The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-29
SOUTHERN NOTES.

! Immigrants are thronging into ell parts Of
Texas.
A Texarkana barber sports $4,000 worth oil
diamonds.
st. Augustine Is clamoring for horse rail.
way.
The bonded debt Of Wilmington, N. G.. Il
$570,550.
San Antonio cannot pay It's police force and
other employees.
Jacksonville Ala, Is In a more prosperous
condition than for years past.
| The artesian well, Charleston, s. c., Is 1910
feet deep, and has cost $4,000.
| Rev. Wade Till, leading Baptist minister
In North Carolina Is dead, aged slxty-hve.
Chattanooga Is taking active steps towards
the Improvement Of her sanitary condition.
| The tide Of emigration to Texas from Ger
many Is heavier this year than ever before
| The number OF oyster catchers, boatnen
| and openers In Virginia is put down ut 10000
The public debt Of Virginia bearing interest
Is $29 S26. with "a, 1873, 1A deferred interest
Macon county, N: O., has an apple which
ounces.
| The Sumter tFla) Advance boasts Of several
oxen In that town that have horns thirty-two
Inches wide.
Near Concord, North Carolina, gold has
been discovered, and Is being raised, which is
| worth $50 per ton.
| AL Howder ("Texas Bill") who killed Billy
| Creiger In a Fort Worth theatre last summer,
| has been captured.
Daniel Shipman, the oldest living American
setter in Texas, seventy-seven years old, lives
| In Austin county.
I'D. Lopez, OF st. Augustine, Florida, went
out cunning Saturday and killed seventy five
| snipe and five quail.
Mr.. NJ. Webb, of Caldwell county, N. c., re-
| Gently buried three children in one grave, who
died from diphtherla.
Texas offers 5000 reward for the convict who
was pardoned on forged recommendations,
and $500 for the forgers.
Rev. w. w. Morrison. for unministerial
conduct, has been indefinitely suspended by
the presbytery OF Knoxville.
st. Augustine Is now enjoying beautiful
flowers, and orange trees with their golden
fruit hanging In rich profusion.
Saxon tells that Dutch Watkins shot and
killed Joseph Ford at Cobb's gin.
A bill to appropriate $4,000 to enable
MANNED soldiers to buy artificial limbs is
pending the In Alabama Legislature.
The registers show that in fifteen months
holic and 3,093,52 malt drinks; total tax
$85,860 81.
Miss Charlotte Thompson was so disap-
pointed at the small crowd at the Richmond
Theatre that she says she will never return
there again.
amounts annually to 100000, valued at 81 ,000,-
600. A Florida farmer sells quite flock on
account of dogs
On September 80 there were 1867 oonvicts
In Virginia. During the year there we're re-
ceived 1884; pardoned, 49,; died, SO; escaped,
81; discharged, ACT.
Major Lowder, OF Concord, North Carolina,
ooIohr o tod bio pfpof ~ fifth hi rthdov hv pln~.
Ing twice around ten acre field, and walked
q mile In thirteen minutes.
Moore county, N. O., has twenty-eight gold
mines, six silver mines, eight copper mines,
nine or ten iron mines and general as5ort-
ment OF other minerals.
fourteen and half hands high, and having
six feet The two. extra feet protrude from
the pastor joints OF the foreleg.
Gen. Trevino, the Mexican commander on
the Rio Grande. is now on q visit to San An
tonic, where he has been well received by the
civil and military authorities.
The election Of Major j. g. Naceabe over
Messrs. Brown and Harris, as foater for
Fayette and Shelby counties, Texas, at the
special election held Saturday last, is con-
coded.
railroad convention is now In session In
Houston, Texas, having for an object the dis
cussion OF proposal to put on sale emigrant
and Eastern States
The Washington Capital recognizes the fact
that luscious oranges are grown on the gulf
coast. This recognition is induced by the re-
ceiDt Of basket OF the fruit from the neigh
borhood of Mobile.
Dallas, Texas, is acquiring a reputation as
q fast city. The Commercial calls attention
to and denounces certain immoral practices
that prevail, and loudly condemns the desc
Grafton Of the Sabbath.
Jere Murphy, the newly appointed United
States Marshal for the Northern District Of
Alabama, is an ex-prnter. He was Con-
federate soldier during the war and has since
acted with the Republican party.
j. M. Patterson, the postmaster at Mar
SHALL Texas, has been found to be defaulter,
and be has been placed under arrest. The
money was paid and he was released, and
~rjll 70 r>os,roo ho diaraiocod Tho ovvion