direction, and literally fslled every tree In its
course which was about one hundred yards
, In width. Leaving Mrs. Crawford's, it de-
molished entirely Mrs. Ed. Terrells gin.
, house; from there to John Rlley's, where II
destroyed every house but his dwelling, and
!, crippled two OF his horses; from there 1t pro-
J eecded to Capt Moselys, whore 1t destroyed
r his fences and those Of s. l.. Hines. Our in
formant states that no one was hurt, strange
I to say, with the exception OF William CraW
! ford. who was slightly injured. From Nose
lys it went to Monroe Henrys, where 1t un
4 rooted his house and literally destroyed nj
, the standing timber, besides leveltng hi
fences; from there to Isaac Hinton's, where
y 1t also unroofed the houses. 1t continued from
Y further damage ensued therefrom. Uniol
4 Record.
The southern situation.
/ Ist. Louis Republican,
e The South, under Democratic, or "white.'
a government, has not "Hone down faster thai
b ever" It has not gone down at all. In every