The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-25
THE SOUTH.


county, Ala.
There are fifty-odd cotton manufacturing
establishments In North Carolina.
The Texas legislators can't stand the two
dollars per diem and will adjourn.
Brunswick, Ca claims the champion rain
fall-ten and one-tenth inches in eighteen
hours.
The sheriff of Brazoria, Tex, has been
threatened with assassination unless he re-
signs.
The Franklin Tla) Herald asserts there
are many cattle dying in Whiteoak Prairie in
that county from disease com monty known
as blackleg.
| The Flint river Is reported to have leaped
| Its banks In the fiat lands OF Southwest GeOr-
gia, and Is a mile wide In some places.
A COW was found dead on Long creek,
| Oglethorpe county, Ca, the other day, with
| her head fastened In some bushes. She had
been entangled, could not extricate herself,
and go starved to death.
In Bell county, Ga, last week, Capt. Rooch,
while out hunting, was attacked by fox,
supposed to be rabid. Reynard made spring
at him, but Capt RoOch knocked him down
and Immediately killed him.
A correspondent from Springfield, Ga.
writes that during the thunder storm on
Wednesday, the sixteenth instant, the light
ming killed two COWS near the residence of
Mr.. G. w. Grovenstein, Of Efingham county.
Much more damage may yet be discovered"
Vicksburg Herald: Be it enacted, that any
citizen of Mississippi who makes oath that
he carries concealed weapon because he
fears an attack upon his life, shall be fur
nished with guard, armed with mu5ket,
| to protect said Citizen etc, and that any citi.
zen found with concealed weapon, who does
| not make oath that he fears an attack and
who Is not entitled to carry one, shall be i'm
prisoned In the county jail thirty days.
Georgia sends out Of the State annually
100000 for guanos, and DR.. Pratt, the dis
| tinguished Georgia chemist, Is endeavoring
to form stock company for the manufacture
| Of fertilizers in Atlanta. He says that within
the limits Of Georgia are to be found all the
ingredients for first-class fertilizers-phos-
pilates and the materials for sulphuric acid,
salts OF ammonia and potash These can be
prepared, and superior fertilizer made for
home use with a capital OF 100000.
Memphis Avdldnche A party OF colored
La, took passage on the John B. Maude at
Vicksburg, on her last trip from Vicksburg
to st, Louis. On their arrival at st. Louis
they learned the disappointment and desti-
race who had preceded them: This cured all
desire for location In bleeding Kansas.
They did not leave the boat but returned to
their homes on the next trip Of the boat They
passed here yesterday, and said they had
enough Of Kansas, and we're glad to get back
home.
Bisbee, of the many aliases, Is very busy
| taking testimony to be laid before Congress
In his contest for Mr.. Hull's seat. The jack
sonville Union Of Saturday says: Some OF
the colored men examined yesterday in the
Bisbee-Hull contest were wonderfully ignor-
ant and unsophisticated voters. They didn't
know what names were on their tickets !;
didn't know what party they belonged to !;
didn't know whether Joseph 3. Lee was a
Democrat or Republican. Their evasive re-
| plies, or assumed airs of innocence, were
amusing as well as provoking. Good aver
age samples were they Of Bisbee's consti-
tuents."
While In Georgia tea culture Is beginning
| to attract attention, in some portions Oh
Florida the culture of coffee is exciting in
terest. The Tampa Tribune says: Mrs. Joe
Atzeroth living On the south bank OF Mana
tee river, near Braidentown,. has two coffee
trees, bearing this year for the first time, as
we learn from a gentleman recently from
there. With proper care and Judicious ct
forts there certainly can be no doubt OF the
practicability Of raising coffee in South
Florida, especially in certain parts OF Mana
tee county and in the Caloosahatchie coun
try. It would be interesting to know If any
efforts have been made in this latter region
to grow this tree, and, ii so, with what sue
cess"
It is stated that the memorial celebration
on the twenty sixth, in Atlanta will be the
grandest ever held in the South Atlantic
States. Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee will be the
orator. The military display will be unusu.
Richmond by the Richmond Blues and de
taehments from the other city companies
The Richmond Hussars Of Augusta, TIT
Edgefeld Hussars, the Burke County Hus
sars, and the Georgia Hussars, under Gen
Pierce Young, will reach Atlanta on tht