The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-02
THE sou TIL.
Savannah Is troubled with rabfd dogs.
Macon haS adOpted q hog ordinance.

soaVlnIlilh IS troubled with rabn dogs.
| Macon has adopted hog ordinance.
The A. and Nj. College, to he built Mt Meri-
| dian, Miss, this summer, will cost $l50,00O.
b. Lott Of GoIiad, Killed hog twenty
months old that weighed 885 pounds.
There are 1900 convicts in Texas; 500 of
whom are In prison.
Alligator teeth are sold in large quantities
In jacksonville, mounted as ornaments.
There are pending in the courts of Memphis
100 divorce suits
Mr. James Darsey, OF Liberty county, On.
died on the twentieth instant. He was ia
years old.
James Corning, of Arkansas, by will, binds
his executors to dig five graves for him and
set up five tombStOnes to his memory.
The Tennessee Legislature Is in labor with
new county. The State will repudiate the
doctors bill.
Fifty millions of oranges from Florida were
sold in New York during the month OF De-
cember.
The Legislature of Texas has appropriated
100000 for public school buildings and it is
thought the Governor will veto the bill
There will be an excursion party from
Macon and Atlanta to Florida next month
It Will leave Macon on the morning of the
fourth instant.
Mr.. John Il. White, Of Clark county, Ga.
last week killed three wild turkeys at one shot
The birds aggregated sixty three pounds in
weight, the largest weighing twenty-four
pounds.
The Tennessee Legislature is not the only
foolish one In the land. That Of Texas has
exacted that all trains shall halt thirty min
uteS before crossing the State line, probably
to give the line time to get out Of the way.
The Taxing District, late Memphis, is Wig
orou5ly enforcing the Sunday law. closing up
all saloons, barber shops and other places of
business on that day, and the new authorities
seem to think that this course of proceeding
Will effectuaily prevent the recurrence of an
other epidemic like that Of last summer.
The Baltimore Conference NJ. E. Church
South will meet at Salem, Roanoke county,
Va, on March ), Bishop Wightman presiding
Ibis body comprises nearly 200 ministers nj
fifty laymen, representing churches in Mary
land, Virginia and West Virginia.
A Buckingham correspondent Of the Farm
vile (Na.( Journal says: "Mr. w. NJ Cabel
purchased recently forty-nine sheep and lost
forty-seven of them in a single night. Mr. G.
ID. Saunders has lost fifty-two in flock of
seventy seven last spring and this winter
Mr.. IL. ID. Jones and others report losses less
serious IN numbers, but all the ilocks are fear
fully demOralzed and injured"
Father Abram J. Ryan the poet-priest, Is
very Ill at his home In Mobile from d partial
OF the throat. Recently and prior
10 his severe attack he had shown great de-
light in having the young gentlemen Of his
acquaintance meet at his house and discuss
literary, religious and other topics with him.
His conversation Is said to be most entertain
ing and instructive.
terrific hail storm passed through Sore
ven county, Ga, last Tuesday morning, the
eighteenth instant, from Ogechee station to
The mouth of Brier creek, on the Savannah
river. 1t was accompanied by n continual
roar of thunder, and the hail stones many Of
hem, We're said to be as large as a guinea |
Egg. Holly trees In its path were stripped of |
heir leaves.
Fort WORTH, Tex, Feb. 23-At o'clock |
his morning the stage from this city to Fort |
Yuma was attacked by three masked robbers |
packages We're taken from the mail sacks
T. o passengers who were in the stage were
elieved Of what money they had. The rob-
'ers fled with their booty. The attack was
made Just inside the limits of Fort Worth.
Friar's Point Miss GaeeHe: An old cit
en-, who has been a close observer of the
igns, has suggested to us to recommend to
ersonS who have nothing else to do to 20 to
york at making dugouts and skiffs to meet
II emergency that is not by any means i'm
robable this spring. Every indication points
D big water coming down on us, and the
ontinued heavy rains are filling up the bot
)ms so that we are pretty certain of an
bundance of water this spring.
Mr.. $. P. May, of Asheville, N. c., writes us
nat several families Of the name Of Crowell
| IL dllIdA County, Oh LIldJ DLdUe, CIdlul To De
rect descendants OF the father OF Oliver
romwell. In the year 1921, two brothers,
ohm and Edward, brothers of Oliver Crom-
ell left England for America, and settled in
ew Jersey, soon after which they emigrated
Halifax county, North Carolina While on
ne voyage, fearing that persecution would
,llow from the adherents of Charles III, then
I the English throne, they resolved to change
leir name. This was done with a solemn
'remony, and by writing their names each
ne on a paper and each cutting from the
aper the letter Nj, and casting 1t into the !
"a. The family pedigree on vellum, record
z this fact, was with the family in North {
afollna In an ornamental chest, which, with I
her Vaiuables, was seized In 1871 by scout
z party Of Tarletons Legion and carried l
|. me family made another record OF the
ahsaction, which is preserved by their de- {
endants. &
heo' Llilenthal our enterprising photo '
aohlc artist, who stands at the head Of the 2
preston. has lust succeeded in engaging i