The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-29
LOUISIANA.

Crop prospects In East Baton Rouge are
better than for many years past.
The crops In Lafayette are reported TO be
greatly In need of rain; ditto st. Landry.
The district courts are busy sentencing
prisoners. st. Landry sent eight and Lafay
cite Ave to the Penitentiary last week.
The sugar house of Mrs. Webre, in the par
ish of Iafourche, was burned last week with
all its contents, loss $4,000
VIM Richardson. locked up for stock steal
ing, escaped from the Washington parish jail
last Wednesday.
negro named Hausam, aged about sixty
years, was accidentally killed at Terre-aux
Borufs by the wheel of q wagon passing over
his neck, causing death instantaneously.
The sugar house of Mr.. Dickson, eight miles
from Covington, in st. Tammany parish, was
destroyed by fire last Saturday, with all its
contents, consisting mainly OF corn and wool.
VIENNA Lincoln parish, Is without a tele-
graph operator. The latter was summoned
before the grand jury as Il witness, became
cAgo 20
Two boys by the name Of Grow, living on
Red bayou, De Soto parish, We're struck by
lightning some ten days ago and killed. There
were four or five other persons in the room at
the time who were all violently shocked by
the electricity.
A rattlesnake twenty-three years old was
recently killed near Clinton, East Feleiana,
winch, at the Time IL WAS kllIeH, fldu CDileu
itself around wild cat, which 1t had sue
ceeded In holding In its embrace until life was
extinct
The United States soldiers at Baton Rouge,
under the command of Capt. Waterbury, left
for Newport, KY, last week. The Baton
Rouge papers compliment the retiring SOL
diery for their good conduct while there, and
| express regret at their departure.
The barge Little Annie, while making the
Tiger bend on the downward trip, in Bayou
BTnf, May 16, struck snag that made hole
in her bottom. The captain at once began
unloading the boat OF her cargo, which con-
sisted mainly OF sugar and moIasses. The
boat was kept afioat all night and all the car
go got off of her. except sixty hogsheads of
sugar, when she went down.
| A colored girl, Kate Kelly by name, aged 8
years, living on the Maryland plantation, at
pouring coal oil on 1t. The usual result, an
! explosion, followed. The girl rushed from the
house In flames, notwithstanding the efforts
of her brothers to stop her. She ran some
distance in the field and fell down, literally
| burned to pieces.
Messrs Quinn and Scott, United States fish
commissioners, arrived in Monroe Monday
by rail with $4,000 young shad which they
deposited in the Ouachita river at the foot OF
DeSiard street. These gentlemen deposited
a like number In the Macon and Tensas
rivers, between Monroe and Delta. These
fish were Matched at Avocce, N. c.. were only
seven days old when deposited, and were In
an excellent condition.
/ Perhaps the best illustration of the in
furious effects Of the law authorizing the
employment Of convicts on other than public
or State works has been demonstrated In this
parish within the last few, days, when fifty
citizens. laborers, were suddenly discharged
and fifty convicts employed, and, conse-
labor obtained by the day are idle. The
money earned by citizens is spent in the 10,
caIities where earned. and is of benefit, but
money earned by convicts goes to the pockets
into the State ACKNOWLEDGMENT City Reg
/ lister.