The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-29
OTHER SOUTHERN STATES.

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OTHER SOU1HE STATES.
Fall overcoats are in demand at Raleigh,
N. g.
i Lynchburg Va, has q large number OF
j Memphis refugees.
A daily journal is published In Charlotte, n.
i q, at cents per week.
Robt. White, Of Davidson county, Tenn, was
suffocated In well Tuesday.
/ Union Springs, Ala. has an old negro woman
who paints credltitble pictures.
Tuscaloosa, Ala. will erect q Confederate
monument twenty-five feet high.
Hon. Alex. Stephens will address the Legis-
| lature OF Georgia at IL o'clock to-day on the
issues Of the day.
The cotton worm has made Its appearance
In the canebrake region of Alabama, and the
planters are anxious about 1t.
VIM. N. Hunt, OF company II, Twenty-sixth
Georgia regiment, is said to have fired the last
gun In defense OF the Confederacy.
Knoxville, Tenn, Is going to arrest all per-
sons who circulate false and sensational ru-
mors about the existence Of yellow fever In
that city.
| The Norfolk Virgi,idn says that the propo-
| sltton to celebrate the battle of Yorktown
next fall is received with favor all over the
country.
| The mercury. at Wilmington, N G., last
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coolest place In the city. So the Star Of that
| place reports
| Less than 10 per cent Of the Memphis re-
| fugees stop in Louisville, the others proceed
ing Immediately to the North, via Cincinnati
and Indianapolis.
condition, are huddled together In one small
room on the river front at Natchez awaiting
| transportation to Kansas
A child WAS born In Bibb county, Ca, re-
Gently, which had no sign OF chin, no eyes,
and whose ears were long and Topped over
like dogs. It died soon after birth.
Memphis Ledger: There are skeptics
yellow fever prevails here. They have not
seen q case and don't believe there has been
one
Mr.. A. r. Wright, the "silver-tongued" and
way, Ark, the pride Of the town, and but re-
Gently married to an estimable young lady,
has skipped, 1t Is thought, leaving q large in
debtedness behind.
Huntsville, Ala, Is crowded with refugees
from Memphis. AS yet no unusual sickness
however, have shut down on them. Nearly
all the towns Of North Alabama have done
the same thing.
The Atlanta Grange says that last spring,
In Dekalb county, near Decatur, the peaches
were generally killed, but Mr.. Salmons, two
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where the peaches have not been hurt by cold
In forty years. while all around him the fruit
10 killed.
James Heaton, late clerk OF the Superior
Court for Hanover county, shot and killed
Mary Radcliffe on the corner OF Second and
Market streets, on Saturday night last He
afterward shot himself through the head,
and died In few minutes thereafter Will
mington IN. O. Post.
Col. johnson, ofTuscumbia, says that q hen
on his place has built her nest three years In
succession seventy or hundred feet from
the ground, In a large white oak tree, A few
days ago she was seen to bring seven chicks
from their lofty nest in her bill one at time.
columbus Enqurer-Sun.
Memphis Ledger: A young man named
flanagan shot a part OF his skull from the
back Of his head Sunday In trying to commit
suicide on Georgia street. He tried to get his
father and mother to leave town. They re-
fused, and he said he would rather be dead
than risk yellow fever. His injuries are not
likely to prove fatal.
In the stomach Of a sick alligator, killed In
Georgia, was found double handful OF mus
ket balls, buckshot small shot, fragments OF
bars OF old lead and old pieces Of iron. Many
Of them were ENTHUSIASTICALLY by attrition.
They had evidently laid in the reptiles stom-
ach for years, and were a part Of the results
Of the raids upon fshermen's hooks
The Bennington Iron Age says that the
Pratt Coal and Coke Company has closed q
contract for the erection Of two hundred coke
ovens near the mines. The same company
has made contract to deliver $4,000 tons Of
coal at Vicksburg for the Mississippi river
steamboats,. This looks as though the coal
nose Of Pittsburg was to be put out of joint.
Chattanooga's City Council has passed an
ordinance making 1t a misdemeanor for any
hotel keeper, boarding house or private
less such one shall have been absent there
from twenty days; to receive any baggage,
unless 1t shall have been thoroughly dsin-
fected, or to rent any room or house to any
one from Memphis who has not been out Of
that place for thirty days.