The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-05
Mississippi.

week by the explosion OF kerosene
lamp.
Rev. 3. w. Stubbs, q we'll known
Methodist preacher, was struck by q
falling tree while riding on horseback,
near Guntown, last week, and instantly
killed.
The Summit Conservative Times is
down on mixed boys and girls schools,
and declares that the mixed public
school OF that town has brought forth
only evil.
The Jasper County Herald has been
received. It is full of local and State
news, and shows evidence OF prosperity.
Its proprietors deserve success because
they merit 1t.
A belligerent coon came near whipping
two men In a fair fight, near Brandon, q
few days since. One OF the parties, Mr..
Sam Collier, was 30 badly bitten In the
liffe. ''''' ''''l . ''' 'A''' ''''''N A'' A''
! Special Agent Small has unear.hed a
defalcation Of about $4,000 in the Vicks-
| burg postoffice. Deputy Postmaster
King Dowart and Stamp Clerk Arthur
| are under arrest and trial for the Of
tense.
A freight train, with three cars and q
caboose, run off tho track on the 26th
inst, between Coffeeville and Water
Valley, seriously injuring the conduc-
tor, Mr.. Thos. Williams, by breaking
his ankle.
The wheat crop raised within an area
Of two square miles in Monroe county
amounts ito 1891 bushels Of threshed
wheat. This product was only the re-
suit OF an experiment, as cotton and
corn were the main reliance Of the plan
ters.
Gen. w. +. Tucker, of Chckasaw
county, has just returned from q pros
pecting tour through Texas, thoroughly
convinced that Mississippi is the bet
ter home for a poor man after all that
has been said In favor OF the Lone Star
State.
Last Saturday morning, about 10
o'clock, Mr.. s. FL. Whitworth's steam
saw mill near Brookhaven. exploded.
and the heavy boiler was thrown one
hundred and fifty feet from the mill.
Mr.. John Dunn, the foreman. and some
of the employees were slightly injured.
The postofflce at Vicksburg was lately
removed from a central position to an
out-of-the-way place. This was done,
the Commercial charges, because Post
master Phase had to give new bond,
and the owner OF the property to which
the postof1ice has been transferred
promises to be bondsman in return for
the lease.
The Pearl River Baptist Association
meets at the Bethel Church, three miles
south Of Monticello, the second Satur-
day in September, 1877. The Fair River
Association meets at the Fair River
Church the third Saturday in October,
1877, thirteen miles from Brookhaven,
near the road leading to Monticello.
A. r. Murphy, an ex-alderman Of
Vicksburg, was shot and killed in that
city on Friday morning last by John
Garigan. The Herald says the difficulty
originated In settlement between Muir
ply and the estate OF Joseph Garigan,
partner in business with Murphy.
A Mr.. Willbank, residing near Durant,
a few days ago caught two negroes rob-
bling his orchard. He offered them three
alternatives TO work six days on bis
farm, to pay IS, or have the law enforced
against them. They accepted the first
proposition, and so Mr.. Willbank han
two new hands on his place. WillbanE1
may have struck the exact idea as to the
best way Of disposing of petty depre-
dators.
The hot weather killed fifteen hogs In
Bolton.
In digging we'll at Sherman rich
vein OF copper ore was struck.
John Golden, notorious character,
was killed at Fort Griffin on the 2lst.
Drovers are beginning to return from
the East. They report good prices for
cattle and prosperous drives.
Perry Davis, colored man, is to be
hung on the Goth Of August for the muir
der Of Policeman Alfred Neal.
Judge Duvall, Of Austin, reeen thy dis
missed a case Of a white man marrying
a negro woman, quoting from the civil
rights bill.
The foreman of jury which granted
a divorce In Dallas married the woman
the same day the decree was entered.
SO says the Dallas Mail.
A large and enthusiastic Texas immi-
grafton meeting was held at Elmira,
New York, on the 5th inst. Several
hundred families were represented.
Sheep are being shipped from Mexico
through Texas to Chicago and st. Louis.
Fourteen car loads in charge of Span
lard arrived at Denison on the 25th.
Grandson Lee, for killing Newton
Gaines in Washington county,. was tried
in the District Court last Wednesday
ana given HLCy-HVe years Ill Iue peHlCen-
tiary.
A Mr.. and Mrs. Eaton, of Corpus
Christi, quarreled and then fought
Mrs. Eaton finally hit her husband in
the head with Ratchet, and he died the
next day.
The Colorado Citizen Of the Goth says
that the cotton worms, which were
numerous, in that county, are beginning
to succurnb to the effects of poison.
Some Of the planters have killed them
off effectually, and their cotton is flour
ishing luxuriantly.
Murders on stock ranches in Nueces
county are decidedly common. A MeXi-
can herder recently killed one Joe Mix
Ter, and then in day or two a boy pres
ent at the time was murdered by an TN
known party, but Supposed to be the
same Mexican who killed Miller.
On Tuesday night Elihu Graham was
shot by parties in ambush as he was
lnavinp biS yporIy 10 ic id RI ha