The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-19
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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V Over s., GOO has been secured for a new
22 Christian church nj Stanford, KY
III Bourbon county, Ky, is winning lot 0
. money on the races ut Lexington.
MI Phil Wells, negro man, who died in Mt
a. Sterling, KY, was ninety years old,
3 A charter has been secured for a new cot
MI ton compress company ut Memphis Tennes
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.N The Maysylle KY, Eagle, after career
HI OF siXty.one years, has taken on patent out
< side.
M The small boy Mt Bowling Green, Ky
has not yet tired Of playing with the new tel
~ Escape,
# In Todd county, Ky, Miss Minnie Col
.3 Inns killed snake nine feet and live inche:
III long.
81 The Lebanon, Ky,gus-works are completed
81 and last Tuesday gas was turned on Tor The
N first time.
II Miss Eugenis Dunlap Potts is being nomi'
q mated for poet of the Kentucky Press associ'
ton next year.
N An artist from Cincinnati is engaged upon
q a $4,000 portrait of RichardE Steel, ofNew'
port, Ky.
DIR. r. A. Whittinghil), of Ohio county,
81 Ky., became a great.grandfather at the age
of fifty-three years.
The Tennessee Horticultural Society held
its annual meeting this week, and reelected
the old officers.
Il The people of Lexington, Nv, are enjoy
n ing a season Of competitive prices for tele-
graph dispatches.
The English people living in Little Rock
will celebrate Queen Nictora's birthday on
the Oath instant.
The shipment Of manufactured fertilizers
for the crops of 1881 has already begun AT
Beaufort S. G.
Twenty-Five local acts affecting Shelbyvile
or Shelby county, Ky, were passed oy Inc
recent Legislature.
Bruce, the colored Senator from Mlssis-
sippi, disclaims being candidate for the
Vice-Presidency.
The Democrats of Marion county, West
Virginia, have appointed colored delegate
10 the State convention.
H. Waller, of Kentucky, owns a family
relic in the shape of gold ring, which he
believes to be 2Z5 years old.
Several cases of sickness have occurred re.
ntly among children in Little Rock, caused
by eating sorrel or sour grass.
The State Sunday.school convention will
be held at Shelbyvile, KY, this year, begin
ming on the Sd of August.
The streets of Hopkinsonville, Ky, are
continually bockaded with material for ne"
A.
buildings in progress there.
The Hon. Jerry ID. Lillard, of OAen
county, Ky, is a Democratic candidate toI
Congress in the Seventh district.
One thousand and ffty-eight shares of the
stock of the new building association al
Maysville, Ky, have been taken.
Lexington, Kv., is infested with some dan
pereus Cincinnati and Chicago crooks, who
have been spotted by the officials.
James NJ. Richardson, editor Of the Glas'
cow Times, KY, is compelled by ill-heaIth
10 retire from active work for awhile
A Shepherd dog belonging to Marcus
Bean, of Clark ountv. KY, does not allow
crow to aght upon his masters tnrn
A farmer in Montgomery county, Tennes-
see, drove the bugs from his tobacco plant
beds by treating them to dose Of rotten
eggs.
Fruit prospects in East Tennessee are not
near so bad as was at first believed. IT Is
thought that half crop of peaches will be
made.
A farmer in Fayette county, Ky, since
the LIST of January has made clear profit
of S445 from the product of $500 worth of
sheep.
A daughter of j. NJ. Nesbit, of Hopkins
county, Ky, twelve years old, was burned to
death while kindling fire in stove with the
aid of coal oil can
Numerous religious cclored people are Of
Tended at the theological students of their
Baptist institute at Richmond, Va, for play
ing base ball and croquet.
A healthy disturbance is reported as occur
ing in the colored Baptist church at Shelby
city, Boyle county, Ky, in which razors,
knives an pistols were used.
The Yeoman promises that the State will
complete her capitol building when the Ma
tional rovernmeL has constructed Federal
courthouse in Frankfort Ky.
Bowling Green, KY, bloods who would
scorn to work, get exercise BY lifting one end
of mass of iron weighing 500 pounds which
ornaments the courthouse yard.
Professor Wavlund Alexander, principal
of South Garrollton institute, KY, will ie-
move to Hartford, KY, in September to take
charge of school in that place.
Colonel Samuel NJ. Burdette, County
Attorney of Rcckcastle, Ky, received his
title from Governor Blsckburne, and is
the la,st member of His Excellercy's staff.
The Hon. Charles Patterson, sr.. ex-repre-
sentative from Green and Taylor county,
Kv.. died very suddenly of appopleXy at
his home in Characteristic, Ky, Monday
night.
The "mud negro" FL. French, from
Obion county. Tenn. who has been on exhi-
tion at the Nashville Centennial, died of
pneumonia, from being too much confined in
mud in his cage.
The Hon. John w. Lock EFT, of Henderson,
Ky., Whose second term as Commonwealth as
Attorney is about to expire, is spoken of as
prospective Congressional candidate in the
Second district.
The Hon. Claude Matthews. of Nermllion
county, Ind, who is being talked of in con.
necton with the Democratic nomination for
Governor, is son of Colonel Thomas A.
Matthews, of Covington, KY, and a gradu.
ate Of Center college.
Tho Atlanta Constitution saws that there