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

Odd Fellowship is fourishing in Texas.
A wedding supper was stolen from the table i,
Richmond one day last week. =
clerk in st. Louis dry goods store slapped I
iady customer IN the face last Wednesday.
Ihe North Carolina papers continue :o bring III
| tales or distress and suffering.
Scotch and English immigrants contnne To ar.
| rive in Texas
os1aa James =. Van Dalson, leading lawyer Of New
Orleans, died in that city on the Sth.
ESstern Texas complains sadly Of the lack Of
maal tsclltles IN that section.
Shreveport, La, has got steam fire engine.
The losses Of insurance companies by the great
tires IN Mobile on the night Of the 9Th amount to
over SIX hundred thousand dollars.
Columbus, Ga, proposes to take hfty thousand
COLLARS worth OF stock in the Montgomery and Eu-
hula Railroad. :#|.-. g s5 N n.
The Virginia Legislature is considering project
Tor filling up Chesapeake bay, in order to afford
room for projected interpretations. w .-E
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 rat, in trying
and U get avs away. ya ea0sns oy another
\, The Demopolis, Ala, New Era asserts that in
suffering for bread. n,
and %h9 T IT, has politics
agriculture and local interests.
There is o gigantic Indian tumu1us about ten
H1ies from Augusta Ga, on the swamp plantation
or Captain Mayson.
last Thursday. By extraordinary efforts it was
got out without serious injury to the passengers.
~! The Mobile and Ohio Railroad s under water in
Oblon county, Tennessee. Travel cannot be re-
sumed till the floods subside.
MIR. Levan Dixon, standing in his own dour in
two acoqndrels, md Instantly h1ied He leave leaves "a
wife and eight children. #l
nj ac1ar ~
weston, Texas, reveals some curious facts. The
Mayor is paid only $1,000 per annum while the
market cleaner and captain Of the night watch
"a. a planter in Prince George county, Va, raised
last year from two and half acres Of ground four
thousanda pounds Of tobacco: he thinks If the
season had not been so dry he could have made
five Thousand. ss5' -.1-S AL
The West Virginia Legislature is considering
the propriety Of requiring all editors to take the
oath Don't put any superduous laws On your
profession don't make m editor IS swear. % laws IS vii
be powerlsss. -
The Cairo Democrat records case Of elopement,
in which merchant Of Memphis and the wife Of
personn; The guilty parties sold out every thing,
couected all outstanding debts, &C., before de-
sertang their legal partners.
The Memphis negroes are practicing all sorts Of
confidence games on their less reconstructed COM
patriots. One sharp fellow the other day repre-
--'' otA0 AAAe1>Ao 4uAoo IeSpectAD1e I'LL.
The Southern papers are very properly writing
upon the subject of immigration pointing out the
Inducements offered to foreign labor BY the various
sections Of the Southwest In actual results, Texas
ls 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
Texas-ward the star Of empire takes it's way.
gentleman recently returned to the Lone Star State
nom the East says al along the route, from Alex
andr1a, Virginia, to Galveston, the cry was Tex
as, .Ao !" among the passengers Some were bound
sugar and cotton; some for Northern Texas foSs
the purpose OF cultivating the cereal grains: and
some for sonthw estern Texas, for the purpose Of
horses, cattle and sheep.