The Southern herald., 1885-04-11

A sister of Josh Billings died n Nieh-
igan lately.
Circuit Coali has been IN session in
Wilkinson county this week.
Ex-secrelaFy Of State Frelinghuysen,
Of New Jersey, is seriously ILL.,
The Post says VieksbuFg wants a
younger Judge Of the Circuit Court.
The Mississippi Medical Association
meets at Greenyille on the 18th Of April.
Tie Government has just paid s., 600
to the lawyers who defended Guiteau.
About 50 per cent. of the land in this
country is occupied BY farmers.
Friends of Mrs. Garfield deny the re-
port that she is soon to be married.
The King Of Siam is not yet 80 years
Of age and has 263 children.
During the week ending March 9th
there were 277 business failures in the
United States and Canada.
The postmaster at Galesburg, H., re-
Gently removed, had held the Office
twenty-four years.
A cyclone passed thirty miles north Of
Mobile on the 2Sth ult., doing much
damage to property. No lives lost.
7. L. Adams, living near COrinth, has
lost about 100 sheep this winter through
the depredatiOns of dogs.
The President will visit the battlefield
Of Gettysburg at the reunion of the Fed
eral veterans on the 4th and 9TH of May.
Ninety-five children under IA years Of
age committed suicide in the United
States in 1884.
Kosciusko claims the largest church
going population of any town in this
State.
Two car loads Of powder stored in a
magazine at st. Joseph, Mo-, exploded
recently.
Norman ]. Coleman, of st. Louis, is
the new U. S. Commissioner of Agri-
culture.
The courts of New York have decided
that legal business partnership cannot
exist between husband and wife.
The prize fight between Sullivan and
McCaffrey, in Philadelphia, failed to
come off. They were arrested and plac-
ed under $4,000 bonds.
A mo factory, for the manufacture Of
moss rope, scrubbing brushes, foot and
floor mattings, has been established at
Edwards, in this State.
Wesley Farr, young white man,
married a colored woman in Kinds coun-
ty, in this State, recently. They are
now in the Raymond Jail.
Rev. Thos. Harrison, known as the
boy preacher, has just closed a six weeks
meeting in Chicago. Over 500 conver-
sions were made.
Judge Van Eaton has recommended
7. M. Favre for collector of customs at
Shieldsboro, and R. 40 Yancleave for
special timber agent.
The scarcity of feed, together with the
severity of the we,ther, is stated to
have caused the delth Of over 10000
sheep in Green county, Pa.
The Atlanta Constitution saws the
wheat crop Of Georgia, never sufficient
for home wants, will this year fall far
below the needs of the people.
A bottle Of medicine was prescribed
to Toledo man, with directions totake
ga teaspoonful in water three times q
day" He took it daily-in his bath
tub-and got well.
In Arizona any person who uses pro.
fame, indecent, vile, or abusive language
or threats, within the hearing Of women
or children, is held liable by law to fine
or imprisonment.
A COW attached to the gubernatorial
mansion at Jefferson City, No, having
been milked for five years by convicts
now refuses to allow anybody in citizens
dress to approach her.
| A riot occurred in a colored church in
Clarendon county, s. c., on the 10Th, in
which the pastor of the church was drag.
ged from the pulpit, terribly beaten and
thrown out Of the building.
A young lawyer of Sylyania, Ca,
went through that town the othcrI1cla,
driving a portion Of his first law fee-s
yearling steer. The fee consisted Of sS
in money, stack of fodder, a silvel
watch, an old SOW, and the yearling.
/ A new kind of fish, says the Macor
i (Ga.) Telegraph, has been found in tn,
waters of the SuwaneO River, a few mile
from Lawrenceville. They seem to be
cross between the salmon and shad, ant
are said to be very fine in flavor.
The Medical World reports case nov
under observation, in which the patient
hair-which has become prematureI,
gray-is slowly returning to its orieina