The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-11
LATEST NEWS.
SOUTH AND WEST.

The annual death-rate In New Orleans
OF negroes is double that of whites.
Work is to commence at once on the
forty-mif gap between Little Rock and Pine
TEuH. eh the Little Rock, Pine Bluff and
New Orleans railroad.
The court Of appeals at st. Louis has
affirmed the decision of the lower court. that
the Missouri state lottery is illegal This
case will probably 20 up 10 the supreme
court,
Aegtistah, a negro, is the man who
assnssinated ex Senator Ofutt, of st. Laun-
dry parish, Louisiana. The murderer was
pursued into a swamp, but will probably iJe
captured.
A Louisville dispatch declares the
present flood fr0m the overflow of the Ohio
in TINT vicinity the most damaging that has
occurred for years. Railroads have suffered
severely in all directions
The working men of Gilroy, Cal, have
ersahi1ed a society, under the name of The
Order of Caucasians," the object of which is
to aid all white people in securing work, in
preference to the emplOymehto If the Chinese.
The new eensas OF Texas shows that
the state has apOpulatiOn of about one mil
lion, two hundred and seventy-fve thousand
as compared with population of eight hun
dred and eighteen thousand five hundred
and nineteen IN 1870.
California's wine product In 1870 is
stated at eight millions OF gallons. The snp-
ply IS greater than the demand The makers
hhve, in convention, decided that two-thirds
of it might be prOiitably made into brandy if
the government would reduce the TN
The debt of Kentucky amounts TO oi,lv
S1S4 ,394, of which only $10,540 is due for
about seventy years. TIE governor says that
the state is etie 10 pay it many times over
whenever it is called for. What is more the
United States government owes il more than
the amount of its debt.
Sioux Indians, under Sitting Ball, at
tackled white patty near Fort Pease, on
Yellowstone river, January I'd, killing one
man and wOunding five, besides cutting off an
other party of nine men. The Indians are
several hundred strong, and it was feared the
entire garrison would be massacred unless
speedily assisted.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens writes to
a friend in Washington that he shall not he
able to take his seat in tt,c house before
spring. Other 'lyiees state that Mr. Stephens
is rapidly declining, and that his recovery is
not looked for. Mr.. Stephens has said that
he shall not resign, that the seat will
remain vacant until his recovery or death.
The district represented by Mr.. Stephens
contains large colored population, and the
n l,a toI
Mr.. Stephens was elected without opposition.
Robert Austin, possessed of a fiendish
desire to kill somebody, and not particular
as to his victim, deliberately murdered
Henry Greene, who had invited Austin to
his house to stay all night, in White county,
Tennessee, last Sunday night After fring
the first and fatal shot, as the body was fall
ing, Austin steadied it with one hand and
drove bullet crashing through the dead
mans temple, the blood and brains spatter-
ing over the murdered and the murderer
alike. But Austin was not vet satisfied with
his fendish work. Still holding the body
up in his grasp, he sent third ball through
Greene's heart, pushed the mutilated corpse
from him, leaPed upon his horse and rode |
away.
y telegram from Wells, Nevada. saws
the west bound train, due in San Francisco
Tuesday evening, attempted to force the |
blockade to day.with twelve engines and /
snow-plows, but stuck in the first rut west of !
Toano. The train was hauled back to Toano
aud Will lay there until the weather moder-
ates. The wind is blowing a gale and the
snow is drifting badly on Peoquop range, |
where the railroad crosses The tea that
arrived by the last Pacific steamer is lying
here awaiting more favorable weather. \
Green river, Wyoming, telegram says pas
Senger train and Pay-car left that place going
west this morning. Both are stuck in the
snow near Bridger station. The passenger
train bound cast has been abandoned for
to-day.