The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1879-12-11
StatE aews.

A new Catholic Church is to be
erected at Shreveport.
a demand is made for tele-
graphic communication between
HOuma and Terrebonne.
Read the meeting of The Sugar
Planters Association, published
on the first page of the Sugar,
Bowl.
The Port Hudson and Clinton
Railroad, we understand, has as
much business as it can attend
to, transporting freight.
Arrangements have been made
by the Post Office Department to
establish a mail route between
DonaldsonvilIe and the mouth of
Red River.
Yesterday, the 10th inst, the
Louisiana Conference of the Meth.
odist Episcopal Church, South.
assembled at Baton Rouge. Bishvs
op Keener, presided.
DR.. Chopin has offered to Der
come one Of 500-if that number
of citizens can be found-to sub
scribe $1,000 each, for the drain.
age of New Orleans.
The new constitution, it il now
conceded, has been adopted beyond
any doubt, and we shall shortly
see what stuff the successful can
dIdates for office are made of.
The inhabitants of Algiers have
complained to the Board of Health
at New Orleans that it was the
intention of some parties to estab,
llsh a rice plantation in their
neighborhood.
A horrid murder was perpetrat,
ed in New Orleans, on the evening
Of the 9TH inst, by a drunken
printer named Beasley,w who threw
his landlady over the balusters of
q third story gallery.
Many irregularities are COM
planned of in the last election,
The Sheriff Of Terrebonne, it is
reported, did not send the boxes
to many Of the precincts, until q
late hour.
The Thihodaux Sentinel saws,
n Morgan City cemetery the in
.erments from June 1st TO Noyem.
Der 22d, 1879, were So, Of which
about half were said to be of yell
ow fever. In the number were
g cOlOred persons.
The city Surveyors of the Fourth
District of New Orleans, where
fever was most prevalent
asst summer, has developed the
act that the grade of most of the
OTIS on which the houses are built
: lower than that of the adjoin-
Dg side" walks and streets.
One of theinmates of the Insane
at jackson, who had es-
'aped from that institution, has
,een at large for some days, and
successfully evaded every
+, It made to arrest him, up to
he present. He was seen in Ulin-
on last Saturday week.
In 1878 the taxation was Oh
lills on the dollar, in this State.
After the passage of the new Con-
titution Taxpayers WILL we hope,
experience some relief in this item
/ assessments, which will not be
} burdensome as they have been.
reduction from Ill mills to 5
ills.
Never within the memory Of
an, says the Gretna Courier, has
Mississippi water been as
ear as at this ting. II has
ore the appearance Of lake than
river water. The river is now
teen feet below high water
ark, aud no prospects of a rise
on.
Now that the State election ia
eF, the Democratic party find
a 10 the Senate and the House F.
Representatives, they have a )
eeping majority. The result in
} city Of New Orleans shows +,
the regular ticket complete. !,
I without exception, was vic. :
ions.
ahe Houma Courier recon :
nds the Navigation Company !
90 TO work at once, aud next Z
i the planters of that section i
be able to ship their crops in 1
e, without waiting On the !
ryan railroad. Planters COM I
n that the road does not fur. 2
] enough empty boxes to ship Q
i sugar and molasses. G
IN The 9th ult., a fire took u
% &C Sugar Town, which con u
d portion Of The premises a
lessrs. Richardson s. Peninger, j
fire is supposed 10 have orig.
ed IL . match being caught y
cotton gin. By smothering
with bsgging aud q
lpL npnlleaEion q Water. he DF