The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-23
LOUISIANA.

Ono hundred and fitty convicta In charge
az uuards. leRt Baton Rouge on Monday for
Tensas parish, to work on the levsa.
The Sylvan Dell. ono OF the new coast mail
packets, broke her propeller last week anu
went to Now Orleans Tor rephirs.
A number OF convlcts who have been Gun
ploy.m on public works returned to the prison
on Sunday morning. Baton Rouge Advo-
cate.
Nearly nil the river planters made very
flne cotton crops last year. fhe same may
be said of tho hill planters. Corn Ia scarce In
both sections OF tho parish. Red River Clti-
zen.
We ara pleased to learn that work on Wat
kins shell road, between Red Chute and this
plnGr has been resumed. We trust the work
will be pushed to completion without further
dclly Shreveport ought to contribute libsr-
ally TO this enterprise. Shreveport Times.
The negroes held n sort of religious camp
Meeting service Mt the Baton Rouge landing
Sunday evening. There were over Thousand
present. Some seventy odd lett On the Scun-
der .,r X tusaa, aud some ieft on the Steamer
NatChe2 for Mississippi.
Tho mnlIs arc absent again and our news
man Ia in a tower III anger thereat. The fact
H. one Of the new mall bpntF Is disabled AMI
gone to the New Orleans docks tho other laid
over u day Mt DonalIsonville 10 eopt down
aud clean out. and our mercantile community
nj in II stew about tho failure OF the mails
vuCAte.
A number or citizens Of Booster parish have
| given notice to ni whom II mhy concern that
| th,,y Will apply to tho Legislatures Tor per-
| mission to submit 10 the electors or tho uar-
| ish the proprety OF changing the parish sent
| FROM Bellevue 70 some more desirable point
| CnlIrville NJ the place tho snb@Gttbers nave
| fixed upon for tho new seat 81 government OF
| Booster.
W. would suggest the proprioty Of meet
| Ing or merchants and planters or this parish
relative to the cause ~ revival uf tho dis
satisfaction existing among the colpfed peo-
| ple IN some or the country wards III prompt
| and wise measures are adopted by the COM
| bned efforts 0f merchants and planters, We
believe condolences will b. fully restored ana
there will bs no further trouble. Baton
1 Rouge Advocate.
We learn that Il rather serious difficulty oc.
CURED last Thursday night on Mr.. John a
Sewell's plantation In Bossier parish. no.
gro named Peter Ford. who was strongly
suspected Of having burned the Rn-hons 81
! Charley Vaughns place some weeks since
was seen on the Sewel place, when three
young men, W. b. Simpson, 9. W. Arnold, ".
and hs brother Willie Arnold attempted e
arrest him They approached him, aud whet
one Of them placed hts hand on him he com
menced to fire upon them. He evidently hat
the pistol la his hand though 1t WAS 80 dall
the Young men had not noticed 1t. He free
three shots and ran of. One OF the balls tool
effect In the calf of Simpson y leg. and another
fortunately struck his watch and did no bodily
injury Ford IL II nOtoTiously bad negro. ant
It ia Thought that when discovered he was ~
ing In walt TO mako an attack on his brother
in-law or his wife, the latter OF whom he hae
treated so oadly she left him. AT last &C
counts he had not been OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
port Times.