The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-19
SOUTHERN State NEWS.
LOUISIANA.

Buslness Is revlyiug In Baton Rouge.
The weather Is springlike IN IBERIA, and
jna the sort tho planters need FOR their plan
tatiun work.
AT coIored hall given on Grand Caillou
Tour negroea were severely wounded. Ter
rthnnne Courier.
Il. Voiein has heen elected secretary Of TIE
police jury oi st John tho Baptist. Vice A. G.
Bahcock, resigned
The Board OF Health ~ Morgan City hae
organized with Dr. J. II. Urse as president
and IL, Hattendorf as secretary.
little hoy was accidentally wounded last
week In Chacahoula, caused by the sudden
dtarhArge of u gun In the hands 0f a man.
lFeIrebonue Courier.
Fruit trees are beginning to bud and bios.
som, and the cane ~ apruut In the country
and the ,Suyar Planter Is very much afraid ~
freeze will como along aud DO immensR harm
Four steamboats, belonging to the New Or.
leans and Opeousaa Navigation Company
leave Washington every week. and an iude-
pendent one Is expected to comm enoe running
In a few dave
child of II l.. Scott. of Fartnetsvlle, while
playing near the fire last week had hls clothes
To catch fire. ami was sosorously burned that
he died In u few minutes.
Tho West Baton Rouge Sugar Punter com
plains OF the irregularity OF the mail be
swears that the fault liea IN tho distributing
department OF our postollice.
Work on plantations has been progressing
finely thia month. More Will he done In agrI-
cultural employment this January than has
been accomplished In tho same month IN any
year since 1869 LafourChe Sentinel.
The house of Ben Mudd ON the Upper
Teche. about four miles from Washington,
which had just been completed. was set fire
to by an inceudlary last MondaJs night. aud
completely destroyed. This II tha fourth
time Mr.. Mudd has been thus burned out.
A few days ago n jourreyman thinner was
put ashore FROM coast steamer for being
short IN his passage money account Hay
Ing his tools with him he hunted up work
and has got as much OF It as he eau do for
some time to come West Baton Rouge
Sugar Planter.
German boy. who gives his name as Geo.
Nanhurg. came near being killed last Sun
day by man a stranger To him with whom
he was travelling on foot to Morgan City.
They camped out ON Bayou Ramos, near
Capt. Segpra Saturday night. and early
'sv NOR ling negro discovered the man
ataler me No boy toward the bayou, aud re-
porte apt. Ssgcr who. with his son and
two ha' vi, went to the spot aud arrested the
man, w says his name Ia Albert Mason.
and carried the boy to the siwmiil. The prob
able intention was to kill the boy for his
Morgan City Review.
For soI1e time past some OF the negroes in
the neig ghSorhood Of Washington have shown
a good deal OF excitement They sold stock
at u great sacrifice. and some of them were
getting rid Of their homes. The cause OF this
conduct was discovered. the other day, In the
person OF a white man. who, with several
black and white strikers, were getting NJ a
Kansas movement In st, Landry. Each ne
gro was to contribute from $50 TO $5O to pay
Tor bis fare to Kansas, hut the movement
was not to be made public until n hundred
negroes. at least. had Joined the association.
Last week just as the required number OF
applicants were ready, the Moses Of this
disappeared with all the money
he had collected. When next heard from he
was discovered drunk in New Iberia, with all
the Kansas money spent.