The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-11
THE SOUTH.

A vein of pure stone coal has been dis
covered In Conecuh county, Ala
White shad are being caught In consider
able quantities from the Ocmulgee river near
Macon, Ga.
It seems that the experiment OF making
paper from the palmetto fibre at Fernandina,
Fla, Is success. ..E
The Texas State Firemen's Association
meets In Houston on the eleventh Of June.
The Texas railroads have reduced the fare Tor
delegates.
The work of taking testimony In the Bisbee-
Hull contest to be used before Congress, is
still going on in Jacksonville. Very strong
evidence In favor OF Mr.. Hull ID being ELECTED.
Rain fell In such torrents on Brushy, In
Williamson county, Texas, on the twenty
third of April, that cattle and horses were
beaten down and drowned on the level prairie.
The new city council of Fort Worth. Texas,
having bounced" the chief engineer Of the
fire department, Panther engine company No.
2disbanded and surrendered their property
to the city.
Galveston Ne,rs Intelligence has been
received from Lynchburg and San Jaclnto
during the overflow from the storm Of Sep
TENDER, 1875. Many families are represented
as having lost everything they were possessed
of, and unless relief be afforded great deal
Of suffering will be the result.
A correspondent Of the Charleston Ne,cs
and Courier says an exodus OF negroes from
the other South Carolina counties has begun
into the county Of Beaufort some 1900 having
already arrived. They talk OF concentrating
on the coast and forming a sort OF negro re-
public. They have not grasped the Kansas
idea.
Rockingham way Register: For more
than week the mountains east and west OF
us have been on fire. We do not know that
we have ever seen such extensive fires as pre-
vail In the Allegheny and North mountains.
The light at night Is grand in the extreme
For more than sixty miles IN length there was
n continuous stream OF fire sweeping over
knobs and down In the gorgcs.
Atlanta Constitution, Sunday: The early
risers yesterday morning said that the ground
was hard from heavy frost which had fallen
the night previous Some f the early vege-
tables looked black and dead. The farmers
near Atlanta report that their cotton crop
leaves OF the plants were black and Withered,
and the crop Is literally ruined in some fields.
The damage to the fruit crop is also heavy.
Game ID plentiful In San Saba county, Texas.
The San Saya Npps says The prairie dogs
and antelopes are encroaching upon the set
Elements. The dogs are reported AS starting
towns several miles nearer this place within
a few years back than before that time,
while antelope are occasionally seen within
four or five miles OF town. MIR. %. Z. Bacon,
who lives on Jerrys branch, three miles
north of town, one day last week shot at
several antelopes from his door-yard which
had come quite near the house. Last year
quite herd of these animals were seen not
far from the same place on the branch.
The survey OF Col Meigs, who has been
engaged in surveying the Caloosahatchle
river under the auspices of the government,
has, says the Tampa (Fla.) Tribune, "entirely
demolished the crude theories which some
writers about Florida have INDUCED 10, to
the effect that the lower interior portion OF
the peninsula was a basin not above sea level,
and was merely protected from marine mum
dation by kind of sand levee all around the
coast. There can no longer be any doubt OF
this interior portion having sufficient altitude
for purposes OF drainage apd reclamation,
and by its accomplishment would be brought
into cultivation some of the best sugar lands
In the United States"
Waco (Texas) Examiner, April 80: Mr.. II. J.
Garfield, prominent stock man who has re-
sided In this county for twenty odd years, in
forms us that largely more cattle are passing
over the Texas and Kansas trail this spring
than at any former time. He states that fully
10000 head were quartered on the range with
in four miles of his place when he left it yes
terday morning, and had been there three or
four days. As q general thing the cattle now
passing over the trail are In bad condition
and are being driven very slowly. Three
hundred head Of cattle and thirty-five horses
died out OF one herd from overwhelming just
after the recent rains. Ranges like Mr. eau
fields, near the trail, are much injured by the
passing Of so many cattle over them, the
grass being eaten and tramped down to such
an extent that local herds are made to suffer.
Lexington, M iss., Advertiser: Thursday even
ing OF last week another of those tragedies
which have become so prevalent throughout
the United States, took place on the Smith
place, near Franklin. 1t seems that l.. w.
Greenly, a school teacher, and Jack Walker,
both colored, were partners In farming that
Jack and family cultivated the earth, while
Greenly taught the young colored idea-that
Jack believed in diversifyng the crops, while
Greenly's theory Of farming ran principally
upon the production of cotton and that as a
consequence theory and practice did not har-
monize On the evening in question: as the
story goes Greenly dismissed his pupils at a
much earlier hour than was his wont; and
going to his partners field began to pillow up
the corn that the other had already planted,
to putting the land in cotton.
To this proceeding Jack objected, and a little
fight occurred between Jacks wife and
Greenly, which resulted In Greenlys taking
a shotgun and emptying the contents thereof
into the breast OF Jack. killing him instantly,
Jack having raised an objection to his strik-
ing her with the gun in return for blow
from a small club.
Four Thousand nine hundred and fifty-three