The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-31
SOUTHERN NEWS.

oftwenty-seven per cent. since 1870.
North Carolina still has large number of
Friends, who hold annual meetings.
The Alabama river lacks but few inches
Of being at last year s low-water mark.
Bishop Pierce is writing biography of
biz father, the late DR.. Lovick Pierce.
Cotton is opening in Georgia though
farmers in some counties are still planting.
A couatry store in Christian county KY,
WAS broken into and the safe robbed of 1910
Several Greenbsck or assistant Republi'
can clubs have been organized in South Car
olna.
The city council of Savannah, Ga, have
passed school appropriation bill OF
$1,000,
The Methodist church at Helena, Ark,
has been sold and Is to be turned into a
theater.
The mayor of Atlanta, Ga, is paid sal
sry of $1,000 and the members of the coun-
ell 5000 each.
S. Z. Rickenbacker, of Orangeburg, S. O.,
fell dead while kneeling and engaged in
prayer at church.
Henry Washington will be hanged at
Jackson, Miss, on the I'd of September for
the murder of man named Hill.
George Denny, jr., Commemorative at
torney in the eighth Judicial district OF NY,
refuses to become q candidate for election.
The Kelley monument erected by the Hi.
bernisn society of Savannah was unveiled
with appropriate sermons on Thursday
last.
The timber and lumber business in
Georgia will amount this year to 30O,-
100000 feet, and will exceed S5,000,OO0 a
year.
Hydrophobia has been prevailing to an
alarming extent in Darlington, 5. o., and
the town council has passed dog-muzzle Or
dinance.
The city fathers of LAGRANGE, Ga, have
made the license for selling liquor in quanti-
ties of one gallon or more in that town Sl5,-
900 per annum.
Miss Carrie Walker, sister of the editor
ofthe Fulton, Ky., Fultonisn, has gone.to Balti-
more to ioin Fords theatrical troupe, with
which she will play leading parts.
VIII. Holt, of Mt. Sterling, KY, is now
talked of as Republican candidate for Con-
gress in the ninth district, but Thomas
Turner is not yet uneasy about his laurels.
At the colored industrial fair, to be held
in Raleigh, N. c., in September, there
will be military display, and Fred Doug.
lass has been invited to deliver the annual
address.
The Little Rock Gazette says woman
came to that city on bridal tour. Her hus-
band did not come as he had only money
enough to send her and buy few articles she
needed.
There has been gratifying increase in the
population of all the counties in Tennessee
from which census returns have been received.
Marion county reports an increase OF l02
per cent.
The company formed for the purpose of
mining the brow1 coal discovered last year,
near Augusta, Ga, by Professor Bibikoy,
have abandoned the enterprise, not finding
any prospective profit in it.
The Stanford. KY, Journal says that the
Hon. j. G. S. Blackburn is SO certain OF
success that he has detel mined not to make
any canvass of his district, but will devote
his time to speaking in the more doubtful
districts of the state.
Lexington, KY, claims the Oldest living
graduate of West Point Military Academy
in the person of Wright Merrick, of the class
of 1922. He is native of Massachusetts,, is
eighty-three years of age, and is the only
survivor of his class.
There have been chosen $40 delegates to
the Georgia Democratic state convention, of
whom 203 are for Colquitt for governor Al
for Hardeman, SO for Lester and 10 for Gas
trell. Colquitt's nomination is now thought
to be assured, as only 80 delegates remain to
be chosen.
The members of the Bluegrass Kentucky
excursion to Niagara have passed resolutions
of thanks to Messrs. Roach, j. G. Ernst, w.
Il. Gregory, George E. Coleman, Frank
Snow, Sam L. Stevenson, and the officers of
the steamers Grace Mcmillan, Rothsay,
ALASKA and Chi Justice Waite.
Mrs. A. S. Harcourt, widow Of A. Har-
court, was buried at Shelbyville, Kentucky,
on Saturday last. She was in her seventy
seventh year. and had wide acquaintance,
and was much esteemed for her intelligence
and christian worth. Elder McGinn, of Dam
vile, preached the funeral discourse.
Ashsvile, N. c. has three smoking tobacco
factories and one sale warehouse. The ware
house during the past five and half months
sold 100000 pounds Of tobacco, some of
which sold for US much Of two dollars and
fifty cents per pound. The cost of raising
tobacco in Buncombe and adjoining count: IS
is about six cents per pound.
Memphis Avalanche Hancock's majority:
in Tennessee will be all the way from 40,00O
to 10000. The Republicans will make an
effort to capture one or two congressman,
and if the Democrats split on the state debt
Question an effort will be made to elect
HAWKING, but that will make no difference
on the electoral vote, except, perhaps, TO
increase Hancock's majority. If there should
appear to be fighting chance tor Hawkins,
the Republicans will trade of and vote Tor
Hancock to help elect Hawkins.
The annual state union Sunday-school con-
vention will be held in Shelbyville, Ky, on
the Sd, 4th and 9th of August. The time
will soon be here, and it would be well TO
have a full representation from all parts OF
the state. All delegates will be cordially
entertained, and all who intend attending
ought to send in their names in advance.
Programmes can be had by addressing Mr..
James f. Huber, Louisville, and on the, pro,
gramme will be found table of reduced
rates Of transportation. In going from Lex
iugton, Frankfort and other places from the
eastern part of the state on the Short-line
road, connection can be made to Shelbyville
via Christiansburg.
The last census of London was taken about
eight wears ago, but its annual increase has