The Southern herald., 1888-09-15
Editorial Items.
Canada has an army Of $4,000

OoloHIohJ the eApelIeu ILesluent
of Hayti, is in Paris.
Isaac Lowenburg, ex-mayor OF
Natchez, died on the 7th. .
Carroll county, in this State, has
voted dry by over 300 majority.
7. J. S. McGrath, of Brookhayen,
died in North Carolina last week.
Col, George L. Perkins recently
died inC Connecticut at the age Of 101.
This State has twenty one clerks
in the United States service.
The Democrats have $500 speak
ers canvassing Indiana, and the
Republicans 1900.
Hinson, who killed DR.. Sim
mons, in Pike county, has been
denied bail.
Twenty six Michigan families
have located at Gulf Port in this
State.
The Democrats of Massachusetts,
have nominated VIM. e. Russell
for Governor.
ProctorKnott, a Tennessee horse,
won the $4,000 stake at Sheep
heads Bay on Monday of last week.
Col. Peasants, U. S. Marshal for
Louisiana, died in New Orleans
last week.
Thirteen snuff boxes have been
sent to MIR. Thurman by unknown
admirers.
Jim Hill has been nominated for
Congress by the Republicans of the
3rd District, against Catchings.
A Mrs. Grant, of Winnipeg, Man.,
was burned to death recently in an
attempt to rescue her children from
a burning building.
Judge Thurman was taken i'll
and was unable to speak at the
great Democratic meeting in New
York last week.
Governor Lowry has approved
the bill to prohibit the sale OF
liquors within FIVE miles of Lea
Female College, Pike county.
A gang Of counterfeiters was
broken up at Edwardsville, Illinois,
on the 9TH, and a lot of molds,
forging instruments, ETC., captured.
The total number of special pen
sion acts which have become laws
from 1861 to 1885 is 2001, and from
1885 to 1888, during the present
administration 1869, a total of 1870.
The Pope, assisted by Abbot
Pessuto as editor, is writing his
tory of Rome in the Middle Ages.
Particular attention will be paid to
the period of Gregory the Great.
In New York City there are
$4,000 families fed by charity, and
in Chicago, it is estimated, there
are 10000 children who live on the
street without food or shelter, ex.
cept what they can beg or steal.
The miners employed in the
mines in Mineral county, W. Va,
controlled by James G. Blaine,
Stephen B. Elkins, Stone and
others, have united in signing a
petition to Congress complaining
of the evils resulting from the mn.
checked influx of European paupei
laborers competing with them, and
suggesting remedy.
Reports from Dakota state that
prairie fires are doing great damage
in Edmunds and Mcpherson coun.
ties. The fire has burned a strip
twenty-five miles long and three
miles wide. A large number Of
farmers lost their entire crops and
their farm buildings, while others
were able to protect their grain by
plowing furrows and fighting the
fire.
N. II. R. Dawson, U. S. Commits.
sioncr of Education, in his annual
report, says that more than
100000 of children attended the
public schools some part of the last
fiscal year, and of these nearly
5000, 600 were in average daily at,
tendance. In both respects the
Southern States, once SO backward,
have made greater progress than
other parts Of the country.
Charles Jackson of ofAlberquerque
N. NJ, married the sister of George
Lee against Lees wishes. A few
days after the two met on the street,
when Lee abused Jackson roundly,
and finally fred at Jackson, buI
missed. jackson also fred, and
Lee, after sending two more bullets
after Jackson, staggered Into q
saloon aud fell dead. Jackson was
exonerated, but his bride of a day
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