The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-13
THE SOU TIL.

| North Carolina IL In the midst of an cpl
demic OF mail robbers.
IL is stated that /, 50O, 900 pounds OF rice ar,
produced In Florida.
| The damage to the Texas and New Orleans
| Railway by the food is put down at 100000
| Six hundred men and 200 teams are Of worl
on the Texas and Pacific west Of Fort Worth
The railroad now being built from Corpus
Christi TO the Rio Grande Is graded TO within
three miles Of San Diego.
In Tallahassee, Florida, there are colore6
emigration agents endeavoring to induce the
cOlored people to leave their homes.
The general assembly OF the Southern Pres
byterian Church will meet at Louisville, Ken
lucky, May 15.
The Baptist Record, formerly published al
Clinton, Mississippi, has been removed tx
jackson and will be issued at the latter place
hereafter.
The Enterprise MISSY Cburiv calculates
that It costs In that county about SAG to senC
q negro to the penitentary for stealing 3
shoat worth 50.
In Memphis, Chandos Dabula, aged thir
teen, shot Eddie Palmer, aged eight, In the
neck for laughing at him. The wound La moi
serious.
Salmon about nine inches long have beer
caught In the Colorado river near Austin
The government stocked the river year o.
two ago.
Constable B. P. Woodbridge, Of Hill county
Ga, recently shielded by swallowing strych.
nine. in the presence OF his son and Other
friends, whom he stood off with pistol
A prisoner named Jack Simmons was forci.
bly, taken from the jail Of Newton county
Texas, by q body Of masked men and shot TO
death. He was jailed for killing Mr. Perry
There are about hoo convIcts belonging to
the North Carolina penitentiary. about two
thtrda ~ xuhnrc iIdiainrls1v amntOVp6 IN
the several lines OF railroads now inprogress
OF construction.
Jack Summeryile, who two years ago
killed man In Hearne, Texas, has been tried
at Cameron, found guilty Of murder In the
second degree and sentenced 70 nnety-nlne
years In the penitentiary.
The negro murderer, Zeke Bradley, was
hanged at Bryan last Friday. During his last
speech he said he was going home to eat sweet
milk and honey and feast at Jesus table. He
had killed seven or eight men, and was des-
perate villain.
The annual reunion Of survivors of Hoods
brigade will be held at Palestine, Texas,
Senator Wade Hampton and Gen. Gary, OF
South Carolina, will be present and deliver
addresses.
Weldon IN. o. Mems: On Saturday last sew
eral hundred negroes met In q town to dis
cuss the question OF going to Kansas. Sew
committee was appointed to ascertain par
ticulars and report. No definite action will
be taken until more ID found out Ia regard to
the ACCESSIBILITY OF emigrating.
HEMPsTEAD, Tex, May 5-John Steele was
shot and instantly killed here by Col. Jared
Il. Kirby, Of Brennan. The killing took
place at the Methodist Church, just as the
were leaving. Fourteen years
ago Steele killed Kirby's father In Houston.
Col. Kirby surrendered himself after the
shooting, and is now In custody.
Mr.J. b. Cooper, who was injured In the
Lisbon cyclone, and whose house was burn
ed by lightning, has recovered his hearing,
being almost entirely deaf prior to the storm.
During the storm he was struck on tho head
with large hail stone which fell with great
force, knocking him down. To what source
his recovery is due 1t Is hard to say, though
It Is attributed by his friends to the electricity
that filled the air. His hearing Ia almost as
good as 1t ever was, and he has about re-
covered from the effects Of the storm.