The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-09
THE SOUTH.

The cold wave has taken In ell the South.
Troy. Ala. had $1,000 fire Thursday night
The Virginia Legislature reassembled Fri
day.
Col. J. B. Oliver Is to write history Of
Florida.
Hon. jefferson Davis was visiting friends al
Vicksburg last week.
An Alabama paper thinks there are 1000
pistol-packers In that State
The deaths In Richmond last year were
only 2S2 and the marriages GAG
General Longstreet has accepted the office
of postmaster at Gainesville, Ca
Senator Ben Hill has lost $4,000 in three
years from his planting operations.
An exchange extends an invitation to the
eolid South TO come North and freeze TO
death.
One man In Raleigh, N. O., has harvested
seventy tons of ice, which was three inches
thick.
Friday was the coolest day ever experienced
In Atlanta, the mercury getting down to 10
below zero.
In Montgomery, Ala. last year, there were
Issued to whites 1873 marriage licenses, and to
negroes $685.
Rhoderick Random Butler. Of Sugg Fort
claim notoriety, Is q member OF the Tennessee
Legislature.
The celebrated John Wesley Hardin has been
In the Huntsville, Tex, jail.
A daughter OF Gov. Hampton is expected to
create quite sensation In Washington after
the first Of the year. She Is said to be very
beautiful.
The mayor of Norfolk, Va, will hereafter
carrying razor, the measure being intended
to affect colored men.
Pools were sold recently at Raleigh, N.
e., ON the coming senatorial election. Eleven
pools were sold, Vance selling at two to one
against MerrimOn, and five to one against the
field.
Col. Robert P. Crockett the only surviving
son OF David Crockett. is reported to be living
I'm Hood County, Texas, old, infirm and poor.
Some OF the papers Of the State are urging
that he be given pension.
Gov. Holiday, Of Virginia has issued a writ
ordering an election to be held in the First
Congressional District on the twenty third OF
January, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death OF Hon. Bev. b. Douglass.
It Is the opinion OF the Rome (Ga.) Courier
that II Senator Hill desires to keep abreast
with Blaine che might offer In the Senate O.
the alleged frauds of Murphy In getting that
5000 fee"
Bishop Haven shocked Texas audience
last week by saying that "Christ was
lvnched." The Austin Statesman, which heard
the. figure with it's own ears moves that
Dl6uUP h6t0u uc III Wuut IL CdiS HE
"elaborate blasphemy."
Mr.. Moffett. the Virginia legislator who in
vented the "Mpffett bell punch" now used In
the saloons and bars Of that State, Is dissat-
isfied with the returns It yielded the treasury
last year, and contemplates an additional law
embracing severe penalties.
Robert Downing, wood-chopper, living
near Dallas, Texas. got Christmas present
of $t1,49 His grandfather q New York mer.
chant, had willed that sum to Downing, and
the attorney happened to forward the money
30 that 1t reached Dallas on Christmas day.
Ten conviots who were at work on the
James river and Kanawha canal near Lex
ington, Va, all white, broke out Of the stock
ade In which they were confined, a few nights
since. They were fired upon by the guard,
but none were seriously hurt, and all got
away.
Texas expects to gain fifteen Representa-
tives In Congress after the next census, but
Senator Maxey says that ninety-nine voters
out of every 100 are opposed to q division OF
the State, their aspiration being to make Of
Texas great commonwealth, bearing the
same relation to the South that New York
does to the East.