The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1880-03-01
SOUTHERN STATE NEWS.
LOUISIANA.

The Shreveport Standard wsnts puDhe
hall built Ia that town.
There hss been variable westher during The
nsat week. Rain. hail, frost, sunshine, gales
and calms.- -[Livlngstonian.
fire In Shiloh, Union parish, Sunday
DESTROYED buildings TO the v.lue q 5000 10
sured In the Sun Mutual Of this city ior S1ooo
closed and the Standard complains that the
children Of Shreveport enjoy only I'VE months
schooling durina the year.
Roads are generally good throughout the
country. From Trenton TO Homer the public
highway ID in IN unusually fne condition ioi
this season Ok the year Claiborne Guardian
Natchitoches wants the insane asylum fcl
pending before the Legislature established
st that place. Tho old convent building IA
suggested q Z most suitable place for It,
Our Bossier friends are likely TO have 9
flrstrclass excitement over tho proposed
change In the seat Of justice. i seems 70 be
very well settled that bellevue Gss msn9n hao W. ~
Nfr. Canes place opposite Shreveport are OIL
epoken Of by the respective friends of these
points o. excellent locations. When ne race
day comes OF the Bossieritee Will nave
lively time.--[ claiborne Guardian.
"A party of freedmen "bound for Kansas q Or
nromised land, They were from the vicinity
81 Flilmors. in our neighbor!ng parish oi
Boesier. The party consisted of four fami-
lies. who had owned little places Of their own
which they acs ,b,x .:t G yssr % G ths sss or
pose Of raising means TO emiHrate We con-
yerSed with several Of them, but found them
very retiCent ~ to the motives which In
,duced 10 90 North. They informed W that
Kansas. where they had ..rscelyed the word
20 70" and that atter their arrival at that
place, they would ''spy out" for home. They
did not appear to be very well provided with
9neAns, but said they had enough money and
hopper State, where, judging from their tall,
they evidently expected to strike II rioh.'
There were In this party four grown men,
solght women and elOven children from one to
A ysars se saaard sknf 81 y
ths steamer Jo Briarly, that drift has been
suffered to accumulate above the draw Of the
railroad bridge Ut Fulton, which has caused
8 bar To form and thrown the channel 70 one
and Of the bridge, where, of course, no draw
pass up or down until the river reaches Q
ataxe Of seventeen feet above low water
mark. No effort Is being. made BY the rail-.
road officials to remove this OBSTRUCTION, ana
Y seems We are TO bs practically deprived r M ol
Meanwhile, the railroad company II running
. boat OF their own, which they have above
the bridge, which Ii bringing down large
amount 81 cotton that would naturally come
6o this and the New Orleans markets Il we
had open navigation, but which is now ship
ped by the Iron Mountain road to st. Louis.
ThIs - d matter Of vital importance to the
commerce Of our city, and our merchants and
cotton men should ut once take steps 70 re-
naedy the evil. The railroad company has
no right TO obstruct navigable stream, and
fhav nhnalld Ia com mpellcd To either remove
the obstructions ut present existing. or build
another draw to the bridge over the channel,
% as to allow the free passage Of boats
,IShreveport Standard.