The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-15
LOUISIANA.

| Receipts OF cotton at New Iberia have been
very good this week.
| The rice crop Of Vermllion parish is In fine
| condition. 1t will soon oe harvested.
| Covington has SO far received 1876 bales OF
cotton this year.
Public temperance meetings are being held
| in the Baptist church In Greensburg.
The New Iberia Sugar Bowl is convinced
| that the cane crop on Bayou Bceuf will yield
two hogsheads to the acre.
The Vienna Sentinel has inaugurated q
Temperance column for the benefit of the
people OF that burg.
Horse thieves are at work In st. James, and
nave succeeded in capturing number OF the
best horses In the parish.
The gin Of Mr.. J. r. Cottingham, In Cald-
well, was burned last week, together with
thirty six bales OF cotton.
Mr.. John Mia Is busy erecting new sugar
mill, furnace. etc, on Cow Island, Vermilfon
parish, which will be finished In time to grind
his crop and that OF his neighbors.
The health of our parish for the season OF
the year is excellent t-notwithstanding the
excessive heat and the vast quantities Of rain
which have fallen.-l Plaquemines Observer.
The bayou water ls yet almost black as Ink,
and the taste iS somewhat peculiar. At night
a strange odor is said to pervade the breezes
which blow across Its Waters.-l VermiIion
Meridional.
parish, and they readily find employment ait
good wages picking cotton. They come from
Mississippi and Georgia, 1t is said.-[Pointe
Coupee Pelican. .
Franklin is excited over an elopement of
Mr. Harrington and Miss Mary Z. Gibson.
The. runaways were fortunate In finding
justice OF the peace to marry them before the
irate father came up.
For the first time In many years, Sabine
parish has made only a half crop Of corn. The
cotton crop, from what we can learn, has not
sustained so much injury; three-fourths Of an
average crop will be gathered.-fSa
SouthrOn.
The limbs Of the oak and hickory trees are
actually groaning and bending under burdens
of acornS and nuts. The farmer looks In on
oaks, and chuckles with satisfaction Sabine
SOuthrOn.
The case of the parish board OF school di-
rectors againt David Young and others has
been compromised by, Mr.. Young paying the
school board 500 and turning over the Freed
man bank book. Accordingly final judg-
ment OF dismssal has been entered In the case.
-lConcordia Eagle.
The assessor OF Lafourche has taken CEN
sus OF the school children Of that parish, and
finds there are 5612 Of them, 1898 and 2019 coll
ored. Since 1878 there has been an increase
OF 12 per cent In the number Of white children
and IA per cent eolored children attending the
public schools.
A friend who lately returned from trip on
Bayou Baratarla gives US the following Items
from that part OF our parish: Planters are
getting ready for grinding. Mr.. 2. Chapron
will begin to squeeze out the saccharine sticks
about the sixteenth instant and Mr.. Milliken
on the twenty fifth instant. and others In that
section will soon fall into line. Present pros
poets are favorable for a good crop, but the
yield will fall short OF that OF last season.
fGretna Courier.
What Is the matter with our malls between
this and Morgan City? 1t is becoming com-
mon occurrence for US to miss our daily mails,
and these defaults are beginning to operate
seriously against our press and commercial
interests. Is It the very low stage OF water,
parties, caused by the rivalry Of the boats,
which stop on their up trims to take ON freight
destined for New Orleans? Who will make
the explanation, or see this vexatious delin-