The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-02-06
THE SOUTH.

Tho police In Atlanta have 10 light tho
street lamps.
An Irish relief movement has been organ
ised In Chattanooga.
Tho various factories In Atlanta give er,-
ployment To BOO girls
City paper OF Little Rock amounting to
$500 went TO protest Friday.
The gold fever has broken out In Ngle.
thorpe county. Ga.. with Increased fssy.
The State debit Of Mississippi has been re-
ducad 900 during the past two years.
The letter carrier system will be adopted
In Montgomery, Ala, on the thirtetn Of
June next.
Tho Republicans OF Virginia will hold II
State convention Mt Staunton on tho twenty
first of April.
The owners OF the cotton factory at Hnw-
klnsvllle. Ga. will BOON have four Clement nt-
tachmonts In operation.
Tho Sentinel is informed that the Grennda
Miss, Female Colleges hns In attendance over
100 soholars, with additions almost daily
Tho Air Line Railroad Company is having
II row of shade trees planted out on either
side OF tho track III all tho stations along tho
line from Atlanta, Ga. to Charlotte, N. q.
Tho committees appointed by the Legisln-
ture of North Carolina toesamlnn tho books
and accounts OF tho StatR treasurer and the
trensurers OF the public Institutes. have dis
charged their duty In both cases, finding
everything correct.
Savannah Nr,ca Ex- Associate Justice Lo-
gan A. HlcCkIey of the State Supreme Court,
rendered his resignation to tha Governor for
two reasons. First. because ha did not con-
slider hmself sufficiently learned In the law
for tho position; and second, because of III
health.
Little Rock Dcmondf. Cotton factories nre
| All immense SUCCESS In Arkansas. The Qua-
paw Cotton Mill of this city has n contract
Fnr fu N iEh cot n u
Chicago house Of A. i. Stewart n Go. that
cannot he completed In loss than two months.
The mill never shuts down until 10 o'clock at
night.
Says tho Vie1sburg Herald of the thirtieth
ultlmo. We learn from Mr.. Il. w. Wick who
resides in the vicinity of Utica, Hinds county,
that ON Friday last a shooting affray took
place between two boys Of that nelghborhOod.
Eelther OF whom was more than fifteen years
Of age. In which one of tho parties. Lam9s
Ellison, met with q serious and probably fatal
wound.
A member OF the Virginia Legislature,
during s. discussion In regard to employing "
| stenoRraphic reporter. offered resolution
that the Clerk OF the House purchase lame
dtately phonogrhph Into which the members
| who desire to perpetuate their speeches shall
deliver them and turn the crank thereof fot
the benefit Of future generations" 1t was
ruled out OF order. +.
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which earthquakes have occasinned, the
people OF Havana may be congratulated
upon their escape on Thursday night Last
| The city was much shaken bug 1t wtas not
destroyed The Earthquake Catalogue o
the British Association contains between Go0t
and 1000 earthquakes between 1906 H. G ane
A. y. 1872. The one occurring In Ca!abria IL
l7sa caused the death Of 100000 persons; In
Lisbon In 1885, 1t is thought that 80 900 per
SOUS persisted within the space Of six minutes
n
John Dyer, OF Kendalytlie. Ir3i,, desired tt
marry two women the Widow Myers for tn
sake OF the $1,000 she possessed, and Bell
BY because he loved .er. He determined t
get over the difficulty by marrying Mrs
Myers, killing her, and then marrying Miss
Bly,. The plan Was partially successful, 70
he married Mrs Myers, and then destroye
her by poison, but he nad talked to Miss 81,
In a way that aroused her suspicion, and sh
started an Investigation that has resulted Il
his condemnation TO the gailows.
Congress Will have to stick closely to bust
, ness. The Senate has twelve hundred an
odd bills before 1t, and the House has fou
thousand, and still they pour In. The "leaf
t month OF June" will doubtless find member