The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-04
SOUTHERN NEWS

Sneep larmeIs IN South Mississippi report
the loss of lambs.
The Rome (Ga) Courier is to be Issued
daiiy after February l.
Italian lahorers for orange groves have ar
rived at jacksonville, Florida.
The Alexandria, Louisiana, Democrat will
enlarge to an eight'psge psper.
The vegetable crop of St, Bernard, Louisi-
ana, this year will be failure.
In Caddo parish, Louisiana, there is a great
deal Of cotton still to come in.
The snow was seven inches deep in New
Iberia, Louisiana on Sunday, ODD.
Ozark, Arkqnsas, will have the pleasure of
the cantata of Esther next month.
Grinding is finished in ST. John, Louis-
ana, but still going on in ST. Charles.
An attempt is being made in Alexandria,
Louisiana, TO enforce the Sunday ordinsce.
A very large amount Of money is alleged
to be due 10 east Florida claimants for losses
of 1872.
The Mississippi papers are discussing the
question of the coeducstion of the sexes in
colleges.
The liHoncial condition of Prairie county,
Arkansas, is excellent. Her warrants are
worth par.
A petition is Under way which looks to-
ward the incorporation Of the town ofPurdy,
Tennessee.
The population of Gainesville, Florida, has
been doubled within five years, and il now,
perhaps, 1000.
Meridian has shipped more cotton for this
season than any other town in Mississippi
except Vicksburg.
Some wretch in Iberia parish, Louisiana,
Is amusing himself by cutting Off the tails Of
his neighbOrs COWS.
The young ladies of Gretns, Louisiana,
have organized 'The Neddlers Social club"
Miss May Morley is president.
Cattle and sheep continue to die in large
numbers in st. Landry, Louisiana, from the
effects of the cold, rainy weather.
Louis Chlasson, aged lightweight who
served al the battle OF New Orleans, died in
Layiayette parish, Louisiana, last week.
New and extensive coal mines are to be
opened this year on the line of the South
and North and the Alabama Great Southern.
DR.. Henderson, of Kentucky, has recently
AN.''o" - ~hll"h, Aohl'j tue Ekcnango says,
with view to the practice of his profession.
Between Irwinyille and Hawkinsyille.
Georgia, seven or eight new settlements have
been made, fences put up, dwellings erected,
etc.
The bad roads 10 Rapides, Louisiana, have
greatly disorganizad the overland mail
routes, and all the mails arc seven hours
late.
Shreveport has been crowded for some
days With colored ministers, delegates to the
Methodist Episcopal conference held in that
town.
Jordan Robinson, who broke Jail a few
weeks ago IN Claiborne parish, Louisiana
has been recapturcd near Hope station Ar,
kansas.
The New Orleans Picayune has entered
It's forty fifth year. 1t is the sole survivor of
the ante-beum daily English press of New
Orleans.
number of fine mich cows were killed
by some catsle'thieyes at Three Forks, in
Caddo parish, Louisiana, last week, simply
for their hides.
Atlanta, Ca, is large horse and mule
market The receipts since September have
been l454e horses and mules, $3.50 cattle,
and 25,890 hogs.
The east Tennessee Wesleyan university
is in more tourishing condition than ever
before. There are l75 students in the col
legiate department.
The Grenada Miss New South learns
that Colonel Edward Richardson uncondi.
tionally declines to be candidate for the Of
flee Of governor of Mississippi.
The Pulaski TENN Citizen says that grass
grows on Bradshaw mans land ten or fif-
teen feet higd. II is eagerly sought by stock.
IL was brought there from Texas.
Several attempts have been made TO wrecl,
trains on the Louisiana Western. The work
is supposed to be that of the stock.owper
whose stock was killed by the cars.
A proposition is before the Missouri legis-
lature for an amendment 10 the constitution
providing that all voting shall hereafter be-
viva voce, and not by ballot, at general cleo
tions.
The Union, Louisiana, Gazette reads La.
nier severe lesson on his notice of contest
against General King, particularly on his
assertion that General King was unpopular
in that parish.
Tho Fsrmeryille (Va) Journal says that
Professor r. @. Anderson. of Prince Edward,
who married the daughter of Judge Bate
of Prince George, is engaged in largo school
in Kentucky.
The Vicksburg Herald says that MANY
people in the interior have been so block
nded by rain, cold, mud and wet during the
last three months that their provisions have
run very short.
The colored people of Rapides, Louisiana,
are slow in paying their poll taxes The
total amount of poll taxes collected ia lhe
parish was Sl,7l7, and tho Total of all kinds,
of taxes $Il,1l8 so.
The Holly Springs (AIiss) I-rol.cr ss,s
Il. ii. Hodgsou, who has been in c5srge of
the Holly Springs gas works 70. sumo months
and has given satisfaction, has accepted a
position in Louisville, Kentucky.
Out of l72,OO5 voters registered in Louisi.
ana, So 45l are white, and of these 1913
make their marks instead OF writing their
names. The colored registration is eS,024.
and ofthese IL, 403 write their names.
The Iberia, Louisiana, Star calls for a rail-
road from New Iberia TO Abbevile. The
roads between these two towns are SO bad
that most of the sugar on the plantations
around AbboVi|le has not yet been shipped 10
mprket.
Tho Yazoo (Miss,) Herald thinks that not
more than third or . half of those who en-
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