The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-03-15
SOUTHERN STATE NEWS.
LOUISIANA.


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LOUISIANA.
INNS people " IAypu Sara arc potitionins
4uF daily mail 10 Clinton.
Armt1lv rptArd agricultural labor. East r.
AEisxIa Patriot Democrat.
RTE vienna Sentinel viii support Gen. King
Mo- lus1Rgese this fall and urges the people OF
90 whole district 10 do likewise.
IlsA t,atAhoulA Mems and Franklin y sun viii
Cherries sn j. noe sissso o. MONROE 'of
ThN police Jury of East Baton Rouge has
nrSHsAAd the Advocate ID ID tho public print
11 q the parish by vote of to for the
Jy>e amount u cotton reported weighed At
Z sr,sknor. sums W ossa bales up 10 yester.
i 1tAve.aI Monroe Telegraph.
i san of Mr.. Andre Hebcrt, residing IN tho
sonxnal settlement, III Assumption parish, was
srsnldetatAlly drowned In Lake Verrvt last
VIDak. Tho body has been recovered.
~Gfua NostA, that section IL sharing Ia the gen-
N4al prosperity. hut ono Of tho numerous
WonntANons abandoned after tho war now re-
aiaxalna uncultivAted.
Mf. n. NJ. Conner, who has recently re-
from strep ,na . y: thss sevsrs
1uWu asN preparing ~ rebuild. and With
4G4taks-4 Monroe Telegraph.
TWp ecoundrcls named Il. j. Mcdonald and
H. KAyles, pretending 10 BE- agents for tho
\ I've been swindling tho citizens 81 Lake
3suvldance and other places.
III. a. r.. Ohcalre Informed va last HAtur-
slAxY THAT the planters w the bayou nrU plant
i l7n8 corn With n vim. He also told us that
- EsaAts are killing the mules up there by
Manu- IN
Nd1U txAia all over the parish, -lMorchouse
MnnMxtpt.
n white man by tho name Of Tom Jones
NvMa drowned near Millikens Bend, Madison
nsxtth, Tuesday night. By tho oapsizlng of y
10 previous to his drowning had imhlbed
4syn1petderably of Intoxicating liquors. II IL
NMuG known where he came from. Tho body
szxaxM t,vt yet been recovered.
Nus drainage Of many. acres Of cultivated
NGnd lying along the track Of the Morgan
sNsUuiEtanA and 1exaH road, has, u is alleged.
M1ss0 seriously interrupted recently by tho
s NscN1nR M some coulees interHectlng the line.
no AuiiNrers, feeling confident that any inat
sntkNfl from the railroad authorities, have been
sxyt3exsptDg signatures to a paper. stating their
1gs3essnoes. which will. IN few days, be pro-
NtMstkN to tho president of the company
New iberia sugar Bowl.
Il taasu meeting Of the citizens Of More
txtuapA wae held ut tho courthouse ut BAs-
6tV1. lin. On Friday, March +, 1880 for the
a~exfYkNas III taking tho neccNsary steps ID Ia
ssrpfss railroad communication direct from
VSa0ss,e, LM., 10 81. Louis, No. via Bastrop
o1xt Hamburg, Ark. Appropriate resolutions
V1EEu adopted ana d committee appointed to
tni,rftsnot,u with the citizens os O,iAchitn par
4 - md Drew, Ashley and Uhicot counties.
49, an the auhjeut Of this railroad. The
lxsiSllutiona GAIL fur Il railroad cotyentlon nt
3faaefup. April 8.
d large number Of mules died In this parish
Vs~aaesaay ma NV Tharadav III iaat week. the
4 1lanakar and value variously estimated. Tucs-
~ az tast week VIZ heard nothing Of the fatal
,SRVtlle cause Of which Ia now accounted for by
- INA bolts, by another ~ boAt-corn, an
eDe1tGE ia blind stAHgerp, and by the majority
I = 0uAte. We have seen no HnAta. but learn
sN1Ctslu good authority that they have been
AsAUAnnnus In the localities where tho mules
kAvu died lii the greatest number. Il Ii said
N&at these gnats Arc not the well-known but-
stnet0 gnnte Of this section, but larger and Of
- Arnaios not hitherto secn here. They came
SHsnsia of last week. literally and have dis
NppeAred altogether, we bellevo.-t Monroe
2Ef1RxAph.
Tuesday evening Cant. Dabney's railroad
..arVsginss marty was Ai,ou. ten miles wt,st az
n ~ fS,nchita al, tina return from Arcadia II
~ xxneutcd that tho return survey will be
ss~nns1niated bv the cloee " the present week
r. IA oiYice an Third street yesterdsy. From