The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-12
THE SOUTH.

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Tax collectors In Texas have stolen since
1868 STE, 527 ~.
A national coiored convention will be held |
In Nashville on the sixth OF May.
The Florida Medical Association will be |
held In Jacksonville April Is.
| The Arkansas Press Association meets at
Pine Bluff the first Monday in June.
Work upon the Lee mausoleum at Lexing-
| ton, Va, Is progressing favOrably, ana only
$4,000 IL needed to complete IL.
! A shipment of $4,000 live fowls was received
IN Norfolk. Va, Saturday, from Southwestern
Virginia.
! Smallpox OF very violent type has broken
out among the Mexicans In Hornsby's Bend,
nine miles below Austin, Texas.
/ The total loss to the farmers the recent
cold SPELL on the Neck and Christ Church
| parish near Charleston, was S2Oo,006.
| There are over 100000 acres oil public
lands in Alabama subject to entry or home
stead.
Gov. E. j. Davis has been organizing the
GreeDbackers OF Texas about LAREDO 10 elect
Nancy.
Houston's tenth railroad will be narrow
gauge and connect that city with Sabine pass.
Il ID to be built by French company.
The anniversary Of the signing, Of the
MecklenbuIg declaration will be celebrated In
Charlotte, N. c., ON the twentieth OF May.
The Circuit clerk q OIlCe DI EHIlkllu COUNTY,,
Ala, was recently broken into and most OF
the valuable records abstracted. No clue to
the robbers.
An Alamo monument association has been
formed In San Antonio, Texas, to erect q
monument to the heroes who fell on that
memorable spot.
One-tifth Of the population OF Richmond,
Va are Baptists. There are In the city nine
churches of white Baptists and ten Of colored
ones.
Clark county, Ark, one OF the five original
counties established by the territorial legis-
going to Dallas and half to Nevada counties
The vlcksburg Herald of the fifth says
there was Ice In Warren county on Friday
.. morning last, and all tender plants were
killed. Tomatoes, cotton, etc, were turned
black from the effects Of the cold.
Starkyille Miss Is elated over the perma-
rent location of the State Agricultural and
Mechanical College at that place. A farm OF
$50 acres was obtained at the nominal price
OF 81 per acre, and ample buildings are to be
erected. 5Mm. =.M
Aberdeen, Miss, Examiner: It Is said that
over three thousand bushels Of grass seed Of
various kinds were purchased Ia Oktibbeha
county this year. Oktibbeha is destined
within the next ten years to be one OF the
leading stock raising counties In the Union.
"A correspondent OF the Mobile Register,
,, speaking Of Eufaula, says that the Chata.
, steamers to Girard, Ala, opposite Columbus,
4 Ga, and they ply regularly, passing here
! twice week, going and coming.
The ponds were frozen over Friday as late
as 8 o'clock Yesterday there was ice every
where from Atlanta to Chattanooga, and It
A remained till near noon In shady spots. The
. fruit must be tough or it is killed.-[C hatta-
nooga Times.
Mississippi papers report the suicide Of a
dog at Macon. The animal was stealing
grease from can, and when caught In the
act his head was too for In the can to come
: out readily and 50 the brute ran into pond
: OF water and was drowned.
9 MCKINNEY, Tex April 3.-The frost on the
night OF April damaged greatly the corn,
: potato and vegetable crops; J. N. Belge had
d twenty-five acres OF corn killed; Capt Taylor,
twelve acres, and other crops were destroyed
q and are being replanted: "A mortimer is blow
ing to-day and the weather Is quite cold.
9 The Columbia Is. o. Register says that
9 there are at present sixteen Incorporated
companies digging and mining phOsphates
!. In the streams and waters OF its State, some
having exclusive and others general rights,
and representing an aggregate capital Of
about 81 100000.
II The last North Carolina Legislature broke
! up the custom Of holding political meetings
by declaring that no bar room shall be kept
! open within two miles Of q place where such
1, litical meeting In Charlotte every bar-roon
~ must be closed, as on election days.
Knoxville Tribune, sixth instant: A dis
10 patch from Augusta, Ga, received las
Z night, stated that the extreme cold weather
l. during the last forty-eight hours had killed
the fruit and early vegetable crops In Georgit
Al and South Carolina. 1t 10 stated that tn
4 fruit crop In this part OF East Tennessee L.
Y, either totally or to q great extent ruined.
Savannah Neacs: The number Of little Negro
ID children cremated In the interior OF the Stat
IL through Carelessness Is really startling. u
" last Monday evening Dick Walker. colored
s. living on the place OF Mr.. @. II. Walker, sever
miles from Dublin, left his three little chill
a. dren In the house in charge OF their older sis
at ter about twelve years OF age Soon after
In ward the house took fire and the girl ran out
~ leaving the children In the house where the.
were burned mp.
M Acting upon the advice of a learned voodo
n doctor, Samuel Broolins. a darkey employee
= of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad bathee
~ his body In boiled poke root for the purpos
of curing bad cold. Sans feltow-worklnel
at Burgin, KY, turned him over last Tuesda
eI morning to see why 10 the world he shoul
~ sleep SO long. They found a dead darkey.
III Petersburg (Va) Inder Appeal: The freigh
10 train on the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohi
Railroad, which arrived In this city last even
ne ing from the West, had seven cars loade
d. with live fowls, shipped from East Tennessee
lg and destined for the Northern markets. Ship
H. ments OF this kind have been OF frequent ot
SO currence, and they are said to realize 70
those engaged In them handsome profit o
al the outlay. This, however, is about the larg
N est shipment ever made over this line.
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Of SEYMOUR'S ULTIMATUM.