The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-03
SOUTHERN NEWS.
MISSISSIPPI.

Pennington is 10 nave new Me'uooiS
church.
Holly Springs boasts of a "young ladie
cooking club
Cotton worms are reported in Hind
county.
Coroner's inquest fees in this state have
been reduced from ten to five dollars.
Cotton worms have made their appearance
near Vicksburg, on the jackson road.
A COW in Baton Rouge gave birth to one
calf Monday and another Saturday.
The Edwards Picsyune complains of toe
much rain The yield of cotton will hardly
be one-half.
A child of Mr.. J. 9. Lott, in the northern
part of Hsrrison county, was scalded to death
on the 7th ult.
The culture of rice in the western portion
of 81. Landry and Calcasieu is assuming vast
proportions.
A hunter in st. Landry recently killed a
doe heavy with two tawns, one of which was
taken out alive.
The work on the iron bridge across Mint
Springs bayou is to commence next week.
So says the Vicksburg Herald.
George Roundtree was killed at a ball near
Thibodaux last Saturday night by his
brother-in.law, Fastin Martin.
DR.. c. G. Coole, of Jackson, made an at
tempt to commit suicide by taking lsuda-
mum. He was rescued from death.
Senator Lamar has been called on to enter
the canvass for Hancock and English in
some speeches in the northern states.
The Summit Times of the Goth inst, says
that rust and worm are seriously threatening
the otherwise remarkable cotton crop.
A Bolivar county farmer has twenty Itsl.
ians who have been working for him three
years. They make excellent laborers.
The Mississippi mills at Wesson ara to be
lighted with electric gas. The Summit SEN
tnel says hands will be employed to run the
looms both night and day.
In 1870 Mississippi had 1892 inhabi-
tants. The present population Of the state
is about 100000 according TO the new
census.
A difficulty occurred at Crystal Springs,
recently between Lit Kelley and man by
the name of Mcintosh, during which the lat.
ter was fatally shot.
1.-THE Vicksburg Herald, of the 10Th inst,
saws that all over the state exchanges main
tain that the cotton crop which is about made
is the finest since the war.
1.-THE Handsboro Advertiser says that all Of
the Mississippi congressman who have been
re.nominated will, without doubt, be re-
elected TO the present positions <
The Vicksburg Herald says that the cotton
crop in that region ispromising, but suit ring
from rust. There is also some apprehension
of the cotton worm making its appearance.
The majority of white voters over colored
in Harris county is 872, and the majority OF
white female over colored, who are Il years
old, is 1908 The figures are furnished the
Advertiser by the enumerator.
Mr.. Lamar Fontaine, of Yazoo county,
brought to the Vicksburg Herald, recently,
q cotton stalk, upon which there were five
hundred and three bolls. He says this is a
mere specimen stalk, there being six hundred
acres ola like crop, and many of the stalks
being larger and fuller than the above. The
cotton was grown upon the Hapan planta-
ton, Honey Island, in Holmes county, on
the Yazoo river.
ARKANSAS.
Mr.. W. F. Bell, editor of the Pine Bluff
Eagle, is dead.
Work on the Pine Bluff city front is pro-
crossing finely.
A number of New Orleans people are at
Hot Springs.
The cotton crop of Pulaski county has
been injured by the rains.
The new cotton exchange of Little Rock
is now in full operation.
A sash, door and blind factory is to be
erected at Little Rock.
The rainfall on Sunday was very large in
Little Rock and caused much damage.
Texarkana is a live business town, growing
rapidly. 1t claims 5000 in population.
The increase of value of lands in this
state for the past year is over eight per cent.
The Saturday excursions between Little
Rock and Hot Springs have been discon-
tinued.
The Little Rock Gazette says that
Senator Garland's health CONTINUES to i'm
prove.
The crops, both cotton and corn, are much
better in Pike county than they nave been
for years.
Millions of bushels of peaches and pears
will be fed to hogs or allowed to rot on the
ground in this state this year.
DR.. Lawrence, of Hot Springs has recently
pressed 1881 gallons of grape juice and will
press more than 1000 this week.
Frederick B. Warde, the actor, who has
been some time at the Hot Springs, has left
for Utica, N. Y, there to join McCalloch.
THE most expensive and largest machinery
now being constructed by the st. Louis man
factories is for factories and mills in Little
Rock.
The Little Dock Gazette says: The Ar
kansas tramp is an obsolete feature There
is work enough in the ST lie for half of the
idle men in the south.
A boy fourteen years old, by the name of
Charles Chapman, residing in Little Rock,
tried to light a fire with benzine and was
burnt to death.
Little Rock. as a manufacturing and
commercial city," is the title of work just
Issued by Mr.. George Russ Brown, of the
Democrat.
j. I. Tubs, of Oxford, Miss, was shot at
the Enterprise hotel, Hot Springs, on the 10Th
inst, by flying shot from the weapon of
Pete Musgrove. Tubs was soiourning in the
valley for the benefit of his health. He was
feeling toerably we'll on the 10Th. So says
the Hot Springs Telegraph.
The Little Rock Spirit of Arkansas saws
that there will be this season sufficient cotton
wasted-left unpicked in the felds-to more
than fn-niah tho rao,>la v,;th Ill A. =. -.-..l..