The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-07
THE SOUTH.

The cotton Yield Of Middle Texas, contrary
To expectation, ~ downright good one.
CLARK county. Ark, has compromised her
debt, which now amounts to a lltsle over
$4,000.
Six hundred negroes of San Augustine aud
Shelby counties, Texas, are to start for KAN
aas this month.
The Camilla (Ga) correspondent of the AL
bnny Advertiser reports the pen crop XII that
section failure and the cotton crop bust, =
all owing to the late excessive rains.
Pensacola Is elated because she owns tho
steamship Escambia, of the capacity OF 6bD0
bales of cotton, which Ia intended to ply regu-
larly between that port and Liverpool.
During the past week we have had IN op-
purtunity To interview farmers from every
section of this county In regard to the cotton
crop. They oil say the yield la, perhaps, the
largest aud the lint the best of any year since
the war Ozark (Ark.( Democrat.
Charleston No,ra: The trst-class British
steamship Spartan, which cleared NJ this port
on Wednesday for Barcelona. with 1000 bales
upland cotton, proceeded TO sea YESTERDAY on
8 d submersion Of full seventeen feet six inches
OF water.
Dallas TEX, Herald: Fifty or sixty eKo-
busting niRH passed up on the north bound
passenger train last night on the Central.
They hail from Hsarnc and are ticketed fnr
Parsons Kan One johnson has been work
Ing them ip ut 81 u head. He is at work Mt
Groesbeck now.
Can't. w. j. poiteveut All old steamboat
captain, formerly on Pearl river, Miss, writes
ID d party at that place that he u now MAX
Ing arrangements w place four boats ~ the
rivers Neohes and Sabine, to be used In the
present cotton trade. Houston letter to the
Galveston News.
Giddlngs TEX Lone Star: The Hood bale
of cotton recently sent TO Waco from Houston
sold three times ut $780, $3.50 and S55, bring
inE total III $3l5. by this and other means
on the twenty.fourth ultimo, ut Waco. $3.50
were raised for the Hood orphans. The bale
was sent to Austin on Saturday last.
According to the Dekafb County (Gal Ne,rs,
one Judge Davis, OF that county, comes to the
front with the boss squash story. de said
ha gathered from one vine a few days Rgo 6a6
suunshes, which measured out four bushels
and three peckR, and besides this, the vine
had furnished all the squashes needed for his
family during the season. Prolific vine that.
An INQUEST was held by Thomas Mullins,
Justice of the peace, near this place. on Mon
day, over the body 81 Maria Hicks, q colored
Rirl about twelve years Ut age. The itndlnE
death from blows inflicted by her father
Henry Hicks, starvation and general neglect.
The father is now In jail to await the action
OF the next grand jury Magnolia ARK
Banner.
Mayor Fletcher. Of Little Rock: Arkansas
will produce this year 100000 more bales oi
cotton than abe did last year, and Will receive
GIG, 000,0 900 more than last year. ono hundred
thousand bales are worth $4,000 900. Cotton
is worth $40 more per bale than last year. on
COO 900 bales, the amount we will produce, we
will Ret the SID, 900, taking into conaldafa-
ton that the crop was raised at $4,000 600 less
cost than last year.
Lynchburg va. Ne,cs: Mrs. Dempsey. q
widow, who lives on South river IN this
county, was killed by being thrown from a
horse on last Friday evening. She had been
visiting some relations who lived on the farm
oil the late Dr. Thomas y. Moore, three miles
west XII town and was returning, ana, when
near the stone watering trough az the point,
she met wagon loaded with brooms. Part
OF the load became disarrauged about the
time she was opposite the wagon, which
L caused the horse to shy, throwing her back
ward to the ground her head striking, break
Inn her neck. She lived but short time.
The Seminole Indians In the south d
Florida have threatened to kill young boy
of their number, known as Little Billy. be.
cause he persisted In going to school at Fort
Meyers and learning to read. write and speak
English. They denonnce him ~ traitor a
his tribe, The Key West heu says that thu
Indians must 10 taught that their tribal laws
will not be permitted in Florida. they can
ostracse Little Billy Ii they choose. but II
they kill him the tribe twill be destroyed rs
for their conduct would be resisted by every
citizen In the southern part Of the State.
The State of Texas Ii showing q commend
able spirit Of progress In the attention RiYeI
TO her common schools. Gov. Roberts is re-
ported as saying in recent speech That one
sixth of all the revenue of that State was ap,
propriated to the public schools, and that the
laws had been 80 amended az 70 make tht
teachers In Il measure responsible Tor the g.
tendance or their pupils, 80 that, unless
rs per cent OF the children In each district At
tended, the salary was cut down In exact pro
portion. During the present year there was
$7l4.00o available for the support OF tht
schools, A normal school, established BY the
last Legislature, had seventy-tour pupils
who were boarded, lodged and had tuition ant
books free upon the condition " binding
themselves to teach In the public schools o.
the State.