The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-06
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Winchester, Kentucky, has Hancock an(
English club, with several hundred members
The North Carolina state Republican con
vention will meet At Raleigh next Wednes
day.
New iberia has more newspapers than any
other city or to wn in Louisiana, except New
Orleans.
The new census will show the negro pop
ulation of the south to be very largely on the
increase.
A race course has been made and thea.
ter erected at the Greenbrier White Sulphur
Springs, Va.
The board of education in Savannah has
asked for an appropriation of $4,000 for the
public schools.
The Lexington, Ky, guards are not we'll
pleased with the proposed rendezvous at
Grab Orchard.
1t seems the proposed telephone company
in Lexington, Kentucky, is not proving
to be n success.
The ladies of the Presbyterian church at
Paducah, Kentucky, are organizing an art
loan association.
The Assessor of Tiigg county, KY, re-
ported only thirty deaths last year, in pop
ulation of 10000.
DR.. James X. Barnum, of Stewart county,
Ga, has fallen heir to an estate in England
valued at 100000
The engines of the water-works at Jack
sonville, Fla, have a pumping capacity of
100000 gallons daily.
Captain Ed. Warren, an old newspaper
man in Paducah, Kentucky, is setting type
in the Enterprise office.
Some of the Louisiana newspapers still
think that it was the Connecticut English
who was nominated for vice-president.
The corner stone of the new building of
the Young Mems Library at Atlanta, was
laid Tuesday with Masonic ceremonies.
There are very few vacant houses in At
lanta. One census enumerator who counted
5000 people found only six houses unoccu,
pied.
The newspapers Of Alabama for the last
few days hav not been as hopeful of crop
prospects as they have generally been during
the season.
Miss Matte PEBBLES, of Paris, Ky, only
nine years old won q premium on pound
Chkt Nv WIS IllIltIS uttIuullOuul NAulDihlOu
at Cincinnati
Shreveport, La, has population of 5000,
which is several thousand more than any
estimate that had been made before the
taking of the census.
The proposed new paper at Whitesburg,
KY, is to be Republican in politics. a new
paper is also talked of in Owsley county
the Bonneville Republican.
Six graves of Confederate soldiers were ex-
cayated Tuesday while working on the
Sibey mills foundation, at the old powder |
mills site in Augusta Ga.
The postal business of Macon, GA, is !
greater than that Of any city Atlanta ex-
cepted) in North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida or Alabama.
Some boys in Henry county, KY, cut
down bee tree four feet in diameter, but on
going to look for the honey only found seven
bees and an immense snake,
The Rev. NJ. 0. Smith, pastor of the Cum.
berland Presbyterian church at Hopkinsville,
Ky., and Miss Annie Casky, of Christian
county, we're married Tuesday.
The favorite sport of the Covington, Ky,
small boy is to place guncaps on the rails of
street railways, which explode and frighted
the hoi ses and female passengers.
The Democracy of Barren county, Ky,
propose to give grand barbecue on the Both
instant, at which time a number of big
guns have been invited to address the peo-
pie.
Nat Grain, of Barren county, KY, is eigh-
weight wears old and was a soldier in the
war of 1912, but is still able to work on the
farm and is engaged regularly behind
plow.
In the nine years during which the Hon.
VIM. S. Pryor has been on the bench of the
court of appeals, of Kentucky, he has been
absent only twenty-nine days from all
causes.
The prospect of a large hemp crop this
year in Kentucky, is very encouraging, but
with the large amount of last years crop
still unsold, it is likely that prices will be
unusually low.
The mayor of Lexington, Ky, will issue a
proclamation requesting all the bust
ness men in that city to close their places
of business at noon on the 9th and join 10
a big procession
John jackson. Savannah negro, burst a
blood vessel while stealing heifer, and
was found in a pasture, with the ropa tied
around bis waist aud the heiter quietly
grazing at the other end.
The Hon. J. S. Boyd, circuit court judge,
and the Hon. w. W. Cleary, common
wealth's attorney in the twelfth judicial dis
trict of KY. are candidates for reelection
and will have no opposition.
The fifth annual convention Of the Ken
lucky Sunday school union will be held at
Shelbyvile, beginning on the Sd of August
Each Sunday.school in the state is requested
to send at least one delegate.
At Greenville, Kentucky, a serious cutting
atfray occurred on the street between John
Jernigan. q farmer who lives near town, and
John Bradley, a brickmason. Bradley, was
stabbed in half dozen places, and bis
wounds may prove fatal.
General George Whtefed died at his
nome in Jefferson county, Fla, on the 10Th
nst., at the age of seventy-six. he was one
# the oldest settlers in the county, having
emoved there from North Carolina about
$40.
The Key West fla Key says that the
igar makers there are not doing as we'll as
hey should, owing to the large surplus OF
igars in the market. Some of the most
killful workmen are leaving for the north,
nd their places can not be easily filled.
Two negroes on an excursion near Spar
anburg, 5. G., became involved in quarrel,
be cause of which could not be ascertained
y the other membeas of the party, resulting
D the death of one and the serious wounding
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