The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-03-10
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MISSISSIPPI.

Handsboro has skating rink. She speaks
to her old acquaintance all the same
An Ice factory Is being erected In Meridian.
to be In full blast In time for the summers
heated term.
There ID talk Of third cotton factory nc
Natchez, to be started by company Of New
Orleans capitalists.
Btarkville Times: The entire amount Of
lands sold for taxes this year was t122. The
lightest sale made In the last twenty years.
The Greenback state Executive COMMITTEES
met ut jackson the other day and called q
meeting of the State convention on May 20,
to select delegates to tho Chicago convention.
ers haye recently settled In North Missis-
sippi. where they will In future reside. There
IL room for more Natchez Daily Democrat.
The NeW Fra, bright, newsy, ably edited
weekly, has just been started In Natchez.
Col. John y. Holt Is editor, and Mr.. Henry G..
Mcneil ID publisher. It Is devoted partlcu-
larry to the local interests Of Natchez and
Adams county.
Wednesday, June 81, at Il o'clock q. M, In
the city Of jackson, is the time and place for
holding Democratic State convention to ap-
point delegates to the National Democratic
Convention and nominating q presidential
elestoral ticket.
Starkville Times: George II. Terry and
family, VIM. Troy and Ellis Klinker, with two
car loads OF stock, grain and produce, arrived
this week from Michigan. We hail those Inn
migrants with pleasure, and extend to them q
hearty welcome.
Kemper Herald. Several families Of negroes
who went to Kansas from Sumter county re-
turned home by the way Of this place last
week. They did not unpack their chattels In
Kansas, declaring that 1t was impossible for
q negro to live In that country.
The Meridian Reviey furnishes an account
Of an engine on the Vicksburg and Meridian
1lattm Il
low creek, two miles east Of Newton Station,
and the killing Of five men who went down
with It. The cause Of the accident was the
same old tale-a broken rail.
Friar's Point Gazette. Last Sunday q lit
tie six-year old colored girl was burned to
unOccupied cabin and we're cooking mud
cakes, when the victims clothes took fire.
She ran out to nefghboring house, where
some men came to her assistance. but too
late to save her life, and she died after suffer-
Ing intense agony.
Natchez Democrat. On Wednesday evening.
at about o'clock, on the Milford plantation,
belonging to Mr.. w, Huntington, on the Pine
Ridge road, Eliza Brown attacked her father,
Morris Brown, with an AK, inflicting wounds
afterwards chopped him on the neck with the
ak. Physicians were summoned. Eliza is sup
posed to be demented.
Newton Report: There was colored woman
burned to death this week at Mr.. John Ham,
per's plantation, few miles below here. She
was burning brush In new ground when her
clothing took fire. Every effort was made by
some OF her companions to extinguish the
fire, and some OF them were right badly
burned, but all was In vain, and the unfor-
tunate woman received such injuries that she
soon died.
Vicksburg Commercial: From the officers
OF the steamer Spengler, we learn that an
attempt was made to burn to death a man by
the name0f Stanley, who has charge OF the
Burley plantations, In the bends about forty
miles above this city. During the night some
fiend entered his room. saturated the bed In
which he was sleeping with coal oil, and set
It afire. Mr.. Stanley succeeded In escaping, |
but was badly burned.
Friar's Point Gazette: On Saturday night |
horrible tragedy occurred at Millers Point, |
about six miles below this place. A colored |
man by the name of Reese who had lately |
sold his cotton. and who WAS known to have
several hundred dollars In his house, was
murdered, together with his wife Cracy and |
? colored boy about seventeen years old, and |
then the house was fired and the bodies Of the |
victims burned In the ruins.
Summit Times: The dog law" as adopted |
substance g follows: The State = to
leg oMnen e g 50 each. Tho dog vear-
lng tn1e collar y projected . any other |
prooerty. ard hie killing q maiming. q
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