The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-05
THE SOUTH.


oojorad man had an attack OF sunstroKe
IN Golumbus, Ga. the other DAY.
The promise OF d full yield OF corn ann eot-
Inn was never better around luskeRee, Ala
In many counties Ia Kentucky Inc hnesb
wheat crop In years IS reppfteu.
The farmers Of Kentucky have concluded
+hat they have about as good wheat crop
as they ever raised.
The sugar cane crop IN the section OF coun-
nv around Montgomery, Ala, VIII pc the
largest LII many years.
The Legislative Council " Memphis has
naased an ordinance prohibiting opium
smoklng.
The dro1,th ID unprecedented In Russell
county. va, Farmers have been compelled
to drive their stock to other counties.
A strange disease is prevailing among the
cattle in the neghborhood of Edgefield, Tenn.
The disease attacks the eyes.
Ex-senator Dorsey, of Arkansas Intends
establishing q Republican paper at Little
Rock.
The old Memphis theatre will BE- opened
next season. and will be called Leubrles
Theatre.
Bonnv Wise. colorei was killed BY James
Thompson, white, at the pooT-house, tour
miles FROM Dadevile, Ga. last Thursday.
The Augusta boat club will invite crews
from GharpstOn Savannah and Macon to par
tjcipate in the regatta on Lake Olmstead,
July 49,
Two Darien, Ga, gentlemen lately caught,
near Sapilo Sound q saw-fish Is feet long, 8
feet across the back from tip to tip. weight
about five hundred pounds.
The brownsville (4al Times tells the cham
Mon fish story OF the season. II. says that q
marty OF gentlemen from that town att single
haul Of d seine In Linton's lake, In Florida.
caught by actual count 1853 fish.
The commissioners appointed for the pnr-
nose have selected new site for the court
house Of Marion county, eight miles north
east of PkeviIle and vote will be taken
thereon In August.
Justice Bradley has Just Issued decree
ordering sale Of the Atlantic and Gulf Rail-
road in November next. Leading capitalists
in Savannah are talking about fixing up q
syndicate to buy 1t.
The Kentucky Yoemaa says there were IN
the penitentiary yesterday, 1923 conyicfs-
whites, 463; blacks, $50. For the last ten
wears there has been about twenty per cent
more blacks than whites at this institution.
In several counties In Georgia the fish IN
the rivers and ponds are dying by the thou
sand. It Is thought that the fish are killed
by the g,lano which, during the severe storms
early In the season, was washed into the
streams
The question of the destruction of the
aianthus tree in Atlanta has been agltatlng
the community for some time. The doctors
have been called upon to decide as to the
baleful effects of the tree upon the general
health and they are wide apart in their no.
tions Meantime the authorities are in o
auandary.
The Walton County, Ga, VileHe says that
young man named McCue, aged about
twenty, who lives ut Rutledge, attempted sui
eide by shooting himself ID the abdomen with
pistol on Wednesday last No cause Is
given for the rash act, but 1t is supposed he
committed 1t under temporary alteration OF
the mind, he having been very much intoxi-
Gated the day before.
The Abbevile, s. e., Register says: From
an esteemed correspondent we learn that
Tom Richards and Old and highly respected
citizen. who lived beyond County Line
Church. In Barbour county, on the twenty
third instant was bringing his stock from the
pasture and leading young mule, and q, It IS
supposed that he became entangted III the
rope, and was so Injured that he died between
II and IL o'clock that night,
It was rumored In Atlanta on Friday that q
fight had occurred at the jail in that city be-
tween Cox and Hill, who 1t seems we're,
strangely enough, occupying the same cell
The report stated that Hill was going on SEN
timentally over his wife when Cox made some
uncomplimentary remark about her. Hill
Immediately struck Cox. VINO, IN turn, knocked
his assailant down, and was beating him
badly, when the jailer interfered.
Winchester (Ga) Sun: For the first time in
the memory Of man. Clark county is begin
ming 30 be seriously afflicted with tramps.
They are all foreigners, and claim to mo
bp6th56 hHEIc hAih 1Np. so.i W
them has printed letter which sets form tnat
the bearer has lost $1,000 worth oil some nlng
CT other by shipwreck. Sometimes 1t Is $1,000
worth Of marble, sometime SILK, sometimes
one thing and sometimes another, but always
$1,000 worth.
Live Oak (Ia.) Bultetin eve tested some
wine the other day made by Judge GiOnts. II
had a fine color and was we'll tasted, and had
the flavor Of q tlrst rate M adeira. The Judge
informed us that it was now nearly one year
Old and had been made at q cost Of about SIX