The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-09
SOUTHERN NEWS.
MISSISSIPPI.

Greenwood has colored postmistress.
The Vicksburg oil works are in operation.
Brandon closes her barber shops on Sun
day.
The Washington county fair offers $1,000
in premiums.
Cotton picking progresses flely in the
Vick;burg region.
The army worm is still ravishing the cotton
in the vicinity OF Terry.
No larger stocks of goods in Yazoo CITY
have ever been seen before.
Cotton crop throughout Jasper county is
cut off at least half if not more.
Under the new code of this state profanity
is punishable by fus or imprisonment.
Sixty.seven colored men are members of a
Hancock and English club at Stonevile.
The mammoth edition of the Vicksburg
Herald October lst) is credit to that city.
John G. Cahall, postmaster at Buckatunns,
has been arrested. charged with opening
registered letters from his office.
Enterprise is full of new goods and trade
is rapidly improving. Cotton is coming in
quite freely.
Mr.. A. n. Davis, of Pass Christian has
made on hundred barrels of wine his year,
and it was not good year for grapes either.
The Yazoo Sentinel of the Both ult., saws
that the injury to the cotton crop in that sec
ton ia estimated all the way from 80 to so
per cent.
According 10 the Starkville Times, the fol-
lowing Mississippi towns will hold fairs this
Gal Al
ian, October 18Th to 23rd; Aberdeen, Octo-
Der 10Th to Both; and Canton, October 2Sth
to Both.
Judge Simmons has received overtures
from ona of the largest publishing houses in
the United States which inspired the hope
that his poems will appear in book form be-
fore Christmas.
LOUISIANA.
Nearly one hundred persons in the neigh.
borhood have signed the petition to abol.
ish the parish of Grant
There was shooting and pounding scrape
in Opelousas last Thursday night, in which
man by the bad name of Blaine was shot
at, and his assailant well pummeled and then
jailed. No other damage reported.
10 the parish of st. Landry there are four
convict camps on tho raj road near Opelou-
Sac. These camps are, one at Woodworth's
Springs, one at the Uric place, between OPP
elousas and Washington, one back of the
EstiletIe place, and one Mt Bayou Bordeaux.
There are between $50 ard 400 convicts at
work, who are we'll fed and well worked.
Alexis Anderson, alias Boireau, colored,
indicted by the grand jury in October, 1877,
for the murder of Celestine, colored, and
who since the date Of the killing has been
fugitive from Justice, surrendered himself on
last S turday to the sheriff OF Lafayette.
GA the 29th he WAS let to bail in the sum OF
$1,000 to answer before the district court.
ARKANSAS
Hot Springs will in few days have o new
ce factory.
The Hot Springs railroad does its own ex-
press business
There are nine hundred and fifty feet of
water in the artesian well, at Little Rock.
Another vein has been struck.
The Little Rock Gazette is confident that
the day is not far distant when Little Rock
will take her place among the recognized
cotton markets of the country.
Tho Arkansas Telegraph says: "Col onel
Alexander, the Silver City miner and CAPT
tslist, says that he has so much confidence in
Arkansas minerals that he shall present at
the st. Louis fair specimens of ore and COM
pete with any state in the union that is will
ing so to do"
The Arkansas Gszette of the Goth ult,,
says: "The Gazette expressed hope yester-
day morning that Mr.. Ben CathSrina and
Mike and Joe Cathari,t, who were arrested
and put in Jail on suspicion of having muir
dered Mr.. Emile Cheimes, might prove them
selves innocent of the charge against them.
This wish has been realized. Mr.. Cheimes
has been found. The who'll charge Of MUIR
der falls to the ground, aud the accused per
sons were at once liberated, A letter was
received from Cheimes yesterday morning,
dated Dardanelle. He has been at that place
ever since he disappeared from Little Rock"
A correspondent of the Little Rock Gazette,
writing from GAINESVILLE, in this state under
date of the 29th ult, saws: Crops are good
cotton one third short, but nearly one-tbird
moro land in cultivation. Corn crops above
an average. The greatest acquisition to
GAINESVILLE will be the completion of the
Peach Orchard Il GAINESVILLE railroad, o
distance of fourteen mics. Much credit is
due those enterpri-iGg citizens Of Peach
Orchard. They now have about ten miles of
said road in oper ,tion, have twenty horse
power engine (the Little Gnnt). Flats to
do the business necessary for the road will be
pushed to completion by the lst of Decem-
Der. This road will open up good country
fine land and the best of timber Its effects
are already felt in town and country.
KENTUCKY.
Allen coun y has seven big axhandle fac
tories.
Frank H. Bris,ow editor of the Elkton
Register, advertises for wife.
Nelson county farmers will gather $4,000
worth of clover seed this year.
The colored fairs at FRANKFORT. BGeorgetown
ana LSwrenceburg are in full blast
Washington county furnished three con-
victs for the pententsry this week.
The students in the Agricultural and Me-
chanlcal college are TO be uniformed.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad is
building new depot at Bowling Green.
Inc American Union Telegraph company
Will open an office in Dauville this week.
william Rue, farmer in Boyle county
won twelve pr, miums at the Frankfort fair.
A youth of twenty one in Barren county
was married this week to a dame of forty-six.
Horses and mules are scarce ia Ohio coun.
ty. The mule market is dull at Bowling
Green.
AT the Psducah fair some premiums Of