The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-23

tiook raised within hec boundaries.
'i4iFhe Baton Rouge fremen celebrated their
Anniversary on tho 22d'
= The East Feliciena Patriot Democrat ssys;
he late rains have gone far 70 ratMd our
armers in preparing for another crop.
Emile Dotiege. charged with the murder
the Delahoussaye brothers, has been ad-
tied to bail.
. The rains swelled the waters in ST. Mar
IHsville, and fish are reported 10 have been
ught by hundreds in the marshes, where
the fnny tribes took refuge.
Bayou Sara was partly under water last
week. The overflow WAS caused by heavy
rains. Several barges belonging TO the
Grand Lake coal compsny, losded with
coal, were wrecked by the storm, and other
considerable damage caused.
Our correspondent, "Clem," in letter,
dated at College Point, 18th inst, ssys:
awe are having some weather up here
one good day and twelve bad ones. The
storms succeeded each other so rapidly that
we forgot the good days, Our friend Dennis
Mckinney had little hunt back OF the
Wallace plantation, Monday He surprised
o she bear, killing her and capturing two
cubs, There is no general news from plant
atoms. The only thing OF interest ls the
fact that our neighbOr ot the opposite side
of the river 81. Burnside) has abolished the
old relic Of barbRrism back wages. In
future his hands will be paid in full at the
expiration of each month. We also learn
that he has left il the field cano sufficient 10
make 800 or more hogsheads Of sugar. we
record this with regret, SIS he Is the prompts
est tax payer we have in tho parish, and the
most prodigsl man in expenditures for his
places and people,
Mr. D. &. Hudson. writing from Holmes
Vile, on Saturday last, says: "a cyclone
struck this place about 8 o'clock p, M, 10Th
instant doing great damage TO property The
heaviest dam tge was on the Stsr plantation,
property Of Messrs Burbridge 81 Miller, Of
your city The sugar house, containing
some 2U0hogahe8ds ofsugT and quantity o.
molasses. was blown down and this contents
badly damaged by the heavy rain tina, fol-
lowed the s'orm. Several negro cabius on
the Star plantation were destroyed, besides
anumbsr of small houses in tho neighb9r-
hood-but happily uo loss Of life
lnssIs, IPPI.
They have the measles in Sardis,
Little cotton is brought TO Sardis. O.use
rain and bad roads.
Mr.. Thomas Winterton has been alecpd
mayor Of Sardis,
The log boom ia booming with logs I
Gainesville.
Gardening preparations have been knocked
"higher then kite" by the late weather,
Mississippi grcenhackera are talking 0
starting a paper at jackson.
Ms. Mary Tracy, widow and nobl
and Uhristhn-hearted woman, who has lye'
in Gainesville for many years. is dead.
Applications for the purchase Of req
estate still continue. There is room for
boom right soon.
The greater portion of the long wharf .
Barnes hotel was washed away Sunday b.
tine stO N.
George Harper, of tho Hines Count
Gazette, 10 spoken Of in connection with III
go7ernorhlp.
Meridian has wholesale beer establish
mont WATCH sells about 1000 gallons of bee
per month 10 local trade and the surround
ing community.
The Jackson board Of aldermen have in
posed u prohbitory tax Of 5000 payable j
advance, upon all drummers, street vendors
etc, who sell goods drecttc consumers.
The Handsboro Advertiser says: A grei
number OF logs are sirewn along tins beach q
Mississippi city. They are supposed TO hay
come from the Pascagoula river, as Il
brands on same are foreign to these parts.
a correspondent, writing from Magn0ll
Gays: The rain here last Thursday nigt
was very heavy for only a few hours. A
the streams were suddenly flushed II
SWOLLEN TO the greatest height ever know
MANY bridges and fences carried away al
roads badly washed. Extent old amsge n
known. No lives lost as far IS heard tror
ARKANSAS.
James Henderson, of Benton, has be-
fatally carved by Nm. Cullen in d midnis
brawl.
The Little Rock G szotto says that the co
ton moving into the city is conspicuous fro
its absence.
Mr.. Patrick O'Donoboc, for thirty years
resident of Little Rock, is dead, Also l
RI, i. Espy, Of the same city.
Gov. Churchill has signed the insane as
lum bill, which sppropriate5 Sl5O,OOO al
leyies mill lax for the erection and mai
tenanco of the asylum.
The Spirit of Arkanea5 says: The Lit
Rock & Fort Smith railway have expend
since October 1875, for immigration pt
poses alone, over $279000, or over $3.50
per Guuum. This is exclusive of taxes pa
which by the land dep rtmeut alone smOg
to over 900. The legislature can altJ
o. be liberal toward railway1.