The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-24
SOU CHER \ NEWS.


of a town or city, or the partner of any jus
tice of the peace or mayor, hereafter appear
as lawyer in any case, civil or criminal, il
the courts of this state.
The oyster merchants of Ocean Springs
Biloxi and Mississippi City, are shipp ing
oysters now Notwithstanding the strike.
Moss Point is to have glass factory.
The Pass Christian sugar cane market is
overstocked.
Mr.. William Manders, an old citizen Of
Pass Christian, is dead
Numerous establishments for the sale of
liquors under the pint law have been started
10 Liberty.
Lea Female College at Summit has open.
cd with brighter prospects than ever before.
Canton elects her cotton weigher by a pop
uisr vote.
Marion, the largest county in the state, is
larger than the state of Rhode Island.
Thore is not saloon il. Bentonvlle, Yazoo
county.
Some of the little white boys of Brook.
haven hired out on their own account to pick
cotton.
Cotton receipts at Bolton will hardly CON-
pare with those of last season thus far.
The funeral Of tho late DR.. A. O. II. Har-
denstein, Of Vicksburg, was attended by a
large number of friends
LOUISIANA.
The Terre BGufs court house in st. Der.
nard parish, is in such bad condition that
the j1dge holds his sessions in ball rooto.
l he 81. Rernard Eagle wants the court re-.
moved to another part of the parish.
st. Bernard rice crops are turning out
well.
The police jury at last meeting reduced
the tax on rice in the parish from So to 81
per perpendicular foot.
Shreveport cotton RECEIPTS are increasing
rapidly.
Doctor Joseph Taylor died at Shreveport
on the 7th inst.
Republican delegates from ten parishes
IN the Sixth congressional district met in
convention at tho court house in West Baton
Rouge on Wednesday last, and went through
the form otnominating candidate for CON
gress. After the usual formalities of orgnni-
zation we learn Col. Alex Smith, postmaster
at this city, was nominated. We learn Tom
Anderson's son has withdrawn from the race,
and that Hon. John Il, King does not intend
TO run. The race therefore will be- between
Hon. e. w. Robertson, the Democratic nom.
inee, and Col Smith, the Republican nomi.
nee.-Baton Rouge Advocate
Hon. Samuel NJ. Robertson and Can't.
Thomas ID. Boyd have been elected to ill
positions in the faculty Mt the University.
lAeoJ bio graduates Of tho institution and
their selection meets with general satisfac.
ton. The Advocate compliments its younp
lrlends On their selection. Baton Rouge
Advocate.
Cotton Is coming in to the Natchtoches
merchants, but not very brisky. IT com.
msnds tom lOf to IL cents per pound, &C.
cording to grade.
La Nalchitoches, Oct. 7th Herin Hart was
tried before Judge Pierson, of tho Distric,
court, for killing John Brut in Campte
Hart was acquitted.
We have had admirable weather this week
a cool and brisk north wind owing, invig-
1ra'inE and infusing life in the SYSTEM
Marksville Bulletin.
On the 9th inst. Mr.. Victor Bize, proprie.
tor of the Dead Levee Saw Mill, in Marks
VILE, had his arm torn and lacerated by the
saws of his mill.
On Brushy Bayou Tuesday, difficulty oc
Cured between some negroes on the Bfnshy
Bayou place originating from picking cotton
When Jenkens, one of the parties, seized
shot gun and fired, shooting a % an and tive
women. The load, however, happened to bC
small shot, and beyond little peppering, nc
damage was done.-Vidslis Eagle. "
Tho same paper says; "On Little Biyer
near Trinity, white man named Knott wa,
shn' and killed ~ L. Cotton, il. From on,
informant We learn that Knott had threaten
ed to kill the younger Cotton on sight snC
burn ont the elder Cotton, and having fear
OF his life, Knott was shot down as aboy,
stated"
MISCELLANEOUS.
Knoxville, Tenn, has n Chinese laundry.
Meigs county, Tenn, has leviel a tax L
build Il $4,000 court house.
James ii. Logan, pastemaster at Griffin
Ga, has been stricken with paralysis.
The colored people of Tennessee will hold
state lair at Nashville next week.
A telephone line is to be- established be-
tween Dahlonega and Gainesville, Ga.
The reduced railroad rates to Little Rocl
during the state fair week, are below any for
mer rates.
The colored voters in Atlanta who support
cd Governor Colquitt propose to have a CRANE
jubilee. A torchlight procession is proposed
and aserenade to Governor Csquitt is talked
of.
Gustavus j. Orr, LII D., at present stat,
school commissioners for Georgia, has beer
named in connection with the appointment
of successor to the late DR.. Burns Sears
for many years agent of the Peabody tduca.
tional fund.
The plan of families having their meal
cooked out at restaurants and boarding
houses, and brought to their own houses {,
be eaten,it is becoming popular in Montgom
cry and where a year or two ago, only
few families had adopted this method o.
boarding, there are now said to be a larg
number.
A countryna an went to Social Circle, Ga,
Saturday, and, standing at the counter of on,
of the bar-rooms, drank seven glasses o
whisky without stopping. Soon sfterwart
he was as near dead as men get TO be, not t
die, but by the exertion of two physician
and a number of friends, he was restored Il
consc business at Sunday morning.
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