The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-13
ARKANSAS.

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states that cattle ranchers from the Cherokee
nation report murrain prevailing to some
extent 10 their herds.
Faulksner, Frankin, Drew, Clark, How
ard, Dssha, Crawford, Boone, Oralghead,
Benton, Independence and Arkansas coun'
ties will all have good crops.
An Fl Paso, White county, correspon-
dent Says: Plentiful showers are falling all
80 the line, and the farmers are jubl-
Z 6The merchants OF this place hold
) non the growing crops to the amount
II 1000.
1,els in tho Potesu bottoms tell us
\ - myriads OF striped bug, that seemed
\ <,eb6ipg and destroying the cotton
Ill Euddenly disappeared, and now nothing
AN OVERT w can we'll prevent them from
4, king good crops of corn and cotton.
10 ,srssIppI.
Asw, lcsv'l'e Is very dull.
1~.oS, ring for rain about Gaines,
Vss& ,rag0od crop are fine in YAl'
-,,u a.,,vo,v ,ool ,,,co at w.,o,
4 week.
-: auge crop will DO an entire failure in
a county this year.
.Eson has population Of 22O6 by the
United States censue of 1880.
Green corn and tomatoes arc among our
seashoreluxuri 8 of the season.
"Oakley" will DO the name of tho first de-,
pot below Ray mond Oh the N. and j, Il X.
Shipping continues good and tho water is
very salt and excellent for bathing At Pass
Christian.
Jno. b Harvey, one Of the Oldest citizens
of Claiborne county, died at Grand Cult re-
Gently. He was 20 years of age.
A woman's christian temperance sssocia
lion has been organized Nv Holly Springs.
The association numbers over fifty members.
Senator Lamar, of this state, has had the
Washington and Leo University OF vi gins
W. ID. Hawk, an employee of tho New Or.
leans RNroad Company, died recently at
jackson from conges ion Of the brain, caus.
cd by exposure to tho sun.
Counterfeit silver dollars arc in circulation
In Sumner county and other sections of Mis-
sissippi Tho counterfeit is a little thicker
than the genuine and heavier.
Tho Grenada Sentinel says that a govern
ment contractor with force of workmen are
now in that city engaged 10 building boat,
with which they propose to clean out the
Yslobushs riv,r. The appropriation for this
purpose 10 $4,000.
The Batesvllle Blade says that a colored
woman named Williams, living about four
miles west of Batesvllle, Is the mother of
twenty-five children, all Of whom are living
The old woman is hale and hearty, and earns
living by working in the field cropping
LOUISIANA.
The Mansfield street railway will soon be |
completed.
--iDser are very numerous In Bienvil!e, aud |
destroy water melon patches.
Cotton worms have appeared abou. ssyen .
miles souta of Colfax, Grant parish.
! Rev. DR.. John Matthews lecturei In 4
7veport last Sunday on Ingersoll.
Baton Rouge section IL haviog pleniy 4
!, and the crops are doing aley.
80 crops Of Lincoln parish are suffering
Tor lack of rain, and the corn i. well |
ed.
) William -sSJ and Ben Hayes. two
prisoners confined Ia Torrebonne parish Jail, |
have escaped.
The Baton Rouge Capitolian thinks there
should DO an extra session in the tall TO pre-
pare revenue law.
Minden Democrat: The corn crop has
been damaged to great extent by the
drouth. Cotton is doing we'll but both need
rain very much.
Poin,o Coupeo Banner: The negroes say
that II is tho comet which Ia living us the
hot weather and burning up the corn. They
are frightened into a religious revival and
are all getting baptized again.
The Shreveport Standard saws: O,s
thousand rails for the Nav Orleans Pacific
railway arrived yesterday, the train being
drawn by tos.wheel locomotive, the first OF
the kind that has ever como TO our city.
81. Bernard E,gle: Tho crop is we'll for.
ward and appears luxurisnt and healthy.
The Il Ida ara tolerably even Ia appsaranes
throughout tho parish, although the river
plantations are u little In advance of those
IN the interior.
Lake Charles Echo. Reports from tho
eastern, western and northern portions of
our parish sgreo that the continued hot and
dry weather mas seriously injured, and In
many places destroyed, tho corn crop. The
rice crop along tho Mermentau river is dry.
Ing up, Cottsn Is doing we'll, but the cot
ton worm has appeared In some localities
Here in town many cisterna Ar, nm, All . "a