The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-26
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Kentucky.

Worthwhile before Christmas.
j. II. Graves, of Chiselburg, was the win.
ner of silver cup at the Chicago Fat stock
exhibition.
The Logan Sentinel wants parties who GET
the paper before general delivery not to give
away its contents.
Crockett Campbell, the negro who shot ex.
City Marshal Rsad, was placed in the Glas-
gov Jail Friday, by Officer Bailey.
Thomas Black and Abe Minor, two colored
men of Henderson, had been intimate friends
for five years. They got into playful scuflle
last Wednesday and Minor was killed by u
pistol
On Sunday, the 2Sth inst, Rev. Ben. Helm
will be installed pastor of the Carrollton
Presbyterian church. Services will be COM
menced during the week preceding, accord.
ing to announcement from the pulpit. In
the morning Rev. T. L Converse, of Louis
vile, will preach the sermon and PROFOUND
the questions to the pastor'eect
Last Thursday evening little daughter of
Mr.. Andy MLrdock, who lives near Lynn,
vile, invited her teacher, Mr.. Q. N. Boyd,
home with her, that being her eighth birth
day. Everything passed off pleasantly until
the next morning, when preparatory to start
ing to school she stepped out of the room
where her father and teacher were sitting.
In opening the door on her return to the
room she knocked a rifle that was hanging
on the wall to the floor, the contents of the
gun being discharged in her throat, causing
death in a short time.
Missouri.
The Kansas City Exposition association
has Released its grounds fl FIVE years.
james Archer, Kansas City costumer
left home October %, and has been missing
ever since.
The river is so low at Jefferson City that
terry'boats hGyo to make circuit to get
across.
Monday, the 18th, the house of j. T. Nc.
Claim, in Harrison township, Grundy, with
all his goods, was burned up.
The Washington county mines are said to
be yielding well now. Lead, zinc and baryta
are being shipped in large quantities.
The new union depot at Hannibal, Mo-,
will be of English gothic style, with tower
100 feet high. 1t will have frontage of A.
feet.
Martin Bond, a bartender a! st. Mary,
recently broke one of his legs while trying
to separate couple of men who were fight
ing.
Eight cases for murder and two for man
slaughter are on the docket for the. Novem-
Der term of the Mississippi county circuit
court.
The Dunklin county Advance says one
thousand emigrants from Sweden will soon
arrive in southeast Missouri and sette in
Stoddard, Butler and Dunklln counties.
Windsor is the "boss" broom-corn town.
Fifty-eight cars of this commodity have been
shipped from there the present season, aver
aging $1,000 pounds to the car, or about
$4,000 pounds in the aggregate.
The stage coach between Piercs City and
Eureka Springs was robbed last September,
and the passengers stripped of their money,
jewelry and valuables. One of the passen.
gers was an employee of the st. Louis and
San Francisco railroad, and was robbed of
about S270. A detective was put to work,
and last week arrested w. H. Sanders, in
Barry county, and brought him to Spring.
field, whore he is in jail. Sanders admits
that William Lewis, 4. Poesy and himself
did the robbing, and gives all the details.
Some twelve gentlemen from the coun-
ties Of Galloway and Audrain passed through
Jefferson City on the 18th on their return
from deer hunt on the Big Maries, in
Maries county. While encamped short
distance above Mr.. Chapman's, in that
county, some seventy.fve shots were fired at
them about II o'clock one night while they
were in camp. 1t is supposed by the hunt
ers that there were twenty men who did the
shooting. Five of the number have been ar
rested and placed under bonds for their APP
pesrance at the next term of the circuit
court of that county. No cause was as
signed for this dastsrdly act.
Miscellaneous.
Tom Keene is drawing large houses in the
south.
Accom- club has been organized in Will
mington. NC.
There are five candidates for the postmas-
tership of Nashville, under the Garfield ad-
ministration.
A vigorous fight is being waged in New
Or cans by two parties for the possession Of
the city government.
A kerosene lamp explodedin the hands o f
Mrs. Johu Cafcif, an extoxicated woman, in
Say annah, Thursday, and she will probably
not recover
Two Jolly tars, Robert Rule and Thomas
Callahan, got into fight at New Orleans on
Friday evening, and the latter bit part of
the formers ear off.
The late freeze has done considerable dam.
age throughout the sugar plantations in the
vicinity of 0pelousas La, but as yet no es.
innate can be made as to what the los, will
be.
Duringthe racing Friday at Knoxville se-
rous, if not fatal, accident occurred. A
man by the name of Craig who attends 10
the jail, was knocked down and run over by
one of the hsfses in tho race.
James Christopher, of Forrest City, Ark,
recently went to the house of colored
woman, and, in attempting to force his way
in, was killed by her. She was discharged
on the ground of self.detense
James Woods, a nine year old of Nash.
vile, while coasting, Friday, ran under an
empty wood wagon, the wheels of the vehicle
passing over him. One of his lungs was
badly injured, but he may recover.
In Gu alteration a day or two ago. between
Henry Long and man named Garnet, at
Denison, the latter received blow on the
head, causing the lockjsw, from which he
died. Long has been arrested.
John NJ. Hill n little Roc. nrinter was