The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-02
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4 negro who eats live mice and young rate
III the latest sensation LII COlfax.
The Morgan City Reuiew says there Is
scarcity Of water 10 that town
Crops are suffering on account q the cd an!
yFeather.- East Feieiana PatriotrDemocrat
A great fair for the benefit Of the Catholic
church cf DonaldsonviiIe will be given JUNE
IA, 15 and 16.
Most Of the baypuB In the parish are totally
or partially dry. Bayou Terrebonne Is very
low Terrebonne Courier
Our swamplng friends not having been abs
TO get afoat this year have ell gone to work
making spllt-lumber.- [Iberville South.
The hunters of Rapides parish killed pan
ther last week weighing LIS pounds, and over
eight feet long from tip of nose 70 tip of tail
About one hundred and fifty colored labor.
ers arrived In this parish last week. No
Kansas fever here, II seems. Terrebonne
Courier.
The orange trees In Cameron parish are
looking fine, and the orange crop will be- very
good this year; corn and cotton crops are
good
MI. Hypolite IFontenot, 81 bayou Bnuf.
sent us on the twenty-fourth instant stalk
of cotton In "blOOm' It Ia called the "Jaryy
Prolific and produces very fine lint What
country can beat the great Bmuf valley p
Washington Enterprise.
Sixteen head Of thoroughbred Bramah cattle.
raised In this parish, were sold and shipped
to Texas a few days since. Mr.. o. M. Bar
row, our worthy clerk OF court, raised the
larger portion OF this shipment, and informs
us they were secured to cross with native
Texas stock 4 Feliciana Sentinel
Last Monday morning Deputy Coroner
EhrhRrdt held an inquest On the body OF an
unknown colored man found floating In the
Courtableau, near Washington. It seems he
another man, partook literally OF s'red-eye,'
and fell overheard on his return trip Wash
1ngton Enterprise.
Early last winter great complaint was
made that wood vas being sold and charged
by actual measurement The council then
appointed wood inspector, and authorized
him to charge ten cents for every cord Of
wood inspected. Now complaint.is made that
this fee. IL an Outrage upon consumers Of
wood Morgan City Record. .
Two more vacuum pans are going up near
franklin, st. Mary parish, one on River
Sides and one on Calumet. Both are from
the New Orleans machinery depot Of Chas. |
of ut. Mary, will also have her sugar-house |
remodeled and receive q new steam train
with o capacity OF 10000 pounds In twenty /
four hours.
The $4,000 Of the South Louisiana Land
Reclamation Company stock was 90 soon
taken, that at q meeting held In Houma last |
Saturday 1t was determined to increase the
capital stock to $4,000. The canal from
Bayou Terrebonne through into Lake Barre,
admitting boats into Bayou Lafourehe. has
been almost completed, and surveying party
OF stockholders and directors last week de-
cided upon the balance Of the route
The drouth continues. Not even sign Of
rain encourages farmer or planter. The cane
not yet visible on cotton. Gardens are wilt.
ing for want of moisture and much OF its
products will BE- lost IL consequence. Add
20 these annoyances the clouds Of dust blown
hyy ia M uda ntfrr fiotan
friends abroad may have some idea OF the
situation at present writing. II Baton Rouge
Sugar Planter.
The long continued dry weather Is bad On
the growing cane and ruineus to the rice crop.
Those rice growers who are able, and whose
fields will justify the expense are purchasing
and erecting elevators and pumps to 4Irrigate
their crops, but the relief thus afforded will be-
beneficial TO very small portion Of the cultl-
vators OF that cereal. There Is no prospect
now In sight for any rise In the river that will
afford relief, 30 thatthe rice grower must look
alone to the clouded heavens ana his own .
right arm for add Lafourche Sentinel. /
Levy Y Bodenheimer received BY mail from
Mr.. Turner Heron Of Cash Point plantation.
a full-blown cotton bloom, the first we have
seen or heard Of this season. Indeed, It is
several days In advance OF the first cotton
bFo ~. s ba - Shreveport lat year None
rain is wanted badly, and II it does not come
soon the corn crop will be light and lice bad I
On the cotton. The nights are too cool for .
the plant Shreveport Times G
Lust Tuesday night negro man named y
Louis, about eighty years Old, was shot and :
Instantly killed on the plantation of Mr.. DOM
Unique Lalanne, near Washington, by Joseph
Davezac, alias Joe Bread, and q colored man
named lned Cesar: T appears that for severa!
the yard; Joe and Cesar were on Che look
out, and, hailing the Individual and receiving
% answer, fired the fatal Shots Washing !
ton Enterprise. u
ALI. Ketehum, mate of the steamer Cornie
Brandon, to-day made out al affidavit of "
mutfny before United States Commissioner Il
Kendall against lobe Wilkins, I. mo. Will ID
kins had enlisted tn the crew OF the Cronie
rection Of Fulton for the purpose of getting 4
out some timber. Arrived ut her destina- &
ton, Wilkins swore that he would not work
e ID lick, TO use his own terms. He sue
ceeded. besides, III melting others Of the crew
toquit labor. Heisstill at arge.-fShreveport Q
Standard, May %.
Having learned that beavers were multiply n
Ing In the Chennault brake, and had built y
dams across the cutoff and erected houses In Y
the brake, we visited the scene OF their opera {
tons last Sunday afternoon and inspected Z
their works. We discovered that they had ,
made considerable Roadway on their dams,
and would doubtless have had the water COM ri
pletely stopped out Of the cutoff long since
had their work not been interrupted BY the Il
breaking Of their dams every morning by Mr.. a
Guess. He thinks that II let alone In their e
work their dam building will eventually re- y =,
suit In the innndation OF Mrs. Latham's farm. ~
|Richland Beacon. 3
heard yesterday OF singular death which /,
occurred either In this county, or more prob q
ably In Caddo parish, about ten days or two u
weeks ago. The account states that two
were together conversing. Hearne had an g
open knife In his hand, and Elder asked him A