The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-15
THE sou TIT.
PLANTER.

Texas State medical convention meets In
Sherman April l.
The Tennessee Stock-breeders Association
meets In Nashville the eighteenth
Twenty-one thousand dollars Is wanted to
open up Pearl river for navigation.
Northern Texas has shipped 100000 cattle
this season.
The transportation Of convicts costs Texas
$54, 900.
The orange crop of Florida this season Is
80. 900 barrels more than last year.
There are not enough lawyers IN the lower
house Of the General Assembly OF North Car
olina to make judiciary committee OF
lawyers.
Raleigh Ners: While attempting to escape
from the stockade on the line of the Western
Railroad. near Newton, negro convict was
shot and killed.
The shipment OF cattle from Pensacola to
Havana bids fair to become quite an extensive
industry, and arrangements are In progress
to ship three cargoes ger month for the next
three months.
Corinth Record: The mayor gives notice
that thirty days labor on the streets with q
ball and chain will hereafter be the portion
melted out to every tramp or yagrant found
within the city limits.
J. A. X. Smith, white man residing near
Aberdeen, was murdered by some unknown
person on Friday last, having been hit on the
head with an ax-helve. A negro Is sup
posed to have been the murderer
There are In Texas 966.977 horses and mules,
valued ct $40, 242,s9G; 3,263,37S cattle, valued
at $l8.04S, 500; 2,237,S29 sheep, valued at
$2,s29 104; 22341 goats, valued at S161 1874.
and 1886 033 hogs, valued at So, 257,o02. Total,
S54 ,915.
Summit Times Three negro train wreckers
were detected one day this week in their hOr
rid work Of drawing the spikes from the rails
between Byram and Crystal Springs. One Of
them was captured with the spikes still In his
hand, just drawn from the tics.
Jackson Comet: We learn from a friend
that about twenty-five or thirty negroes
McRaven's Switch, about five miles from
Jackson day before yesterday, all laboring
under severe type OF Kansas fever.
Clarendon (Texas) Ne,ss Under the leader
ship Of Gen. r. M. Gano Of Dallas, party
will occupy Cottle county next spring. They
will go out In April and explore the country
from Cottle to Concho and II they find moth
ing better than the point now selected Got
tle) will fix upon it for business. The settle
ments will be on the forks of the Pease river,
and about sixty miles southeast of Clarendon.
Most OF the colonists will be from kentucky
some from Tennessee. Indiana and Ohio.
Kinds County Gazette We learn from
Edwards that agents have recently carried
hundreds OF negroes from that neighb0rhood
to Kansas, that several large farms have been
almost depopulated, and that there Is already
scarcity of labor in that vicinity. OnTues-
day night. the twenty-frst, the citizens OF
Edwards and vicinity held an Indignation
meeting, and after passing resolutions pro-
testing against the action Of certain agents,
organized committee which the following
morning waited upon certain reputed Kansas
agents, and notified them that their over
lures to the negroes had to cease, and that at
once. The reputed agents agreed to the pro-
position of the committee, and promised to
suspend operations. We learn, also, that
few weeks ago letter was opened through
mistake in similarity Of names, by gentle
man OF Edwards, which had been written by
citizen OF Raymond, who was engaged In
alluring negroes away. In he letter he made
the unfounded assertion that there were three
hundred families in this vicinity which were
ready to start at once for Kansas