The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-02-25
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

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Odd Fellowship is aourishing in Texas.
welding supper was stolen from the table i
, Richmond one day Last week.
A clerk in st. Louis dry goods store slapped
lady customer in the face last Wednesday.
The North Carolina papers continue to bring u
tales Of distress and suffering.
Scotch and English immigrants continue to ar
rive in Texas.
Jamce Fl. Van Dalson, q leading lawyer of New
Orleans, died in that city on the Sth.
Eastern Texas complains sadly Of the lack o.
mail facilities in that section.
Shreveport, La., has got asteam fire engine.
The losses of insurance companies by the great
fires in Mobile on the night of the 9th amount to
over six hundred Thousand dollars.
Columbus, Ca, proposes to take fifty thousand
dollars worth Of stock in the Montgomery and Eu-
faula Railroad.
The Virginia Legislature is considering project
for filing up chesapeake bay, in order to afford
room for projected interpretations;
The wheat crop in North Carolina is reported
excellent. In fact the same report comes from all
sections Of Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky.
The Richmond Times relates how a rat, in trying
to steal an OYSTER got it's tail caught by another
oyster and couldn't get away.
The Demopolis, Aaa New Era asserts that in
suffering for bread.
The Shreveport, La, News has forsworn politics,
and will henceforth devote itself to commerce,
agriculture and local interests.
There is q gigantic Indian tumulus about ten
miles from Augusta, Ga, on the swamp plantation
of Captain Mayson.
An omnibus mired in the streets Of Memphis
last Thursday. By extraordinary efforts it was
got out without serious injury to the passengers.
N,Ks;1o o,,d Nh;o 80 ,ro
Obion county, Tennessee. Travel cannot be re-
sumed till the floods subside.
Mr.. Levan Dixon, standing in his own door in
Russell county, Va, was fred on last Friday by
two scoundre1s, and instantly killed. He leaves
wife and eight children. !,
The list Of salaries paid the civil officers Of Gall
weston, Texas, reveals some curious facts. The
Mayor is paid only $1,000 per arinum; while the
market cleaner and captain Of the night watch
each get $500.
A planter in Prince George county, Va, raised
last year from two and q haR acres Of ground four
thousands pounds Of tobacco He thinks if the
season had not been so dry he could have made
five Thousand.
The West Virginia Legislature is considering
the propriety Of requiring al editors to take the
statute-books; gentlemen. II the duties Of his
profession don't make an editor swear, laws will
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The Cairo Democrat records case Of elopement,
In which merchant Of Memphis and the wife Of
merchant OF Faranta, No., were the dramatis
persona; The guilty parties sold out everything,
sertiny their legal partners. q:
The Memphis negroes are pracioing all sorts Of
conAd snce games on tielr less reconstructed COM
patriots. One sharp fellow the other day repre-
seDted himself as ticket agent for the Carolina.
Railroad, and made quite respectable ''lift.'
The Southern papers are very properly writing
upon the subject Of immigration, pointing out the
inducements offered to foreign lsbor by the various
sections Of the Southwest. In actual results Texas
is decidedly ahead. It is asserted that two hum
dred and fifty Thousand immigrants from all parts
have settled in that State since the close Of the
war. r - -
Texas-ward the star Of empire takes it's way. A
gentleman recently returned to the Lone Star State
from the East, says gu along the route from Alex
as, 10 !" among the passengers. Some were bound
for Eastern Texas, for the purpose of cultivsting
the purpose Of cultiyatng the cereal grains; and
some for Southwestern Texas, for the purpose Of
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