The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-01-06
SOUFMERN NE WIS.

-Four ntths of the voters of Joplin, Mo-,
Ore in fNVor Of watsr-w0rks.
There is large emigration from Georgia
" Sand Mountain, in Alabama.
A stock dealer at Carlisle, KY, has sold
100 mules st 500 head, to DO delivered in
1888.
-Four Illicit distilleries were seized in
fayette and Walker counties, Ala, this
week.
A boy in Memphis has made a savings
bank of his stomach by swallowing twenty
four nickels.
The little son of Mr.. Il. @. Collins, of
knoxyille, Tennessee, badly burned Monday,
died Tuesday.
A colored Lady Washington reception"
was one of the novelties at Macon, Ga, the
other evening,
An old citizen of Gwinnett county, Ca,
now in his eighty-eventh year, hiss lust
married blooming young bride.
M A three>year old child of VIM. Pace, of
q Warren county, Ky, was burned to death
whle Its mother Was at The spring,
A NUMBER Of men in various parts of the
country killed their wives and children dur.
q ing the Christmas holidays, Whisky.
& Rich Hill Mo, has been incorporated as a
city of the'fourth class, and will on January
M 10Th elect mayor Gnd four aldermen.
4 Our Tennessee exchanges report numerous
Sudden deaihs,sAd sad accidents during the
Il holidays, and in nearly every case whisky
" was the cause.
IA In Eutaw, Ala, last Saturday, little son
"A of A. B. Love, holding knife III his hand
B struck at a dog, which no missed and stabbed
q himself to death.
The Birmingham (Ala.) Iron Age makes
mention of g0odly number of substantial
buildings in course of construction in that
thriving young city.
ct Athens, Ga, on Christmas day there
was general fight from one end to the other
: of Bread street, and fOrtY-eight men were
x put in the guard house at one time. Whisky.
M A two-story frame house, the prosertv of
Carroll county, Mo-, was destroyed BY fire
on the 22d. The property was insured for
$500,
"a Friday, December 18th, one of Rays most
respected citizens passed away, judge Nadi-
son M. Brown, Ut his residence near Morton,
Mo-, after an illness Of a considerable dura-
ton.
Deer seem 10 he pretty plentiful in the
Chattanooga, Tenn, Eeighborhood. Within
the past few days one man in East Tennes-
see killed four, one in Alabama killed three,
and ono in Georgia killed six.
N A piece of Kentucky beef comes in under
the head of curiosiies. Two years ago it
* purified and began to pStrify, weighing at
the time three pounds. 1t now weighs ten
pounds, and is constantly getting heavier.
The colorea men at Dennis station, Put.
& nam county, Georgia, have formed an Aso-
& citation which binds its members not 10 lie,
& steal, cheat, get drunk, nor commit any
crime. a highly cOmmendAbe example.
y A Georgia correspondent wants the blsclz
"a race to sit down on the mulattoes. He says
b the blacks represent q pure race, while the
nuattoes are $40 nation" and yet claim all
the offices to be given TO Se-called colored
men.
ID A Tennessee exchange says "farmers bows
should be taught how to milk cows" And
30 should those city boys and girls, too, who
"just can't drink coffee or tea without
cream" and ''would have the headache all
dAy"if thsy didn't drinkit.
A shooting ARRAY occurred at Mlsrvills,
Al ShpS COultJJ U1Ot uu luesuhy evening
last, in which James Woods shot and per-
hsps fatally wounded Robert Stevens--a
nephew of Mr.. B. f. Stevens, of this place.
4 Woods made ha escape and is yet at large.
The dwelling Of John Newton, who lives
some two and a half miles southwest of Re-
public, Newton county, Mo-, was burned on
the 9th. His meat grain and all family SUI
plies were in the house, which with all house.
hold goods were consumed. No insurance.
The Lexington Observer says: New corn
is very active at $3.50 per barrel, delivered,
and is worth every cent of it. First-slass
whisky cannot. be made without kentucky
grown corn, and there is, therefore, no dan
ger of competition with Ohio, Indiana or Il
linois corn.
On the 21st, the small frame structure, oc.
cupied by Thomas Cardigan, gardener,
and situated in Mr.. Fyfsr's field, and just
east of his residence in East Columbia Mo-,
caught FIRE and with oil lis contents was
consumed. Loss $500 or $500. Thors was
no insurance.
1t is said that Greenfield, Mo-, is about to
be deserted on account of the depot for the
Springfield IS Memphis railroad being
built several miles from town. II is thought
il will completely ruin Greenfield. Num-
bers of the most enterprising men have left,
and several more yet TO follow.
A aSd accident occurred in Cass county on
the Goth ult, resulting in the death of a
young son of Mr.. Thomas Garrett, who lives
three miles north Of Everett. II seems that
while young Garrett was loading log tho
chain broke, the log striking him fearful
blow, killing him almost instantly.
AT a Christmas tree festival in Rome, Ga,
there was not enough packages for the poor
Children, and tho pastor of the church said to
the congregation that if more bundles were
not forthcoming he would tear asunder those
that were on hand and divide them up until
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