The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-25
LOUISIANA.


The cotton crop In Avoyelles Ia reported tt
be very fine. Corn has been much injured by
dry weather.
A religious revival is In progress In AM
around Shreveport, and many converts have
been obtained.
Two white men and two colorsd men were
recently bitten by u rabid dog Ia the neigh.
borhoOd Of Cotton Port. AvUyelleg parish
The dog was killed.
On Tuesday, the fifteenth instant, Charley
Foley, aged about fourteen years, living 10
IbervfIle parish, opposite Bayou aoula was
thrown from horse and severely injured.
Another installment OF Baton Rouge dar.
kies wanted TO leave Tor Kansas last Sunday
on the james Howard, but, for some reason
Or other, did not get off. So We learn from
the Advocate.
Tt ia proposed, by the town Of Donaldson
vile, to appropriate the sum Of 800 Ia aid Of
the military celebration which will attend
the mastering Of the Cannoneers OF Don
aldson into the service OF the State.
A very serious accident happened Mr.. Jas.
Macarthur, Of COushatta, on Wednesday
evening last. While riding on Abney street,
hs horse scared at d paper In the way and
threw Mr.. McA breaking his colar-bone In
two places.
The long looked for rain In Grant parish
has come at last, but too late to do corn good,
and but half a crop Is now an assured fact.
Cotton is doing middling well, and without
accident will hardly fall more than Is per
cent short OF last year.
The convictions ut the term Of the Grant
Parish Court recently closed were Two sen
fenced to five years In the Penitentiary and
four to imprisonment In the parish jail, one
for ten days. two FOR twenty and one for sixty
days, and also to work Oh the public roads.
Mr.. Julius Lsso dropped In to see lis this
morning to say that, after a residence OF
twenty -seven years In this immediate section,
he saw, for the first time, this morning, "a hill
farmer selling corn to river folks. Mr.. Lisso
bought ten barrels at st. Louis figures
fCoushatta Citizen.
colored boy found box OF brandy on the
wreck Of the old Southwestern, which burned
and sunk at the Colfax landing several years
ago. The water has got 30 low that the en-
tire wreck shows, and the boy found the box
buried In the sand. The brandy is No. /, as
-[Colfax Chronicle.
The Shreveport Board Of Health has In
structed the health officer to notify the man
ager of the North Louisiana Stage Company
that be = prohibited from y bringing passesn-
feeted point; and further not to cross the
river until the stage has been inspected by
the health officer.
The planters continue to complain OF the
drouth. In the hills, especially, the cotton is
suffering severely. The river crops are doing
las well as could be expected" under the cir
cumstances, but they also need rain. So far,
we hear OF scarcely any boll-worms, which,
In series OF years, do more damage to the
cotton than the dreaded caterpillar Shreve-
port Times.
The Donaldsonville chief informs us that
Harris Mendlesohn, an old man who follows
& the business of a cigar and tobacco peddler
made affidavit before the parish Judge two
weeks ago that, as he was riding through the
cutoff from Palo Alto plantation to the
Souvenir place, on the third instant. q cOlored
man who had been hiding ia the cane BY the
roadside, sprang from his place Of conceal
ment, brandishing q long knife, and selling
the bride Of atlantis horse, demanded the
riders money on pain Of death. Theold man
begged for his life, and taking $50 from his
pocket, which was all the money he had on his
with this outrage the scoundrel struck the
defenseless old man heavy blow,
knocking him from his horse and fell
Ing him senseless to the ground. The
unfortunate victim recovered consciousness
Shortly after and made his way to place Of
safety. He did not know the name of his as
sailant, but Sheriff jones' to whom was in
trusted the execution Of the warrant issued
On the peddler's affidavit, made inquiries In
the neighborhoOd of the occurrence which !
satisfied him that John Mosely was the rob- |
Der and would-be murderer. Accordingly, the |
sheriff returned to the vicinity this morning
ter was crossing the field Of the Palo Alto
place with couple Of boon companions who
do not seem to bear the most favorable repu- |
tations imaginable. Contrary to expectation,
Mosely submitted quietly to arrest, and the |
sheriff had no trouble In bringing him to JAIL |
The evidence against Mosely is said to be |
quite strong.