The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-30
THE SOUTH.

The military spirit has revived IN North
Carolina.
There are 200 eonviets for life in the Mlssis-
alppi penitentiary.
The prospect Of corn and cotton crop IN
central Mississippi IL promising. Inc plaht-
ers are busy and hopeful.
The Texas State Sportsmen's Association
hold their anu,Iai tournament at Waco Texas,
the second week In May.
The populstion Of Atlanta ID said to be In
creasing at the rate of 6O00 year.
| Tho recently planted crops In Alabama SUI
| fered greatly by heavy rains. Large acres
will have to be replanted.
| Houston, Texas, has voted 70 place herself
| practically under the control n tho Galveston
board of health, 50 far us matters Oh quarar-
| tine are concerned.
| There Id a proposition TO remove William
| ana Mary College from the Virginia Peninsu-
| ID, where II rooted In 1000, to Sewanee, Tenn.
| A negro woman at Waco, slightly affected
| with sore throat, sought To cure IL by apply
I'LL 10 her neck and chest d quantity. Of tur-
pentlne She then applied o lighted match
| for the amusement I'll the children, and 1t ID
likely she will lose her life
| The Mississippi Stock Breeders Associa
| tion are to hold q convention, the purpose OIL
which is to try and induce planters to einan-
cipate themselves from tho thrald0m Of king
cotton and devote themselves to the hettt
paying pursuit of stock raising,
| A correspondent OF the Columbia Is. o.
| REGISTER proposes that On the thirteenth Of
| May. after the unwilling VI the Confederate
| monument concert DO given for the pur-
pose OF obtaining the means oil erecting o
| monument to the memory of Henry Tlmrod,
| who tiles In q naineleSs grave III Trinity
church yard, marked only by u cross OF
! wood"
Lynchbure Ne,es: During the rain storm
or the twentieth of March last, M announced
i III the Netrs ut the time, there WAS q strange,
yellow deposit. which adhered to the side
walks. and looked like sulphur. In some
even asserted that experiments hHd been made
which proved beyond controversy that 1T was
sulphur. as 1t burned readily. and emitted
sulphuric OdOr.
TERRELL, Tex. April 2D.-A colored man
named Timan Fance was shot and killed here
last night about 0 80 o'clock. Itappears that
he and several other negroes were playing
cards III u cabin about half u mile south pf
here, when some one fired through crack in
the wall, shooting Fance In the neck. Two
negroes, by name Israel Collins and Peter
; Lowrie, have been arrested, charged with the
crime.
Petersburg (va.) Appeal: A man who had
, the appearance Of having just awakened from
! d sleep III twelve Or fifteen years. arrived ~
this city yesterday, on his way South. He
been Confederate soldier in the late war,
and since the close Of hostllities to have lived
!. III Massachusetts. His clothes were ragged
, in tho extreme, and looked rs though the
pieces had hardly strength to hold together
The stranger carried with him the musket
that he had borne through the war, rusty and
time worn. and on his back and side were
. strapped his knapsack and cartridge box. HI
says he Ii the last armed soldier of the Con
federacy, and thnt he liz now tramping from
Massachusetts to his old home IN Georgia
which he has not seen for many a year.
CoRstoANA, Tax, April 22.--This city was
visited by the most violent rain storm this
evening that has ever been known to the old
est inhabitant Of this section. The rain com,
menced about o'clock and fell with undated
! fury for four hours, during which time over
six inches fell, flooding the streets from curb
J to curb. The roofs OF the buildings, which
have become warped from the long-continucd
drouth leaked like 40 many sleeves, damaging
household goods and merchandise TO q con
, siderable extent. At this hour it is impossI-
BILE to ascertain the extent Of the damage
done. The 0 :3o o'clock freight train from this
point south was abandoned for fear OF wash
outs on the line Of the Texas Central, and L
: Is feared that the road Is badly washed In the
1 neighborhood OF the creeks.