The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-23
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In Freastone county, Texas.
The East Mississippi feir at Aberdeen Las:
week WAS q success financially and other
wise.
A negro named Morgan was shot and killed
by another negro In Senatobla, Mississippi,
last week.
Houston's bell-punch yielded revenue Of
$3877 for the month OF October, one or the
busiest Of the entire year.
Ten car loads ofcoaI are daily shipped from
Birmingham, Ala, to Vtcksburg, for the use
OF Mississippi river steamers.
Ground has at length been broken on the
Gainesville and DAhlonega Railroad, ana tne
work will now be pushed rapidly forward
Two artesian wells are In successful opera
ton at Yorktown, Texas, and one Is to be
bored immediately In Refugio county.
w. A. Scobey, respected young man In
Lee county Texas, committed suicide last
week, owing, 1t is thought, to financial
troubles.
The cigar factories of Key West are making
preparations to resume work IN few days.
and will pay the cigar makers an increase OF
wages.
The Confederate monument at st. Angus
tine, Florida. has been completed. and is pro-
nounced by the Press to be an ornament to
that city.
last week by the accidental discharge OF gun
over which he was scufllng with another
negro, "just for fun"
1t is thought that the Texas Pacific will fol-
low what Is known as Its Southern route
through Texas, which Is decidedly the best
for the State.
Brazos bottom Texas merchant, near
Bryan, sold bottle OF morphine for auinlne
to d negro. Two of his family, a wife and
child. partook or 1t and died.
The city of Richmond, Va, Is asked to
contribute $4,000 for a railroad up the
AL atf tod
der the auspices of the James River and ka-
naWha Canal Company.
Charleston is. CT Mems: In the past three
days three large steamships have passed out
from this port for European ports with about
$4,000 bales OF cotton, and on a subm ersion OF
sixteen and half to over eighteen feet.
negro In Vicksburg last week, while In a
drunken spree, shot his wife, beat his babys
brains out with the butt end OF his gun, and
wounded his little son. He deiied the author
tiles but was captured and lodged In jail.
Says the Palatka (Fla.) Herald. We are in
informed that the prospect OF u full crop OF
oranges on the Ocklawalla and lakes is much
finer than was anticipated a few weeks since.
The damage by rain is not so great as Was
feared.
Squire Shannon killed Calvin Mathews on
the plantation OF Mr.. Il. L. Mem uliin, In
Monroe county, Ga, last Saturday. Calvin
made the attack on Shannon, with the remark
that he (Shannon1 had been lying about him
Calvin. Shannon then threw him down and
fractured his skull with a dogWood stick.
Both were colored. and one was d preacher
Friar's Point tMiss) Gazette: Two OF
Mr.. Young's boys on the Hop5on place one
day last week got hold Of their fathers pis-
tol, and the one having 1t held 1T behind him
position the pistol was discharged, the ball
striking the brother In the leg, inflicting
wound which proved fatal.
Corpus Christi Texas Free Press: The
| body OF Florenco Garcia, one Of the men that
was arrested as the murderer OF Rafael h.
| Salinas, and who was reported as having es-
capped from some Of Capt. Halls men, was
found on the fifth instant hanging to q tree in
q dense thicket about one mile and q half west
Of Conception. From all appearances 1t
seemed that he had been hanging twelve or
fifteen days.
1 Raymond MISSY Gazette: Frank Will
| liams, a negro OF desperate character, was
shot and dangerously wounded last Thurs
| day morning in the road near the Heard
| place, two miles southwest OF Raymond, on
the Auburn road. He was being conveyed to
the Raymond jail by two officers from Utica,
and in endeavoring to escape was dealt with
as above stated. Three shots We're fired at
him-one taking effect in the head, another in
the arm and the third In the back. He was
| carried to the poor-house, where he now lies
| 1n a preGartOu8 condition.
4 Corpus Christi (Tex Free Press. On Mon
day last, at about sunrise, one Erineo Medina
entered the mouse 81 q Widow, Juana Gonz1-
les at the Pre5enos, one mile from Col tiuS,
and told Juana that he had come to whip her,
when she replied that il he had q cause all
right, II not, not to touch her. He replied
that he had no cause, at the same time strik-
ing her. Her cries awoke her SOD, Manuel, q
boy sixteen years DID, VINO came to her res
cue. Erineo drew pistol and struck Manuel
over the head Telling him to the gro nd He
rose with knife when Erineo drew his pistol
to kill him, but Manuel caught his arm.
Etineo then clioehed the boy and held him
tight, refusing to let him go until Manuel had
stabbed him seven times III the back and neck
The boy then went to Collins and stated what
he had done and gave himself up. Erineo il
seriously hurt and il lying at the Presenos.
Only one week more left to pay current State
I taxes. B. c. Bond notifies the Fist Fourth