The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-04-14
SOUTHERN NEWS.
MISSOURI.

mile.
Winter wheat is reported as generally look
ing well through the west.
Diphtheria RACES in northwest Atchlson
county, says the Tarkio Republican.
Pleasant Hill has a 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 to vote on
D proposition to build a $4,000 court-hous".
An editor and q preacher bad q fight !.
Hsrrisonville lately, the particulars OF which
are not printed.
Eighty four carloads 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.. Shell DIS has just closed a temper
snce meeting in Gallatin, during which 76O
persons took the pledge.
The Mississippi is cutting away its banks
above ST. Mary's SO rapidly that it is be-
lieved that the town will soon be left in
land.
Mr.. G. A. Berry, a useful and esteemed
citizen of Carroll county, died at his sons
residence, elk miles east of town, on Satur-
day last.
More than 900 acres will be sold at the
st. Charles court house door on the 18th
day of May next, and rare chances for a bar
gain will be offered.
=, In every section of Carroll county except
the bottom-and that represents but a 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 Tunes is now
the only newspaper published in Benton
county.
Jacksonville, the county seat of Bass
county, boasts of q high school building that
cost $40, 900 and can accommodate from 36O
to 400 scholars. School term about seven
months.
The Ste. Gsnevieve Giant says the wheat
Gown in the Big field has not suffered much
from the severity of the winter, and ii there
ia no overflow the yield will be an average
one.
Married at the MackleY house, Memphis,
Scotland county, Sunday, March ~, 1881,
BY Rev. M. G. CORN, Mr.. j. I. McClenlsck
of Knox county to Hiss Smith of Scotland
county.
Everything is looking up in Carrollton.
Town lots have advanced in price. Every
dwelling is occupied and people are coming
here daily and leaving because they cannot
get 8 place to live in.
Clara owen, a n~ine-year-old daughter OF
John o wen, one of the weslthiest farmers of
Nodaway county, who resides two miles
northeast of Skidmore, was burned to death
last Sunday evening, her clothes taking fire
from a candle while going TO bed.
Some two weeks g the fine dwelling OF
Mr., Willism S~igismund, on the Houston
rosd 10 Texas county, caught f,e from a
lamp explosion aud was totally destroyed,
together with almost all its contents. An
insurance. of $500 only was upon tie
property.
Cass county is about twenty-five miles
SQUARE, and there il not an hundred and
| sixty acres 10y government survey in toe
| county that would not make a respectabl-
farm for that size. The assessed value of
Cas- county is between $4,000 900 and S.
100000.
MISSISSIPPI.
The young ladies of okolona have a work
ing club.
Lsuderdale races come of on the 18th Of
this month.
II IL reported that the fruit crop has moi
been.injured by the late fresze.
Harry Watson. q printer. diei recently at
the house of his mother, Mrs. Richards, four
miles from Meridian.
The April (sivi) term Of the Adams coun.
~ c;rcuit court has convened and will extend
over q period Of six weeks.
Hon. Randall L. Gibson will deliver the
address before the literary societies OF the
State University 81 Oxford, In June.
Hiss Mildred Lee, youngest daughter oi
General Robert Z Lee, is Ia Nstchsz, the
guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. Wilmer H. Shields.
A new iron bridge is 70 be built over The
Bayou Pierre, 10 Clsib0rns county, al the
poiut where the V~icksbu-g and Ship Island
railroad will cross that stresm-
There hsYa been 400 bales OF cotton
sbippsd from Y.z)o CITY this SESSION up q
last night For the lat season., mp 70 TIM
dsta. there hsvs been 1900 bales shipped
Ysz9o Herald
Dsvso. uhils plouing in bis fld On Top
issu, twenty miles southeast Of Brookbsvsn,
found q nugget Of silver weighing over
bsif = pound Also several Other pscs.
vsrrire fromtEo 10 uire ouncea The land
sround il supposed 10 cout-in largely Of
silver.
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