The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-18
LOUISIANA II. .
The cane is small In Assumption.

/, The cane is small In Assumption.
The cotton worms have made their appear
ance on some or the farms In Lincoln parish.
Port Hudson shipped two bales OF cotton
on the seventh, both on the John w. Cannon.
The cotton crop Of Union parish is promls-
ing, but the yield OF corn will be very small.
There Will be al election In Vermilionvile
on the 18th, to decide tie for member OF the
town council.
Much complaint has been made OF late OF
the Irregularities Of the Shreveport and Red
River Landing mail.
Clinton is the healthiest Incorporated and
quarantined place in the State. excepting
New Orleans Clinton Waterman.
Crops are doing better In Lind Grove,
MorehOuse parish, than expected. The Kan
| sas fever there is also cooling down.
| That portion OF Caddo parish In which
| Doggy Bayou is situated Is said to be infested
with horse thieves and suspicious characters.
Mr.. w. O. Ratlffe brought to our sanetum
on Thursday o stalk OF sugar cane containing
eleven joints and measuring five feet East
Feliciana Patriot Democrat.
The Kansas fever has struck "OId Living
ston" and from all appearances at least one
half of her colored population will exodus
next spring II Maurepas Gazette.
There was free fight on the Trinity plan
tation, lin Assumption parish, last Sunday
In which one colored man killed another and
then absc0nded to parts unknown.
The dead body Of q newborn colored infant
was found In the city cemetery at Shreve-
port 1t Is thought to be a case OF infanticide,
and the police are on the track Of the guilty
one.
There will perhaps be enough corn made In
this parish to supply the home demand. The
crop averages well all over the parish The
age one bale per acre.--Richland Beacon.
Whether the rice crop will be q half Or a
third or full yield is yet involved In OBJ
security, but the rice buyers and runners are
as thick and lively as though the entire par
ish was one rice field Thtbodaux Sentinel.
The Ibervile South man has been shown
fine samples of rice from the Ophelia planta-
place Is above eight feet at the present time.
A few acres on this place promise yield OF
twenty barrels to the acre.
Mr.. Herbin informs us that he saw genu-
inc cotton worm on his cotton last Monday,
and we presume he crushed it; SO that Ii
there We're no others concealed among the
leaves of his cotton, there can be little danger
of It's being damaged by WORMS Richand
Beacon. =.+5m-..=.=...
A petition, signed by several Of our citizens
who use the telegraph, has been forwarded to
the president and directors, Or the Western
cessive rates charged for transmission Of
messages In this section OF country Shreve-
port Times
The second bale Of new cotton made its ad-
vent into the city yesterday. 1t was brought
ia by Mr.. f. L. TURNKEY, of DeSoto parish,
middling. Messrs. Steers u Lindsay We're
the purchasers at nine and three-fourths cents
per pound [Shreveport Standard.
For the last ten or fifteen days we have
had an over-abundance Of rain, and crops,
which were entirely clean when laid by"
ra ny nv yraCSv than
Der to have seen them since the war Cotton
Is shedding to limited extent. and worms
are reported in places. East Feliciana
Patriot Democrat
An old shoemaker named Ian, living in the
village of Paincourtville, Assumption parish,
committed suicide on last Saturday night by
shooting himself through the head with Il
pistol. Cause, temporary Insanity, produced
BY incompetence. Deceased was a native OF
Germany and leaves u family.
The weather has been simply awful this
week. The sky has been covered with clouds
that hid the sun from US. We had daily rains
and the roads are full OF deep mud. Sugar
| canes are progressing firmly and the fields
present splendid sight. From all parts OF
lower Louisiana, good news OF the cane crop
are received and no doubt this years crop
will not fall short Of last year's.-ISt. John
Meschacebe.
The fact that the caterpllars have made
their appearance in almost every portion of
this parish can no longer be denied. Messrs.
Walter johnson, J. 2. McElroy and George
Il. Sutherlin assure us that they are very
abundant on their cotton, averaging i've or
six to the stalk In some places In the field.
During the past week we have heard dozen
or more farmers say that they have made
their appearance.-lDe Soto Democrat.
On the uplands Of our parish cotton pick
Ing has commenced in earnest. The yield on
these lands will not be good except In few
localities that were favored by timely rains,
On the lowlands the corn is only tolerably
good, but the cotton Is fine. The cane, with
the rains we are having, will be large enough
TO yield well II the rains stop ID time to per.