The Southern herald., 1885-05-23

in New York.
jefferson Davis vas in Nicksburg on
Monday last.
The body of Major LytoEd, q .he z
IS. army, was cremaied on the 18Th.
There are sixteen daily papers pub
lished ia the City Of Mexico.
David Fulton, an old resident Of Can
ton, in this State, died on the 18th.
Artificial tails for horses are manu-
iaelured in Bridgeport, Conn.
Adviees from Calcutta State that the
cholera is increasing at RangOon.
g, 500 worth Of eggs have been ship
ped from Itawamba county, in this State,
this season.
An exchange reports that there are
123 drinking establishments in Lehore
county, this State.
A party of 700 excursionists from At
lanta 10 Tallulah Falls were poisoned
recently by ice cream.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts,
decides that a medical prescription be-
longs to the person who purchases it.
On the 10th Of May five negroes were
lilledin gambling riot at Walthonylle,
Georgia.
There were 22S business failures in the
United States and Canada during the
week ending the 18th inst.
The Egyptian troops at Kassala are
compelled to eat dOnkeys to relieve their
hunger.
The President has appointed board
of officers to report on the Notifications
and defenses of the United States
At the recent mili'a=y urlll in New
Orl,-As, lne houston Light Guards won
the first prize, Mobile Rifos second, and
Chickasaw Guards, of Memphis, third.
r. L. Jones, late postmaster at Lake
Providence, La, has been sentenced to
five years in the penitentiary for robbing
the mails.
Flipper, the colored cadet who was
the cause Of SO much trouble at West
Point, is now an officer in the Mexican
army.
An unknown disease is prevailing in
some Of the upper counties of Virginia
among the stock. At least % per cent
of all the cattle and sheep died.
An exchange says that an alligator
three feet long, and two catfish, each
weighing one hundred pounds, were
found recently in Pearl river.
w. X. McLauren. and s. F. Shelton,
Chancery Clerk of Sharkey county,
fought duel with shot guns near Roll
ing Fork, on the 10th, and the later was
killed.
The registration reports show that in
Massachusetts, during the last twenty-s'x x
years more persons committed suicide
than there we're lives lost of persons from
that State during the whole of the war
Jonathan Dustman, hitherto reputa.
BILE citizen of Ellsworth, Ohio, has fec
on account Of a charge that he had forged
his brothers. name to a note discounted
| by a Salem bank.
A California farmer claims to have re
Gently released from haystack alive
though somewhat lank, hog that wa
shown to have been confined therein TO
fifteen weeks.
Advices from Toxic, Japan, state tina
the negotiations between Japan and Chi
ma regarding the Corean difficulty hav
been amicably concluded. The result
} viewed as peaceful triumph for Japan
The Old decentralization Company
which has just submitted its report I
Convocation in England, held So ses
sions, and finished in June, 1884. Thes
sessions, OF about ten days each, con
prised 792 days of six hours at sitting
A Chinaman who made a speech i
! San Francisco the other night, made
. palpable hit when he said: "You sen
/. millions Of dollars to China to prepar
r her people for the kingdom Of HEAVIER
o but you refuse them home in tn
t United States"
E Near Milwaukee resides man who
such firm believer in eternal punisl
b ment for sin by fire that he has decorate
his cellar with painted flames, woode
9 demons, and other horrible figures I
!, this place he takes his children.to pnl
ish them. Ai
Q A Spaniard named Phillips, butch
at Poplar Creek Agency, NJ. T., recent
lost one Of his children by death, and