The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1879-12-18
sorrHERN Nrws IrEMs.

| Mhiildft H''uf 'H-tF '"N my
IN Memphis.
The street railroad Of Vick-burg is
paying Handsomely.
The Hood fund in Atlanta No"
amounts 10 s2,G5202
Tnmps are Hocking into Florida for
their winter quarters.
Texas would make thirty-iiyc states
the -ize Of Massachusetts,.
A new town in Lauderdale county,
Tenn, is named Piljerk.
A South Carolina man cut y, OO0sbi
gles from one cypress tree.
The cause Of education il booming in
many coudtic, IN Alabama.
Chestnut. sell at twenty-five cents per
bu.hel IN southern Virginia.
The sewerage question is the leading
topic Of interest in Memphis,
The third crop Of fig for 1879 i-nearly
ripe in Oglethorpe county, Ga,
There were ~ death. in New Orlem.
during the week ending Sunday,
The wool clip Of Texas this year is
estimated at 22,00000O pounds.
4 The colorcd Baptists are erecting q
n ~ 900 church at Dallas Texas
4 yhefe snail, Ga., Saturday. '--'
lpnkitE. II. stephen Is a consistent mem
Der Of the Presbyterian church.
Arkansas has q state society for the
prevention Of cruety to animals.
Over fifty new firms have commenced
business in Atlanta, Ga, this year.
4 Texas boy sixteen years old is being
searched for on the charge Of rape.
The Alabama Great Southern railroad
viii soon receive 100 new coal cars.
A cotton gin with rs bales Of cotton
burned near Dallas, Tcxas, Saturday.
A Memphis gun store was robbed Of !
SLooo worth Of pistols Sunday night
Panther. are said to abound vet in the /
mountains of western North Carolina.
Some Of the Arkansas papers advocate
spelling the name of the State Arkan-
saw
The tendency Of the people Of Georgia
to cmigratc to TcNa. is not 80 great AS IL
was.
4 penalty of four per cent has been
added to the delinquent tax listof Mem
phis.
The burden of the North Carolina
papers is Of heavy crops and new rail
road-
The people Of san Antonio. Texas
have subscribed $1,000 for an cmigrant,' {
home.
The enrolment in the public school.
IF Chattanooga Tenn, last month, was
,G1I.
Colonel Robert NJ Mimi. well known ;
throughout Virginia died at Newark {
Friday. t
\ woolen-mill at New Braunlel,
Texas, yielded net profit of Ssl 900
ast year. g
The Collievilc Tribune is the latest y
EDITION to the democratic press of Ten "
essee. y
The Grand Lodge Of Tennessee. n. and
londay y
The expenses of the city government RI
Galveston, Tex, for October amount of
! to 50, Ii6.0S. N
There was an increase Of forty in the
lumber of post offices in North Carolina tn
uring October Sc
Taxes have been paid more promptly in
his year in South Carolina than for tn
ANY years before. 90
\ colorcd man in Tennessee goes to
lc state penitcntiary for three years for to
ealing fifty cents. tn
John Arnold, of Mineral county, w. ~
a., Niscd this year ten barrels of corn ~
ON one ears planting.
The Council of Wheeling, W. Va, re- A.
scs to encourage the Introduction of r.
c telephone in that city. 60.
The Groesbcck New Era says that one nr,
urth of the cotton gins in Texas are y
'stroycd by fire every year 60
\ widow seventy years of age residing EN-
ar Austin, Texas, takes care of a stock for
nche and 800 head of cattle itv
-Four calves were found near Talbot the
Il, Ga, with their threats cut. II is |
ought the deed WAS done by wildcats. mo-
Texas papers are complaining of an in. 'iIi
sion of tramps from the north since ~
2 beginning of cold weather up there. ~,
During the tist seven DAYS of this ,
nth, 32,S0l letters and packages were ,ts
ndled in the Columbus Ga. J postof- mas ,,,,'
The registration of the voters of l puil
arleston, ;. c., closed Tuesday. the s b,,I,
mber being 1877, against $3.50 in ''",,
z. I
The Robesonian says there is well in , sie
bosom county, North Carolina. over puy
years old, which has never failed till a 'i
) fall. m |
The circuit court Of Rockbridec coup- VOW, =,
Virginia, granted a decree last week l
the sale Of the Rockhridgc alum nav "a
ings. blg
lot Of l49 Short.horn cattle. avcrar- Nh Nh
$40 pounds, were shipped for Eu. ill.,
e last week by Francis Bell. of Au- c, r
Ia county, Va 'I :,
'wo men engaged in digging well sion
r, sherman, Texas two or three DAYS Of
'e, were overcome by damp and died now
N the effects. iury
contract has bcen completed for the iet,'
'tion OF water works 20 Knoxville. hhS