The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-17
SOUTHERN NEWS.

compress at Jackson, Miss.
Miss Ella MCGEE, of Auburn, Ala, is the
telegraph operator at Notasulga.
The State Press association closed, recent
". its session at Yazoo City, Miss.
Gen. Chalmers is endorsed for Congress by
the Democracy OF Issaquens county, Miss.
The Mississippi delegation to the national
Democratic convention will support Bayard
The Pioneer Beecher club is the name of n
social organization at Brookhaven, Miss.
Mr.. A. McBrydo, of Vicksburg, Miss,
died on the 4th inst, in that city.
Mrs. Passmore aged sxty.tve years, died
recently in Barbour county, Ala.
The Belgreen (Ala.) News says: The crop
outlook in this county is very encouraging.
Died. in Oldtown, Conechu county, Ala,
Thursday, May %, Coleman Sheffield, aged
% years.
ed. Ashcroft, ex.circut clerk of Holmes
county, Miss, was stabbed at Lexington by
one Marks.
The Southern Commercial Travellers asso-
citation was organized at Jackson, Miss, on
the LIST inst.
St. Landry, La, officials have determined
to enforce the law against the carrying OF
concealed weapons.
j. Walton, OF Greensboro, Ala, and
Miss Ophelia Lafferty, of Tennessee, were
recently married.
The Democratic State convention at jack
son, Miss, was largely attended. The ut
most harmony prevailed.
a., 4ko N;olyehurr Mics \ Hon
aid, -four from the new crop of wheat has
been made in Monroe county.
The CLAYTON (Ala) Courier says The
spring oats in this section will be almost Il
failure being ruined by tho rust
Foote Boysin, blacksmith of Quitman,
VI S., dropped dead as he was turning away
from work at his anvil, at noon Wednesday.
The Natchez (AIisso) Democrat says that
most of the planters are having more rain
than is calculated to be beneficial to their
cotton.
Scott Bell, of Starkville, Miss, who muir
dered Jim Henry, an old preacher, and was
sentenced to be hung July 2, has made full
confession.
Died, on the Goth ultimo, at the residence
Of Hon. Il. G.. Welch, in Gilmore county,
Ala, Mrs. Gregory, relict Of the late Charles
Gregory.
Mr.. 7. II. Auerbach and family left Troy,
Ala. last Thursday morning for Colorado,
where he expects to locate and engage in
mercantile pursuits.
Mr.. William Collins, one of the Oldest and
most respected citizens of Lee county, Ala,
died at his home near .Beulsh, last Monday.
Deceased was eighty-dye years of age.
The Bay St. Louis Miss Seashore Ga
2ette SAYS that nearly every town In the state
has q number of children Frustrated with
measles, which seems to be almost epldemlc'
Last week, All old man named Stevens,
charged with manslaughter in Calcssieu
parish, La, and confined in the Opelousas
ial for safe keeping, succeeded In escaping
The Opclousas (La,) Courier urges land
holders in st. Landry 10 divide their estates
into tracts of fifty or one hundred acres, ana
place the same on market for sale, with the
view of inviting immigration.
The rain fall in Pike county, Ala, for the
past six days has been in excess OF any tor
the same period for the past five year Many
farms have been badly washed, and the crops
damaged by the torrents OF rain which nave
fallen.
The Columbia (Ala,) Enterprise says MIR;
- Hutchinson, aged about seventy, eloped
with Miss Sallie Hodges, aged about twenty
two. The twain we're united In marriage
Sunday night by Rev. Mr.. Collins, at the
residepce of the latter.
The Evergreen, Ala. News says Sanford
Taylor, aged about u years, living in Mill
beat was kicked bya mule, wnich ne was
attempting to bride, last Tuesday. be was
struck under the eye We have not been
able to learn the extent of hisinjuries,
Greensboro, IN. CO. Patriot: The propo-
sition to construct cotton factory in Green's
boro, which appeared in the Patriot yester-
day has given birth to boom which promi-
SEES to result in incalculaoe good to our
community. That Greensboro is to have Il
cotton factory is not myth but reality.
The Opelika (Ala) Observer says; Last
Friday evening an old wagner and lumber
man, Milton Winslett, well known to the peo-
pie of this section, lost his life by drowning,
while attempting to drive across the branch
lust beyond the city cemetery, on the Auburn
road. The deceased was about 10 years old.
The Vicksburg, Miss, Herald says that
recent appropriation by the government OF
$1,000 will be ample for the completion Of
the new lakeside road to the cemetery, and
if the work is hurried up Nicksburgers will
have at least one good drive next fall.
In note to the Evergreen (Ala.,) News,
Mr.. S. Casileberry SAYS: awoke last nIgnt
at twenty minutes to two o'clock, and found
my Kitchen wrapt in flames. | was unsb'eto
rescue ANYTHING: all my kitchen furniture,
including cooking utensils, tables, crocKery'
cutlery, tinware, tumblers, goblets, chairs, IN
fact. everything necessary for usein kitchen
and dinning-room being entirely destroyed.
A man named Henderson captured the
other day in Louisiana an individual by the
name of Walker, whom he charges with Steal
inv from him a valuable mare and stallion,
valued at $1,000. He followed Walker rom
the Indian territory to Shreveport, and re-
covered the mare which had been sold there
Resumipg the trail, he persued Walker into
Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas and back to
Louisiana. The chase occupied seventy-six
days. =,
The Wetumpka (Alar) Times says; MI
John Townsend. who was charged with nav,
ing shot the negro, Lewis Turner surrendered
himsel to the civil authorities last Mohuay'
and appeared before j. B. Hubbard, esq
waving preliminary examination, and gave
bond in the sum of one thousand dollars Tor
his appearance ut the next term OF the CIR
cult court. The hoy Lewis was reported oy
his physicians as being out OF danger, ana IN
n fair way Of a rand recovery from the