The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-20
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Hopkins county, KY, has thirty live citlzeu
who are eighty years old or more
The population of Lake Charles, La, tsSV
1t will Ue 5000 by the neI' census,
The ten Oldest people owen county, hy'
have an average of nint w-two years
The Rev. j b Thorp has rented the high
school building in south Frankfort, hy
Public schools In Concordia, La, reopen on
July 2Sth, aud continue for Two months
Marion county, Ky, boasts of three negroes
century old, one claiming TO nave ii'eo i''
years.
The census returns for 0uachita parish, Ia,
show total population OIL biz, against ~
5S2 in 1870
A tremendous Ash attacked man in a poat
recently on the Cslcasieu river, La ms 10
pretty good as fish story.
Henry Wadsworh, of Pendleton county,
KY, h IS an eght-year-old son VINO does cieu-
liable work as blacksmith
The census returns Of ST Charles pa,ish'
La give u population OF l1,lI3 consiuef"-
BILE increase over the last census
Nearly all the rice planters in Louisiana .
have plenty of water; their fields are hooaeo,
ana the crops are very promising
The Greenbackers held convention at
Elizabethtown, KY, on the latn ihst' W
nominate a candidate for congress-
George Workman, a colerea man near Go
verport, KY, was seized with cramps Whiie
bathing in creek and was drowned
The Hancock Banner 10 the name OF new
journal published at Floyd, in west Carroll,
La Redmond & Norwood are the proprietors'
The Richmond Herald speaks of the Hon.
John q, Underwood AS PROMINENT cahel.
date for goveronor Of Kentucky for the next
term.
some young M an W ere arrested In Lebanon,
KY, for dog tighting, but there was no ordi-
nancs to suit their case and they had to be
released
1t is thought that General Floyd King will
be unanimously nominated for reelection 10
congress- from the fifth Louisiana congression-
al district.
The population of Brandenburg, Ky, Is
nut down by the census enumeratorS at only
800, but inoluding Meade county lts popuia-
ion Is 1928.
TIL. curator of the Kentucky tate historical
society will visit a number of counties this
wear to collect records and relics for the
archives of the society. '.t
Iberville, La, south 1854 hogsheads OF
sugar We're made in this parish last year. N9t
less than y, 900 and probably 25,OOo Will te the
crop Of The present year.
The st. Tammany tLa) Farmer complains
that the COvington mails do not arrive iesu-
larry, and Attitudes the TACT to the negligence
OF postottice officials in this ely
jerry Little, of Breathitt county, KY, was
in Richmond this week, and said he had not
carried pistol since his release from jail,
AID that he wanted quiet life In future.
The stands of all fruit vendors have be9n
reno, ed from the streets of Nashville by tnb
order OF the city authorities. As conse-
quencs, several respectable fruit stores have
been opened.
In the parishes of Sabine, Vernon, DeSoto,
Webster an Nate litoches, La, the following
entries OF land have been made; Homestead
eutrie $685. acres; homestead entries per-
ieced, 100; lands purchased, 2's2'
The North Carolina Landmark gives the
following figures f,om the returns OF the Ire
uell census sakers Pop llation OF Statesville,
1868 population of the county, 2I,1eb-an In
crease of "a pee cent, ON the last census, ten
years ago.
During thunder storm ear savannah, a
COl0rei church was struck by lightning and
baIly damaged Services were being held at
the time, ana a numb of persols jncludlng
the preach aud his wife and daughter, were
badly injured
Ra,dsyiue IN. c Times In that fearful
wind $50 N Of lat wednesday Week, Jane
-tanfeld, a culored woman livlpg near Mil
ton, was standing in the door AT tho time, ana
WAS so terrified at the hurricane Of wind that
she fell dead in ner tracks.
senator Brown, of Georgia, is busy man.
Heis Obliged to keep two shOrt-ha writers
in order to get properly through his cores
pondence, He has declined to take the stump
TOR an active canvass, pleading severe cold
and the demand OF business.
Mrs Clara Dargan Me Lean has been form
ally notified of the resolution adopted at the
last meeting OF the Centennial association,
that she be requested to furnish q yrc, set to
appropriate music, 10 be suug at the centen-
NAL celebration AZ Yorkyille, 5. q,
IlFarmeryille (La.) Gazette: The population
of Union parish is l3,269, against ii $50 IN
1870, sho wing An increase of our population of
1854, or over 1917 per cent. gain In the last ten
wears The most popu!Ous ward is the hffh,
having 2,553 Inhabitants within its limits.
Salisbury IN. c. Watchman: The trains to
the west aie we'll Tiled with visitors to the
mountains There will he grand Masonic
picnic at the Shoals, IN Davle county, on
Friday, July 23d, 1850, for the purpose OF rails
ing funds for the orphan asylum at Oxford,
N. G.
Little Gertrude Joseph Hood died at the
Warm Springs, Ga, last Monday. This Sas
the infant child .ot the late Gen. John b.
Hooi, and was the adopted daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs, NJ. Joseph, OF Columbus, ia who
had had charge OF the child since last Febru-
airy.
Rockingham I'm. o. Spirit: There was a
murder committed in the upper part Of this
county on Little RIVER, Thursday. Vance
Little, coiored, was struck In the preast with
ahoe by another colored man, and killed.
The murderer, whose name Is Tom Alfred,
was arrested and lodged in Jail.
Mrs. Harriet stanton, mother Of the Hon.
Richard III. stanton, of Maysviile, KY, and
grandmother of Henry 4. stanton, died OF
New Orleans on the 7tn inst. She was the
airy soldier, and her husband was soldier In
the war of 1912 and in the Mexican war.
Rockingham On. o. Bee An alteration
sprung up between John Bryce, white, OF
Hamle :, aud negro, one Berger zones, when
Bryce struck al Jones with knife, infiicting
somewhat painful wound about the mouth.
Az this, negro, one Frank Newton, VINO was
standing short dis ancs behind the persons
alluded TO, sprang ami cut bryce's throat.
TO crcumvent the local option law at Hick.
man, KY, the contemporaries people have
formed a social club" with five cent shares.
Each share entities the holder to glass OF
beer. AS the beer is purchased outside the
county, aud with the money In the treasury,
1t app ars that the law 10 powerless TO inter,
fere. A hall has been rented by the club, and
the boys are happy.
statewide IN. C.) Landmark: Last Friday
morning, while the mail train on the Western
North Carolina railroad, going west, was as
cendng the mountain, and when near the
Bergin tunnel, the front wheels of the first
class coach ran off the track. The trucks were
torn loose and ripped up the floor Of the car
as IL was drawn over them, and running back
10 the hindmost trucks, let the front part OF
the car 60 down.
Isaac Boston, VIGOROUSLY bad character,
+ charged with various high crimes, was shot and
KILLED by policeman in Newberryis. c., while
>Sfesiotng arrest Boston shot frst with a
double barreled gun (the same that he had
Lit,letln). The policeman then shot, killing
him almost instantly. The coroner's jury found
that the killing WIS done in self-delense.
Shreveport (La.) Tines The census returns
Of this parish show population OF about
0lunu N n m