The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-03-30
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Sweet potatoes are selling at 81 per eUsnel
in Blount county, Alabsms, 10 consequence
of the rotiing of SO many of the large crop
rsised.
Sixteen years ago Durham, North Carolina
contained shty people; now that town has a
population Of 1900, Manufacturing tobacco
did it.
The Alabama river is higher now al Mont
gomery, Alabama, than at any ume since
1868. AT Rome, Georgia, ID is the biggest
food ever known.
The legislature Of North CaroinS has
passed an act 10 prohibit the sale of ardent
spirits to minors. Rgat of action Is given to
the psrenI or guardian or employer OF such
minor.
Among those whose names are mentioned
as possible successors 10 the seat IN the
United States senate now occupied by Hon.
Benjamin II. Hill are Governor A. ii. Col
quit and Judge George Hillyer.
A mass meeting has been held at Dor
chester, Liberty county, Georgia, 10 consider
the question of introducing steam nAviga-
ton on the Ogeeches, Sunbury, Riceboro
and South Newport rivers. There would be
freight to and from Savannah, and fruit and
vegetables could be raised for tho northern
markets.
james Il. Telfsir, Nj, D., writes to the
Courier-Journsl from Grenada, Mississippi
thst he will Immediately attend any case OF
hydrophobia, ifsummoned by telegraph, and
will pay his own expenses, and will charge
nothing uniess radical cure j. demon
strsted. He says that he hes an antidote &c
the virus.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, has cow case in
court. Mr.. q. w. Prater's COW got into Mr.
w. j. Jacobs field, and ate SO much sorghum
cane that death resulted. Suit was brought
to recover the value of the animal, and the
costs thus far. exclusive OF lawyers fees, ri
given by the News, are $500. The case il
not yet settled.
Oxford Miss Falcon Father Ahren, {
Catholic priest VI Ocean Springs, has beer
ordered to Jail for contempt of court. His
sister, Kate Ahren, wishing to goiu with him
was denied at the Jail door, when che cried
out that she had been struck. This incited
the priest so that ha struck tho sheriff ovel
the head with walking cane.
Nicksburg Herald; Colonel Barssdale, O
the Clarion, is very favorsbly mentioned fol
GOVERNOR Walpolo, of the Yszoo Herald, FOL
auditor; McCullum, of tho same paper, fol-
secretary of state; Ross. of the Canton Mail
and Fenry, of the Brookhaven Ledger, fol
the same office; aud Sam Harper, Of the Rsy
mond Gazatte, for the Legislature.
The city registrar of Charleston, South
Carolina, writes to the Charleston News sui
Courier that there il not, nor has there been
single case of smallpox in that city. The
board Of health fclt it necessary TO institul,
vaccination, and take precautions 10 proven
the introduction Of the disease, which i
prevailing in other cities of the Atlantic sea
board.
A mining engineer who hiss been nvesti
eating the coal belt running from Dsrda
nellie, in Yen county, Ark, TO the Indian
Territory, writes to tho Little Rock Gazette
that the deposit vsries in thickness from ont
foot in the neighborhood of Dardanelle, suC
thirty inches in the vicinity of RuTellylle, tt
five feet in Sebastian county, where il vii
justify liberal development.
New York Times; Congressman j. Proc
Tor Knott, of Kentucky, who has been for
few days toe guest of Capt. Jowett, of tn,
United States ship New Hampshire, at Por
Royal, S. g., went up TO Beaufort on Thurs
day evening last, and WAS serensded by tn,
Beaufort cornet band. In acknowledges
the compliment he made little speech, il
which he eulcgizo the past glory and re-
nown of the state of South Carolina
Atlanta, Ca, special to Columbus, Ga.
Enquirer Sun: A prominent railroad msf
of our stato remarked that dnine.tenihs O
the business done by railroads in Georgia
was in bringing provisions and gugno lr1n
the west into th9 state" he ngrees viii
Stephens, that "the rich ore getting rcher
and the poor poorer" and as our peopl.
make larger crops tho railroad business i
prcpoItona'oly decreased.
EufaulG, Ala, correspondence Of tho At
lsuta Constitution: Rev. DR.. NJ d. Wharton
whom your Washington correspondent ,elt
Us is in Washington Ssllnc for the oonSust,
Of Bal5c, was formerly psstoT of the FRS
Baptist church St EGtaua. He il slmos
Irresistible IN hls appeals, and if be fails I,
got this Office 1t will be his Grst recorded
failure. lie ia the man that got the S50.00t
out Of Gov Brown for the Baptist $ smiusry
at Louisville
The people on tho line Of She Mis,issipp
&c Tennessee railroad between Memphis
Tenno,see,saG Grenada, Mississippi ere indig
nant over the removal of Robert IL, Mat
thews, youth of seventeen, from his posi-
ton of route agent on the sbOve-nsmed road
THOROUGH competency, efficiency and clos,
attention to his duties did not weigh in hi
favor, against the fact that no was the son o.
democrat Robert could not vote, bu! tht
democratic vote Of his father stirred the ir,
of the powers that be; honce the sons re-
moval