The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-07
THE SOUTH.

THE SOUTH.
DR.. Gunsolus, OF Erath county, Texas, Ii
the father Of forty-nine living children.
month 100000 eggs
The Texas State Sunday school convention
will be held at COrsicana April 10, 1879.
rope-waIker has been walking across the
Mississippi river at NHtchez
BlrgiarieS are becoming common In Char
lgtte. N. C.--three In one night.
An Arkansas paper remarks that resump-
ton has not injured the price OF coon Skins.
Tennessee has q flattering prospect ior
peaches and wheat.
AT this time there are over three hundred u1 g,
visitors In Aiken, South yarolna, mOst Oh
whom are residents Of the North.
Two hundred and sixty laws were passed
during the session OF the tennessee Leglsla-
tiI1e.
the general assembly of the Southern Pres
\ byterian Church will meet In Louisville. KY,
May 15
Two negro BARRIERS In San Antonio fought q
hurt no one.
The Grand Lodge Of knights Of Honor, for
the State Of Tennessee, will meet In Nashville
On Wednesday, April q.
North Carolina has flfty-four cotton and
woolen mills In operation. The capital In
Vehteu dIuouAtb W pl,o0osUvU.
r. bullock county, Ala, persons sentenced ,s
der, and bring % 30 per month.
The Chilhowee Mountains, southeast Of
Knoxville, were covered with snow the first
and second of April.
GOV. Hubbard, Of Texas, says that during
his administration twenty-One rnurderers
have been hanged.
Col J. b, Killebrew, commissioner Of agri-
Tor q large wheat crop were never better.
VIZ IA white Republican commenting on the re-
cent colgred appointments Ia Mississippi
sald THE ID yellow hammers want every
Charles Wing, the Chinese citizen recently
naturaiized In New York, is soon to become O
citizen OF Florida. He has selected Key West
Tor his residence.
n The Vicksburg Herald implores the people
4 Vi Mississippi not to neglect their crops To
agitute the State election, that does not come
on until next November.
Governor ColQuitt has been elected to ad-
dress the sixth annual enoampment and re-
next August ut Cambridge, Ohio
The Confederate monument to DO erected
bv the ladies' will be unveiled at Columbus,
Ga, on the twenty-Bixth, and Gov Oolqultt
4 Will deliver the address.
The College Of Bishops, the Book Commit
\ ern Methodist Church will hold their annual
meetings IN Nashville, Tenn In the second
\ week Id May.
\ Texas Jimplecttte. Til several instances we
hear of corn being plowed over and cotton
planted. The Colorado potato bug has al
ready made Its appearance In small num-
bais, and have commenced depositing their
4 eggs.
DR.. Lovick Pierce, the distinguished
x Methodist preacher OF Georgia, was 90 years
Old un Monday, the twenty-fOurth ultimo.
~ celebrated sne day Dy papuzlng eight
children, and one o great-great-grandchild.
Some crops Of wheat In the nelghborhood
4 Of Tuseumbla are remarkably promising, but
some others are indi fferent on account Of the
Il freezing out 81 the plants. Oats sown during
N the last two months look well. The fall-6OWn
crop Ii injured badly by freezing.
She met him a little more than half way.
Miss Joanna Belknap, OF Texas, advertised
for q husband, and Augustus Ganschow, OF
Saginaw, Mich, answered. By agreement
they met at Springfield, Mo-, on Thursday,
and, marrying took the train at once for the
IA bridegroom . home.
Charleston Netcs and Courier: The South
4 ern press has done Its part Now for judges,
juries and Governors. The hanging of two OF
three egenteel" murderers will stop the
bloody pistol business Nothing else will
Every one Oh the assassins relies on his money
\ III his connections to save him. Treat the
\ rich and influential as the poor and friendlesH
\ IRE treated, and they will think twice before
they shoot once.
Nashville Banner. Mr.. Christopher Bran
don, OF Stewart county, the father of Col.
Nathan Brandon, Senator from Stewart and
Montgomery presents remarkable case OF
" vitality. He ID 80 years old, and 70 apparently
4 as active and sprightly now as at any time -
the father Of twenty-seven children. They
range all the way from one year old to sixty