The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-02-20
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Two little oolored girls we're arrested in
Memphis for Stealing valentines from u newt
stand
Shreveport, Louisiana, Is anXiousto become
weather report station md have Us weather
recorded,
Colonel j, IT, MoCullum has again ssfum-
el editorial control Of the lazoo, Miss,
Herald,
The tax sales In most OF tho tax districts Of
the State OF Mississippi are unusually lengthy
tna your,
The State Republican convention Of North
Carolina has been called 10 meet In Raleigh
on tho 1th ofJuly,
The snow lasted full week. and some Of
the grls have bawelled some Of it,-Clai,
borne, Louisiana, Guardian.
Temperance meetings arG being held In
East Feliciana, Louisiana, with what effect
the Pat iot'Democrat declines TO say,
There is II tramp in East FocOna, Lousi'
auN, who is doing some very bold burglary
work, Hon, j. II, Stone Is one Of his yctlms,
Centenary college, at jackson, Louisiana,
will hold It's intermediate celebration on
Wednesday and,Thusday, February Is and
~,
There will be no nominations for county
officers in Franklin county, Alabama, this
year, The field is open 10 Nil mpTnnls 10
Office.
The American Sunday-School Union has
organized in the Southwest since the war
2,19G new Sunday-schools, with ll3,OO6
scholars.
The average expense per mile for Keeping
up the county fence between AbbeyIle and
Edgeileld counties, South Carolina, ia S3i
perNnnum.
The statement is going the rounds TINT u
eightecn-year-old white BOY IN JASPER, coun-
" Georgia, Is legally married to II woman
aeycntE-one years Of age.
The Virksburg ~ Meridian railroad
Chunky bridge twenty miles out WAS
burned last night and trains could not cross,
- Meridian Mercury,
On "Wednesday last, Shreveport, Louisiana,
received $50 bales Of cotton 10y wagon from
the surrounding country the largest wagon
receipts any day this y ar.
Twenty-Five different brands Of commercial
fertilizer; are ON sale in Horkylc, South
Carolina. The demand for them Is greater
now than for any year in the past.
The weather continues mild ana spring
like If it holds out to the end of March, the
crops will be of untold abundance in our
parish Vcrmillion, La, Merdiona,
General Featherston has introduced bill
in the Mississippi Legislature approprating
S65,000 for the Agricultural and Mechanical
College for 1880 and $4,000 for 1881.
Frank Schuncke, Memphis dairyman,
set loaded gun inside his poultry-house, in
hope Of furnishing some chicken thieves,
aud his wife, ignorant Of the fact, was killed
byit.
Mard Gras WAS successfully celebrated in
Opelousas, Louisiana, there being any num-
Der of maskers on the streets. The day was
wound up by grand fancy dress and mask
ball.
Goldsboro On. c. Messenger: There must
certainly be big bonanza in the Western
North Carolina railload, or else these New
York syndcates would not be quite so gen
erous.
Sxty-seven per cont of the deaths at Mem
phis are from more or less preventable dis
eases, such as consumption, malarisl and
typhoid teyers, scarlet fever and diarrheal
diseases.
franklin letter in Raleigh, IN. O. News;
DR.. w. w. Green will plant 1000 acres in
cotton this year. Hs has done more than
any other man to encourage cotton growing
in this region.
The movement in favor Of State conven-
ton to adopt new constitution don't meet
with universal favor. Indeed, the other side
seems to be much the biggest jackson
Miss, Comet. ),
Memphis Appeal: Memphians who wit
messed the Nsrdi Gras display at New Orleans
on Tuesday night last say that it did not be-
gin to compare with the Memphis pageant in
this city in 1873
The Tarboro IN. o. Southener says Sam
Newton, negro in Pitt county, was bitten by
dog before Christmas He has the hydro
phobia now and is in Greenville jail. His
case is hopeless.
A negro boy, ten years old, stole horse
in Clinton, Louisiana, the other day, and
made off with it, but was soon captured.
Owing to his extreme youth, the boy will not
be prose uted.
The citizens of st. Landry, La, are beg
ging the Legislature to tax dogs A we'll
signed petition to this effect has been pre-
pared, and will soon be presented. The
Courier approves of the idea.
We hardly ever see wagon go from our
town without carrying from one to six plows.
Our farmers are going to work; they will not
miss the labor that has left this section.-
West Point, Miss, Echo.
Meridian, Mississippi. is TO have another
newspaper to be called the Mississippi Meth,
odist. 1t will be published by John |. and
James Z. Demet The editors will be