The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-04
:. LOUISIANA, A..


The cotton crop in Red River parish Was
never more promising.
The Shreveport Times has discovered on
two plantations below Shreveport the appear
ance Of the cotton worm.
The rice crop Of Avoyelles parish will be
failure this year. The present droughtis the
reason alleged.
In fine condition; some Of the oldest corn Is
needing RAIN but Is not suffering.
Instead Of the proverbal chromo the Vien-
ma Sentinel will give q pig to the person send
ing the largest number Of subscribers to the
paper.
Planters In Iberia parish report that the
acreage In sugar, cotton, and especially In
corn, rice and potatoes, Is larger than ever
before since the war.
The cotton shipments from Coushatta since
last September am cunt to about seven thou
sand bales, with about fifty bales on hand in
the warehouse
The parishes Of Cameron and Calcasieu,
they can harvest, are likely to be in a bad fix
this year, for the crop is larger than ever be-
fore.
Caddo parish enjoyed very heavy rain
last Saturday. It did not come In time to be
of much benefit to corn planted early, but
also to the cotton crop.
| At a rain prayer meeting on Tiger Island,
| in the parish of NatchiJoches, Saturday,
| June 81, Richard Walter, colored, attacked
| Henry Cammack. also colored, in church and
stabbed him twice. intiicting dangerous
| wounds.
| Sheriff G. B. Shaw. of VermilionyiIle par
ish, arrived at Lake Charles last Tuesday
| with three cOnvicts. sentenced to hard labor
In the State Penitentiary at the late term OF
livered them to Capt Hayden, who commands
| the squad of convfcts now at work on the
| Louisiana Western Railroad.
The Board Of Police Of Opelousas on the
| eleventh instant adopted an ordinance re-
quiring that all dogs running at large within
shall wear a collar with tin stamp, said
stamps to be furnished by the town constable
at the rate Of fifty cents per stamp. The or
dinance goes into effect on tn fourteenth OF
July.
1t has been fully three weeks since planters
| In some sections of Avoyelles have had rain,
| and as a natural consequence vegetation
looks sickly and In cases Is dying out. Espe.
| ctally is tais the case in the neighbOrhood OF
| MarksvilIe. Much Of the old corn is lost and
the cotton begins to suffer. The gardens
look parched and many vegetables are total
| ly destroyed.
Last Sunday some sixty darkies, afflicted
with the Kansas fever, assembled at the land
ing at Baton Rouge to take the first boat
s'bound for de promised land When the boat
arrived they found that instead Of getting
free passage each fellow had to "pay his
way" and concluded not to 60 Some OF them
had sacrificed their crops, horses and their
little all to start off on this wild goose chase.
The Peabody schools in Opelousas. will con-
tinue about a month longer. The other schools
have been discontinued for the summer, Peo-
i pie generally have taken more interest In the
subject Of education this year than formerly,
and the result is to be seen in the improved
i condition of the schools and the more marked
progress of the pupils. The schools are ex-
pected to open again early in the fall, and we
trust that renewed efforts will be made to
raise their standard still higher, and that we
may be able to point with admiration to our
excellent public schools Washington News.
A colored man named Brooks, working on
j. B. Herndon's plantation, in Caddo parish.
last week descended into partially COM
peted we'll on the premises to continue the
Iabors Of excavation. He felt himself yield
ing to sense Of suffocation, and growing
faint called to those above TO pull him up
quickly. This was done, Brooks in the mean
time having sunk into state OF unconscious
ness On nearing the aperture under the re,
viving influence Of the fresh air, he struggled
out of the bucket in which he was lying and
was precipitated to the bottom of the we'll, a
distance Of ffty-five feet. His body was dis
covered frightfully mangled, the skull being
fractured, the cOllar-bone, neck, back and arnl
broken.
The weather is too dry for the cane and
corn; the former, though still green, does not
grow as rapidly as it should at this season
and the latter, particularly that planted late
the earth the laying by process is retarded
and the blowing is not as deep as it should
be. The bayou is falling again, and all hopes
are given up of any satisfactory, rise before
the fall. Wood choppers are In demand, and
the noise Of the ak is heard throughout the
swamps. Notwithstanding the above draw.
backs the cane bids fair to do well, # the rair
in the next two months should be sufficient tc
bring it forward The corn crop is magnif
cent, and poor crop is an exception to the
general rule. The health of the parish is
, good, though slight colds have been some
What prevalent. The nights have generally
been cool and refreshing, though the sun hat
been quite warm at midday, the mercury
running as high as 80 for several days.-lAs
sumption Pioneer.
On the up trip of the steamer Danube there
} were several lively young ladies aboard, WHIT
INDUCED in little playfulness which proved
a very serious affair: While the steamer va
at a woodward the girls went ashore and thel
noticed a wagon to which was attached |
yoke of oxen, who were quietly lying doWI