The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-13
SOUTHERN NEWS.
MISSOURI.

ing we'll through the west.
Diphtheris RACES in northwest Atch son
county, says the Tarkio Republican.
Pleasant Hill has high school averaging
500 students seven months In the year.
Gen. Joe o. Shelby and his son. MI. Or
vile Shelby, talk Of going to Bates county.
The people OF Linn county are 10 vote on
proposition to build a $4,000 court house.
An editor and preacher had fight in
Hsrrisonvllle lately, the particulars OF which
are not printed.
Eighty four car. loads of coal were shipped
from Rich Hill by the Missouri Pacific road
on last Saturday.
A stock company with a capital of $500
has been formed to connect Hamilton and
Kingston by telephone.
A Mr.. Shields has just closed temper
snce meeting in Galatin, during which 760
persons took the pledge.
The Mississippi is cutting away its banks
above st. Msry's so rapidly that it is be-
lisved that the town will soon be left in
land.
Mr.. Q. A. Berry, useful and esteemed
citizen of Carroll county, died at his sons
residence, six miles east Of town, ON Satur.
day last.
More than 1900 acres will be sold OF the
St. Charles court house door on the 18th
day Of May next, and rare chances for bar.
gain will be- offered.
In every section of Carroll county except
the bottom-snd that represents bat small
part of the county-the prospect for an
average crop Is good.
The WARSAW Register having been pur.
chased by Sewell w. Smith, its publication
will be discontinued, and the Times is now
the only newspaper published in Benton
county.
Jacksonville, the county seat of Bass
county, boasts OF high school building that
cost SIC, 600 and can accommodate from $50
to 400 scholars. School term about seven
months.
The Ste Gsnevieve Giant says the wheat
sown in the Big field has not suffered much
from the severity of the winter, and if there
is no overflow the yield will be an average
one.
Married at the Mackley house, Memphis,
Scotland county, Sunday, March 81, 1881,
by Rev. M, e. CORN, Mr.. j. T. McClemack
of Knox county 10 Miss Smith of Scotland
county.
Everything is looking up in Carrollon.
Town lots have advanced in price. Every
dwelling is occupied and people are coming
here daily and leaving because they cannot
get place to live in.
Clara Owen, a nine.year-old daughter of
John Owen, one of the weallhiest farmers of
NOdawsy county, who resides two miles
northeast of Skidmore, was burned to death
last Sunday evening, her clothes taking fire
from candle while going to bed.
Some two weeks ago the fine dwelling of
MIR. William Sigismund, on the Houston
losd in Texas county, caught fire from q
lamp explosion and was totally destroyed,
together with almost all its contents. An
insurance of $500 only was upon the
property.
Cass county is about twenty-five miles
square, and there il not an hundred and
sixty acres 10y government survey in the
county that would not make respectable
farm for that size. The assessed value of
Case county is between $6,000,000 and S..
100000.
MISSISSIPPI.
The young ladies of Okolona have work.
ing club.
Lsuderdale races come off on the 18th of
this month.
The work on the N. j. & q. railroad is
rapidly progressing.
1t Is reported that the fruit crop has not
been.injured by the late freeze.
Harry Watson, printer, died recently at
the house Of his mother, Mrs. Richards, four
miles from Meridian.
The April (civiD term of the Adams coun.
ty circuit court has convened and will extend
over period of six weeks.
Hon. Randall L. Gibson will deliver the
address before the literary societies of the
State University at Oxford, in June.
Miss Mildred Lee, youngest daughter of
General II ebert Il Lee, IL in Natchez, the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Wilmer Il. Shields.
A new iron bridge is to be built over the
Bayou Pierre, in Claiborne county, at the
point where the Vcksburg and Snip Island
railroad will cross that stream.
There have been IA 90 bales of cotton
shipped from Ysz)o City this season up to
last n ght. For the last season, mp TO this
date, there have been $4,000 bales Shipped
Yszoo Herald.
The Broekhaven Democrat gays: Mr..
Dswsoa while blowing in his i,ld on Top.
isaw, twenty miles southeast Of Brookhaven,
found nugget Of silver weighing over
half a pound Also several other pieces
varying from two to nine ounces. The land
around Is supposed to contain largely of
silver.
KENTUCKY.
Judge G. D. Burgess, of Linn county, No.,
formerly a newspaper publisher at Paris, has
sued the Kansas City Times for $4,000 for
publishing IN article during the late state
convention charging him with dishonesty in
the management Of minor ,sestate of which
he was guardian.
Local option triumphed in Grant coun
ty precinct, and the Williamstown Courier
puts head on II after this fashion: "Society
Overthrown--rhe Worm-eaten Barriers Of
Criltenden Have Cracked all AZ Oace and
Red Heels and Plumes Continue to be Trod
on BY Hob-uail, Shoes and Sabots."
Tho Clark county Democrat reports thai
the internal revenue collection in that dis'ric
for the mouth Of March amount TO SsS $40
81. II is thought that by the end of tn,
year the total will reach from $3.50 900 ,t
$500 600 per month. Over 1000 00(
gallons of whisky are now in bond in tn,
district.
The experience of James Mcmillan, who
lives 10 the clasic cove Of Hog Ridge. il
Pendlcton county, is not pleasant. One nigh