The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-31
THE SOUTH.

,roxaa and Alabama papers aIe vi pis
u. about the growing crops.
- u extensive lead mine has been dlseovefed
90. e. Boerne, Texas.
d. s'...,, ,,,t- worms have made their appear
W .v1au IN large numbers III Arkansas
wi vi thousand Cinnamon are at work on the
,ra "a Pacific Railroad.
ls astermelons have made their appearance
II Houston, Texas.
~, corner stone of eolored male college
- heen laid at Meridian, Miss.
~ iii, Tenth United States Infantry. for
81. Nv dime auartered lii Texas, have all gone
s Moth.
.asn shipped from Holdsboro N. G., this
The daughter Of the late r.. e. Lee II soon
l. HI married to D prominent English mer-
shant of Birmingham.
ii tho recent hanging Of three burglars ct
uillaboru, N. G., pools were sold as to which
H athe unhappy men would die first.
The Key West sponge trade is on the In
.veasa: seventy vessels from five to seventy
INA and $50 men are engaged In It,
Mississippi planter will be one OF thou
.and n give $50 year TO send Southern ne
rrpes I'd Massachusetts.
Dallas, Texas, farmers are offering I'll 80 =
day and board for harvest hands, but cannot
get them.
The Piedmont Vtrgininn says that section
now haa the hest fruit crop 1t has had for ten
years. ,o.-
IN the Virginia pententiary there are luao
conyicts, Of which G25 are ~ the pIison lie
reat are hired out on WORKS Oh lhteIhhl IL :
prpvement.
nattaa Herald. The wheat crop, very de
Aaaalv better than was anticipated two
uaanths ago. Ia nearly If not quite, harvested,
ani Hoop the grain will come pouring ID OH
us
silver Spring, ria, Ii one hundred feet
dean covers All acre. and sends stream sixty
"a nra hundred feet wide eight miles to the
Ocklawaha river.
/ Young man named Saunders. driving
alanr the road In San Saba county, Texas,
hna both horses hitehed to bis buggy killed
~ lightning. Saunders was not hurt.
Richmond, VA, was 60 much excited on
i rhi,rsaay over the election Of city treasurer
that the vote actually reach q the grand total
81 Ill.
Hnntington's Southern Pacific ID rapidly
aminu Teyasward, and la completed 175
milaa paat of Yuma, a25 aast If San Frneisco
and has rails ready to build to Chico, fifty
miles east Of Tucson, Arizona.
another negro exodus Ia about to begin In
Kentucky. az did the first This time the
darkias are fleeing from the world, the flesh
ana the devil, and taking refuge In the
rhurches. Baptisms of 100 ut d time are moi
unusual.
Natchez Democrat. Crop prospects, continue
tnhn exceedingly promising In all the region
tributary to Natehez. The labor Ia undiB
ftrbed by the Kansas fever, and the colored
men have not yet begun to worry much about
politics. All are at work.
Alamo lTenn.l Sentinel, From a correspond
pnt we learn that the worms are destroying
ina cotton, the corn and the gardens In the
Hurricane neighborhood. They are said to be
different from the regular cut-worm. but they
cit, and cut much. We hear OF them destroy.
ing the crops In other parts Of the county
also.
Mobile Ne,rs: In Marion county, Miss, re-
Gently young woman Of a respectable family
the term lady Ii misapplied In the origna
account, as is 30 often the case--eloped witt
negro Her brother followed the guilty
pair, overlook them, and shot the negro deac
Il Id hie tracks and then cut his throat.