The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-06

Inc coop OF flOrlQa eult0r was rODDeu |
of ninety-seyen chickens in one night
AT Allendale, S. c., a kerosene explosion
caused the death of little colored girl
A new baby in Scott county, KY, is |
named Winfield Scott Hancock English.
James A. Mckenzie is candidate number
seven for the governorship of Kentucky.
In Hampton county, S. O., William Davis
has three orange trees filled with fine fruit.
1iCaptain j. ". English has been nominated
FIR mayor Of Atlanta by the Democrats.
A club of Greenbackers at Greenville, s.
O., consists of ten negroes and four whites
Edward Richardson is spoken of rs pos
sible candidate for governor of Mississippi
In Frankfort, Ky, little colored girl
named White fell into o well and was
drowned.
John d. White, of KY, threatens TO for
ever forswear politics after the present cam
paign.
Thomas Jefferson jackson, Psducah,
bibles.
A recent hail-storm literally ruined some
crops of corn and tobacco in Greenup county,
Kentucky.
Two Georgia farmers grew 500 bushels of
Irish potatoes on one acre of land and sold
them for $500.
The dams now being constructed on the
Kentucky river by the government will con-
tain ish-ways.
The town council of Spartanbury, S. c.,
has ordered the erection of new public hall
at cost of $4,000.
E. l.. Anderson is now the Republican
elector for the first Kentucky district, vice L.
w. Bagby, resigned.
The question of the removal of the county
seat of Ballard county, Ky, is yet occupy
ing the attention of the courts.
S. j. r. Mcmillan, United States senator
from Minnesota, has been visiting relatives
in Carter county, Ky.
Judge Buxton, the Republican nominee
for governor of North Carolina, has resigned
his position on the bench.
The Republican candidate for circuit clerk
in Boyd county, KY, withdrew last week,
not wishing to incura defeat.
M. Stuart Cam, of the geological survey,
is visiting all the mines in Kentucky in the
interest of the census bureau.
There are already several aspirants for the
Henderson, Ky, postotfice under the admin
istration of President Hancock.
During the last ton years the treasurer Of
Georgia has collected $3,000,000 in cash
from the lessees of the State road.
Some of the fairest young ladies in Jack
son, Miss, are engaged to be married soon to
gentlemen living in other cities.
The peach crop in Middle Georgia is an
almost total failure, and such a scarcity was
never known in the Macon market
Prof. II. &C. White, of the Georgia State
University, has been appointed state chemist
in place Of DR.. n. A. Pratt, resigned.
With population of 26,550, there are
only forty white men in Newberry
county, S. G., who are seventy years old.
In Nashville thirty-nine building permits
were issued during the month of July, the
total cost of which aggregated $l40,7SO.
A monument to Hancock has been COM
menced in Mammoth cave, Ky, and now
every visitor who favois bis election adds a
stone to it.
The first cotton factory in the south
was built on Mill Branch, in Lincoln county,
South Carolina, in the year 1885, by Michael
Schenck.
The board of health of Augusta, Geor-
gia, reports. the sanitary condition of that
city better than it has EVER been before at
this season.
The students of Erskine college, Abbeville,
S. c., petitions the board of trustees to re-
move two members of the faculty, but with,
out avail.
According to Senator Bruce, of Misss-
sippi, the Republicans of that state are with.
out an organization, and will make no con-
test this year.
The trunk of Mrs. Governor Blackburn,
which she supposed was lost between Lex
ington and Crab Orchard, Ky, was found at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Isaac Burton, Of Carter county, KY. aged
seventy years, reports the birth of his twenty
sixth child. Thirteen of his children are yet
under the parental roof.
William L. Royal, whose paper, the Rich
mond (Va.) Commonwealth, has just failed,
will resume the practice of law, in which he
has already won distinction.
Two young women in Crittenden county,
KY, were listed by the census enumerators
as Sarah Helen Isabella Eliza Jane Clay
Nurse Steward and Mollie Sylvia Lancashire
Lee Lillian Clement.
The deserted wife and four little children
of H. II. Wilson, late of Atlanta, Ca, who
eop with his wife's niece, have arrived 10
Lexington, KY, where some kind people will
provide them with home.
William Reed of Estill county, Ky, i:
ninety.nine years old, works in his garden
does the chores about the place, can walk
eight miles without fatigue, sleeps as soundly
as a child, and has never been too sick tc
eat.
During the twelve years that L. II. Blan
ton, d. D., was pastor of the Presbyterian
church at Paris, KY, 944 new members were
added to the organization, and over 5,00(
contributed for church and benevolent
purposes.
Several companies of the State Guard hav'
been invited to be present at the reunion O.
ex-Confederate soldiers, near. Georgetown Ky
on Thursday. 1t is expected that they viii
attend under Adit. Gen. Nuckots, and
prize drill will take place on the grounds.
= In Elliott county, Ky, Louis Binlon wa
found dea', hanging suspended from lad
der. 1t is believed that he was lynched. bu
there il no clew to the perpetrators or thei
motives, furthsr than that trouble about
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