The Southern herald., 1889-03-30
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Minister 10 Austria,
Tracy, ihe Alliance orator d
Texas, is lecturing IN this State.
Mrs. May Kellogg died inWood-
vile one day last week.
Tuuica county, in this State, has
a female superintendent Of educa-
ton.
The negroes Of Savannah, Ga,
refuse to work with gangs of Italian
laborers.
Gov. Lowry wants the new navy
yard established on the coast Of
this State.
Ason ofGen. Siegel, ofNew York,
has been sent to penitentiary for
forging pension warrants.
ThePresbyterian church at Enter
prise, in this State, was destroyed
by fire on the 22nd.
Philadelphia capitalists are pros
pecting in West Virginia with a
view to purchasing coal lands.
On the 14th of this month six
men we're buried alive in a mine
near Mount Carmel, Pa.
In the last twelve months sixteen
deputies of U. s. Marshals have
been killed in the Indian Territory.
The daughter Of Chief Justice
Fuller eloped on the 18th. and was
married to Mr.. Aubrey, of Chicago.
Whitelaw Reid, editor of the
New York Tribune, has been ap-
pointed Minister 10 France.
s. P. Leep, Of Jonesboro, Ark,
was recently fined $500 by the
federal court for sending obscene
letters through the mail.
The Volunteer Southrons, Of
Vicksburg, will attend the centen-
nial of Washington's inaugural at
New York on the Both of next
month.
A soldier named vcrtjoie has
been sentenced to death in Oran,
Algeria, for throwing a quid Of
tobacco into the face of Colonel
Thierry, while Vertjoie was being
tried by court martial for attempt
ing to desert.
Bishop Galloway is canvassing
this State to raise funds for build
ing a Methodist college at Jackson.
The sum Of $50, 600 has been donat-
ed by Major Millsaps, of Jackson,
provided another $4,000 can be
raised by subscription.
The collections of internal reve-
nue. for the first eight months of
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889,
were $50, 1854, ,211, an increase of
q, ,60S,744 over the collections for
the corresponding period of the
last fiscal year.
G. N. Frazier was fined 5000 by
the Mayor of Durant for running a
blind tiger, and the Durant Demo-
crat says as there are also three in
dictments against him in the Circuit
Court for the same offense, his
future thereabouts isn't likely to
prove a very tranquil one.
The Secretary Of the Navy has
been informed through the Secre-
tary Of State that his eminence the
bishop of Alaska and the Aleutian
Islands, contemplates an early tour
of inspection to the most distant
parishes of his episcopal sea, and
that he win be provided with a
Russian war vessel for that purpose.
The Secretary of the Navy has in
structed the commanding officers
of the United States vessels in
Alaskan waters 10 extend to the
bishop the courtesies due to his
position, and any facilities he may
need.
The March statistical report Of
the Department of Agriculture
gives the result ofthe investigation
through its correspondents and
agents and the merchant millers
and the records Of commercial in
spection Of the average weight cf
wheat by States. The general
average is 56 8 pounds, the lowest
average Of six years. In the spring
wheat region the range is from 50 5
inDakota, to 55 pounds inNebraska.
It makes the crop equivalent to
S91 900, 900 bushelso sixty pounds
each, less by nearly 100000
bushels than the quantity in
measured bushels.
The United States consul general
at Shanghai has informed the State
Department, at the request of the
Shanghai committee Of North
Shanghai, Of the distress existing