The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-16
THE SOUTH.


800 per annum.
Mr. Copeland Newbern, Tenn, lawyer,
was frozen to death last week near that
place.
The street lamps were lit up on the night
of the first instant for the first time In two
years. in vicksburg.
The late Hon. Julian Hartridge, Of Georgia,
had paid up policy in the New York Life
Insurance Company for $4,000.
Thirty convicts have been placed at work
on the canal cutting the ice to make q chan
mel from Hurts mill to Norfolk, Va.
Murfreesboro, Tenn.,. Is complaining be-
cause she has no fire department, not even an
engine nor an organization Of any kind.
Brownsville, Tenn, Is making up for lost
time during the epidemic, and reports forty
five marriages for the week ending Janu-
ary 2.
A very disastrous confiagration occurred In
Gainesville, Ga, last Wednesday night, de-
stroying property to the amount Of $4,000,
with but little insurance.
Galveston pays her municipal officers SI8,-
$50 this year, and will pay. them 5000 less
next year. The mayors salary alone will be
reduced from $4,000 to $1,000.
The Georgia House Of Representatives, at
the session just terminated, spent $1,000 for
clerical service against beween $11 900 and
$4,000 spent for the same service Of the last
session before.
Austin Statesman: A Dallas man, Thomas
Charleston, sometime ago married In st. Louis
| to Mrs. Annie Morton, has since discovered she
was his stepdaughteri They are stepfather
| and daughter, man and wife.
Last Wednesday morning a coach and
| sleeper were overturned on the Central Rail-
road. near Ennis, Texas, by the breaking OF
q rail. Four OF the passengers were hurt,
but onlytwo seriously, Mr.. and Mrs. Walker,
and Capt. DaffaD, the conductor.
The rapid rise In the Clinch river caused the
ice to break loose, which, drifting down, tore
the steamers Emory City and Harry Helm
from their mooriDgs at the Kingston, Tenn,
wharf. Both steamers are submerged, and
may prove total loss.
Rich gold discoveries are reported from
Newport, Tenn, and several scientific and
some practical men have visited the region
and are well pleased with the prospect
They say IL equals anything they have seen
In California, the quartz being found to be
rich In gold.
The nuns of Ursuline Convent burned
near Columbia, 8. c., by the Federal forces,
Is getting everybody In the State to sign q
petition to Congress for an appropriation of
100000 to reimburse them. In addition to the
destruction Of property, four or five nuns per-
ished from exposure
The town Of Skipwitb, between vicksburg
and Memphis, Is about to make another
move, the caving Of the banks Of the river
rendering 1t absolutely necessary This will
make tne tnlru Clme Jne bOWn mas Deen
moved, the new location being half mile
distant from the one now occupied.
The stalwarts will probably Rnash their
teeth when they hear that the colored COM
panies OF Savannah requested to be allowed
to take part in the obsequies OF the lamented
Hartridge. The organs will probably fiatter
themselves that there is nothing significant
In the fact; but, as to this, they will find out
later in the season.
Memphis Appeal: The Bayou Gayoso still
carries its filth and garbage on to the sea via
the Mississippi river, when no high water
prevails. When such does prevail, the filth
and garbage are backed and fioated up as far
as Beale street by the stinking waters Of the
classic stream known historically as the
Epidemic breeding Bayou Gayoso."
A difficulty occurred between Mr.. James
Cox and Hon. A. j. Ervine, OF Columbus,
Miss, last Tuesday. The quarrelled about
dog, and, engaging lin q fight, both drew
knives and commenced to hack away at each
other, resulting In serious wounds to Ervine
and several bad gashes TO Cox. Ervine Is
now paralysed from the effects.
Cotton Is not 80 much king as II used to be.
An Alabama farmer sold a bale at six and a
half cents the other day, receiving $50 so, and
found afterwards that the cultivation had
cost him six cents pound, which, with the
picking, ginning, packing and handling, left
him just $40 In debt on the bale. The Tusca-
loosa Times philOsOphically remarks: "It
looks to us as II he had got out cheap.
During the year forty-tbree vessels entered
the port OF Richmond, with capacity of
Il 1868 tons, and lab vessels cleared, with a
capacity Of 1886 tons. Value OF imports,
consisting OF coffee, salt, lump plaster, etc,
$104, ,213 30; value OF exports consisting prin-
cipally OF tobacco flour, petroleum, naphtha
exports over imports amounts to $2,955OO1 10.
.