The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-21
LOUISIANA.


Leap year parties are popular In tho coun-
try.
The parish convicts In Polnte Coupco are
busy at work repairing the roads.
Quite large area Is being planted in Irish
potatoes In West Felieiana ut present.
The Grand levee creyasse III Pointe Coupee
IL now 50 largo that 1t has to be crossed In u
ferry.
1t Is said that n now steamer will soon DO
placed In the trade between New Orleans ana
Covington.
A few oolored emigrants from Washington
parish passed. through Covington this week
on their way TO Kansas.
Burglars aro doing q good business down
In Plaquemines parish, and heavy reward
Is offered for their capture.
The weather IL propltious in Pointe Coupee.
and the planters arc pushing forward their
agricultural lahors with energy and activity.
An attempt was made, Mt the last meeting
or the police jury of East Baton Rouge. to
repeal the Sunday law, lat It WAS of no effect
On Thursday evening last, for tho first tme
since Sunday, our people were favored with u
full city aud coast mil. West Felielana
Sentinel.
The Maurepas Gazette. Robert Benelleld
editor. has been removed from MaurepaS
Livingston parish. to Pontchatoula, Tangipa-
hon pnri5h.
Iensas parish votes next Saturday on tho
proposition to levy special ievee tax OF ten
mills Tho tax of tho parish for general pur-
poses Is also ten mills
| The school board Of Rossier parish has re-
solved Oh opening twenty schools In that par-
| ish-eleven for white and nine for e0lorod
| ohildren-fo for five weeks.
| Although the municipal election In Baton
| Rouge does not occur until April, they are
already discussing 1t In that town and 5uR-
costing candidates for mayor.
Last Wednesdays mail to Pointe Coupee
was failure; there was only one newspaper
| In the bag. Tho next mail was n still creator
| failure 1t did not arrive at all.
| Willie Xoder, son OF John IOder, of Shrcvo-
port, was badly cut with mn axe In the hands
Of II negro named Samuel Darden. Darden
| claims that the cutting was accidental.
| meeting OF the bar of Pointe Goupee was
| held at the court-huuse January 49, and
Judge r. H. Hewes, of Pointe Coupee. recon
mended as one Of the judges Of the fourth
circuit.
The weather, after two or three days Of
strong, bracing breezes, has become warm
again. Heavy fogs characterize the nights,
thereby obstructng the passage OF steam
boats Baton Rouge Capitolian.
The police jury Or East Baton Rouge Or
ganized ut its session Tuesday by re-electing
! Fergus Gardere, president, o. l.. Skolfield,
clerk; A. Duplantier, treasurer. Mr.. Thomas
Hernandez was elected parish constable.
The school board OF East Baton Rouge Is In
| debted to the teachers Of Baton Rouge for the
months of June, July, August, September,
October and November, and they are now re-
| ceiving pay for one and one tenth OF a month
| The grand jury of jefferson parish
charges quite q number OF officials In that
parish with neglect Of duty. 1t also cen
sures the police jury for dereliction lii fall
| Ing to look after the financial condition OF the
parish.
In the country back OF Baton Rouge, In the
sixth, seventh, ninth and tenth wards Of East
/ Baton Rouge parish, there Is some discomfort
i among the negroes, and planters are finding
/ some difficulty In getting hands to contract
for the year.
/ The United States revenue collector Is tn
| Opeousas stirring up the merchants of that
town on the whisky question. He insists
upon examining every barrel OF whisky In the
| stores, and has already succeeded IN making
several seizures.
New improvements are being made in
Baton Rouge, and much better feeling pre-
walls In the business circles Of that city. For
several years past the town has been on de-
cline, but the Adr0cdte believes that the tide
has turned and prosperity Is ahead.
this PARISH Labor Is abundant on most
places, and II the river keeps within its banks
Pointe Coupee will produce a much larger
cane and cotton crop than any year since the
1 WAL fOlnle S0upe6 ItllCttH.
Althoughlthe labor element of this parish
has displayed an unusual degree OF restless
ness this season, we are informed the major
\ ity of our planters are progressing satisfac
torily with the work Of preparation for an
other CROP tWest Feliciana Sentinel.
Our little village is beginning to assume
quite formidable appearance in the Way oil
seagong craft There are now moored at ou
| landing no less than ten briggs, barkS ano
steamers, taking In cargoes of oil, oil CAKE
and grain for coastWise AMI European ports
| -EGretna Courier.
train of eight wagons, laden with cotton
arrived In Coyington last Monday from Pix
county, Mississippi. The cotton, thirtyfoul
bales, belonged to Messrs. Lampton Sons
merchants, of Tyler Town, Miss. These gen
tlemen have stti pped over three hundred bale
through Covington SO far this season.
Although some 500 negroes have left this
parish for Po1nte Coupee and other sections
of the State, not single farmer we have con
yersei with has found any trouble In secur
ing hands. 1t seems that while negroes art
leaving this parish others are coming IN IRON
other sections. ii West Feliciana Sentinel.
The river at this point continues to rise
and the very large portion OF the Inhabitants
OF Bayou Sara aud vicinity who swamp To-
q living are iubiiant over the prospect OF al
early and large ti0at 10 the swamp, where,
large amount Of tifnber is already cut await
ing for the float West Feliciana Sentinel.
The leyee work to be done in TenSas Is tn
raising of the Buckridge, Hard Times, Fort
Field and Hardscrabble ievees, and the build
Ing OF line Of new levee, from q mile to
mile and q quarter long, back of the presen
line at Lower Hard Times, where the riVel