The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-02-02
SOUTHERN State NEWS.
LOUISIANA.

Busiupea IL good In Shreveport. and On the
Increase.
The public achoos In ~. John Will % r.
Thev aro building levna nj Davis place.
frnntinu Or. Mojannier's, III st. Charles
partnh.
The waite, ii Tho roar If Tom Snllor'aplan-
fntion In NJ tharoa ia within SIX inehs,a 81 thr
top OF the levee.
The report from S. Cha,lea pariah allows
the rice crop to 10 complete failure. The
only exception wac Mr. Rrou,
The Richland Eoufop wanta that par'ah to
rrY,,f a new court -huusn. The rrtarnt enc. II
declared, Ia rotten AMI worthless,
All of the back mail matter that haa been
LAYING al nonaldsnnvilo during the pact
week came ~ Wednesday night on the natl
boat Dave HmtrtieT.
A few siayn since a mad ,iAu autltonly made
ia appearance on the Mills plantation near
Port Hutaon. and succeeded III biting white
child, aged sotnr ten yearn. two near"ea, aud
several dogs and hega.
There are great many Idle and falae lnmnya
floating around concerning troubles ~ ,h's
parish. There has boon hut three or 'nn
Acta Of lawleaanesa perVetrated IN the rarlsh
since the troublea af four Neara ago. AMI III
each case the pant Ina arCuand have been ar
rested by the authorities. Eaton Rouge AZ
vucate
Some planters III the wards back " this city
complain that labor dtuMn,ara from the
lever coaat are ac,inuslv Interfering With the
contracts they have made with their hands
for the year WI are informed that thaae
partiea Ia search of banda t,uh out from the
ilegrpes what waH,a they ARC tn receive per
mont h and an al tndu,nmont 70 Net them 70
leave their employer offer them more. Baton
Rouge Advocate
The crew ~ tho Danube initiated that of the
fl.arAin RrunA,,n md nj ini,,l m ftAnnhitY
shreveport last week, The men were arreated
and locked up IN the partah jail. They had no
complaint % make against tho ot'irola OF tho
boat, and aaid that they left her To have a lit
tle fun In Shreveport. They Will be aaut to
New Orleans under the charge Of a United
Ntatea deputy marshal ~ stand trial on the
charge OF mutny and deacttton.
Last "Wednesday evening. on or near the
Myrtle Grove plantation. situated about three
miles below Houna, young cnlnrad girl was
burning dry corn stalks. Accidentally her
Sireaa caught on fire.. Her mother went to
her help. and ahn caught OH fire. The father
who was working AT considerable distance
from them, alan came to help hi, wife and
daughter. but without await. The old man
waa 80 severely burned In vain attempts to
extinguish the flames that he fell 20 the
ground and remained there. unable to rise
There he remained and Jaw hia wife and
daughter burn to death. without being able
10 do anything for them. Hauma Courier.
meeting nf c'ttzana ST The ninth ward Of
Fact Baton Rouge WAS held al Grttiin'a Store.
on January27 ". Co. X. II Garruth was elected
president and i q, Charottc secretary Rran-
Iutions We're adopted requesting all good citi-
1ens 10 cooperate IN rpatnring quiet and peace
among the colorrd people Of the ward. and
the threats aud iutimidattnna
used against some of the eolored people Of
this neixhbnrhoud by unknown parties for
real or imaginary wrongs. thereby causing
Consideration tn spread throughout that pop
ulatton to the great detrimant If the hest In
terests of our country. and e. the inaltenahle
rights guaranteed under the law to all its
citizens. Tho citizens present pledged them
selves to afford full protection to all eitt-
gems, without respect 10 color and to uac
very effort to bring 20 punishment tho
perpetrators Of the late outraxts BY irrespon-
Sible parties.