The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-23
LOUISIANA.

LOUISIANA.
West Baton Rouge will organize polo club
The cane is doing we'll In st. Bernard.
The boll-worm has appeared on the pIanta.
ton OF j. B. Pugh, Wallace's lake, De Soto.
Shreveport is talking Of establishing cot,
ton factory.
Cotton worms have appeared In large num-
bers In Concordia.
The Richland jail was broken open last
week, and ell the prisoners escaped.
1t has rained In Franklin, but not enough
TO revive whitening vegetation.
Wells are dry in Franklin and cattle are
suffering for water.
Work on the burned Crescent Oilworks at
Gretna has been begun.
-Four Baton Rouge boys have entered the
naval service on the Wachusett.
Thanks to several late rains, Union parish
will make good corn crop.
The railroad station at New Iberia will be
located out OF town.
The Peabody schools of Opelousas closed
July IL for two-months' vacation.
Whooping cough prevails In Plaquemines
parish.
Fine rains have benefited the crops In Cald-
well. Concordla and Catahoula.
Rain has fallen In Lafayette, but too late to
save the corn crop.
Tensas complains OF too much rain. Heavy
showers fell every day last week. It is bad
for the cotton.
Charlton still prevails in st. Bernard. A
number Of planters have sent their mules out
Of the parish until the danger Is over.
Jerry Hall. eolored, who has been to Kan
sas, is stumping Rapides In opposition to the
exodus movement.
West Felioiana, the Sentinel saws, will not
make more than half crop Of either corn OF
cotton. The drOuth is the CAUSE
Thee. McGarstle, of East Feliciana, cut
spreading adder open and took sixty-five
young snakes from her.
The corn and fruit crops OF Webster are
failures; the cotton is looking exceedingly
we'll
Corn Ia failure In Vermilon, and cane is
suffering. Even pasturage Is becoming worth
less on account Of the drouth
Vidalia, with population Of 200 inhabit-
ants, has twelve lawyers, two Of whom are
colored
!, The rice crop, at Happy Jack, parish of
Plaquemines, Is doing we'll. The average loss
will be about one third Of the crop.
Steam irrigation In st. Bernard has saved
half the rice crop. It will eat up however,
almost all the profits Of the rice farmers.
The Ouachita has changed It's course In
Catahoula, and is running up stream In con-
sequence OF sunden rise In the Mississippi.
The board Of health Of Plaquemine, Iber-
VILE phTlSIl. HIS D6Rn T6OTgaDlTHI With ". u,
Sauve as president and Emile Rivere as sec
rotary.
The school census Of Franklin shows 1912
educable children, as6 whites and 14O6 negroes
This is large Increase Of the negro popula-
ton Of the parish.
Roads are In terrible condition in Lafay-
cite. A mass meeting will be held at the
courthouse, July 26, to devise some M cans
TO remedy this evil.
Aleck Cyrus, colored, was dangerously
wounded on Gantts plantation, In st. Lam
Dry, Saturday night last, by another negro,
Wash Hamilton.
Deputy Sheriff Milspaugh, Of st. Landry,
was wounded last Saturday while endeavor-
to arrest David Mitchell, a notorious charac- |
ter OF that parish. Mitchell escaped.
A petition has been gotten up In East Car
roll asking the Attorney General to nolke pros.
the case against B. III. Lanier, late tax col
lector Of that parish.
Henderson Lee, colored desperate. con
lined In the MOrehouse jail, broke out last
week and escaped He has started for
Kansas
Morehouse will make a cotton crop equal to
that of 1868. It's corn is about two-thirds an
average crop. The gum swamp cryy,,, ,,,,, 49,
promising; those on the bayou are not doing
30 we'll. Nofl'7
The port Of Petit Anse has been quite lively
OF late. Three schooners are now lying at the
The Kate left last week with the first ship
ment Of salt from the Avery minc
The Lake Providence mail boat failed to
land at that place during her last trip, and
East Carroll has failed, consequently, either
70 send off or receive any letters. The peo-
pie OF the parish do not like this go-by.
The Beaulieu plantation, West Baton
Rouge containing 1920 acres, with good
sugar-house, stables, barns, out-houses,
mules mules, horses, oxen, agricultural implements
a vs. line growing crop, was sold the other
Jay Tor $4,000.
Ben Hicks, colored boy about sixteen
years old, living on Col. Louis Sterling plan
rom 4om another colored boy, Nelson Rhodes.
HE Ihe latter demanded his pistol back, when
Hicks fired on him. killing him instantly.
The drouth has seriously injured the crops
u u ". Landry. There will not be more than
n ~ crop Of corn and two-thirds Of a crop
p aa failures. Wells and cisterns are dry
anu The stock have begun to suffer for water.
> Ihe Kansas fever prevails In West Baton I
Annouge. Forty negroes left on the City of |
a sa,lo On her last trip, carrying with them {
ff ro,e hundred dogs. They went mostly
adi ann ferry landings. The City Of Alton
atso a the passage to St. Louis for them, on
hSa ae, ground that 1t would probably have to /
III phblg them back again free, and that this was
4.e only way Of avoiding an actual loss. /
11Aloeher lot leave next pay day.
ar PUCK Ridge or Hewellton, parish Of Tensas, &
1T,baoyed some interesting races last week: {
par BARRE y vas as large audience present from all
Ray naee between the champion horses OF Davis {
P Rstaa. Miss, Dugo and Nellie, of Buck {
r rsauRe was won by the former. In the sixth
Lhase Mr H. Quackenboss was Knocked down q
sifaar morse and seriously injured. The last
S VIM 4, vas 9 mile dash made BY negro
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