The Southern herald., 1889-03-09
Eanorlal Lon.

electricity.
Flood, Calilornia's bonanza king,
died in Germany recently.
Mississippi pays her Governor
. salary Of g. 900 per year.
Ex-United States Senator John
son, Of Virginia, died on the 9th.
Reeves, train robber, has been
sentenced to the Ohio penitentiary
for life.
Henry Mills, a drummer, was
cowhided in Atlanta, on the 9th,
by young man, for insulting a
young lady Of that city.
The safe of the treasurer Of
Green county, this State, was
broken open some nights since and
robbed Of S. 600.
The estimate is made that six
thousand negroes have left North
Carolina for the alluvial lands of
Mississippi, Louisiana and Ar
kansas, since December 1st.
The secretary Of state has receiv-
ed a cable dispatch from Toxic an
nouncing that . treaty Of amity,
commerce and navigation between
the United States and Japan has
been approved by the emperor Of
Japan.
COrinth Herald: Several Legis-
latures have passed a bill providing
that State history be taught in
public schools. A law of that kind
is needed in every State, and our
Legislature could not do a wiser
thing than to pass a similar act.
Aberdeen Examiner: Now, that
the Agricultural Department has
at last been raised to the dignity Of
an Executive Department of the
Government, Mississippi can recur
with pride to the fact that the first
bill ever introduced looking to this
happy consummation, was framed
by Hon. Henry l.. Muldrow.
New York World: And now
comes the report that the microbe
of diphtheria has been identified
by two French professoses. The
man Of the future will bear upon
his body the scars of countless in
oculations if many more brands OF
microbes are discovered. Mithri-
dates drugged himself so thorough
lily that he could not kill himself
by poison and had to resort to the
sword. Perhaps, when the germs
of the disease are better known 10
science, men who wish to die will
have 10 depend on the knife OF
pistol to remove them from the
earth.
The Aberdeen Examiner says;
A corn crop of forty millions o.
bushels of corn is what Mississippi
should harvest next fall. The cror
last season exceeded by at least six
millions the guess Of theAgricultur.
al Department for our State, but
we can do better than that, anC
should be prepared to make ar
enormous showing when the Col.
lector's statistics for the Eleventh
. Census come around in June, 1890
Remember that the figures thai
; will 60 to the record on that occa
sion, so far as crops are concerned
will be for the present year, for tht
Census takers will be around mex
summer in advance Of the harvest
season.
Between thirty and forty millior
feet of valuable timber will be con
tested for in the UnitedStates courts
at St. Paul, Minn., in a few days
United States District Attorne,
Baker has received an order from
the encouragement of the United
States instructing him to bring re
plevin suits for about thirty-fiv,
million feet Of lumber, cut on tht
Fond Du Lac reservation in Mime
sofa by the c. N. Nelson & Cloque
+ Lumber Companies. The cutting
of the lumber has extended over
score Of years. The lumber Gu
has been sent down the river I,
, Duluth and Lake Superior. Tn,
/, total value of the product is esti
mated at $4,000.
4 He Wants q Baby.