The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-24
THE III SOUTH.

Wells and cisterns are going dry ut Calves
ton.
with shad.
Nashville has organized Its Board OF Health
Tor the summer campaign. @
The total cattle drive through Fort Worth
this season has been 1040OO.
The Galveston Ne,cs reports fine rains and
excellent crops all over the State.
The Colorado beetle Is playing havoc with
the potato crop in the valley Of Virginia.
A South Carolina mob Is represented as
'good-ordered and calm" while hanging
ravisher.
A Federal court has entered Judgment
against Harrison county, Texas, for $4,000
coupons on Texas and Pacific subsidy bonds.
The Texas and Pacific Railway Is now ex-
tended nine miles west Of Sherman, and half
way to Whitesboro.
The fish, from some unknown cause, are
dying In Red river, They rise to the top,
struggle awhile, and then turn over dead.
Gold and silver are said to have been found
In large quantities In the mountain near Will
Harrisburg, in Throckmorton county, Texas.
Cattle are dying IN Butts county, Ga, and
correspondent OF the Argus says the disease
Is yellow murrain. mam..4~a.a
In running fight between citizens of Clay
county and horse thieves In Wise county,
texas, one man was killed and several
wounded.
DR.. Arlington. OF Goldsboro, N G., has BY
experiment satisfied himself Of the feasibility
OF silk culture and will plant fifty or seventy
five acres In mulberry trees.
Raymond tMiss.) Gazette: We learn that
there were several cases of sunstroke among
the negroes In the Cayuga neighborhood last
week.
The Asheville CNisen says The. 90 . cs,>,,o,o,
N1 aqfHb t naro a9Rple crop trahss Western
6y Tie seys. - almost wholly destroyed
~au frosts in the early part OF May.
leonard Collins, Of Apling county, Ga,
was bit by rattlesnake while he was getting lgl
humber to make his mothers coffin, ana died
after ten days of great suffering.
Four companies of the Thirteenth United
States Infantry, from JACKSON ba Maaaa5,
morning, and went into camp for the sum-
mer.
One hundred degrees In the shade, and no
rain for six weeks; dust very Deep, gardens
burning up and crops are being badly m
jured for want of rain. That's the way they
talk at Texarkana, Texas. m.5
One week more of dry weather In Lampasas
county, Texas, says the Dispatch, will make
the crop less than will be required even to
feed its people. severe winter Is destined
to destroy much valuable stock.
Two thousand one hundred head OF cattle
e ready for shipment to Havana from Tam
The shipment from all the Florida ports
amount to 5000 head per week-IJ Jackson
Union.
crowd Of "moonshiners" in Franklin
hty, Ca, and revenue officers had regu-
battle on Tuesday last. Fifteen men fired
the revenue officers, who returned the fire
The laW-breakers were routed and the still
seized.
The Pensacola Advance, of the eleventh in
slant, says: The leaving of so many of our
colored people for the sugar-cane fields of
Louisiana has apparently impressed a few Of
our white population. Last week recorded
! the departure OF several white men, and now
we are told that there Is quite movement
1oing on which will probably terminate in
be emigration OF several Of our city lads.
Yalobusha Miss Standard: We learn from
hblic rumor that two officers In Calhoun
bunty went to a colored mans house to ar
him On some charge, ana IS they ap,
Rehed him he fired upon one Of them and
bin. He then surrendered to the other
had not been q prisoner long when
escape by killing his guard and
Pc county. When he was last
In Grenada, Miss.
ertained by actual scientific
prface of the water at the
river, Florida, Is only
hWer than it is $50 miles
the river has but an
sixth OF an inch to
ar f4ct worthy Of