The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-24
that New Orleans Ii healthier Ut this time
Than any other city in the Union.
THE SOUTH.

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Raleigh, N. C.'s, thermometer records 10
degrees.
The saloons In Richmond, va, are 10 be
closed on Sunday
The Savannah river ID lower than II has
| been for forty years.
| Extensive fires are raging Id the Dismal
Swamp.
Young forests are being killed In South
Carolina by the hot weather.
The wheat crop throughout North west
Georgia has been the best since 1857.
Two mules fell dead from the heat In Sayan-
nah Sunday.
Hon. A. Ell. Stephens is being talked of Ii
Georgia for Governor.
Sem Hill, the Atlanta murderer, is fighting
Tor new trial on the insanity plan
Atlanta has an amateur singer whose vocal
performances frightened two canary birds to
death.
A new kind Of worm has appeared on the
farms III IOwndes county, Ala, and lis doing
great damage to the corn crop.
Wind and rain did considerable damage In
Chattanooga on the seventeenth. The Chat
tanooga boiler works were demolished.
Savannah Is talking about bringing out her
artillery and opening fire on the dry weather.
Some OF her Wiseacres think rain might be
| brought about by the conclusion.
The editor OF the Griffin Ne,rs knows that
the people Of Georgia are determined to re-
| $780,"
Knoxville TENN Tribune. Az this reporter
was passing BIZ grocery store on Market
Square yesterday he observed q slight COM
motion n basket OF eggs and suddenly one
OF the eggs burst and d vigorous little chick
popped out.
Atlanta Constitution: Before the Bureau Of
Mining was organized the annual amount OF
gold mined IN Georgia was less than $500
1t has been In operation for five years, and
the annual amount OF gold now dug out OF
the hills Of Georgia Is about 81 100000.
Four hundred OF Knoxville, Tenn. g, citizens
assembled the other day to SEQ Washington
Gentle arrested. Wash had sought refuge
under O culyert, and the police, after
armed themselves with grubbing hoes and
picks, with which they laboriously dug him
out.
| Lebanon (Tenn.) Herald. A large meeting
Of negroes WAS held on Thursday at the court
house In this city to take action preparatory
were made, some OF them Of a very innarn-
matOry character. A committee was appoint
ed to visit Kansas and report the result of Its
observations to 9 subsequent meeting.
Flncastle (Va.j Neapa: Several weeks ago q
little daughter OF Mr.. Calvin Overstreet, Of
Bedford, was accidentally shot by her brother,
the bullet passing diagonally through both
hemispheres OF the brain and lodging against
the skin on the opposite side of the head, pro-
ducing spasmodic movements Of the left eye
and limbs, and partial paralysis, and yet she
| lives.
| The Ocala Fla Banner says that man
named Gum and his wife were committed to
| jail at that place for the murder OF an eleven
| year old boy, the stepson Of the former. The
child had died very suddenly and had been
dead for several days, but owing to various
| fOattng rumors the body was exhumed and
the neck found to be broken, while the only
| food the stomach contained was three buckle
| berries. Gum had treated the boy brutality,
having kept him chained by the neck In d
room.
| 1t is proposed to put warm baths In the bar
racks OF the troops. The military authorities
are advised to explain to the men the use of
these arrangements, II they do not wish the
reproduction OK O scene which happened at
Bourges two years ago.
I The surgeon had prescribed bath for d
| soldier who was @ little ailing, and ordered
that he be conducted to an adjoining estab-
lishment by sergeant. At the end of an
hours waiting at the bathroom door, the
/ sergeant, hearing no noise, entered the room
and found the soldier seated by the bath-tub.
| The water was as it was when the soldier
went into the room, except that Its level had
| been perceptibly lowered.
| Ma fol- sergeant" said the soldier, "you
may put me 10 the guard-house il you want
to, but can't drink another id drop!'
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