The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-15
THE SOUTH.

The Georgia State Geological Department
Is no more.
Narrow gauge railroads are becoming pop
ular In Georgia.
Fine strawberries are offered for sale in
Savannah.
Greenville county, 8. O.. is to have still an
other cotton factory, with 1000 capital.
The population Of Augusta, Ga, Is 27,0l2
| D gain OF 1874 during the past year.
| Atlanta Is going to invite Pdrnell, the Irish
| member OF Parliament, to visit that city.
| The five cotton factories In and near Pc
| tersburg Va, used 5000 bales of cotton In
| 1879.
To pay debt the vestry of Christ's Church,
Alexandria, Va, are tndeavOring to sell the
Bible used by Gen. Washington.
The wheat fields throughout Northern
Texas arc in tl0urshiDg condition since the
recent rain
The bursting OF milestone In the Sibley
mill at Victoria, Tex. severely and probably
fatally wounded two men
The proposed centennial exposition build
Ing at Nashville will contain 40 600 square feet
OF floor space and 5000 fest u wall space.
There are 957 cOnvlots in the Kentucky
penitentiary. White males. 43l. white fe-
males, q: black males. 49,; black females 30.
Mr. r. z. Hall, of Cherokee country, Ala,
was killed few days since by two men living
on his place, who beat him TO death with
stones
Mr.. S. s. Horne, Of Americus, Ga, went out
dove hunting. aud the firing OF his gun
frightened his horse, which reared up, fell
back and broke his neck.
W S. Thomas. who resides near Elizabeth
town, Tenn, has two SONS. one thil teen years
old and weighing 35l pounds and the other
seven years old and weighing LTD pounds.
The State de OF Mississippi is 81 6i8 800 AZ.
During the past two years the debt has been
reduced $3.50, 900. The cash balance In the
treasury December 81, 1879, WAS $500. 757 IA.
Memphis iratanche. OFF the rottiug Ncho-
son pavement the streets are practically i'm
paSsble for vehicles, unless empty, and even
then there Ia no certainty OF going through
without an accident.
The Butler NetOs learns that on the thirty
first ultimo Mr.. Lancaster near Coffeeville.
In Clarke county, Ala, was shot and Killed by
his son-in-la The latter was severely
wounded, and his horse WAS killed.
On last Tuesday, near New Lexington, Ala.
Bud Freeman and 0rmond Sparks got into d
difficulty about some cotton, when the former
was killed by the latter shooting him In the
neck with pistol ball.
A negro woman named Patience Burrell
died at the poOr-house at Norfolk county, Va,
on Sunday, aged 112 years. She was for many
years an inmate OK the institution The nus
band OF the deceased died about two years
ago, ITO years Of age.
Inc Prattvllle Ala Signdt tnlnkS tnat not
more than half the hogs for bacon have been
killed. The warm weather Is making sad
havoc with the corn cribs, and much uneasi-
ness Is felt lest those already Killed are spoil
Ing.
Mrs. Caldwell, Of Evansville, Ga, had come
all the way from Georgia TO visit her daugh-
ter, near Jefferson, Texas, aud when two miles
from her destination the mules to the car
riage In which she was being conveyed from
the railroad ran away, resulting In the old
lady 3 neck being broken.
shocking murder was committed at Char
lotte, N. o., Thursday. Squire Darlington
sent his twelve-ye ar-old son into q field to
watch some cows, but the boy left his post
and went to playing. For the off nse the
father caught him. and, after stripping him
of clothing, took him to the woods aud actu-
ally flayed him alive He left the dead body
naked In the woods. The boys body was
literally cut to pieces by the stick which the
monster used. The unnatural father is now
under arrest