The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-08
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THE SOUTH.
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.Locusts have appeared In force south Of
| Sherman, Texas.
Lust week at Rusk, Cherokee county, Tex.
/ the mercury went to 100.
The pineapple crop at Key Large, near
Key West, Is said TO be In fine culture.
/ The cut-worm liz very destructive to the
corn crop In all parts Of Virginia.
A rich lead mine has been discovered DIT
Sulphur Spring, Etowah county Ala.
Y Both silver and gold have been discovered
| ut Brentwood.
Houston, Tex, Is building two new opera
houses.
Chattanooga has q boy orator who is only
| SIX years old.
The cattle disease is spreading In Southern
Georgia.
A man living Ia Henrietta, Tex. has do
mesticated four buffaloes.
Out Of 1915 convicts In the Texas peniten-
MAry, 9l5 Gun not read or write.
A construction train was burned near
Dayton, on the New Orleans road, last Fri
day.
In 1877 Jacksonville had 100 inhabitants-
1t now has $4,000.
Forty-nine rattles and button La the latest
rattlesnake story, and the Columbia Specta-
tor tells 1t.
Manateee county, Florida, has produced
coffee, which is pronounced excellent by COM
petent judges.
Seven thousand five hundred dollars are
needed to keep Memphis in good sanitary
condition for four months.
The Colorado beetle ID getting In It's work
on the potato crop In various portions of
Middle and East Tennessee.
The Federal court has rendered judgmen 1
against Harrison county, Texas, for $4,000
coupons on the Texas and Pacific subsidy
bonds.
Diedrick Buhoe, In Charleston, tainted a
boy named Lamble, only ten years old, on his
inability to shoot, ,whereupon the child picked
up an old gun and shot the man through the
heart.
The President has ordered a battery Of
Parrot guns for the. use OF the Galveston
artillery; q battery OF Napoleon gums for the
Houston Old Guard, and 300 stand Of arms
for the State government. ell at the instance
Bills will be presented to the next Georgia
Legislature levying direct tax on dogs and
whisky, nd vaforem--all for the benefit 81
the public schools. The popular voice is In
their favor.
Three more companies OF United States
artillery troops are to shortly go to Atlanta.
This will make seven artillery companies In
the Gate City for the summer. The Thirteenth
Infantry regiment from New Orleans, Is also
to summer there.
Enterprise, Miss, Courier: The hogs around
town are dying rapidly OF cholera. It Ia al
most discouraging for people to attempt to
healthy It very frequently happens that they
take cholera and die In few hours
The citizens Of the village OF Kings Noun
tain, N. o., have held meeting to take steps
for celebrating the defeat Of Ferguson IN 1850;
Senators NJ. 9: Butler, Of South Carolina, and
z. b. Vance, OF North Carolina, were invited
to address them ON October 2, 1880.
Dallas Herald: Reports from every direc-
tion immediately around Dallas, and 50 far
as they go In all North Texas are to the effect
that cotton and corn are growing finely. Corn
1s waist high upon an average, and looks Wig
sonabiIe r viii insure line crop. Cotton
has not met with any disaster in this section,
the worms reported In counties In Middle and
Southern Texas not having appeared. As q
rule, the fields look clean Of grass and weeds,
and, In word, the situation is eminently sat-
isfactory, bright and promising.
In It's edition OF Sunday last the Mobile
Register prints an elaborate article, showing
the difference In favor OF the present govern
ment Of that city, as compared with the old
method, The Register concludes by saying:
In order to demonstrate the extent OF these
savings we will refer to g few figures:
Last year the cost OF the old city govern
ment. administrative expense, was
:, ABOUT 81 600
Deduct from this the monthly expenses ''s-N
OF the present govern ment 5000
-s.. a. .a-.z $ss1s
The result Is a monthly saving OF nearly
$4,000.
Denton {Tex.) Monitor: A train OF wagons
passed through Denton last week from Kan
sas, en- route for Erath county, bearing about
forty souls, including women and children.
In reply to the question, What they were
emigrating from Kansas for, !" they said, THE
negroes we're too thick there to suit them"
aWhy,, don't you like the negro :" Not
we're stealing everything they could lay their
hands upon; that they were as thick as To-
Gusts, and that they were licking up the sub
stance OF the State as a cat licks skillet.
One Old lady, with tears In her eyes, said her
heart bled for the suffering white people Of
Kansas. Another gentleman told US that In
his neighborhood, In Kansas, the people were
compelled to nail down their windows and bar
their doors at night to keep the negroes from