The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-29
THE SOUTH.

A camphor tree is hourishing In Tampa
| Fla.
| Charleston Is to have velocipede tourna
| ment.
| The planters are complaining OF too much
| rain In mississippi.
| The Eagle and Phenix mills In Columbus
| Ga, are receiving new and splendid ma
chinery
! Students who take the benefit Of the Texas
State normal school are required to teach
| live years.
! A party Of ninety emierants from England
and Scotland, bound for interior Texas have
| just landed at Galveston.
| A hickory tree on the farm of J. johnson.
Amite county. Texas, was torn from Its roots
by recent storm and carried two miles.
Nirginia's valuation stands at $500. 900, 600
II would be double that to-day but for the
effect upon her prosperity caused by the civil
war.
The Prattville and Allenville factories, OF
Alabama, are now running to their full ca
pacity, and are all making money and are
crowded with work.
The Warren county (Mississtppi Demo-
cratic convention Ia Vicksburg adjourned
without making a nomination, leaving the
field open to all candidates.
A member Of a leading cigar firm Ia Jack
sonvlle says that 1t Is susceptible of proof
that Middle Florida can raise as good tobacco
for cigars as CUBA, but that the farmers do
not understand curing 1t.
The Dalton, Ga, Enterprise says that Mr..
VIC. Iilton has discovered a very rich mine
Of tin, one bushel OF ore yielding four pounds
Of tin. 1t Is said 1t will make him a mil
liouaire.
The little white boy, eight years Of age, the
son OF Mr.. MeCorker, OF Augusta, Ca. was
drowned In tho canal there near the cotton
seed mill on Thursday last. He fell ia while
carelessly playing near the bank.
An Augusta dispatch announces that j. j.
Dargan aud Joseph II. Earle, of Sumter, S.
Nj, eame to that city on Saturday to fight a
duel. Dargan was arrested and gave bond,
but Earle escaped. 1t Is believed they have
gone to North Carolina to fight.
A young man In Washington, Ga, who was
carrying concealed weapons, while removing
his pistol from his hip to his coat pocket last
Monday night, accidentally discharged it. The
ball entered mis- left breast just above the
heart, intlicting serious and perhaps fatal
wound.
Cotinth MISS Record. Jack Harrell In
digging q well on his plnce In Prentiss
county. exhumed the skeleton of man III
! he depth of forty.three feet below the sur
faee 81 the earth. He also obtained several
gold coins Of the fifteenth century. bearing
the superscription and coat of arms OF Ferfii-
nand aud ISahella.
me Jacksonville tFla.l Sua and Press asks
4, ~ some medical man explain why or how
~ i mat the negro Ia never known to snee5a?
ASK any old planter. who owned scores of
servants, and AS will tell you he never heard
one oi hiH servants enesze. IT may appear
NCfv slagnar facf, hut i Is none the less true
anu NJ studs to II just to show how unab-
servant most people arc''
c2frysp tndaut from Aurarla, I,umpkin
county, Ca. to the Atlanta Constitution. |
Tr,tes, 1Da'r date Of the eighteenth instant, |
!!nht ~ hnl Hyd.n WIS returning from Dah.
~ fE,.,r Il a
sleep, and his mule wandered some distance
ON the road AMI FILL into shaft forty faet
ieep Iba fg!l killed the mule instantly. hut
did not hurt Hyden. -
There Is to BE- q Centennial celebration at
,olssboro, lean, October 8, commenoratinp