The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-21
SOUTHERN NEWS.
LOUISIANA.

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tlmsted At about ohe.hAlL
New Iberia will soon be put in ielegrspbiC
communication with Alexandria,
The drouth Wa so severe in North Louisi-
ana Ms TO kiil many Of the dogwood trees.
Bayou Pierre, lake and river, we're never
known to DO so low a. they we're few day
ago.
DeSoto is in iair financial condition
Amount Of script outstanding is only S2l g.
The rate Of taxation Is s mills.
A strea railway company is 10 be organ.
lz-d 10 Bston Rouge with capital stock Of
500 900.
Much regret is expressed in Baton Rouge
at the death OF Mrs. w. II. Wood, which oc>
Cured on the 18Th.
The DeSolo Democrat predicts that Mans.
field merchants will handle 10000 b,les OF
cotton this season.
The country papers are advising farmers
to plant oAJ, rye, turnips, etc, to meet the
detciencies IN the supply Of corn, etc.
The Workmen on the state capitol will
shortly commence the erection OF tho i'm.
manse iron keep cast in Shakspeare's foun-
dry.
Lhe bogus Insurance agent Harwen, alias
Howard, arrested in Shreveport lately, At,
tempted 10 commit suicide with morphine,
but Was prevented.
The following named people from New
Orleans wero registered Ia Shreveport on tho
l8'b; w j Herdee, VIM Q Msstor, it,, = z
Noise and wife, Jno Bielry.
An attempt WAS made recently to burr
! stores OF Messrs. Koight d Millot, 0, ID.
MArtiusvile. Had 1t been successful IL IS
probable tho whole town would have been
destroyed.
The sugar planters are taking stringent
measures to check the stealing of sugar canes
frOm their llelds, a practice which 10 carried
on to CREST extent and entails much loss
on the planters.
Hundreds Of deer have been driven to
the sSamps of Grant parish by lack of water
in tho hills. There they arc massacred by
Lne hunters. The time is not far distant
whom deer will bs rare in this state unless
the game law is made very stringent.
MISSISSIPPI.
| The real estate of jackson 10 valued al
1868 2l6.
BY the new code the game law, SO far as il
| r7lstes to birds, remains In force until 0sto.
Der lit.
The events developed by the canvass, so
far, in Mississippi indicates sweeping vic.
tory for Gen. Lowry.
A colored democratic club has been or.
ganized a. Pleasant Hill, Rankin county,
formerly republican. stronghold.
Mr.. William Allgood, prominent land
| respectable citizer Of BrookhAven, is dead.
He was vol named, for his deeds are said TO
have been all good.
Cheering intelligence has been received In
Natchez relative to the prospects of the
| Nstchez, Red River & Texas railroad. Work
will be speedily conmoaced.
The nomination of Hon. Elliott Henderson
| for State Senator for the countss of
Hancock, Jackson, Perry, Marion Greene
and Jackson, the first district. is generally
approved by the press.
! Advices, from Claiborne county say ',bat
the farmers OF this section will need lust
about twice as much as ,hsy will reslizs for
their cotton in order 10 be able TO get bread
stuff and feed for man and beast during the
next year. Not over one.third of n orop
will be made in this county.
Brandon Republican lRsnkin COUNTY,.
says: A postal card from Raleigh, Smith
county, says III o. Eaton, ("Babe") was
shot and killed on Friday night last, at Bun.
ser Hill, by Dan Hathorn. As soon as Hs-
thorn shot Eaton, Dick Yawn shot Hathorn
and killed him. Both Eaton and Hathorn
l,al ,naka,tlu NNnsal,., l.,
brought on the trouble" "Babe" Eaton ia
brother of the Hon. JAS. s Eaton, candia
date for the state senate from that district
ARKANSAS.
Mr.. M. I. Matthews, ofths arm of II. j.
Hogan & Co., Little Rock, died on the lltb.
Many families are to migrate from Indi-
ana into Drew, Deshs and other counties Of
Arkansas.
Cotton 10 going over the Arkansas Valley
route, via Arkansas City, to Memphis and
New Orleans.
Capt. y. W. Pool captured, after follow,
ing him 100 miles, murderer hsmed w.
+. Burgess, who killed VIM. Sturdeysnt, of
Yell county, last month.
The military men are much Interested in
the contest TO take place at the State Fair
for the championship between the three
crack companies, the Helena Rifles, Little
Rock Quspsws and Fort Smith Frontier.
A colony OF Saxon immigrants have cot
tied in Sabine county. eight miles west OF
Benton. They are 70 In number, are well
to-so people, and own 80 900 acres of land
purchased from the Iron Mountain Railroad
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