The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-09
SOUTHERN NEWS.
KENTUCKY.

Lexington was l02 years old Saturday.
The court of appeals resumes work to-day.
Local option was defeated at Nicholssville
Saturday.
The Uaited States court convened at Pa
ducsh, yesterday.
Kepton county has collected $4,000 of her
share of the state revenue tax.
Mrs. Ford, seventy-one years old, froze to
death at Covington, Sunday night.
D. Msnplines and r Herroa have been
arrested at Clinton charged with counterfeit
ing.
Congressman Carlisl hi promised New
port something better than her present post
office building.
mysterious explosion occurred in a
Paducsh grocery store Friday night and the
crowned heads of that city are uneasy.
Rev. John Ansorge, of the German Lu.
theran church, at Paducah, has accepted
the call of congregation at FL Paso, Hi
nos.
The geological survey locates the highest
spot of ground in Kentucky on North
Broadway street, Lexn ,ton, beyond Hamil.
ton College.
The mayor ordered Paducah man to kill
every unmuzzled deg he met, and he re-
ports as the result Of few days work 140
dead or dying.
A little son of Joseph Grimme, of d ayton,
while getting out of u boat Friday, was
wounded in the thigh by the accidental dis
charge of a gun.
Miss Ellen l.. Sale pushes the political
pencil on the Dixon Pioneer, and does it
we'll. Miss Ellen is a red.hot greenbacker,
and more's the pity.
A Bowling Green man who thought of
oging crazy because Of a crushed skull, the
Democrat says, has been "trephined" back
to reason again.
The Gazette. which folded its tents in
Guthrie few days since, has pitched them
again at Alensville, Todd county, with W.
Il. Frazer as proprietor and publisher.
The Somerset Reporter learns that Bill
Bates, formerly of Wayne county, but now
in the revenue service, was seriously stabbed
a few days since at Oneida, Tennessee.
One William Gray left Sandy Hook, Fri.
day night, half seas over, tumbled into a
creek that got in his way, crswled out on the
bank, and was found there dead next
morning,
A negro named Wash. Bass jumped from
the cars at Allensville several weeks ago, and
now he is trying to get the courts to decide
that he was bruised up $4,000 worth.
George Washington left Newport mum.
Der of years ago, bright, promising,
exemplary young man. He was last heard
from as a candidate for congress in
Tennessee.
Any Dsugherty, Wayne county Negro
woman, left her house one evening to
bring some wood, and was found next morn.
ing in the yard, where she had dropped
dead.
Mr.. w. G. White was called as a witness
in case before the district court at Lake
Providence, and dropped dead as soon as he
assembled the stand, after being sworn in.
A new Catholic church, being built at
Moresuville, will soon be completed.
A little colored boy in Bossier parish told
his companion to wash his face, and upon
the latter refusing shot him dead. The
parents of the murdered boy did not have
the other youth arrested, only requesting
that he be soundly thrashed.
Mr.. A. L. Bussey, of Bastrop, is dead.
Gsmeis plentiful just now in st. Tammany
parish, but cannot be killed owing to the
provisions of the game law.
Blackbirds are very destructive on sprout-
ing corn just now.
The mumps are prevailing at Pointe Cou-
pee just now.
The Lake Concordia levee has been CON-
pleted, and is spoken of very satisfactorily.
Says the Pointe Coupee Banner: AT least
twenty-five per cent. Of the cate on False
river died during the past winter from starvs-
ton and exposure to the weather; and should
the Mississippi continue to rise for any con-
siderable length Of time, the crevasse waters
will SO shorten the pastures that many hun
bred more Of cattle will fall victims to starv-
alton. These remarks will apply to many
other portions of the parish as we'll as to
False river