The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-12-11
LOUISIANA.
The Rcd Ia on the rise.

Avoyelles Ia full of Wild pigeons.
The public shooa In East FeCauA have
been closed for lack Of money
The sugar crop In Pointe Coupeo Ia MI
ground. The yield is good.
The tally sheets IN ward two Grant parish
were stolen after tho vote had been counted.
The river Ii slowly rising and there IL now
water enough IN Bayou Iatourche To float
aatboats with medium eargoes.
The public schools Of St james were closed
last month An attempt to keep them open
an private schools failed.
The Plaauemlnos Observer has heard That Y
man was Killed at st. Sophie on election day.
but can find nothing To suhstantiate the story
The people OF Morgan city will hold mass
meeting next Saturday for the consideration
Of sanitary matters
From the Hon. y. II. ELAN VIZ learn that the
independent ticket in Iatahoua was elected,
Franklin sun.
The weather has been too warm in Polnte
Couppe fol sugar making, aud the planters
have suspended operations until y cold Euap
comes ON
But little cotton now remains tohe picked
In this parish The crop has boon gathered In
excellent condition, and Il realizing fair
price, -IGaldwcll Herald,
Mr.. "A. w, Iiateman l. making sugar On thu
Berwick place, Bayou Hruf ana IL informs
ia that TIE Yield will bn two hpgshcada To-
the acre-l Morgan CITY Review.
The cotton picking aeafen Is rapidly draw
ing 10 a close. and. should the weather con
tiuue favorable, only 4 very small portion u
the crop Will remain unEai TERED NJ the close
or the Year shreveport Times.
Cant Mct3raih. who WA candidate FOR
clerk uf court 0u the Independent ticket in
East Baton Rouge ani who y recorder "t
that parish has refused tn aign the returns
of the late election with y Wow, IL ~ believed,
of coutesttng tts validity
We have been told that ono negro stabbed
another to death on the steele y Clark place
last Sunday. Tho murderer WAS arrested
and taken to FRANKLIN 70 jail. W. also hnar
that negro wna killed ~ another ~ the
same place last week, We did not learn
names or particulars. Morgan city Review
The election passed oil quietly throughout
the parish. As far as we can learn, no dis
turhance occurred in any Of tho wards. The
following are the parish officers elected under
tho new constitution Representative a. w.
Faulkner; clerk OF the district court. J. G.
Hines sheriff, Emile Girod; coroner. ID. w.
Gregory Caldwell Herald.
There was some trouble ut tho poll n the
. grst ward iii Frnsaa parish. whore !. NJ Oil
lespip, the Republican candidate for Lieuton-
ant Governor, lives. According to the drcla-
ration of the commissioners of election. the
polls, poll box, tally eheets. ete;, were cap
fured BY a mob headed by Gillespie The
vote " this poll Wa not counted IN thn re-
turns from JenSas.
Work on the railroad Is advancing to this
place slowly but steadily. The raad-hed on
the east side of Nermilion bayou IL being put
In order, and work % the bridge across the
bayou Ii progressing NJ fast AZ circumstances
will permit. We have been informed that the
forcelemployed IN track laying between this
place and New Iberia has lately been in-
creased. and NO doubt cars Will soon run 10
Lac bayou NermlionSiiie Advertiser.
- we learn trout Nil Calvin Groom, one Of
the oldest residents nf thG parish. that Ferry
lake at present Il iulty etghtccn inches lower
than II was during the remarkably tlW water
of 1856 when the people living in that section
ot the country Were compelled 10 haul their
supnlies from Lake Providence. at the Mis-
sisslpp river, and from tile mouth VI hed
river Shreveport Times.
Four emigraut wagons passed through Co
lumhla OH Thursday fn route for Georgia.
The movers were from Texas, west ot San
Antonio They state that only two htR rains
havefallen in that section III the past eighteen
months, and that cattle have to 20 sixty miles
10 water. The corn crop III some places did
not yield more than peck or hall hushel To
the acre owing TO the drouth. Caldwell
Herald.
The election Of nj. III Hordy, the present tn
ssumhent, to the position of sheriff by 2O0 ma
iority has been announced In the New Orleans
daiies. On the other hand, rumors of trreg-
Ylarities and budooZing have been rife; the
carrying of from the clerks office. Franklin,
and destruction u the hallot-boNes Ut the par
tsh have been reported and published. Yes
esterday Judge L. h. MentZ, Mr.. Gordys OPP
ponent passed through this place, claiming
to have been elected and alleging his ability
TO make his claim good Morgan City Re-
view.
On Saturday last, at o'clock In the even
ing, at the residence OF Scott Douglas, coli