The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-21
OTHER SOUTHERN STATES,

Hog cholera Is doing great damage In parts
OF Catawba county. N. G..
Sunday trains will be run on the Macon
and Brunswick railroad In future.
Trains leave Atlanta daily crowded With
emIgrants for Arkansas and Texas.
John A. b. Allison, OF Madison county, Ala,
shot and Killed Prof Bass for an assault on
his daughter.
In Bourbon county, KY, nearly all the
fruit put away last season has rotted, owing
to damp, warm weather.
Labor agents were arrested lately In
UniOntown, Ala, for procuring hands FOR
other States without having paid the tax.
Brandon (hIiss.l Republican: A great deal
of the pork killed during Christmas week
has been spoiled, owing to the extremely
warm weather.
number OF negroes who had gone to Kan
sas returned some days ago to Murfreesboro,
Tenn, from where they had gone) disguised
with that country.
Handsboro (Miss) Advertiser. On Friday
evening last colored boy, aged twelve years,
named Edward House, son OF Alfred House,
was drowned In the bayou near the saw mill
or Mr.. Lienhard.
The rapidity with which the new sewers In
Memphis will be constructed will depend on
the promptness OF the taxpayers. The first
installment of the special tax for this purpose
will be due February l.
d.)
orange crop In Florida the present season
will exceed by 20 per cent that OF last year.
Those who affect to know predict that there
will be still further increase OF Is per cent
the ensuing year.
! A cOlored man was found floating In the
Suwannee river, near Ellaville, Fla, lately,
supposed to be an escaped convict. as he had
both legs shackled and wore the penitentlary
| uniform. 1t Is thought that he was drowned
In an attempt to swim the river and make
| his escape.
The Selma, Ala Times says: Mr.. Richard
| Barston, living near Harvell's Cross Roads.
was fatally shot on Saturday night while en-
! deavoring to prevent two negroes from shoot
ing each other, In fight between them One
OF them, In an attempt to shoot the other,
| missed his aim, shooting Mr. Barston. The
murderer escaped.
| From the Walton county iGa.) Vidette we
| learn that three-year old negro child was
burned to death on the plantation OF Mr. De
/ Kalb Reynolds, near Social Circle, one day
/ last week. Its mother had left 1t in the house
with larger child while she went out for q
| bucket or water. Upon returning she heard
| the childs screams, and rushing In threw the
| bucket of water on it, eXtinguishing the
flames, but the child died soon afterward.
The Greenville fAla.) Spirit of the Times
says: "a panther entered the house OF Mr.
i Dobbs, ten or twelve miles east OF the city
| and near Damascus church In this county
ran Mrs Dobbs out and took possession Of
the house. Her husband being absent, SHE
went to neighbours got several persons and
returned to her home and found the vicious
animal quietly gnawing bone. From some
cause it escaped before it could be killed"
Union IS. CO. Times. few days ago col
ored man came to town and sold his cotton
receiving check on the bank for the money
The bank paid him in gold. On receiving thu
old fashioned coin the man gazed on it awhile
in establishment, and, going into the street
called some OF his coIored friends to him. say
ing: "Look a. hea, niggas," holding out tn
shining SO and $40 pieces In his hand; "yot
see dat Look like old time, don't it? l tel
you what, niggas, it looks like slavery times
and IL dis ting goes on much longer, Well al
be put back into slavery agin, sure"