The Southern herald., 1881-02-05
EDITORIAL Items.


In Brownsville. Texas. smallpox is raging
The Scott county Jail was recently burned.
The business portion of Wes. Point, Ala
was destroyed by FIRE 90 the 2s'h.
10 Western Texas, during 1850, it rainsd
lSO days.
There were at least 2 900 cases Of measles
10 Galveston during January.
Howell E Jackson, Democrat, has been
elected U. S. Senator from Tennessee.
1t is probable that Allison, of Iowa. will
b. Garfeld's Secretary Of the Treasury.
A pupil Of the deaf aud dumb asylum at
Austin, Texas. was burned to death on the
2Sth of last month.
There are 245 cities aud towns 10 the
United States with a population exceeding
10 OCO
Candidates for the November election are
being announced 10 the Kinds County Ga.
zstte.
Jesse D. Bright, who was expelled from
the U. S. Senate 10 1861. died at bis home
ia indianapolis on the 10Th Of January.
1t is said that Tim Cooper, of Copiah,
will be Gen. Georges successor on the Su'
preme bench Of this State.
Major General SchO6eld. commander of
the military department, has arrived 10 New
| Orleans.
A bill has been introduced u the New
York Legislature to punish wife heaters by
whipping
When bis term of Office expires Secretary
Evarts intends to make a tour of The South
aud West
10 Sweden in 1915, gardner was restored
to life after having been sixteen hours uudtr
water aud ice.
Col Holman, charged with the killing Of
Dr. Lowry. 10 Suuaower county, soma two
years ago, was recently tried at Greenvile.
in Washington county, and acquitted
/, the valley of Jshoshsphat near Jeru
salem, is the tomb Of AbsalOm, excavated
IRON the solid rock
1t is now considered certain that the Egyp,
tian cotton crop will exceed the first estimates
by about 80 per cent.
A sister Of the King of Sweden is mis-
siouary 10 Lapland. aud has sold her jewels
to aid her 10 her work.
Tba Scientific American estimates that
more than s35,O0O.O 600 was brought into the
UnIted States last year by foreign immi
grants.
Near Amsterdam, Ohio. John Cummins. a
well,to-farmer, becoming euragrd because bis
little sou had disObryed him. took the lad to
barn near by the hOuss and nailed his
tongue to heavy stick Of timber aud left
him in that condition two hours.
Tom Davis bad some photographs taken
at GAINESVILLE. Ohio, aud gave Que to Lizzie
Murray 10 the presencs of Ida Bridwpll, who
wanted one. too. Tom would not part with
another picture, and Ida at once committed
suicide.
There is q goose at LittIecOte Farm 10
Wiltshire, England, who is kaown to BE-
urarly ninety years old. aud may be good
deal older. 1t was presented to the father
OF it's preseu! owner on his tenth birthday
lin lS0S). and it was then considered aged
At Princstou, ILL.,, Two couples went sleigh
riding. A bottle Of whisky was frequently
passed around, aud the sport was further EN-
livsned by the firing Of pistols, They were
found lying 10 the road, the two mru insen
sibls from drink, one girl dead from bullet
wound, and the other badly wounded.
The parents Of little girl at Calais, Me-
declare that she was cured of st. Vitus dance
by placing bsr for niue successive mornings
on the back Of donkey. With bsr face to the
east, aud saying: In the name of .b,
Father, Son and Holy Ghost" The treat
ment was devised by an aged Free Methodist
Wade Sippls is dead. In the days o
reckless gambling on Mississippi steamboats,
he was famous thief His exploits in steal
ing the money which the professional gam
bers had won we're extensively related. Blu
Of late years. when out Of prison, be got I
living by petty pilfsriug, aud died poor at so
, The Albany Law Journal has discovered
lbe misadveniure which was the main eaus,
Of lbs late William Cullen Brysnt's quitting
rbe bar. To action tor slaudrr. for saying
that one had burned his own store" be baC
, neglected to insert the proper innurndO tba
it was done 10 deiraud the insurers. II,
naturally Lost bis case, and as amsndmsnti
were not then.in vogue, 1t was lost irrevO
sably.