The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-29
THE SOUTH.

Senator Hampton will go TO Washington
this week.
An Unprecedented drouth prevails at San
Antonio, Texas.
Hendricks as the Democratic ticket for 1880.
Frederick Md Gamers are engaging toma-
toes at $6 per ton.
The spring trade opens In Memphis with q
better outlook than In 1878.
The Alabama Press Association will meet
In Gadsden in May.
Over 5000 worth OF tickets are sold daily at
Denison, Texas, for Leadyille
At Waco, Texas, as a result OF the late dry
weather, the Brazos Is but two feet deep.
Forty-two rattesnakes were recently found
under big rock In Comanche county, Texas.
A little eight year old Ashland, KY, girl
jumped a rope 40 times and died In O few
hours from paralysis
There are In the Kentucky Penitentiary 9s4
convicts, Of which number 432 are white men
and four white women.
The Madison La Journal says horses and
cows have been selling at Delta for $5 per
head.
South Carolina negroes are memorializing
Congress to pass the Window colonization
bill.
The present peanut CROP OF Tennessee will
reach 100000 bushels. Virginia Ia the only
state which made larger crop.
The Virginia State printing for the year be-
ginning April, 1872 has been awarded TO
Patrick Keenan,.
1t is estimated that $780, 900 will not cover
the cost of tho buildings to be erected In
Nashville during the season.
The Texas House OK Representatives has
passed. by close VOTE joint resolution for
poll tax amendment to the constitution Of
the State.
The farmers Of Madisonville, Kentucky,
have burned and sown more beds for tobacco
this season than usual. An immense crop
will be set.
San Antonio Herald: The frost which visited
us the other night did much injury to corn In
some parts OF the country. Potatoes were
large and tough enough to stand It,
The Mississippi State Auditor exempts
printing offices FROM taxation because, says
he, "a printer is mechanic and the types,
presses, etc, necessary TO carry on his busl-
ness are exempt as tools of q mechanic"
CoRsICANA. Tex, March 22.-Chas. Barlow,
a farmer, living at Woodville, fifteen miles
east of Corsicana, came here yesterday, and
before leaving town became Intoxicated.
Soon after his return home his neighbOrs,
hearing a shot, went to his house and found
him with his wife In his lap dead, having
been shot by him. The sheriff has gone for
him. He claims not TO have known what he
was doing.
Gonzales Texas) Inquirer: Every species of
fruit trees, fruit bearing vines and shrubs,
OF full fruitage. Peaches and plums are grow
ing rapidly, apple trees are white with flow
ers, and dewberry vines are simply loaded
III the season continue favorable the yield
will be immense. Young trees planted this
spring are full OF fruit.
Corinth Miss Record, March % II the fruit
crop of this section Is not killed, 1t Is because
frost and freezing weather could not accom-
plish it. 1t turned extremely cold Sunday
might, and Monday morning revealed sleet and
}aai In abundance rylny inn hnrs
was a heavy frost and ice nearly an inch
thick. Some persons, however, think It will
only have the effect of shortening the crop
and improving the quality OF what Is left
Jackson, tMiss) Comet: Capt. Sam. Polite.
vent the daring ana dashing young boss OF
the Pearl river steamer, "Col. Hooker" sur
prised our citizens week ago by landing his
craft at the railroad bridge. He had made
the run from Monticello to this point In two
days, distance of sixty miles by land and
two hundred by water, over which no steam
craft has navigated for the last twenty years
He says he met with no difficulty except now
and then an overhanging tree or limb, and he
pronounces the river navigable for steam
boats. and proved the fact by his own exper-
iment.
BoonviIle (Miss) Pteader: The Mississippi
State Medical Association will meet In Aber-
deem on the second day of April. The first
day of the meeting will be devoLed to memo
rial exercises, in memory~ VI the large number
of members OF the association who have died
since the last annual meeting. Rev. DR.. Pal
mer, of New Orleans, will deliver memo
rial address before the association. All the
railroads have agreed to give excursion
tickets at about half price to delegates; and
the hospitality of Aberdeen Is rendered to the
association. 1t is the best opportunity the
physicians Of this part of the State have ever
had to attend meeting OF the association,
and should not be missed.
The cotton receipts at Montgomery, Ala
bama, up to Thursday last, for the season,
were 120,360 bales against 1888 bales for
the same period last year, an increase of
22,4il bales. Commenting on this increase,
the Montgomery Advertiser says: The
farmers are preparing vigorously for another
crop. They are making arrangements for
heavy food crops first and foremost. They
are much nearer out of debt than they have
been in fifteen years, and will have to OBJ |
tam fewer advances than at any time since
me war. Stock of all kinds Is getting pien-
Cl1ul on the farms. Orchards are growing |
On nearly every place. Houses are fixed up,
fences repaired and barns remodeled and