The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-11-10
PRlsTlClL RECONSTRUCTION IN THE scIEa.

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Clover four feet high Is o common thing near
Rome, Ga.
hardly q drunken man was to be seen in Mont
gcnery, Ala, on eleVtion day.
Il is proposed to Improve the drainage OF the Guy
reserve In Macon. Ca, at an expense OF soo'oOo.
| A schooner called the Central City was huncned
at Macon last week. She is destined ior bruns"ioA'
| ihH South Carolina Railroad 10 laying seee' ra''S
in that part OF the track In the depot % an ga
| pertinent.
| The agitation for a new court house in Macon il
| revived With some show OF success Over 5000
| IL already paid in.
The Montgomery tAla.) state Journal, November
& contains eight columns OF bankrupt notices. Rub
bling out and beginning anew.
the nut and sugar beatng trees in Virginia are
beginning to attract attention from farmers and
merchants as valuable sources Of profitable COM
merce The pecan nut can be raised in great guam
titles.
1t has been decided 70 hold . State fair OF the
Agricultural Society OF Georgia. The City Council
OF Macon has taken the affair In hand. II Ii sug-
gested that the Legislature appropriate $4,000 in
aid Of the undertaking.
The Augusta Constitustona,ist, urging the impor-
lance Of burning cotton stalks destroy the breed
Of the worms, remarks that roasted eggs win not
hatch" which confirms the old proverb that there is
reason in roasting eggs.
The editor Of the Iuka MISSY Gazette IL Boosting
over receiving couple Of ten gallon kegs OF sorg-
hum from gentleman from the North who is
making this year an ocean Of the article Of fine
quality In Iishomingo county.
The Marion Crescent says:-We have been IN
formed that q planter in this vicinity recently re.
ceved $50 for bale OF Zipporan cotton, which was
sold In New York at fourteen cents per pound higher
than the ordinary upland cotton.
The Worthwhile ~. C-l Enfuire1. savs.-On Monday
last considerable amount OF land was disposed OF
at auction by assgnees In bankruptcy. The prices
feeling IN this species OF property. The bids were all
for cash.
The Columbus GAY san of the 4th inst says
The general agent OF the Southwestern Railroad
Company notifies shippers Of cotton that freights
from Columbus to Savannah have been reduced to
sixty cents per 100 pounds, and that I'VE days, no
tce viii be given when any change Is to be made In
rates.
Swiss immigration into North Carolina has been
productive Of gratifying results meeting Of the
prominent planters Is to be held In GOldsborO on the
18th inSt TO adopt measures to encourage the tmm
grafton on large SCALE call is made for 100000
SWISS German and Lombard families besides 10, 900
good Dutch laboring families
The Fauquier Wal Land Journal makes @ most
encouraging exhibit In regard to the sales OF Virginia
past twelve months. 1t says that '.more than
$4,000 worth Of property has been sold to actual
renton since the close OF the war;
Parties from the North engaged in the shipbuild.
ing interest are now here lsays the Norfolk JounaD
ct Armstrong; sawmill getting out perfectly
straight timbers for ship to be built at New York.
In that city they have newly invented machinery for
bending the timbers of ship to the required shape.
Heretofore the difficulty with timber getters has been
to get crooked stuff for timbers; the difficulty is
to get suitable straight stun.
At recent land sale in Houston county, Ca,
tract containing 449 acres, about three miles from
Fort Valley and on which there were only moderate
improvements. sold for S5,040 tract lying imme-
dately on the other side OF the road from this,
tanning 500 acres with no improvements, sold for
81, $780, Another piece Of land, containing twenty.
four acres, and on which there were few improve
ments, and used as lanyard, sold for $500. half
acre city lot in Fort Valley was also sold belonging
to the same estate, for 81 ,005.
The Charlottesville Chronicle says:-"We are glad
to that our Virginia cloth factories being
gradually revived and are sending out even better
cloth than before the war; We notice in OF our
exchanges reference to the Buckand factory In Eau
quier speaking In high terms Of the cloth made.
Our Charlottesville wOollen mills which have only
been In full operation for about six months are now
turning out cloth of good quality probably can
be made in the United States. On recent visit to
Norfolk 1t for sale there and, strange to say
the jobbing house which sold 1t there purchased II
in New York. Made In Virginia, 1t had been shipped
to New York and back ana passed through several
unnecessary hands, with profit added each stimc of
course, before 1t got back to the Virginia consumer
The fact however, OF its being selected In New York
| by the Norfolk merchant and brought back shows
| that 1t compares well with the goods from other
places.D