The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-06-16
S.soUrHERx NEWS.
ARKANSAS.

the junction OF eight railroads.
Roth corn and cotton around ..Powhatan
are nearly lost in weeds.
special telegram to the Little Rock
Gszette, dated at Conway on the 30th ult.,
ssys:
The Benton Review says that crops are in
;ured in that section BY recent heavy
rains.
An oil spring has been discovered on the
farm of DR.. CroVden, about four miles from
Morrilton.
Bishop Pierce says that the next connc,l of
the Episcopal church has been appointed to
meet in Hot Springs.
John Hardin and Ike Green, of Mariana
are going to be executed for murder on the
18th day of July next.
At Fort Smith, Mrs. Arena, Howe, has been
sentenced for ten years at Detroit for the
murder or Albert Church.
Tuesday, June I, Ia the day on which the
first passenger train on the Missouri Arkau.
sss s. Southern railway run to Fayetteville
The New Mexico fever has struck the
valley of the Hot Springs. Quite number
of persons are going to emigrate to that new
country.
Owing TO the frequent heavy rains and
the scarcity of farm hands the crops in some
portions of Crawford county are in almost
hopeless condition.
About dark yesterday evening William
Matthews, saloon keeper at Enola, this
county, was killed by blow upon the head
with cha from the hands of Bill Shock,
his brother-in-law, upon whom Matthews
had drawn knife.
LOUISIANA.
Planters generally are hopeful of fair
yield.
The northern parishes complain of too
much rain.
The Official EXPRESS is the name of q new
paper started in Baton Rouge.
The stubble cane on False river, in Pointe
Coupee, is doipg remarkably well.
A terrific bail storm hes done much injury
to or Ups 10 the western portion Of Lincoln
parish.
Plant cane in this section may be reckoned
ss good, while rsttoons will supply seed for
next.plantipg.
1t is reported that trains will run regularly
on the Vcksburg & Texas railroad during
the present month.
Thibodsux Sentinel: Copious rains have
fallen all abort the county; in some neigh,
borhoods too plentiful.
The New Iberia Sugar Bowl reports fa.
vorable weather for crops in that section, and
says thai cane is growing splendidly.
A station named Wheelock has been es-
tabli.hed on the New Orleans Pacific rail,
road, near Pleasant Hill, Sabine parish.
Recently, in Caddo parish, a negro commit
ted an outrage on the person Of an old lady
between seventy.tive and eighty years OF
age.
Franklin Sun: Crops are looking we'll in
most portions of the parish. although the
late heavy rains are causing tho grass 10
grow rapidly,
Vienna Seminal: Crops are doing very
well. They are rather grassy in s me local.
tiles, but in the main they look very well
for the season.
The telegraph line on the New Orleans
Pacific railway has been stretched from
Shreveport this side of Alexandria, and will
soon DO completed.
Etenne LIE Blanc died recently in La-
fourche, and at his bedside WAS his venerable
mother, 90 years of age, who had come 20
miles to see her son.
The Greensburgh Gazette says that
honor to tho state, the garden, buildings,
ets., being in fine order.
Shreveport Times: The planters from all
sections whom we have met and interviewed
en- the subject, give very unfavorable reports
OF the cotton crops, hill and river.
Columbia Herald: The cotton and corn
look in healthy cor diion, the late rains
have engendered new life into the young
plant and it is fairly springing from the
ground.
But no one is so gifted as TO he Athletic tell
but the grass may prove benefit to cotton
BY checking the too rapid growth, causing
to join shorter. Such thing has often.
times occurred.
The editor of tho Marksville Bulletin has
found some ancient files of the Villager,
published at that place, which give an &C.
count of a drouth in Avoyelles, lasting from
November, 1854, until June, 1866, by
which sll OF the crops were destroyed.
KENTUCKY
Randall Ditaey, q Hsrrodsburg business
man, has made an assignment. His labili-
ties are estimated at $4,000.
The Bulletin says the recent railroad talk
at Msysville, has sent real estate up and set
business booming once more.
The Democrat know' ~ little aegroes at
Clinton who woipi ally thiol aud a half
pounds each They gro WINS.
Articles Of incorporation have been fled
AZ Covinston to establish the Standard Salt
Company; capital stock, $4,000.
A Shelby county man owns calf that is
only eighteen inches long fifteen inches high,
and weighs but twenty pounde.
A Todd county man got himself and his
eightsyear-od son drunk, and made q pro.
cession through the streets of Elkton.
d. @. Kline. of Vanceburg, has only one
finger on his left hand. A recent row with
aplaining machine did the work for him.
- The Shakers near High Bridge, on the
kentucky river, own 5000 or 1000 acres
OF land. There are 400 persons in the set
Element.
Milt Boyd, John Marshall and John Good.
man have been sentenced by the Boyd crsui,
court to twelve months each In tho peuilen-
tary for ku kluxing.
The modest calculator of the Cumberland
Chronicle says that II Eastern Kentucky wse
reached by railroads, tho land where coal
abounds would DO valued al $640, 100000.
An Alderney alfsnd county assessor got
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