The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-31
.. LOUISIANA.

| The telegraph line between Monroe anC
Farnervilie has been bought by Mr.. D. Stein
| and will now be maintained in working order
! Horse thieves and other had characters are
| giving much trouble to the Inhabitants Of
| Caddo parish living in the neighborhood OF
| Boggy bayou.
| During the heavy rains of Friday and Fri
day night the plank road leading from New
Iberia to Avery's Island was partly sub
merged by tide water.
There is now being erected on the old Sillan
place, st. Mary parish, by the BosWorth
Brothers, a complete sugar refnery-a cen
trail sugar-house to roll the cane of their own
| and nelghborlng plantations.
A squad OF four grown hands and three
children picked over a thousand pounds Of
| cotton Tuesday, on the Pargoud lower place.
Planters, generally, are picking, and it would
seem that cotton Is opening rapidly, Judging
from this single report -[Ouachita Telegraph.
Capt. ?. E. Burke, acting clerk of the Yer
million steamer Matte, last Saturday sent the
following dispatch to his brother Mayor
Burke, dated Point Maronne: Steamer
Matte aground on ea-marSh-bloWn ashore
yesterday. Crew all right, and boat will be
saved
Mr.. R. ]. Brown, Of the Keystone or Col.
Brown plantation, yesterday sent us TWO
canes, as if cut for the mill, measuring over
six feet each. The heaviest had sixteen red
joints and wegWed a. pounds. This cannot
be beat for the season.-I New Iberia Sugar
Bowl
A very serious affray took place last Satur-
day at Kramer's stable, In Je5nerette, parish
German. The latter received a gunshot
wound in the head, which, it Is feare i, will
prove fatal. Lenain was severely cut with
knife about the hand and arm.
A pelican was shot the other day just below
this office. From tip to tip of its wings it
yr,t.a al &c
had capacity of five gallons, ascertained by
actual test from gallon measure. These
birds are rarely ever seen this far from the
Gulf coast. st.-IOuachlta Telegraph.
A small frame dwelling belonging to Mr..
William Burke, situated on the bank OF Bayou
Ieche, near the New Iberia bridge, and occu-
pied by q negro woman, was completely
blown down during the storm OF Friday. At
ter midnight the velocity Of the wind was very
great, equal almost to d regular equinoctial
gale.
In and about Lake Charles we learn that
the storm OF Friday night ragged with great
violence. Trees, fences, crops and chimneys
suffered from the force Of the wind. Several
buildings and the spire Of the Catholic Church
were blown down. Before the fences can be
repaired it is feared that much injury will be
done to the crops by cattle.
On Bayou Sale, st. Mary, on Thurday, an
other George Washington went to his long
home-shot through the heart by another ne
gro. Also at the Midway plantation, one Ben
Patterson, negro, in attempting to force
open cabin door, was laid beyond reach Of
human aid by a pistol or gunshot. The party
doing the shooting surrendered himself to the
sheriff
Friday the foodgates Of the skies opened
upon Us, accompanied with very high wind.
We learn that it has injured the cotton in
some places quite seriously, in some instances
blown off the bolls or destroyed the blossom.
This week the weather has been clear, pleas
ant, and so warm that the cane crop will grow
with great vigor. AS we are almost certain
OF dry fall after SO much rain, this promises
to be another sugar year New Iberia Sugar
Bowl
Vacuum pan machinery for Thompson's
Calumet place is arriving, and is to be put up
by Capt. Sypher, an experienced and accom-
pliShed engineer and nachinist. DIR. II. J.
Sanders is putting up steam train, and will
have the syrup made into sugar at the La-
gonda plantation. q. G.. Zenor has erected a
special building for his vacuum pan, and will
have everything ready in time for the coming
crop. These are all OF the improvements [
know OF in sugar machinery on the lower
Iecne.-[New iberia Sugar Bowl.
A party of the citizens Of New Iberia,
headed by Capt S. BoudreauA, assembled at
the corner of Washington and Corinne streets,
on Tuesday morning last, to celebrate the
completion of the railroad to the New Iberia
depot grounds, and saluted the incoming
train OF the Morgan Louisiana and Texas
Railroad with eight rounds fired from can