The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-13
THE SOU TH.

The East Tennessee Farmers Convention
meets in Knoxville May 20.
Barrymore Is said to be improving and will
soon be himself again.
Rome, Ca, has received 1922 bales Of cot
ton the present season.
The receipts of cotton at Griffin, Ga, to date
foot up 1924 bales.
All OF the series A of the per cent Garrard
bonds are sold except $4,000 not yet signed,
and these are spoken for.
The rate of taxation on property in the
district known as Memphis Is one dollar
and fifteen cents on the hundred dollars.
The Radicals are making desperate efforts
to bring ticket out for the approaching mu-
nicipal election In Montgomery.
Ten dsys ago there were snow-drifts on
Cheat Mountain, West Virginia, thirty feet
deep.
Dr. w. E. Saunders, OF Sherman, has been
appointed superintendent OF the Texas Luna
tic Asylum.
1t begins to look like Gen. WaIthall is to be
the man to succeed Bruce, OF Mississippi In
the Senate.
aggregated 81 ,211 ,297 against $3.50 100 In 1873,
an Increase OF $679,197.
Dublin Gazette ''Three little dusky darl-
ings living on Mrs. Walkers place, near Buck
Eye, were burned to death on Monday night
These occurrences are quite too frequent,
the last month";"
A band of genuine Gypsies, travelling In six
Wagons, with several OF the party mounted
on horseback, have pitched their tents in the
quiet little village of Vineville, near Macon.
They indulge chiefly in their favorite occu-
patton of fortune telling.
Vicksburg Herald: The exodus of the
colored people to Kansas and to other West
ern States has, for the present at least. al
most entirely ceased The last boats leaving
here bound up stream had no more colored
passengers than customary.
The State-debt meeting in Nashville ap-
pointed the following committee to go to
New York to urge the bondholders to accept
the fifty cents and per cent compromise ::
ExGov. Neil s. Brown, ex-Gov. James D.
Porter, Hon. Henry Cooper, State Treasurer
Marsh I. Polk and Col. James L. Gaines.
Lockhart (Texas) Neps-Echo: Large droves
OF cattle have been passing through town
nearly every day for the last two weeks.
About Is 600 head have already passed through
en- route for the northern markets. The
drive will be much larger this spring than was
anticipated.
| commission will be in Atlanta In a few days.
They will hold meeting here during the
session of the American Medical Association.
DR.. Fox received telegram yesterday from
some OF the members asking him to engage
| rooms for the commission.
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| Edward Barnes, who lives nine miles south
west of Denison, was recently struck by
| lightning. The building was literally torn to
pieces. As good luck would have it, Mr..
| Barnes was absent in the Indian Territory,
and his family consisting of a wife and two
children, were visiting friends in Sherman.
! colored boy from Perry, Ga, recently
arrested for stealing, declared that he de-
rived his kleptomaniacal propensities from
wearing pair Of old shoes which had be-
l. nf hot hn Y1nf
| had put a ''spelI' on him. He informed the
| Sandersville Courier that this plea was con-
sidered sound by the intelligent court and
| jury before whom he was tried, and he was
| discharged.
Dallas Herald: And the drought still con-
tinues. The sixth day Of April has reached
us and still no rain. The situation is all that
| is disheartening, but still we have hope that
the end is near at hand. ALI North Texas Is
athirst, and prays for friendly clouds which
will give the absolutely necessary moisture
for our crops for our garden, for stock, and
for everything else.
Rockford Enterprise: We learn that a man
by the name of Burke killed another by the
name Of VIM. Bice near the line OF this and
Talladega counties, one day last week. Mr.
q tenant OF Burke's. They disagreed about a
mule which Bice was to plow, and while
BurkeS wife held grandson OF old man Bice,
who was with the old man. Burke ran up and
cut very severe wound in the bowels OF the
old man Bice, from which he died in few
hours. Mr.. Bice is said to be a very inoffen-
sive old man. Burke and his wife have both
left for parts unknown, and the community
are very indignant about the affair.
We learn from the Thomasville Southern
Enterprise that one night last week party
OF negroes visited the grave Of Mr.. Simon
Hadley Sr., in the southwestern portion OF
Thomas county, and dug up the remains.
Mr.. Hadley died and was buried forty, years
ago, and his body has lain undist until
this time The cause of this outrage was
negro fortune teller. who pretended that it
had been revealed to him that a large amount
of treasure in gold and silver had been buried
with Mr. HadIey at the time OF his death.
Excited by the desire Of securing the sup
posed treasure, party was formed and the
grave opened by night 1t is needless to say
that nothing Of the kind was found. The
press of the State will heartily unite with the
Enterprise in the hope that the parties en-
gagged in this sacrilegious act may be discov-
cred and punished.
| A German physician has demonstrated that
| early rising Is a yery bad habit, He has