The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-02
SOUTHERN STATE NEWS.
johnson county has had big hall storm.


johnson county has had big hall storm.
Fort Worth is TO have new opera house.
1t. Patrick's Church In Galveston was re.
Gently despoiled OF valuable silver.
/ The late burnt district In Bolton la being
rebuilt with most handsome new buildings.
Englishmen are prospecting for homes and
investments In the counties Of Gulad and
| Bee.
| A Lamar county planter has just brought
out some fifty or sixty negroes from Missis-
sippi.
| The track OF the st. Louis and Texas mar
row gauge railway Is laid from TexarkaDa to
/ Sulphur Springs.
Negro exodusters continue to arrive In
| large numbers at Denlson from Grimes
Washington and NacogdOohe5 counties.
A man named Cherry was shot three tim ee
and killed by one Rankin at Hockley Christ
mas night. The trouble began Ia drinking
bout.
Navarro county has organized an immigra-
tlon society. 1t Is intended to circulate doeti-
ments and TO put an agent In the field &c
| secure settlers.
band Of eighteen or twenty plckpocketa
from Chicago have been doing Denisorl. They
| even boarded the trains OH arrival, and went
through passengers.
Texas papers continue to demand that the
Agricultural and Mechanical College shall
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| OF the curriculum In that institution
| 1t is said that ON one occasion Haynes, the
sanctitteatlonist, got 800 order direct from
the Lord, and In Haynes's favor of course,
cashed by wealthy proselyte Of Corsicana.
Geo. Bakers herd Of 1000 cattle we're driven
across Croton creek, an upper tributary OF
the Brazos. They drank or it's alkaline
waters, and 100 of the cattle died directly after
crossing.
The Fails County Inden says that Judge
Hemphtll regards Galveston commit sIon
merchants rs lordly q set Of thieves as the
world ever saw, and the investigation by the
Cotton Exchanges consummate farce.
Texas boasts of three supreme courts. and
atl OIL them are now In session ut TyIer-the
Supreme Court proper, the Court Of Appeals
and Court of Errors. During the last session
Of the Legislature five additional judicial dis
tricts were erected
Victor Furena, q ferry man on the Bernard
river. near Brazoria, VIE has been missing,
was found In the river Tuesday, December 20,
with his neck broken and other injuries. Rob-
berry is supposed to have been tie cause Ssy-
eral arrests were made.
negro man, Phil Fox by name, under
took to whip a negro woman at Walker.
Her son, n boy about fourteen years old, told
Fox TO cease whipping bis mother Fox paid
no attention, and the boy, becoming enraged.
seized gun and killed him.
Cold weather Ia general throughout the
State Snow fell on Christmas Eve from
Dallas to Marshall, hail and sleet ut Fort
Worth The Thermometer was down to 30
degrees at Austin Friday. IL was az low
as 16 degrees at Dallas on Christmas Eve.
desperate fight took place between the
police OF Sherman and gang Of roughs from
Montague. In the fight Deputy Sheriff Par
rott knocked the pistol out Of the hand Of u
young man named Mitchell, late of Kentucky,
and then shot him, and the wound caused
his death.
Thirteen negroes, just returned from Par
SONS, Kansas, reported at Denison that want,
restitution, hunger and cold are causing
many negroes to wish themselves back In the
sunny South. One whole family Of negroes
near Parsons were reported frozen to death
In the late cold spell.
Reports from Houston represent that In
consequences of the strike of the police forea
for want or pay the city is In lawless con-
dItion, firearms are discharged In the streets,
bontlres ut dry goods boxes are burning, and
much evil Is apprehended. The bar-rooms
have closed to aid in maintaining order.