The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-10
LOUISIANA.
pEnafore in shreveport.

8# MnTpnn City mas IHe HhHtHE uihhia' -
nae two skating clubs organized.
MANY PLANTERS In 1t. Mary are grinding
~u,,t, frka signr yield III the upper nnd OF
tta nat,iab IL much heavier than Ill the lower
f,,,r enternrising farmers are saving moro
r,aaa this season than they have ~ several
spnnyn. Aud fine weather has this been Tor tho
furstnass Sabine Southron
f,attan has been coming Into town quite
hrialsly I'LL tile past few days. ana owing y"
sha aif,ieulty III shipping. the staple IN nn-
sst,,nulattnr III the hands uf purchasers
Nesfoto Democrat,
The recent exceedingly dry wcnthcr and
Y,ssyh Svinas haya caused several fences w. ~
turned throughout the parish. Farmers can
rat Ie too cautious. aE tho woods arc oh us
iii many places tDeSoto Democrat
Faw DAYS ago Mr. w. II. Goooh. OF Ilons-
mt Hll. wac 40 unfortunate IA W nave nv
rI,,-huuse burned In which thotn was nnn'''
fiftxsan bnlas of cotton IL WAS accidental. arc
xve arc informed that there was nn insurance
Or, the property De Soto Democrat.
Monday last a boiler exploded nj Mr. Lul-
tnrss sugar house, OH the Alicia plantation II
St Charles: three other boilers were wreeRad
ny tho explosion. IWo men VIII. n,s sa"lnai
hurt, and three mules were hadly sehlueu.
ana acme damages were made 10 tho pip"s
and building
ON last Monday evening boiler IN tho
gt,uar-hnse Oh tha ellis plantation on Bayou
TaITehonne exploded. W which noli ot the
4
I,ov Eere slluhtly pcalhed. Mr.. Ellis had Just
ent1tmenopd grinding oil Monday morning
4 Thihodaux Sentinel.
Green Reddng. Oh Sunday lhst, murderer
htH wife. across the river on Mi. hh2ni" =
place. Green had been WORKING IN W" lai-
anal IN this parish. His WIFI. 70 whom he
wms legally married, abandoned him Green
gave her n beating Thursday. Tor which she
had him arrested and placed under ho,'n.
SUNDAY he came 10 town. rtoaseu lnm 1lsrl -
4. Ma IN
Sarsssn was committed tp prison without bail.
se4IOuachita Telegraph.
'Asys the Shreveport Standard IN response
skss a request that w0 should puhish now lar
che river now Ia below the lpw-watnr mark ~
fST2. Ia order that the public may rightly UNI
<lerstand the danger llne, wa submit tho tol-
lowing report of Sergeant Brady.
The Red river liz now fnnt q Inches below
she low water mnrk Of lSs3. which makes tho
danger limo of the now government gauge
aD feet above low water vi 1879. which
ts taken aa the reference point for gauge. and
.ss foot lower than zero Of 1872.
T. f. BRADY.
Sergeant Signal Corps, United States Army
Yesterday morning, between Band lon'oock.
Mr. John Gayle. atopaon 81 thn hate nf.
Whit Vance, on thu Buck Hall plantation. Ia
lsossier parish, met with 4 sad and fatal aeci-
dent. ii seems that Mr.. Gayle had arranged
nj duck hunt and went into tho room where
hia gun was sitting behind bureau, nnd
hammers caught against the wall on tho
bureau causing IL tx discharge. lodging tho
entire load al duck shot into tho Forehead 81
&Ese unfortunate gentleman, from the effects
s1f which he died In n short Tine shreveport
Times, November A.
On Saturday last ono Henry GnmmaclS
shot and mortally wounded barton Holmes,
aou Tiger leland. Cammack made his escape
At the time. Deputy Sheriff ! Leonard But
lard. assisted by posse 81 cnlornd men. i'm
N..i.
\ cook him Ill Mr.. Boyces place. on Bayou
Napides, Oh Tuesday night. He was found
Hid d house and surrendered after finding that
! escape was imposaible. Cnmmacli was maxi
He was lodged In jaii here Tuesday evening.
Holmes IL not expected To recover. Both
parties are colored.-I Natehitochea Nindica-
apr.
Al young man. whose name we have nscrr-
tAined to be Joo R4ius, comitteh suicide ut
Major j. T.. Btoadweils place, Ia this phtlah.
on Thursday. the twenty third ult'mo. by
shooting himself through the heart. Our in
farmant states that he was employed Ivy
Major Broadwel "a assistant book keeper.
He liz said to have been employed rs book
keeper III some pubic Office IN New York city.
Previous 10 his death his mother wrote to
Major Broadwell to furnish him With what
ever he needed. Before his srlf destruction
mo aeemed very respondent. tie had 80 ~
gold on him at the time. Further particulars
we have been unable to learn. Natchltochcs
Il Vindicator.
The drpdge boats Sampson and King Of
Spades are hard at work. Mr.. F. >. Goode
who has just returned from the canal now be-
ting cut reports as follows: There is already
one and three-uuarter miles cut out. forty
feet wide and from six to nine feet deep. leav-
ting about three and hall miles more to be
cut out. The dredge boats are cutting from
= $50 w 800 feet per day. Mr.. Gsoode says that
ewing to low water In the Mississippi river.
coal is becoming scarce and arrangements
have been made TO procure wood on tho lower
Lafourche. Another impairment which re-
tards the work is That tho water is 50 salty
that the boilers have TO be cleaned out two or
three times every week. The aredge boats
are now cutting out ID marshp lands, situated
on lower Latourche. three and half miles
east. eighteen miles from the mouth, and be-
tween Bay Coquille and Bayou Lnfourche.
Terrebunne Courier.
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THE SOUTH.
Tha;a ara sevrntacn muraarclS under Sen-