The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-03-19
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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Arkansas has no insane asylum and people
there cannot afford TO grow crazy,
The iron and rail mill ut Chattanooga,
Tennessee, drumming day and night
Brick buildings are taking tho place of
wooden structures in Cadlz, kentucky.
Marion Smith, esq, has been elected Super.
ntendent OF the Mississippi ponilentary.
The region about Sorrento, Florida, has
new industry In the cultivation Of the CassOya
route.
Thcprospccts for the sugar crop on bayou
Techo Louisiana, was the brightest last week
for many years
Captain Boynton, tho celebrated swimmer,
was sporting on tho waters about Savannah,
Georgia, last week.
sKontuclly Is about TO pass n Sunday law
aud Governor Blackburn has said that If 1t
passes be will sign IT,
Tho Rapcdcs parish, Louisiana, Agricul-
tural Fair association will hold Fair ut
Alexandria in October.
Florllais going extensively into the cult.
walton of rice this year, the acreage being
larger than ever before.
Claude NJ, johnson, the new Mayor of
Lexington, Kentucky, is n son Of Mrs. Rosa
Verner jeffrey, the poetess.
Jasper Walker county, Alabama, has
sensation in the marriage of q seventeen year
Old boy toa seyenty-ono year old widow.
Kentucky estimates her whisky crop for
the year ending June next Mt TO- 1870, 726 gal
Ions and tho tax thereon will be- Sl0,000,0O0,
During Methodist revival meeting that
has been going on for month at Weldon,
North Carolina, forty-tvc persons joined the
church.
The Mississippi river is so high that the
Nicksburg Shreveport " ), Pacific. railroad
is overlooked in two place between Delhi
and Tallulah.
Shad are being caught in the Mississippi
river opposite Nicksburg with dip nets by
negroes cast NC tor sardincs. They are large
enough to eat.
Mr.. Martin Lowery, long time n resident Of
Baton Rouge parish, Louisiana, died at his
home few days ago Mt the age of one hun
dred and two years.
The police Jury of Lafayette parish, Louisi-
ana, has passed an order prohibiting the sale
of intoxicating liquors on Sunday, within the
limits of the parish
~ i[liIn Wbe, young married Han'
kllIeo NJ o. fearsoh win stohe III Mou-
terey, hehtueky' on ,ne AFTERNOON ol inc
lith 'hsI' ana lheh ncu LOT p"rIs uhNi'o"''
Between one hundred and fifty and two
hundred head of mules died in one day in
Ouichita parish, Louisiana, last week, Of n
disease produced by gnats
OF forty-one iron furnaces that have been
operated on the Cumberland river in Ken
lucky, only one is now running, the Cumber-
ian nd furnace IN Irigs county, es"oii'ned IN
|eVo'
Tho peach trees in many parts Of Louis
lana had young fruit on them as large as
hens eggs week ago, but If the Sunday
night freeze and sleet reached that State they
are all Killed.
The Murlreesboro, Tennessee, News says
that after seeing what it has seen, hearing
what it has heard and reading what it has
read, it is satisfied that Tennessee is for Til
den for President.
The surviving members of the family of
Hon. John G. Calhoun request that his re-
mains be removed from Charleston and
inferred in the cemetery where his wife and
most of his children are buried.
New Orleans is discussino th. feasibility Of
establishing iute factory IN that city. A
committee of members of the Board OF Ex-
CHANGE bos been sppointed to ascertain the
cost Of erecting twenty loom mill, and the
expense of running it.
The Louisville college of Pharmacy con-
ferred the decree of graduate in Pharmacy
mon two Young gentlemen on Monday last
and Granted certificates of membership Of the