The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-06
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giving GAO acres to every veteran pensioner.
The estimated damage blythe flood al Hons.
ton, In round numbers, is $125,000, but Vii
probably go beyond that when all Is known.
DR.. Spence. OF Fort Reid, Tex, is Riyn y
authority for the report that deposit of l0fs
ash and gypsum has been found on Lila
Jessup.
A mad dog in Chesterfield county, 8. G. IS
Gently bit Mr.. Tucker, who In turn bit two &
his children, and the lives of all three * b
despaired OF.
The Buena Vista Cali Argus estimsta9
that 100000 would not pay for the dandses &
inflicted on Marion county, In the loss III mi
labor and fertilizers by the recent rain. G.
| The Stock Raisers' Association Of North
west Texas offers reward OF $500 for I'LL
conviction OF any person guilty OF illegally
| branding or marking cattle.
| On the tenth the soldiers graves viii b
decorated at Baldwin, Miss. Hon. JefIsrson
Davis and Col. 8. M. Meek are the orators 8
leeted for the occasion.
There are said to be In Mississippi SiS,2M
pupil children-158, 156 white and 100 O86 i'll
ored. OF these, 100,676 white and 104, 77s eois
ored are In school, The school fund 81 ~
/ DaSG YGfAE dIIlOluL6o u pAod.lUos 4 6I G144Uf5
/ In average daily attendance Sd AZ.
The negro ex-postmaster OF West Point
Miss, and ex- Representative OF Clay county
Dan McCauiy, was arrested in West poia
last week by the United States marshal. q
defaulter while postmaster He gave bo16
/ for his appearance at the June term OF ~
Federal court.
The Columbus, Mississippi, Democrat 9ls
favor Of electing q Legislature that will caA
| ~ ff,Ys
and repeal all laws which authorizes TIE
ing OF q mortgage on crops not mades II
i enact law forbidding the mortgage Of pf0pSs
erty exempt from exemption.
Another fool heard from. The NewbenIM
IC.) Nut Shell says: A report is In cirCule61
In this city that Mr.. Wetherington, tne
tleman who was one OF the cOntestants a
late Ego as you please" race at the Walkn
Rink, and who was taken from the TRACK n ~
bad condition, has had q stroke OF paftlN4
the result of over-exertion during the -
alluded to.
The Boston correspondent OF the Thor
| vile (Ga.) Times Is responsible for the Temas
able statement that a colOred man living Mz
Boston, Tom Griffin by name, is Sixty-tanIs
!, years old, and is the father OF sixty-snn
children. Two OF these are now lnlanu
the breast. Thus he can count one cnlIo Il
, every year of his life He has nad sev@@az 3
wives, and lis Mormon In practice, n0Aa
theory.
: The presidents house at William and nv
College, Virginia, came near burning doyss|
: few days ago. The house was built g ~
and was accidentally burned by the Lit
troops under Lafayette, while on tnen W.
g to the battle of Yorktown, In 11Sl.
: then rebuilt by Louis XVI out OF MS pay
funds, and has survived the fires which ~
j. since then SO often destroyed the colleges q
b Is the only house in Virginia built by r.
ing sovereign. a
/ Winston IN. C.l Sentinel: Several year
;, there lived near Kernersville, In TINS coug1
woman named Pol Fitz, VINO w ~.
mother OF q girl named Martha. Ing ~
= lived there until she was eighteen ~. - ~ z
> age, dressed and acted as woman Dlle9ss
:, after the war she moved to Surry cOy WI
when she changed her name to Julius -
h and assumed the garb OF man, malIlo1 .
n she Is now the father OF two children. .Z
sr The cambridge Democrat tells the e. n ~
ing disastrous occurrence. Ii says.
b Sunday six negroes, four men and TWO ~ 49,
ID attempted to cross Dry creek IN ~ sSss
ID Parties on the bank tried to dissuaus w.;
y from the undertaking, because the pg ~. s
too heavily loaded, but to no avail 1Ig ~
guiding the boat said he was CHOKING ss
Cat as he showed out into the stream. T.
consequence was that the boat capsllcuss ~
two OF the men and the two women W.
ne watery graves At this writing Their ~,
have not been recovered. 1t was Z w. IT,
:. sight, there being many negroes On ,a shs = r
to. mfngling their cries with the shrleEs Y b.
m drowning, but unable to give them ~ III
whatever. Dry creek is a fatal plasoe 20 wv
he kind OF valley that begins In Worth ~
70, and runs through Mitchell and pO.fri
me- this to the Flint river, two miles aDos v
bridge. It never has drop OF Ws gs W
IN its vale except in times OF unusual nO o.sd n
~ freshets, then 1t becomes foamine 1872 -,
Of ing river, rushing through the pine w.
fearful rate" -
aat They have had big land sink near - -
80 g. The Tribune says: Thursday OF last Nsss
In was discovered that a sink hole naa I W n
HID on the telegraph road between neIe 49,
Meade, about ten miles east from net Ie .1T
=, road ran near about through the cenIg SS
III SINK which Ia about forty feet 10 s,1, 49,
ind fnot fol- that sfond nv the road. went ~
and it's top Ia few feet below the suIIsts e ~
IN ground The sink has filled up TO Wlt1arsi
seven feet OF the surface OF the eQIIvVsssf
an. ground with water, out OF which sn w n r
and stands some three feet. There seems o y
Ter, been sinking also OF the su III ~
nit ground for distance of fifty yards a w -
q q the margin OF the hole. The w sNsr ~
has appeared In the sink is OF desR
on color and very clear. This is n0t ~ n
vae sink that has occurred In that reg1lsVs'sa.
we Is noted for the number OF Its Deau w ~
NOT within the last few years, anotner ~ ,,}ls g.
GUS formed few years ago, ABOUT III ~
iSt this one. On account Of the ngnL .,seSi
since last autumn the lakes In thai TN Hi r
-. getting low, and it is supposed tnat w wv
ast sllpDort to the vault OF some euUs@ossISl
cen ppo1o sroro tho moo roet la he being no
,e Ia present, the earth gave way ana dlopps'
", 'ts, the subterranean vacuum.
10y ~H>
the NO such Men I'm Congress.
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