The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-27
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ARKANSAS.

Bricklayers in Fort Smith get four dollars
sdsy.
Sixty school teachers have been licensed
in White county.
The Fort Smith people consume sixty-i9e
kegs Of beer daily.
The crop prospect on Red river is any.
thing but f,Ilering.
franklin county has new paper called
The Charleston Indicator.
Beebee has two first class hotels and two
hundred school children.
The Arkansas Gazette says that Little
Rock 10 the oil-mill city of the sorth.
According TO the Waldron Reporter, crop
prospects in Scott county were never belt +.
improvements in Little Rock are aston.
bhlog. New residences are springlng up at
every turn.
Il is claimed that Helena will ship 20 900
more bales of cotton this year than 10 suy
previous season.
Tho Hot Springs Evening Star says They
have struck oil at a station GU the Little
RICK u Fort Smith road called May flower.
Post holes were found filled with it, and the
road has Withdrawn its land from sale.
The Helena World of the ll,h reports the
Iron Mountain & Helena railroad built to .
point Two and Lalf miles beyond L'Anguile
river bridge. Comparatively little work can
bs done now on account of the great heat.
MISSISSIPPI.
Cbslbon prevailing among the mules of
Yszoo
Moonlight promensdes are all the rage at
Bay ST Louis.
Tn, Edwards City Item has been enlarged
tossX column paper.
The street cars of Jackson have reduced
their fare from 10 TO cents.
Hon. T. L Cooper, of the supreme bench
Of Mississippi, is staying in Natchez.
The law aud literary graduates at the
Mississippi state university this year mum.
bered forty three
The Aberdeen Examiner says: The ship
ments of cotton FROM Aberdeen for the sea-
pu commencing September 1880, up 10
Wednesday, July 8, 1881, amounted to o.
S6S bales.
The weak of laying tho track on the ex-
tension OF the NatcheZ, Jackson and Column
bus railroad is going on lively between the
Little and By Bayous Pierre. The distance
isabout thirteen miles.
The personal assessment roll of Kinds
county, as submitted to the board of super-
yi:ors, shows total valuation IF personal
property 10 Kinds of 81 AL ,637. the state
tax on which is 81 324 81. Number of polls,
6255.
Biloxi letter states that summer Wis.
i!ofs are more numerous ut the present
writing than ever WAS known before ut this
time of the year, every house that WAS for
rent hss tenants and the hotels are well
ps!ronizad.
The Water Valley Central says: Our ma
chine shops are now running night and day,
with much larger force than was ever be.
fore employed. A large number of dwelling
housts are now in course of construction 10
our city, but still the demand is TOR more.
shops, are completed this week. There are
TWO more new ones on the stl cks.
The Natchtz Democrat says; The con.
tract for furnishing crossties for that portion
OF the Nstchez, jackson and Columbus
tsilrosd five miles northeast of Raymond,
h Kinds county, has been awarded to
Hssrs. Barrenger & Fairchild, of Raymo
The whole Der Of ties necessary for the
five miles will be eleven thousand, and will
DO post oak, heart pine, mulberry, white
oak and ssssafras.
From the Enterprise Courier, of July l6
we clip the appended: Mr.. A. Ii. Clnpor
died in Shubu!a the nignt of the 10Th 10.
slant, after short illness. Mr.. Conner was
about fifty seven years of age, and had long
been resident Of this county, and was
regarded as one Of our most worthy and
useful citizens By univ rssl consent he has
tor msny year. occupied the positions of
postmaster and justice of the peace 10 Shu-
QUA. and has faithfully, competently and
satisfactorily discharged the trusts coniided
70 his keeping. lie had many friends and
no enemies, md his death is a calamity to
uhe community of Shubuta and to the entire
county.
LOUISIANA.
The thirsty people of Natchitoches drink
lOoO gallons Of beer week.
The Terrebonne Times is tho name of an
eight page weekly edited by Il. NJ johnson.
The town of Kenner has destroyed eyi.
Gences of debt amounting TO Sit, 100 since
February, 1879.
A street railway is to DO constructed in
Alexandria, company having been organs
nd for that purpose.
George W. McCrainie, editor of the
ouschila Telegraph, has recovered from his
recent severe attack Of sickness.
The French citizens Of Shreveport cele-
ofsled the l4fh in grand style. A fine ban.
quet was given, at which seventy five persons
were present.
water has almost ceased 10 run from the
mississippi into tbs grand leveo crevasse, and
OF the parish
The B.son R,uge Advocate predicts that
MMch,z will Do thrown out into the cold BY
sne cSn'truo ion Of the projected railroad
rom Vlclsburg via. Ns,chtz, and Baton
AGnee 70 New Orleans.
os .ue Sareveport papers report the details
v u mu der recently committed In Csddo
ps.so' The victim was x'we,l known col
S,'a man named Coleman, who was killed
W nis wifes psramour, also negro.
NAV N h Bulletin: Converting with
nan" say planters from different sections Of the
vhs.sn, We have obtained the opinion that
m corn crop les very poor one, and m
so ,ay places an almost total failure. Tho
S"s On highlands IL beginning 10 show
NJ u' OF luiiering and unless We have q good
u very soon we may safely reckon 4 ro-
Iu"on Oh The crop 10 at least one half
eom o"ever, no expresses himself anxious 10
p,opo., n Shreveport, though he has had