The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-09
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ARKANSAS.

The Little Rock oil mill company, with n
large capital, has purchased town property
in Morrilton, and will commence the cree
ton of three story frame building for
ginning and milling purposes
The Kansas City Journal thus lauds the
coming great state: Arkansas has the nnrst
forests of oak, pine, cypress and cedar to be
found anywhere; has the finest water powers
outside Of New Eogland; produces cotton
in great Quantity and quality that ranks next
to Sea Island; abounds in mineral wealth,
and all but thirteen of her fifty five counties
are supplied with navigable rivers that are
never DISTRACTED by ice, or are liable to low
stages of water Land is cheap and Iha ell
mate is proverbially healthy.
The Spirit of Arkansas, speaking OF the
state census, says: Eight hundred ana ten
thousand one hundred and forty,seVeh nave
been enrolled. A prooaole increase
of one hundred per cent. Inree
hundred thousand settled IN the state since
1875. And it asserts that all the credit De-
longs to the land grant railroads Inc same
Journal says: If the people IN inc east
west. north or south could see the immense
crons now ON the cultivated lands in this
state there would be less hesitation in their
mlDus MS 10 lElluS bhVii AOabuASS va NHN '~'
and rich lands of Arkansas.
AS far as the Spirit of Arkansas has been
able toslearn there has been quite an abund'
ance of rain all over the state, and but few
sections have had too much. The corn crop,
which is the largest ever grown in the state,
il already made But little or no injury has
befsllen the cotton crop in any section, and
it is the largest ever planted in Arkansas,
and promises to be the most abundant ever
gathered. From the present outlook this
crop of cotton will be worth to The state
between thirty and forty million dollars.
This is the year TO- immigrants to come;
land is still cheap and plenty to be had,
provisions and provender will be cheap and
the opportunities generally were never better
in new country.
MISSISSIPPI.
Spanish mack ,rel are now being caught
at Mississippi City.
Congressman Hooker is to stump the state
of Ohio for Hancock and English.
Business is quite lively in Natchez. Bales
of new cotton have been sold at IL cents a
pound.
The Natchez cotton mills have ordered q
new Reynolds Corliss engine OF 800 horse
power.
Good crops are reported from Bolivar
county. They have made more cotton than
can be gathered.
The Vicksburg Herald says that the 10th
of September is set for the re'openiDg of the
Cotton Exchange.
The game law expires on the 18th of Sep
TENDER. Hunters and sportsmen ale anxious
for the time to arrive
A new postoffice, by name Wildwood, has
recently been established on route lo,3ZO from
Pass Christian to Williamsburg, Miss.
The Summit pike county, Sentinel says
that cotton continues to roll in lively, and
merchants are wearing smiling countenances
The Advertiser says that ever 800, 90
worth OF lumber is manufactured and ship
ped from Hansboro annually, not to say
anything of other valuable interests.
Hernau Denis, lately appointed by Governor
Stone circuit clerk Of Warren county, vice
c. Z. Bout, deceased, took charge OF the
office yes rday.
The NJ rlan Mercury says that the late
storm Ii necessa lily damaged the cotton
crop, 9. nore especially that which was
open, by Wn piping it out and staining.
In another week, says the Natchez Demo
crat, all the novelty will wear Oft new cotton,
and the price of the staple will be worrying
planters, merchants and all who are inter
ested in it,
The Brookhaven Ledger says that the
lumber business of south Mississippi Is grow
ing to be of considerable Importance. Pas,
csgoula shipped last year S250 OOO worth VI
lumber, and Handsboro is now Shipping
weekly one hundred and fifty thousand feet,
The Vicksburg Herald says; A strange
disease has made its appearance among cattle
in many parts of this county, which Is most
fatal and ravaging in its results. Cattle so
affected commence bleeding at the nose and
mouth, and in less than three hours after are
dead. There seems 10 be no cure for 1t and no
way to check it. In the neighborhood of
Kings Point all or nearly all of the cattle
have died in this way.
The VicBsb rig Merchants Weekly Advo.
cate, of the Both ult, SAYS The crops are
reported to be very favorable, and the gener-
al estimate is that there will be a very large
yield. Cotton has already commenced To
come in, but very slowly, but in the course
ofa short time the city will put on viva
cious appearance, when wagons laden with
our chief staple will throng the streets.
The Handsboro Advertiser says that in
assessment matters Harrison county is max
ing most excellent showing in increases
The assessed valuation of property in the
county for 1873 was SS36,29410 In 1879
it was 1882. 672 g.. In 1880 tits 1925, 467. 10.
The increased valustion OF property in 1879
over 1873 was S45,429 81 The increase of
1880 over 1879 is S43,974.46.
LOUISIANA.
Broom corn thieves in New Iberia.
Many new buildings are being erected in
Opelousas.
EY-Parish Judge Lorenzo Morales, j., Of
St. Bernard, is dead.
Forty lsborers left Hshnville last week to
cut rice in st. James.
More deer are being killed in Calcasieu
this season than for years.
There are four white men ind seven ne
groes in the ST. Landry Jail.
Malarial fevers in Grant parish. Twelve
feet of water in the river at Colfax.
The population of Ayoyelle has increased
81 per cent. since the census of 1870
A military mpany has been organized in
Shreveport, with w. F. Gi more as captain.
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