The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-08
SOUTHERN NEWS.



Too much rain In Morehouse Is hurt
ing the crops.
Lake Providence Ia to have telegraph
line to New Orleans soon.
The Morehouse Clarion accuses the
police jury Of that parish Of too much
economy.
abundant" "very promising" Gun
usually fine," 10 what the country pa
.pers say Of the crops. There Is scarcely
aparish that complains.
Cotton in the Pre- aux Clar, Natchii..
toches parish, Is injured to some small
extent by an insect that cuts or bores
the root, causing black rot.
The preliminary examination OF Il. q;
Meyers, charged with stealing the school
funds OF Natchitoches parish, was COM
menced In that parish last week. Meyers
was released on bond and the case con-
tinued.
| The Bart Able on Tuesday evening
| last took down from near Coushatta ITO
eonviets. who have been working on the
| New Orleans and Pacific Railroad In
| Natchitoches parish, to point near AL
exandris. where they are to close up u
gap In the grading Of the road.
They have got up q contest for office
| in Natehitoches parish. Kearney, hold
| ing over recorder, refuses to give UP the
| office to Hubley, elected at the late cleo.
tioA. Hubley gave bond. which was
accepted by the clerk OF the court, but
Kearney, holding over, insists that 1t is
not good bond and, consequently,
holds on to his office. Hubley has en-
tered suit.
Frank Posey, colorea. was killed in
| Osyka last week.
The State personally tax of Holly
Springs has fallen off 333 per cent.
The wheat near Holly Springs has
been good deal hurt by the late rains.
John r. Walker was killed by D. W..
Mills, near Dickens ferry, In Jackson
county.
Neshoba county decides in favor of a
primary election, and most OF the other
counties seem inclined to follow suit.
A difficulty occurred few nights ago
between DR.. J. M. McDuffy and W. W.
Henry. both Of Meridian, In which Nc
Duffy was killed.
Capt. g. Il. Merrill. OF the Greenwood
Oriental, announces himself as q candi-
date for doorkeeper Of the next House
OF Representatives.
The Copiahan mentions the assassi-
nation OF negro, Tom Mosely, resi-
dent OF Crystal Springs, by another me-
Near Centre Hill, in Marshall county,
Temple Jackson, a colored woman, q
few days ago. killed her child, about
three years Of age. She is In jail.
The Mississippi University at Oxford
celebrated Its closing exercises June ~.
York, delivered the address on the oc-
casion.
Charles Evans is now In Jail in Mar
shall county charged with the assassi-
nation Of Mr.. Burns, laborer on the
Ayers place, about seven miles north
east Of Holly Springs.
The Raymond Gazette suggests that
the State make loan OF 5000, 900 of the
school fund now lying idle in the pub
| lie treasury to the Natchez, Jackson
and Columbus Railroad.
The newspapers Of the State may be
classed as follows: Humphreys, 16 4;
Lowry, 10; Featherston, 3; Stone, 10;
| doubtful and neutral, 81. While Lowry
has the largest number, Humphreys has
the dailies and nearly all of the tri-
weekles, and. this gives him very
great advantage.
Texas.
Denison shipped eight hundred and
eighty-three head of cattle Tuesday.
Texarkana complains Of the inroads
OF counterfeiters.
A party from Illinois has just pur-
chased fifteen thousand acres Of land
In Clay county, which will soon be set
tied.
w. FL. Wentworth, Of Houston, put q
-, g., LII I'll spk1 al
and his wife drew water for drinking
during the night. The entire family
were poisoned, and died the next day.
The driver of the Waco and Bolton
stage reports that on Wednesday even
ing last the Bolton and Austin stage
was stopped at point two miles beyond
Bolton by highwaymen and robbed.
The only passenger had no money. The
robbers took one dollar and ten cents
from the driver and rifled the mail bags
Of small sum Of money.
Brown and another colored man
named David Washington were return
ing to Houston from Jefferson last Mon
day, where the latter was married. A
number Of negroes were in the crowd,
and they were all under the influence
of liquor. When within two miles OF
town, at the residence of Washington q
father in law. he ran into she house.
seized an Enfield rifle, and without any
provocation whatever shot Brown
through the head, killing him in
stantly.
A family of emigrants passing through
Wilson county camped near the house
of family named Thomas. Early in
the morning Thomas, accompanied by
his two sons, went to the camp and COM
menced numbering and robbing the
campers. A boy escaped, and shortly
afterwards meeting a party OF Lieut.;
| Halls men, they returned and captured
the three Thomases. OF the emigrants,
the father, mother and three boys were
murdered.
| A correspondent of the Fort Worth
| Democrat gives the details Of another
mysterious and brutal murder COM
mitted in Palo Pinto county on the Goth.
| The name Of the murdered man was
| Lyons. He was an old man Of about 70
years, owned a sheep rancho some eight
miles from the town Of Palo Pinto, and
was quiet, unobtrusive old gentleman.
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