The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-22
LOUISIANA.


Marksville also complains Of Irregular
maila.
steamer IA now running III tho Bayou dee
Glaires trade
Frank MARTINEZ. city treasurer Of Donald
aonville, hasIesgned.
There was n heavy frost In Natchtoches on
the morning Of the thirteenth.
negro was ahot and se,iously wounded
The other day AT Waverly Madison parish
MIR A H. Hordalon has resigned his posi-
tion AZ Il member Of the town council ot
MarkEyile.
Nearly all Ut the cotton If this parish that
Ia ACCESSIBLE 10 shipping points has been cent
of IMarksviIle Bulletin.
On Friday. January 2, Jas. Collier. horse
thief wac captured at Grand ErorP, paIlsh 81
Natehitoehee and sent back to Gatahoula par
18th for trial
We are having cool and favorable weather
thia week. which greatly conducea to the kill
ing and saving az meat. ~ long desired W the
farmers generally Of this parish, ColtaX
Chronicle
l,udgor Martin. oolored who has been In
dcted for rape IN Avoyelea. and who made
HE escape about one year ago from jail, has
been rpcaptured by Sheriff Decnir Martin II
now safely lodged tn jail.
Eight convicts, all negrooa LETT Natcht-
tochas last week for the Ienitnntiaryat katoh
Rouge One went for life. ono for siSteen
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the remainder for one year.
Planters are engaging their hands for the
present year, and. from what we can learn,
the colored population ~ this parish are dis
posed to make early contracts indicating
that the Kansas fever has left this part 81 the
country Markavilla Bulletin
On SATURDAY.. the enty-sevcnth of De-
CENTER nj 4 aCiaPk In the evening an atlraN
occurred AZ pieald's store in tho eighth ward
of Ascension parish. which resutat ~ Gii.
bert Young being seriously cut IVY EDWARD
johnson and Anthony M0Sly.
Monday evening. the twenty ninth ulttm",
AT u L. Iiandrv's cooper shop, OH New river,
Ascension parish. Ernest u. Brand, D well
known and highly reapeotahle young man, re-
Siding In the seventh ward. WAS assaulted ~
one Ralph Hopkins, formerly OF Ltvingst"n
parish, and dangerously cut with large
hiaded pocketknife
A petition IL heIng extensively signed IN
Madison parish, and addressed w the presi-
don't OF the board of leVee commissioners OF
the fourth distrCt, praying for TING immediate
C0natruftIon ~ q leNpc below Delta, com.
nlenCing on the O'Rfian plantation, below
| Col roWne's Major Richardson. assistant
/ State cngineer has gone down to the osBrien
| place ~ sec the extent " the work wanted
tim johnson slipped into the store Of MIR.
! J w Bird. Al Montgomery. Grant partsh, the
other night, aud stole $1,000 IN eash. tie was
4 arrested Il few nights aiterwafd and y pof-
ton of the money found on his person, Being
threatened with hanging, Jim found another
! S20o Of the stolen money, ana the next Gay
another negro named Richmond. came for
ward with SlaN All tho money has been re-
covered, with the exception OF 500, and John
son ana Richmond are IN jail.
A cold hloadcd murder was committed lase
1 Sunday evening nn Mr. h. nngh'5 planta-
I tom some three Miles below Napoieonville.
/ II appears that one Allen IIite, a Golored JUS
tice Nf the peace III and for the third ward.
came to town early Sunday morning and puG-
| chased d revolver for the express purpose rs
! he was heard to declare. of killing few
nig9ers.' On his return home he encountered
| q negro named Washington Parkus In front
of MIR Pugh's house, and drawing his re-
yalycr. fired ut him twice. instantly killing
him. The murderer has not yet been ar
rested
There fs but little doing now At the jetties.
The high water and swift current necnsaitaleo
A virtual abandonment OF the work for the
present All but ten men have been dis
charged and tile tug has been sent back To hei
owners AT Memphis. Below where the mat
tre7ses were Sunk the caying mas been very
marked and ut point above the jetty office
mother earth has been yielding to the force q
the current The men on duty are expert
menting with iron screens l50 teet long anC
fifty feet wide, one end CT which Is anchnret
to tne bottom while another comes up at al
angle and arrests the deposit. The mat
tressed' section holds Its own pretty we'll, l
we except slight surface slOughing.-l Madison
journal.
The extraordinary mild weather which ha!
! prevailed up to this time has caused Wlhl
/ royynd cane to begin sproutiug, and on nearl,
, iii our sugar plantations the work Of plant
f ing Is going hriskly forward. The seed, as
! general thing. il found to be IN excellent con
dition. its main drawback being the danger
while taking the cane from WlndfoW ana IS
. planting II, If breaking off the eyes that hay
: sprouted. Stubbe and fall plant are sprout
ing finely, and from present appearance
they will show splendid stand during tn
coming season. Should the remainder Of 60
, winter pass Off without the occurrence OF
frost or freeze sufficiently severe to retar
the growth OF the staple, the opening {