The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-12
sou rHERN. NEWS.
TENNESSEE.

IENNhSSHNs
The Cumberland cos mine has pHid 3
dividend al 43 per cent on the one hundred
dollars or the month Of January.
A child of Andrew CSrtar, lear JouesSoro,
Tenn, WAS lately burned to desA by lts
clothes cstcbiug from the Fireplace.
Nashville ladies are making matinee per-
formeuCas the occasion for dress and are
Just spreading themselves to ortdo each
other.
Among Tennesseeans who lately immigrat-
cd To Texas Was man named Jones who
has nine sous under fifteen years OF age, all
named Jones.
Two iron spAns are to be made very soon
for the railroad bridge at Bridgeport, when
will make the construction all iron win the
exception Of two spans
A lit'e daughter OFF T. Ya!S,, of Rogers
vile, Tenn, came near. being burned 70 death
few onys ago, her clothes cAtcnihS nro
Will stooPing 10 pick up something heSr
the fire place.
Near Soeetnater, abort tirae Ego, Mr.
j. NJ Sell, sgod sixty years ard OF ieeple
physSue, was married to Ass Nancy hiiier,
q blushibS Gamse OF twenty-four umnsr'
ana zoo pounds burden.
On Canoe creek near Gadsdsn, last Tues
day MIR Chss. Bales, a gentleman % years
old, who wRs assisting 1T aouse tal'ing hsd
leg broken in two plbcas BY heavy piece
of timber falling on it.
Col Pertz Dickinson sold + dresstd Bsrk-
shire Bog ia Knoxville Thursday for 500,
Il was 80 months old, ard bad Weighed sj0
pounds gross, The colonel lately daughter
ed one that weighed 925 aounds
A four year OH auu OF Mr.. Ssmuela, of
Nashville, stfsyed from homo Wednesday,
and after long hunt by his almost dis
tracted parents, was found making his way
10 the Chattanooga depot.
The festivities Of late wedding in Hsw-
kins county were somewhat msrfed by tbe
absence Of Judge Brown, neishbor and m
vitsd guest, whoso tailor, in constructing the
pauts Che Judge was to wen on the occasion,
msdea miscaIculation and put the hinl eide IN
front, so that they didn't fit according to
GuntSr.
ARKANSAS.
Immigrants are in search Of homes in this
state.
Dr. w. n. Baird, Of Saline county, met
with horrible death fov days dnca He
was digging well, fall in ana VISA undsr
ground for eight houss.
MISSISSIPPI
Business is lively at Pass Christian.
Pinetil, is improving Public rosis arc
bad.
Very good frcigbt' are being brought into
Natchez.
Colonel Edward Richardson declines Che
nomination for governor of this state.
Vicbsburg is full of thieves. So says tht
Herald.
There never we're SO few houses to ront II
Jackson at present.
Mr.. henry X Hutton died at Oakland
near Washington, recently.
A few good carpenters can Rnd employ
meIt 10 the town Of Bstesvi}le
Considerable cotton has bean picked dur
ing the sunny days Of last week.
Mr.. r. @. Wilders. acotton broker of Mer
idian, has failed Liabilities, $4,000. S.
says the Mercury of the Both ult.
The Pa.cagoulA Democrat Star ssyE: "Tht
Natchez, Jackson 81 Columbus railroad
will be- completed from Natchez via, Ray
mond to Jackson by the Isl Of September.
Cotton is beginning to come into Jackson
roads improve, tho fmall quantity that 70
mains will soon be delivered.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A wholesale destruction Of dogs ia goinl
on in Madison and Limestone counties
Ala.
Near Clayton, Ala, on the 2nd, Matilda
Griffin was stabbed and killed by Delpl,
Walker, both negroes.
Farmers in Walker county, Ca, AT
building large number of tenant house
and preparing for heavy cotton crops
BY the explosion Of kerosene lamp tht
town Of Plymouth, N. O., was almost on
tirely destroyed Monday night there bein,
but two buildings lot standing.
A young man named Milton Thoma
shot md killed = negro barber named A
Fuller, at Eufauls, Alabama, Wednesda
morning. The negro had threatened 10 XII
Thomas.
Hundreds of valuable stock we're browne
in the Oconeo river, Georgia, during ths LAT
freshet. Az some points much lumber wa
lost and great deal OF tupsntine 50