The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-05
LOUISIANA.

Baton Rouge amuses itself with balloon as
censions.
East Baton Rouge has had that much need
ed shower at last.
The crop prospects In the lower part OF East
Baton Rouge are doing well.
Cattle as o general thing In VermIIion par
ish are in good and fine condition. The crops
are In flourishinR condition.
PIaquemine has at last been able to pur-
chase town clock, and the South rejofces
loudly over the good news.
Mansfield Is delighted at the prospect OF the
early establishment OF q daily mail with
Shreveport.
There is good deal OF talk about worms i'm
De Soto; otherwise the cotton crop is doing
we'll.
Cotton Is looking well In Concordia. The
weather Is showerY and the nights unpleas~
antly cool
Cane In St. John has suffered by the drouth.
but Is doing we'll at present. Such rice as
could be irrigated and weeded Is splendid.
The wharf boat now stationed below Natchez
is the joint quarantine station for Natchez
and Vidalia.
The negroes ut False River, parish of Pointe
CouDee are talking great deal about going
to Kansas.
Another crowd of negroes were anxious to
leave Baton Rouge for Kansas Sunday MORN
ing on the Scudder, but she failed to land.
Morgan CITY is to have a Pinafore enter
tainment. Tuesday evening, given by the
children Of thht place.
Crops ON Mitchell Ridge, In Rutland, are
doing we'll Corn will average nearly forty
bushels and cotton q bale to the acre.
Vidalia has passed hog ordinance prohib-
iting hogs from running at large, and making
their owners responsible for the damage done
by them.
The board Of health OF Baton Rouge met
last week but refused to quar- anime against
Ma u IN
prove the sanitary condition OF the city.
Washington, parish Of st. Landry, is inn
proving great deal. "The hammer, the saw
and the clang Of the troweI," says the Ners.
"ean be heard st every corner"
A mass meeting in Plaquemine, parish OF
Ibervilie, welcomed home the delegates to the
Constitutional Convention in that parish, and
indorsed the new constitution.
The Baptist convention, recently assembled
at Minden, was the largest and most earnest
body OF that kind ever assembled In North
Louisiana.
Two young men named Richard McAdams
and John Meyers, while bathing In the river
in front Of the residence OF Joseph Bujol, in
West Baton Rouge, last Saturday, were
drowned.
| Crops on Black river, Concordia parish, are
| doing we'll. There is a good crop OF corn
| where it has been worked Cotton worms
| have appeared, but as yet have done little
| harm.
| The recent showers in West Baton Rouge
have greatly benefited the cane The stubble
will be short, owing to tho early heavy spring
rains. notwithstanding the late season, the
plant cane is very promising
No caterpillar has yet appeared In West
| Baton Rouge. Cotton suffers from no draw
back except the present daily showers, which
may get prove ali injury. On Bayou PoydraS
and at Sardine Point the crops are particu-
larry good.
| At Sunday entertainment at cross
| roads church, near John Lakes plantation,
| in Caddo, several negroes got into a row,
which resulted in one of them, Natt. john
son, being killed; another, Elsey Williams,
fatally wounded, and third, Dick Jones,
slightly wounded.
| Henry Thomas, woodchopper on the Bur-
gerie plantation, Bayou Cypremort, parish OF
st. Mary, disappeared last month. party
of negroes returning through the woods, a
few days SINCE found Thomas lying dead
where he had been working. He had been
murdered by being struck with club on the
back OF the neck.
Two convicts working on Dr. Dupree's PLAN
Ia ion took the Kansas fever the other day
and "cut out" and when Overhauled near
| Port H Hudson, were making lively tracks for
| the "promised land" Their term OF sentence
| will soon expire, and then il they wish to go
| they can do 20 unhindered-[Baton Rouge
! Advocate.