The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-02
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THE SOUTH.

usually promising.
Hog cholera is reported as prevailing Ia the
upper part of Liberty county, Ga.
Three hundred and eighty. SIX dollars nave ne
been collected for the jasper Mohulliellsal
Fund at Savannah.
Tie Orange County Tla.) Reporter values
one single rain which recently tell N thaI
neighborhood ut $500, 900.
The ..pretty Potts improved her lime Wnlle
III Atlanta giving exhibitions Of her Walking
powers, for a coDsidefaton
The Savannah negroes are chronic lighters.
b All a picnic on Tuesday another negro was
killed and two others wounded.
Savannah. Charleston Macon and Augusta
M, getting np an inter-city boat race to take
place of the last mentioned city.
The Tuscaloosa Gdsetfe says: u Ellis, Fish
Commissioner, has deposited OF our wharf ID
the Warrior river, $4,000 young snad, WIFI
the Injunction to increase and multiply.
Rain III badly needed throughout Alabama,
but the crop reports are encouraging. Cater
pillars. appearing La different Localities, are
alarming the cautious ones.
Two men named Taylor Doss and Jack
Pool got into difficulty last Saturday at
smts grocery stor On l1M h eI Enfa and
died Thursday. Doss has lied. whisky was
the calIse
A farmer In jackson (Fla) county reports
Calomel as o sure cure for hog cnolera. l ne
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for several years. and that 10 soon as one 70
taken with the disease he gives heavy doses,
which soon relieves the disorder.
Tampa (Fla.) Tribune: Mr.. Daniel Pinkston,
living On the MiInladeooche - ~ merna 70
decOy and brings wild deer I'D to Within shoot
Ing range 81 bis dwelling This animal, which
Ia d female. he has had for several years, and
has raised five head from IT.
"a severe storm passed over the upper pa.rt
seventeenth instant, inflieting considerable
damage upon fences, growing corn, cue. Inc
Hinesville Gazette says that 10 some Localities
the hall was ve.y heavy and the destruction
Immense,
iii Warren county, Ga, recently, q white
and the other with q shotgun-had mock
duel. pf we're thirty or forty yards apart,
and, Kept up she mummery until the shotgun
IN The hands OF the negro accidentally went
of, and the white boy Was dangerously
wounded.
The Confederate Soldiers Memorial and
Historical Association OF Montgomery, Ala,
To to have q grand celebration 81 tne Eou nr
81 july. Invitations have been sent to Nc
Glellail, Hancock, Burnside, Hooker and
Hood, Beauregard, Hampton and othef Don-
federate generals. Father Ryan Will denver
the address.
lib the county of Augusta, Va, they have
assessed and levied 9 taz on dogs, out OF
1nl1nerates parties who have lost sheep
Throughout the county during the year for
which the tax is collected. There were Ia0
sheep klsd bg d9gs y m M fenfy he t the
sum of S6z2 90 has been paid.
gentleman travelling through Manatee
county, Florida, gives the following unfav0r-
able account OF That part OF the country:
aThey would sometimes travel twenty miles
pool. would often find dead fish on the sur
lace and the water unfit tor use. The people
have made no crops, vegetation seeming 70
have been destroyed by thedrOuth. One man
could not spare them water from Ills WELL
Iii speaking Of the disease now affecting the
stock of Talbot county, the Standard says
that young farmer recently made 9 post
Inortem examination Ut one OF bis cows that
had died, and In her stomach about two ana
half bushels. of cotton seed were found g, an I.
every one of the seed had sprouted This
proves that an interior cotton crop 10 not con-
ducive to the health OF COW.
Annie Debeaux, d negro woman In Macon.
Ga, was badly burned on Monday by kero.
sene can explosion. She was In the act o.
pouring the oil from the can into the fire, for
the purpose OF making II burn more rapidly,
I when the flames were communicated 70 me
4 oil and caused the disaster. Her clothing
took fire, and she only succeeded ID extin-
gushing It By jumping Into tub q water.
injuries may prove fatal
The people Of Western North Carolina will
celebrate at Hendersonville on the fourth 81
July the near fulfillment Of some OF their
h and North Carolina and Of Tennessee will be
there, and 1t may be that the two first named
will frequently make use Of the traditional
remark. Be that as 1t may, it is reasonably
certain that the Handersonville meeting will
greatly promote the work which remains to
30 done to unite the railroad, systems Of the
Carolinas with that OF East Tennessee.
The Athens Banner Is authority for the fol
lowing singular case OF brutality: Young Mr..
Moulton q Forsyth county, 2 snort ad Mme
to send him to Milledgeville. The report now
comes to us, that In order to economic, the
officials Of Forsyth county let out the con
q carrying hun t. the asyam t. r.
two negroes who tied him down flat Of his
back i'd q tvo-horse wagon, and In this con-
fiitio1l transported him over one hundred
miles to his point OF destination.
Jacksonville (Fia) Union, seventeenth irl,
stant: Several colored men have complained
to us about the formation Of o society In this
city whose membership ID to BIO composed q
mulattoes exclusively, No black man need
apply. They also charge. that the black
children are ostracsea ana Often .eiusen d au
under instructions from their parents. Rev.
- Thomas, last Sunday night, made men
ton Of the matter as the starting point for
evil, and division among the colored race Of
this city. About five years ago the same
subject agitated the colored people Ia this
sity, and 1T times they would meet, quarrel
and fight over it on the public streets.
The Echo, Of Oglethorpe. Ca is responsible
for the statement that the negroes OF that re-
gion openly and generally practice polygamy.
Some Of them are said to have as many as
ave wives living under one roof Henry
Thornton, a mulatto, who recently died, had
Il two wives, each of whom had blessed the hus-
band with q large family Of children, and,
what Is more surprising, they lived tn the
seemed to be sincerely attached to each other.
Thornton bequeathed his property to the two
women jointly, with the proviso that they
should always hold it In common. The Echo
thinks that the grand jury should indict the