The Southern herald., 1890-01-17
EDITORIAL Items.

The State Horticultural Society
met in Crystal Springs on the 9th.
Kellogg predicts that the next
Congress will be Democratic.
There was heavy snow storm
in Illinois on the Sth of January.
Mrs. Hannah Southworth, who
killed man in Newly York, recently,
died in Jail on the 7th.
Judge Kelly, member of Congress
from Pennsylvania, died in Wash
ington on the 9th.
VIM. H. Lynch, brother Of
John R. Lynch, died in Natchez
on the 9th.
The Democrats Of Maryland have
re-nominated Wilson to succeed
himself in the U. s. Senate.
There are sixteen Southern Re-
publicans in the U. S. House Of
Representatives.
A prominent young white lady
Of Jacksonville, ILL.,, was shot by
her colored coachman on the 7th.
Sena or Morgan, in speech in
the U S. Senate, advocates the re-
turn Of the negroes to Africa.
1t is reported that the L N. 0.
& T. Railroad will soon build a
branch from Natchez to Woodville.
w. l.. Peck has been elected
President of the Georgia Alliance
Exchange, vice Felix Corpul, re-
signed.
At Hammond, La, on the 18th
and 14th of February an Interstate
Farmers and Fruit Growers Con-
vention will be held.
Johnston Calhoun, a wealthy
resident of Beaver county, Pa, for
mistreating his wife, was taken out
of his house by citizens and rode on
a rail.
A big tobacco deal has been
formed. Leading factories in Vir-
ginia have been bought up by a
giant corporation with s25,0O0,000
capital.
DR.. Bealle of Washington, D. c.,
charged with robbing grave in the
Congressional cemetery, has been
convicted and sentenced to six
months Imprisonment in Jail and
required to pay fine of $400.
Atlanta, Jan. 9.-John Pyburn,
convicted of murder, is a refugee
in the mountains of Dade county.
He forced his way out of Trenton
Jail yesterday. To-day the Supreme
Court reversed the verdict of guilty,
sustained the points made by his
attorneys and granted him new
trial, which meant acquittal.
At Olathe, Kan, Wednesday
the third trial of Mrs. Lucy Tunni-
son, so years of age, charged with
poisoning her husband, was brought
to a termination. One of the jurors
was taken i'll and the entire jury
discharged. A motion is pending
for the dismissal of the defendant.
Holly Springs Reporter; The
figure "9" has entered into the life
Of every person now living, and it
is hardly possible that any of them
will live to see it go out. Yesterday
it took the third place which it will
hold for ten years, and then move
up to the second where it win re-
main for a century.
The Natchez Democrat says Mr..
Leon G. Duchesne, who was the
Republican candidate for Congress
in the last election in the Sixth
Mississippi District against Col.
Thomas R. Stockdale, the Demo-
cratic nominee, tells us that not
withstanding his name does not
appear in the list of contestants
for seats in theHouse Of Representa-
tives, as promulgated by the clerk
of that body, it is his purpose to
make the contest anyhow.
Topeka, Kan, Jan. 9.-W. L.
Eggleston, the Topeka man, who
is endeavoring to induce the negroes
Of South Carolina to emigrato to
Oklahoma, has already succeeded
in settling S00negroes there. They
are mostly from Topeka, and have
left during the past six months.
They have established colony
near Kingfsher, and are opening
farms and building houses. Eggles-
ton seems to be acting on his own
responsibility. Influential colored
men here think that he will go ia
Oklahoma himself and there en-
deavor to become the political