The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-04
LOUISIANA.


There is some malarial fever prevalent In
st. James parish.
Claiborne parish farmers have raised an
unusual amount Of wool this year.
Webster parish enjoyed rains Friday, Sat
urday and Monday. They were needed.
Peripatetic vendors Of bedbug and flea pol
sons are locked UP in Minden as tramps.
Richland parish ID now guarantined against
Memphis, New Orleans and Mississippi City.
Louis Kerner, Jr., who was shot In Gretna
July I3. died Of the effects OF his wound July
%.
The time by stage-coach between Monroe
and Shreveport has been reduced to thirty
hours.
Webster parish promise well, but the corn
crops look sick.
A case Of yellow fever In ThibodauX ID re-
ported here The report may or may not be
true Houma Courier.
Candidates for sheriff under the new CON
stitutiOn have already appeared In Claiborne
parish; ditto St. James.
No yellow fever in the parish, or any other
fever. Assumption will, as OF yore expose
the senseless quarantine notions. II Pioneer.
A party out hunting In Claiborne parish.
last week, killed seven beavers and two offers.
There are o number Of these animals In the
parish
The provision of the game law prohibiting
the shooting OF deer expired last week, and
parties OF hunters are now out In dozen dill
ferent localities.
Planters In Iberia parish report that The
acreage In sugar, cotton, and especially III
corn, rice and potatoes, is larger than ever
before since the war;
The corn and cotton crops Of Richland a are
generally very promising. Although tne
corn was Injured by the drouth on some
fnf II fa nj entire falIIlra at Anv place.
Homer Minden and such interior towns
will soon enjoy the fast mail system. The
schedule time between Shreveport ana me
mouth of Red river has been reduced to forty
eight hours.
The corn crop In this vicinity is almost On
entire failure. Some corn, which had not the
least chance Of making anything. has been
cut down and cured to be used as fodder
Webster Democrat.
Old Courtableau has dropped 50 low that
inside communication between Washington
and New Orleans Is only keptup by our small
boats. The large steamers go only as lar as
Little Devil, near the mouth.
The Louisianais announces that d number
of leading negro politicians Of st. james
have concluded to emigrate to Kansas, and
look for offices there. There is some good In
the exodus movement after all.
Mr.. AIS. Chappuis, Of Napoleonville, went
West some four or five weeks ago, leaving
his store In charge Of August Gounaux. When
he returned he found that he had been robbed
Of $1,000 and horse by Gounaux.
About thirty carloads Of freight, consisting
principally of bacon. meal, flour pork aud corn
have reached Monroe during the past four
days. Provisions and plantation supplies are
on hand In abundance to outlaSt the quaran-
tine.
East Baton Rouge has been examining Its
finances, and finds that 1t owes $4,000 regis
tered debt, S17,s13 &c for unpaid bills, and
q total Of $50. 425 ~. There is due Id back
taxes only S26665 Gland unpleasant show
ing, this.
From q reliable gentlemen, who was In
Bayou Sara on Sunday last, we learn that
some three hundred negroes were assembled
on the river bank near that place, anxiOuSly
awaiting transportation to Kansas. Some
had money and some had none.--l East Fell
ciana Patriot-Democrat.
dead body was found In the field Of W.
III. JarTall of Claiborne, on the twenty-fourth
of last month with gunshOt wounds In the
lungs, liver and spine. The deceased was
found to be Reason Shepard, q very danger
GUS man, with several charges hanging over
him. among them three rapes.
The members of the Methodist Church at
Haynesvilie, Claiborne parish, have preferred
charges against and will investigate a fellow
named j. M. 2. Hickerson. He Is charged
with about every crime In the decalOgue. The
plack Sneep, Hlckefson recently lniilcIeu MS
presence upon the people Of that vicinity, and
began the publication Of a tiy-bown paper,
but his record being too savory he went w est,
to Dallas, Tex.
The Shreveport board Of health discussed
the quarantine against New Orleans last
week, as to whether persons leaving this city
on the twenty-fourth should be admitted into
town. Mr.. Levy, one Of the members, thought
this ought TO be done, as many people had
left New Orleans on that day before Shreve-
port had issued quarantine, and could not
have known OF 1t. The board, however, by a
vote OF three to two, overruled him, and quar-
antined all persons leaving New Orleans after
July "a.