The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-05
LOUISIANA.

Nearly 5000 bales Of cotton are In and neal
Fafmersvlie awaiting shipment. The bayou
IL slowly rising.
Christmas trees we're plentiful In country
towns on Christmas. Yidalia boasted OF on.
| and 50 did Many.
The building of the new Hremen's hall al
| NapolaoIville Ia progressing. Ihe tounda'
tiun has already been completed.
The people OF st. John are petitioning the
| Postmaster General to make Bonnet Care
postoffice money order office.
A new paper has been started at Houma
parish OF Terrebonne, to be called the Clron
icle, with Frank L. Fauguy 90 editor.
negro woman in Claiborne parish, aged
tbirty-three years, wife OF man named
Henderson Unison, L. The mother OF seven
teen children.
The repairs and alterations on the court.
house at Thibodaux are completed, and the
edltice 10 now said to present very attrac.
tive appearance.
About twenty five freedmen left Bossier
parish for Kansas last week They had about
$4,000 In money, and were from the Foster d
| Fuililove plantation.
| Mr., j. IT. Huey, OF this parish, sold tC
Messrs. Abe Mayer Il Bro. the champion bale
Of the season, weighing 735 pounds.--lEast
Fellciana Patrlot-Defnocrat
! Stock In iberia parish are proving danger.
Gus. Several children came near being seri-
/ ously hurt, and one very near being Killed, q
few days ago, by u Vicious COW.
Although the last season has not been q
very favorable one for rice planters, Its cul.
ture Ia Jefferson the coming year will be
| larger than on an former occasion.
| From the first of September, 1879, up to
| noon January /, 1880, u period or four months,
| Mr.. Surghnor, city wetgher OF Monroe, re-
| ports having weighed 1850 bales of cotton.
| Bayou Lafourehe has reached good navi-
H.
per rivers there will be no trouble Ia steam
boat navigation for several months TO come.
The prisoners In the Rlchland parish jail
tried to escape therefr0m by firing the Jail I;
but the fire was discovered in tiuie and ex-
tiDguished just before the prisoners were
creinated. ss #@- III =st-+
| The river ID fast rising and the news from
above indicates q Iise OF tue principal
rivers. The dam at Bonnet Carfe erevasse 10
far from being coDpi. ted. and it is Il wonder
II IL be this season. Isl. John Meeehacebe.
Monroe will soon have an imperative de-
maud for new census. TO say nothing OF
new births, our population IL increasing from
uCces sons from the country adjacent and
from other parishes Monroe Telegraph.
Last week an alteration took place be-
tween two coi0led women on Cote Blanche
Island about stolen wood, when one made the
assault with hammer an I the other DE-
Tended herself with u cane-kniie, killing her
assailant.
We are pleased to state that our enterpris-
Ing fellow-eitiztn, Mr.. 3. B. Kent, has oonclud-
ed TO put IN operation On his premises the
coming year two OF the justly celebrated
Clement attachments East Feltclana Pa
triot- Democrat.
Luero Roberts and Percy Spiller, two OF
our young youth, on Tuesday. night last
caught o eattish OF the "m1tiey" or spotted
species, Weighing 100 pounds 7 ounces This
ID probably the largest OF the tinny tribe ever
captured Ia the Amite. Port Vincent Living
stonian.
j. +. Martin, the well known sugar maker
la Iberia parish, has secured the Wyche
extensive sugar house with vacuum pans,
ceptriiugals and all the latest improvements
for the refining and clarifying Of sugar.
The Shreveport papers have adopted one
feature Of Western journalism they pub
lished on New Years Eve list Of the lanies
In the list q number Of young men who re-
eelved leap year calls at the houses OF their
lady friends.
Henry II. Ward an old ard highly esteemed
citizen OF Claiborne parish, writes to the
Guardian, from his home near Scottsvllle,
That he caught over 100 pounds Of fish on his
trap In one day, some OF them weighing near
fifty pounds. fhe fish were mos lly channel
and Opelousas cat.
The sugar making season Is about at an
end In Jefferson The yield, though by no
means large, has been fair, aud with present
prices the planters will be able to make both
ends meet. They have already pitched In
with q hearty good will In preparing their
land Tor another crop.
The gin-ho or Mr.. Rufus Y. Graves,
near Collinsburg, Bnssier parish, was de-
StrOyed by fire about two weeks Rgo, to-
gether with twenty-five or thirty bales Of cot
ton, aud about the same date the gin house
- n II ft..t. -.
destroyed by fire, together with ELK bales OF
cotton. The latter fire ID supposed to DO the
work Of an incendlary.
Hunters state that there Ia an abundance OF
deer and other large game now to be found
on the shores OF Ora nd lake. Ducks have not
been plentiful as usual. In consequence Of the
general nildntss Of the season, but multi
tudes of equirrels are to be- met with In all
the woods. Numbers OF offers have been OBJ
served, also, in the neighborhood OF Weeks
Island.JNew IBERIA Sugar Bowl.
A planter down Bayou Black has leased his
entire plantation to number of white men.
They will cultivate the sugar cane, which the
planter will grind. The cane will all be
weighed, and each man will receive sugar
according to the quantity OF cane brought to
the mill. This will, In all probability, prove
remuneratiye to the tenants and to the
planter. The exodus did not scare much on
that plantation Ihibodaux Sentinel
At the meeting OF the town council, held
last Monday, 1t was decided to let the license
tax remain as at present established, and
fixing the tax on real and personal property
at one-haR of one per cent-a very low rate
indeed. The council contem plates putting
up several lamps on the steamboat landing,
which is q good move In the right direction
as our steamboat and barge interest contrib
ute considerably to the support of the town.
| Washington Newa.
very sad one was that which happened to
Mrs. Schneider, residing at the corner of First
street and Gopernic Avenue, Gretna. She was
lighting The fire on Christmas Day, and un-
fortunately used coal oil. The half gallon
can which she held In her hand became
ignited and exploded, setting fire to her cloth
ing. No one was near, and Ia moment she
was wrapped in flames. The injuries she
sustained are severe and painful, and very
little hopes are entertained for her recovery.
j. II. Dinkgrave, Esq, deputy United States
marshal, requests the Telegraph to say that
there is no truth In the dispatches published
to the effect that he was shot at, or wounded
In the capture of an Illicit STILL
10 1yas returning home from RianvIIIe mr.