The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-04-10
SOUTHERN STATE news.
LOUISIANA.


Crops In Avoyeiles are In fine condition.
Planters propose TO plant their cotton this
week.
Thieves are busy In Homer, and have sue
Ceeded In robbing several small stores In that
town.
The Catholic church at Pine Island, patisl,
OF Rapides, has been completed and opened
for services.
The Markevlle Bulletin wants our delegates
10 the Cincinnati convention instructed TO
vote for Hancock.
East Carroll parish is comparatively out OF
debt and has q balance OF $aB57 ~ Ia the
treaEufer'S hands.
The Grant Chronicle thinks that the ex.
President should vist that parish, as 1t Ia one
Of his nainesakes.
There ID d very weak spot In tho Bayou
LRfpufche levee In front OF tho Nolan place,
just below Donaldsonville.
The dry weather In West Baton Rouge this
week was very beneficial to The cane, which ls
coming up mHgniiloently,
The Lake Charles fire company will soon
enjoy an excursion tn Orange Texas. over the
Louisiana Western Railroad.
The increase In the rice acreage OF the La
eotme district III Oalcasisu parrish Will be loo
per cont over that OF last year.
The Monroe Bulletin Ia Informed that the
gpats are again very bad on the Oueehta,
below there. Several mules have been lost,
The contract for cleaning and repairing the
streets Of dspnvlle Was adjudttated
last week. IL will cost the town only $l19 Go,
The weather Is liue for planting In Red
river. and planters have caught up With their
fartn work and are now planting cotton. The
corn 10 we'll up.
The Baton Rouge Herald thinks that there
will be an increases Of 80 per cent In the value
OF property Ia that city when the capital is
removed there
Manuel Bllups was seriously wounded In
tnty ftfAA
vent the arrest vi one Henry Watts by the
town marshal,
The hanging OF Gustave Mesux In West
Baton Rouge the other day, was the first ex-
eottion that has taken place In that parish
for twenty yeare.
JDvart Williams, oelored, was arrested on
the Mareton place, Ia Red river last week.
He IL d refugee ftum De Soto, where he
Stands charged with several capital utfenses
"A storm III Plaquemines parish last Friday
drove tue waves over most OF the levees ll
pointe-e-ia la Haehe. change In the wind
fortunately prevented any break In the levees.
The boys of 20. Charles are delighted at the
appearance OF the lpeom otive In that town.
and atntse themselves by stealing rides on
the carn. The Echo ptcdiets an accident at
an early day.
Planting operations In this patlsh are pro-
crossing since the late bad weather. Corn
generally is all planted Cotton will soon be
planted II the weather continues favorable
Lincoln Sentinel
Almost oil the shares OF the Covington
Telegraph Company have been taken and
negotiations opened with the Western Union
and American Union Telegraph Companies to
put up the wires from Covngton to this city.
Two demented colored men were sent from
Donadsonvlle to the State Insane Asylum
Mt jackson last week. One OF them, Mason,
who 10 very violently insane, is said to have
lost hts reason through disappointment la q
love affair.
prudhomme Hedalso. a resident of Port
Harrow, Ascension parish, was drowned
OF the Danaldsonvi,le railroad bridge, by fall
Ing overheard frotn all empty fiatboat ha was
taking down the bayou.
Some negroes on one Of Mr. Burnslde's
places Ia St. James struck last week and
made demonstrations OF q hostile character.
but were promptly suppressed by Sheriff A.
III. Bourgeois, who summoned posse OF fifty
men and arrested six Of the rioters.
The water from the Morganza break Ia
slowly enufnarhlnE upon the rear lands In
this parisiEs. game are BEGINNING II 20
tiun, In the way of deer, wild cats. rabbits,
coons and possums.-tWest Baton Rouge
Sugar Planter.
John A. Cheevers, lately elected district
Judge OK the Twenty-second judicial District,
consisting OF the parishes OF Ascension and
st. James, has been enjoined by Judge DuTel
from assuming or attempting to exercise tho
functions Of district Judge. There will. con-
sequently, be no term Of the court this month.
The following was the vote In the Baton
Rouge municipal election tho other day: For
mayor Leon .Jastremski 700. VIM. Hubbs
3S2; for administrator Of improvements and
conmerce--JUhn 4. Powers 600, Robert
Aricer 49a, scattering 20. The following alder
men were elected: Henry q. Climber. Rich
ard u, MeCabe, II. II. Burke, Charles Week
and Tim Duggan. fi FIJI
Messrs. Fred Gonzales and Alfred ID. Car
penter have been recommended to Gov.
WiltE for appointment as members OF the
police jury from the seventh and eighth
wards respectively, and that Messrs. Y. A.
Gautreau OF the seventh, Dumin Leblanc
and George Robertson OF the eighth ward arc
suggested as members OF the new school
board Donaldsonville Chief.
Our vigilant sheriff last Saturday night
succeeded Ia capturing the woman, Amy
Butler, and her child Henry, who killed Sam
Washington on the Allendale plantation
some two OF three weeks ago. They were
discovered on the Slaughter place, just in the
rear of Port Hudson, ready for flight to Kan
eas next day. Both are In jail awaiting trial
before the district eourt.-(W West Baton Rouge
Sugar Planter.
For several days past we have been bur
deneu with rumor upon rumors that the
labor strikes had reached our parish. The
most direct reliable Information we can
gather on the subject Ia this: Judge Bau-
mann. Of kenner, In a note informs us that
the strike reached In the vicinity OF Kenner,
on Monday last, the plantation of Patterson
u Frtllden, In the parish Of st. Charles. about
three miles above the city OF Kenner. On the
same evening laborers also struck at the last
mentioned place, but without any kind of
disturbance Jefferson Courier.
A severe rain and wind storm In Shreve-
port Friday night did much damage In that
town. One wall of Capt. Youree's brick build. |
Ing, at the city railroad depot, was blown
down. The old city railroad depot, owned by |
j. g. Hays, was leveled to the ground. The
roof was blown off the old Texas house. The
new frame building, temporarily occupied by
j. Lamorere, was priced open. The dwelling
of MIR. leila Carpenter was RACED to the
ground, and SO was a two.story dwelling on
Murphy street, belonging to NJ. A. Walsh. A
small house on Buffers hill, belonging to Jno.
was blown down. In It's fall severely injuring
. colored woman. Charity Morris, his mother