The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-03-31
SOUTHERN NEWS,


Little Rock il increasing wonderfully
Measles are epidemic In Mayerylle Miss,
both young and old being afflicted with lAe
disease
n. H. Aiken, Of Granville, North Carolina,
recently sold lot Of tobacco for 500 per
hundred pounds.
Oxford n, O., Torohght Person county
can boast Of n female boot and shoe and
saddle and harness maker,
Colonel Sidney b. Jones, Of Cincinnati,
has been IN Lexington, KY trying TO work
up a boom that will nominate Hugh d. jew
ott fOt the Presidency.
Kentucky river has had An appropriation,
Biz Sandy Ia about 10 have one, and now
Licking ~ about 10 be pushed forward for
the zane purpose,
At recent term Of tho Affair." (Ry)
Criminal court the Grand jury rolurnM only
eight indictments and none against any per
son in the town of Columbia,
The time heretofore announced for the
meeting of the State Medical society, Of Lex
inpton, Ky, was incorrect. The society will
meet on Wednesday, May 10.
The editor of tho Winchester, (Ry.) Demo
crat, who is employed rs counsel for Judge
Hargis, says the Greon-llargis trial certainly
will not close before the first of May.
BshOp w. II. Miles, of kentucky, will
preside nj the approaching meeting Of the
Virginia Annual Conference Of tho Colored
Methodist Episcopal church, at Petersburg
Raleigh, Nc, Recorders Raleigh must
have Baptist Female college, and the ka-
leigh Female Institute will not be suspended,
A president or principal for the Raleigh
school is now in order,
Warrenton, N. g., Gazette; Our late
court sent up eight persons to tho penllGn-
Lary. Among them was nm old woman, Jo'
sephine Cresson, who was sentenced for one
year for perjury.
Raleigh, n. O., Observer: DR.. John II,
Jones, ono of the most esteemed citizens Of
this county, died on Sunday ut his home,
twelve miles south of the city, lle was
sixty-oight years of age at tho time OF his
death.
The Eminence lKentuckyl Constitutional
ist says that two sons of the late Hon. John
@. Calhoun-John Caldwell and Benjamin
Putnam were students many years since NJ
General Kirby Smiths military school at
New Castle,
George o. Barnes, the evangelist, reports
that Piketon the county seat OF PIKE, IS
village of one hundred houses, some of which
are handsome brick structures. 1t is lar
ahead in appearance, of any village he mas
reached in Eastern Kentucky.
Henry 4. Duncan sr ;, who died near Lex
ington, Kentucky, on Monday night, was, in
his earlier life great personal friend of
Henry Clay and was the chairman OF the
committee which headed the movement to
erect the celebrated Clay monument.
Monroe, N. g., Express: A meeting Of
considerable interest in the Wadesboro Bap-
list church closed on Sunday last. There
were eight or nine accessions to the church.
We hear but one opinion about the
wheat and oat crops-they are looking re-
markedly well.
Bowling Green (Kentucky) Intelligencer;
During the last rise in Casper river Thomas
Lawrence saw fish so large that the waves
could be seen for fifty yards behind 1t. He
tried to dam the river, so as to keep his fish
ship above until the waters fell, but he could
not accomplish it.
Georgetown Times The "Donerail Tigers"
got out their anvil and "throwed in" and
bought fireworks to celebrate the arrival of
the Southern excursionsts at their station,
but they didn't celebrate The anvil was
taken back in silence'to the blacksmith shop
and the fireworks were laid away for Christ
mas.
The saloon keepers of Richmond, Va,
propose to give banquet on the day the law
goes into force superseding the Moffet system.
They also propose to buy up the old Moflet
registers and have them cast into cannon
to herald forth the dawn of any new free
dom they may acquire in the conduct OF their
business.
Raleigh Visitor The convictS at work at
University Station, on the Chapel Hill II
University Railroad, made break yesterday
morning, and white man convict from
Mecklenburg county, was fatally shot
through the lungs. A colored boy convict
was sent after bucket of water Saturday
morning and has not been seen since.
One Mr.. Hess, of Baltimore, has been
awarded the contract for carrying the mails
on the routes between Ashevile and Warm
Springs and Asheville and Hendersonville,
n. G. His bid was at least so per cent. lower
than the present pay There is something
wrong. SAYS the Asheville Journal, about this
hlHu VI ~ 49, NAANA 80 sAN
bid or the man is a fool.
Information has reached Winston, North
Carolina, that white woman by the name
of Rachael Hampton was drowned Monday
in Duchman creek, near Mud Hill, in Davie
county, under the following circumstances:
Mr.. Bob Orrel and quite anumber of Others
were on their way to Mockvllle to attend
court. In crossing the creek, which was very
high. the team ran off the bridge, plunging
the entire party into the water. The Others
succeeded in escaping.
Winchester KY, Democrat: A youngman
named James Rankins, of Powell, aged about
TWENTY-FIVE years. has been paying bis atten-
tions to Mrs. Ed. Stewart, widow of forty
two. and they were engaged to be married in
a few days. Rankns obtained possession of
two horses and all the money the widow had,
amounting to about So 20, and then sold the
horses, pocketed the proceeds and left for
Missouri. He has not since been heard from.
The widow is disconsolate.
No dogs were assessed in the following
counties in Kentucky: Allen, Ballard, Bath,
Bourbon, Boyle, Carroll, Christian, Clinton,
Estill, Fayette Gallatn, Grant, Grayson,
Hancock, Harlan, Hart, Henry, Hickman
jefferson, johnson, Knox, Larue, Leslie,
Leteher, Madison, McCracken, Meade, Nell
son, Owen, Perry, Powell, Rockcastle, Shell
by, Simpson, Trimble, Washington, Web
ster and Woodford. 1t is safe to say that over
half the dogs in the State are
a. r. &C. Il, ,bo,o tb;rtr a;oht countipa