The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-03
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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Letcher county, NY.
Tobacco plants are worth SIS per 1000 in
Trimble county, ky.
The sheep in Woodford county, KY, are
assessed at 1880
Clay County, Mo-, has only twelve hun
bred acres in corn.
Avery large grape crop is expected in
Hamilton county, Tenn.
The Paducah, KY, Fair association is lay
ing out new mile track
The commencement of Princeton college,
Ky, will take place next week.
Nearly all the apples in the Boone county,
Ky., orchards have fallen OIL
Its said that gold has been discovered at
Corning, in Holt county, Missouri.
There are nineteen candidates for Congress
in the Fourth Louisiana district.
Snesll.thieves in Harrodsburg, KY, rob
Gardens of all the growing vegetables.
The new distillery at Uniontown, Ky,
produces forty barrels of whisky per day.
A voung married man in LetcLer county,
KY, whipped his wife for beating his dog
Only half crop of wheat will be har-
vested this year in Caldwell county,
Ky.
Ope of the candidates for school superin-
tendent in Louisiana county, Missouri, Is Il
lady.
West Liberty, Ky, has been town for
half century and is yet without church
building.
James N. Banks is engaged in writing n
history of Ashland, KY, and an account OF
its resources.
A man attempted to escape from the Mer
Ger (Ky.) Jail by blowing of a lock with
gunpowder.
The stand of cotton and corn throughout
the Vicksburg region, Mississippi, is reported
as very fine.
The authorized capital of the Sibley cotton
mills, at Augusta, Ga, has been increased to
$1000,000.
In nearly all the Georgia towns merchants
are beginning to close their stores at O'Clock
in the evening.
The army worm is committing terrible
depredations upon the wheat crop about Nc
Millan's Station, Tenn.
Lawrence county, Mo-, will raise an i'm
mense wheat crop this year. That county Is
the flour of that State.
The location of the new custom-house at
Paducah, KY, has been decided upon. Inc
lot selected will cost SI,5OO.
The assessor of Lincoln county, Ky, re-
ports an increase in the amount OF taxable
property since 1879 of S7S,5Sl.
The baccalaureate sermon Mt the Missouri
State University will be preached this year
by Rev. DR.. Sonnesch,in, Jewish Rabbi
In Logan county, Ky, two little sons OF
John w. Peck were ont hunting birds when
one of them accidentally shot and killed the
other.
Miller B. Grant, who has been in the
Savannah jail for a year on the charge OF
embezzlement and forgery to the amount
of 10, 900, has been adjudged insane.
The tate for fine stock is growing in the
nurchoso counties of Kentucky. Horses es
neciallv have improved there wonderfully
during the LIST ten years.
In some portions of Missouri the Green
back party loometh up nightly. In Key
nolds county of that State, there are precisely
three of that political genus.
me prospects LOT II bDuhbllul IiNp Va W.
end wheat were never better than they are
this spring in Boone county, Mo; run
trees of all kinds are overloaded with fruit.
There is canary bird at Poplar Bluffs
Mo, that has three legs. 1t ought to belong
to the Legation to Great Britain, as The
Canary isles are part of that dominion.
The Postmaster-G General has established
nostoGice of the name of Vogel in Cap
Girardeau county, Mo. This Office is at TIKI
Roberts school-house, five miles west o
jackson.
Huntsville No. has but one Grant man
and lightning struck and set fire to his hous
last week. His wife, who is for the emo
cratic nominee, put out the flames and save'
the house.
Hi. Yeager, of Knob Lick, Missouri
disappeared from his home SIX weeks az
and has not been heard of since lie wa
last seen at Fredericktown. He may hay
been drowned.
The wife of Hade Brown, who is to b
hung soon in Missouri, still clings devoted
to him, and visits him in Jail, although tn
crime for which he is to suffer is the murde
of her mother.
Stoddard county, Missouri has the cham
nion mare of tho State. She is youn
thing, only seventeen years of age. She ha
lust foalei twin colts, both OF which are livel
and thriving.
Mr.. Haynes, of Bollinger county, Mo
was attack d by an old wolf while ,
work on his farm. Assistance came to hin
and he succeeded in capturing seven youn
ones. He received SCI for the scalps.
Capt. VIM. Gay and wife, of Wood coul
ty, Ky, are each 95 years old. Mrs. Gay
sister, who lives with them, is 50 years oil
They are all very active and sprightly, an'
the captain frequently WALKS ton miles da
There is a good housewife in Missssip,
county, Mo-, who has three hens that tai
care of one hundred and FIVE chickens, thirt
five chicks to hen. 1t IS fowl thing
exact so much of any hen-it is hentlrely tt
much to expect.
1t rumored on the streets that Colonel
+. Fellows has withdrawn from the Congre
sional race in this district, and that his frien
will Wig prously urge the name of Ira
Hazeltine for that position.-[Springie
Mo.) Republican.
Last week was a big week with the t
bacco buyers aud sellers in the Louisian
No., market. The unprecedentedly lar
amount of 1929 pounds of tobacco "
offered for sale and knocked down to Il
highest bidder at Glenn & Co.'s warehou'
Theron bridge being built in Ste. Gen
We've county, No., over the river Aux Naus
lacked ono hnur,s worlr of hninp pOmplpt