The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-05-05
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana.

Lousstaua.
Clinton hiss horse-raciny every Sat
urday.
The town OF plaquemines wants to
/ have it's name changed.
The prospects for good crop In Ter
| rehonne are Frightening materially.
The parish board of education of East
| Feliciana consists of six whites and
three negroes.
! A disastrous fire occurred in Bayou
/ Sara last Monday evening. The fire
WAS an ineendisry one.
| y telegraph line is being laid be-
tween New Orleans aud Meridian,
/ Mississippi.
| The authorities In Bastrop are max
| ing strenuous efforts To put an end to
the smallpox in that parish.
! Shreveport will vaeeinate al the
! children in that town. The breaking
! up of the Packard government alarms
| the Shreveporters. They fear that
some of Packard's pest-house gang
may settle among them aud introduce
the disease.
Mississippi
Dick Hill, eolored, was shot and
killed by I'D Ii. Kelly, at Iazoo, last
week.
The crops in Copiah county have
| been greatly damaged by the recent
| rains.
The Holly Springs Reporter thinks
| Septem Der would be coon enough for
I the state convention to meet.
/ The Reporter says that the mayor of
/ Holly Springs should be hung and
the aldermen burned at the stake.
The Lexington advertiser thinks
there will he no regular republican
ticket in the field in this state this
year.
The officers and marines OF the Ply
mouth will turn out in the firemen's
parade In Nicksburg ''as distinguished
guests"
South Carolina.
Rev. +. W. Thompson, native of
/ Lancaster county, died at Morgan
/ town, \. c., on the III inst
Old aunt Holly Shirt. a relic of the
revolution shell, still lives in Lsncas-
ter. She is III years old.
The organ at Columbia has been re-
! vived, with patent inside, a. "a week
| ly paper.
Greenvilie has accomplished her
street railway, and the mountain city
is now happy.
The Abbeville Rifles have adopted n
resolution erasing the name OF ID. H.
| Chamberlain from the honorary roll
of the company.
| There is a coloTed child ON Mr.. w.
/ ~. J. MaZyck's plantation, in George
Ffl. ls.. t.
3 the yertebral column, about six inches.
They call it y tail.
Georgia.
Atlanta eight andteG per cent. bonds
are selling at 30 to liz.
J The wheat crop of Jackson county
PROMISES we'll.
! The Georgia papers are full az ac-
counts of elOpeIhents of one sort and
another.
Up to date the factory takings in
/ Columbu have decreased seventeen
hundred and ten bales over last season.
Americas Republican From present
appearances, the peach crop in this
section may be considered safe, and an
abundant yield expected.
| The Swainsboro Herald says an nlli-
gator, seven feet long, was found in
one Of.their nets by some fishermen
OF that place one night last week.
An incendiary fire destroyed the
storehouse and goods belonging to
Hon. ID. G. Cody, the other day. The
building was at Cody's landing, on the
Chattahoocbee river.
Kentucky.
Another ancient darRy is gone. This
time she lived in Warren county, and
was IFS years Old.
Macmillan Schweigart died in Ma.
sou county last week, of rheumatism,
after an illness of seventeen years.
The Sandy Valley Guard reports the
suicide, by hanging, of man named
Harris, at Mouth Pond, Kentucky.
| Yes, that "felIahn did .'commit sui
eide 10y shooting hiDlseg,' and thost
who doubt the accuracy OF the expires
sion, should follow the illustrious ex
ample.
The Bear creek well, in Cum berlanC
county, is affording seven barrels o.
oil day, the gravity of which il
twenty-seyen degrees, upon coming
from the well.
The Msysville Bulletin has discov
cred that all the old stone ehimneys ii
Clark county were built by joel I
Hart, while those in Mason were bull
by Governor Metcaif.
Three indictments have been fount
against Jack Taber. former count,
clerk OF Rowan. One is for hors
| stealing, one for shooting with inten
= to kill. and the other for carrying con
eeaied weapons.