The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-30

| at MS mousse. Wn0n arre6J0u Allen cOnIeSSeu
to the deed and carried the posse to the scene
OF the murder, where the body was found.
| Allen was taken to Monroe, where he Is now
safely lodged In jail to await the action OF the
courts.
THE SOUTH.
Chattanooga Is to be q signal-service sta
| ton.
Wade Hampton has q son at the University
OF Virginia.
The city Of San Antonio and the county owe
over 8, 100000.
A North Carolina COW is the modest mother
OF twenty-three calves.
Starkville has been selected as the site Of
the Mississippi A. and M. College.
After year or more In darkness the streets
Of vicksburg are again to be lighted.
The Central, Southwestern and Epson
county railroads, Of Georgia. cleared the past
| year 81 ,093, 967 81.
The South Carolina Legislature adjourned
at o'clock Tuesday. morning, after session
OF twenty-three working days.
In jackson county. Ala, hogs sell at two
| cents q pound, and fresh beef sold at IuSca-
loosa at the same price.
It has been determined to have no cele-
bration OF Mardi Gras at Memphis next Feb
ruary, on account OF the late epidemic.
| In Texas the convicts are hired out A
woman who Is unfortunate enough to have a
convict for husband has hired him to work
| for her.
| jackson, Miss, had four hundred and ninety
cases Of yellow fever and eighty-four deaths.
She received q little over $4,000, and the
average cost OF patients was $27. Quaran-
tine cost the city $169 "a.
| The Citizens Relief Committee Of Mem
phis wound up Its affairs Saturday by dis
| tributing the cash on hand, $7256 29, among
| the poor white orphan asylums, and setting
aside $1208 80 In county warrants for the col
ored asylum, II 1t shall be organized.
The mortality Of Nashville for the month
of November was as follows: Whites 20, col
ored 90; total 40. The rate OF mortality Tor
| the white population for the month was 1142
| per 1000 per annum, while that Of the colored
population was 20.S7, and OF the whole 1476.
The Texas Senators and Representatives
have united In card urging their constitu-
ents to subscribe to the Lee Monumental
fund, recommending that every house should
| being the anniversary Of the birth Of Gen. Lee
A gentleman of Edwards, well acquainted
with the county from that point north to the
Madison county line, gives 1t as his opinion
that fully 1000 colored people from Northern
Kinds and Southern Madison are preparing
| Gazette.
There are various reasons why numbers OF
Southern people are lazy. The climate Is
somewhat to blame; whisky is cheap. fine-cut,
| plug and twist tobacco is abundant, and last,
but not least, the whiting around the
known to be before.-[vfcksburg Herald.
vicksburg Herald: There are more law
students in the State University than ever
before. This is cheering; for these young
gentlemen are destined to fill q long-felt
want There was time during the last few
months when there were not enough attor-
uovc IN fhic county tn iii the court house,
Mr.. VIM. Mckay, the accountant employed
to examine the books and accounts of
the city, has reported the entire bonded and
currency debt of Macon, Ga, to be $612, $50.
He reports that the books and accounts have
been kept in such manner as 10 render an
Ineligible statement Of the nnanciai conoi-
ton OF the city very difficult.
North Carolina seems to be taking steps In
the right direction, by raising less cotton and
more grain. In 1877, ~, 800 acres OF land here
tofore given to cotton were devoted to cereals,
producing $4,000 bushels Of corn. $4,000
bushels Of wheat, $4,000 bushels OF rye, 100000
bushels of oats, and $4,000 tons Of hay more
than in 1875.
A Live Oak Fla.) dispatch to the Savannah
Ne,os says $4,000 fire occurred in that place
at D. M on the eighteenth, burning Two
stores Of Fl. A. Wyse, the law office OF White
u Bryson, Judge Bryson and Col; Taylor, t1e
Blaisden and w. Fl. Bird, the Office Of the Er-
positor and the Masonic Hall. In :urance
$4,000.
Augusta (Ga) Chronicle: The losses were
greater at the fire than at first supposed, and
amounted IN the aggregate tS a6pI5 ssS
Mrs. w. H. Goodrich, $1,000; h. G. Stewart q
Co, $4,000; Geraty 81 Armstrong, $4,000: On
all this there was only an insurance OF $4,000,
held by r. G. Stewart ~ Co: 1t seems to be
settled that the fire was the work Of an in
| cendiary.
| Mr.. Robertson, who owned the town OF Sa-
lado, Texas inserted in every deed prohihi-
| ton OF LIQUOR selling. There can be no
| grocery" in Salado, and the people there are
sober, Industrious and prosperous Houses
are freshly painted and roses bloom even in
midwinter, and the girls are beautiful, inner
iting rosy cheeks, and not bleared eyes, from
sober parents. Salado Is good place to go
to when one dies.
| Biblical Recorder: An examination Of the
lima, Georgia, Kentucky and North Carolina,
shows lower average in North Carolina
than either of the other States. Georgia sup
ports her ministers best, Kentucky next, Yir-
ginia third and South Carolina fourth. The
Carolina is that Of DR.. Wilson presbyterian,
Of Wilmington, being $4,000.
Yorkuiue rs. c. Enquirer: Mrs. Benner
widow Of Lieut.. Benner, has sent TO this
place for the remains of her little child, which
died and was buried here about i've years
ago. The disinterment will take place to-
day. 1t is probable that the child will be re-
buried at Vicksburg by the side of its father
We learn that Mrs. Benner has yielded to the
request Of the people of Vicksburg to permit
the body Of Lieut.. Benner to remain buried
there.
During the session at Richmond last weeh
Of the Grand Lodge of Good Templars ar
Interesting incident occurred A speaker al
luded to the melancholy end Of the lamented
Edgar Allen Poe, which brought out DIR
Moran, who attended Poe in his last sickness
in Baltimore He refused and rebuked thu
SANDER that he died under the influence o
: either opium or liquor, and stated that aftel
he became rational, for many days before oil
death, he could not be persuaded to TAX
either stimulants or opiates to allay his nerv
GUS excitement. He died In his sober senses