The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-24
THE SOU I'll.

srrjption 10 clean the streets.
The Tennessee Legislature has passed law
giving the laborer a lien on the crop.
The Shelby (Ky.) Sentinel knows two ewes
that have seven lambs.
Judge Bchenck, of North Carolina has
eigbty-seven varieties Of stuffed birds.
Since July I25 foxes have been killed In
Hart county, Ky.
Five Abbevilie, 4. O., widows have been on
rolled on the pension list Of the war Of 1912.
| In Hampstead, Texas, cock fighting Is a
| feature. Chickens In the pit are often backed
| by az much as $500 side.
| Houston city scrip Ia worth only twenty
cents on the dollar and the street laburers
refuse To work for any such sum.
| An Alabama poultry fancier has obtained a
| beautiful fowl by q cross between guinea
and turkey.
Tho Columbus Democrat thinks that the
homcdes In Mississippi have averaged one
| per day for several weeks back.
The Montgomery tAIa) Adrrfiacr says the
| bill imposing n Tux Of ~ on each voter In that
| city, for quarantine purposes, did not pass.
The Legislature Of Alabama has approprl-
ated money to buy legs for oil her citizens
who lost them for the Lost Cause.
Col. w. l.. Saunders, recent editor OF the
Raleigh Observer, has been appointed SeCre-
tary Of State Of North Carolina.
The bronze b,lst 81 WIN. Gilmore Sims, the
historical novelist and historian of South
Carolina, Is to be erected at White Point Gar
den, Charleston.
Last year the foreign insurance companies
doing business In Tennessee received S4Ss,-
5S7 t6 sustained In LOSSES f437 BD5 "a, and paid
ia tax Cd the State SIG, 235 H.
The National Agricultural Convention will
meet In Nashville, Tenn. on tho twenty-ilfth
Of this month, and will continue In session
three days.
Orange trees In bloom one day, and Ice and
cold the next, puzzle the Tampa, Fla, clti-
zens most wofully In deciding whether IL II
winter or spring IN that SCI ton
In n case at Camden, &. O., The court decided
that the act Of the last Legislature destroyed
all power OF the courts In reference to suits
for divorce. The case was appealed to the
Supreme Court.
In North Carolina last year ., 1909, 400 young
shad. $4,000 California salmon. and over 1900
land-locked salmon were distributed, under
the management Of the tish-hatclers of Avoca
and Swaunanoa gaps.
sun + Hpt, Writ Wis convicted TT the taEt
term of the Aiken Is CD court, and sentenced
to two years In the penitentiary. has been re-
leased on $4,000 bail, pending the result of his
appeal He has been confined In the county
Jail for the past six months.
Memphis Appeal: The bondholders. WHO
had attached or garnisheed the fire and police
fund, the yellow fever fund and the school
fund have had TO let up and disgorge as TO
said funds. Had they gubbled up these funds
they could take trip to Europe next summer.
as usual.
Anna Darhe prosecuted Edward Boone, IN
Greensboro, KY, for alleged Islander. An
ticipatng a verdict for the defendant, she
provided herself with q rawhde before going
to court, and, just as he began to smile over
his acquittal, struck him several blows across
the face
Manchester (Engl Guardian: The claim
ant, Mr.. w. II. Cox, a builder, Of Memphis.
Tenn. sought to establish his right as heir 10
a property known as Lennox Lodge South
amptom. Documentary and ritG p0ce EVIL
dence WAS given In support OF the case. His
Lordship decided In favor OF the plaintiff,
holding that his identity was established
Charleston Mems and Courier: A company
OF antarprising Northern men are engaged
on the Elisto river In the business Of catch
ing sturgeon, the flesh of which Ii sent North
and converted into canned salmon, while the
spawn Is sent TO the same place, and, after
being prepared and canned, comes back to US
with u foreign trade mark, and Is sold as
Russian caviare
On Sunday last, Row. Melville Jackson
rector of Grace Episcopal Church, Richmond,
Va, announced that, with the expressed
wishes OF shop WhittIe, all altar clothes
would be removed. aud that floral decorations
on festival occasions should be dispensed
with In future. In fact, that he had been re-
quoSted To tone down all rellRlOuS services IN
the Episcopal church
Knoxville Tribune: We recommend to the
members OF our present Legislature that
they give the works of the historian Buckle
a careful reading. According to that eminent
authority the best work general Legislation
can ever do Is to do nothing, and the next
best Is to undo what has previously been
done. III what they propose TO do in the fu-
ture Is no better than what they have done,
we are inclined to accept the historians state
ment.
DIR. G. NJ Walden, of Jackson, Miss, is
doing good work In aiding young men to
get through their college course at the Ok
ford University at Oxford, Miss. The doctor
advances the amount necessary to meet the
actual expenses Of the student, and takes his
obligation for the same, to be paid when he
earns it, after completing his college course.
The doctor is now carrying twenty-five young
men through the university.
Gone for shadines. The Mystic Krew."
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