Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-06-26
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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i Central Mississippi has q good deal 9
corn for sale ''1' q.
/ Horse thisSss are infesiipg Psncl
county, AisIssippi +. @;.s;a
,aftf City yFfe&suTy Of Augusta has
4 HF8Ils OF $4esQ00. ~ ~ d
a9'he people Of sCalp@gd IS Fl,
Having to buld aseW stlieat atsieaf b 3
| TIE prsS5Acs Of scotaennG ssfI
Alssi rs good for an average crop
4 NpSs nj siss6 RGs.) Farm Journal says
Ralfp6x has hade its appearance a
Iskpion Point. kgt.E. ~ q
1T The citizens of Rone have, authorisse
a subscription Of $75, 900 to the Memphil
Branch Railroad.
| The Columbus Times says COO bales o.
cotton were sold in that city for about
| $S5, 1900, recently.
| I The Thermometer rose to 100 degrees
| in the shade in Norfolk Monday In Pes
| tersburg it was 90.
Accompany has been formed at Little
Rock, with capital of 100000, to en-
courage immigration to Arkansas.
Mayor Figures, Of Huntsville, Ala,
has forbid the use Of Veloeipedes on the
streets and sidewalks OF that town.
Oxford, Mississippi, is improving rap
idlv, and it is probable the whele town
will be rebuilt by the lst Of January
next
Memphis now stands third on the list
Of Southern cities as a cotton market,
New Orleans and Savannah alone being
ahead. ... ftrr,.
Most OF the Arkansas journals are
strongly urging the thirty.second paral-
lei route as the most feasible and prac.
ticable to the Pacific.
A new courthouse, to be one of the
handsOmest in the State is being erected
&C Holly Springs. Mississippi, to be COM
pleted by the first of March.
Mrs. Nancy StrCd, of Lee county, Ala.
bama, died May l3, 1869, aged eighty
four years, baving lived sixty-six years
with her husband, who survives her
A letter from Burke county, Ca, says
the blind staggers have been playing sad
havoc with the horses and mules in that
county during the past month. A large
humber have died
They have silver mines 10 Arkansas
They are situated within few hours
ride Of Little Rock. The indications of
success are quite fattering. A new lead
has been discovered Of surpassing rieh-
ness.
The Confederate dead are being re.
moved from the Chickamaugs battlefield,
aud reinterred in the Confederate ceme-
terry ut Marietta, Ga. 1t is said
that about two hundred bodies arrived
there during the present week.
The SandersviIle Georgian says the
negro who killed Colonel FlournOy had
been saved from the penitentiary by the
gratuitous services OF his victim as an
advocate when this negro was under in
dictment and trial for crime
The Hancock Journal says an aifray
occurred in that county, in which John
Taylor, Superintendent Of the MontOur
Factory was killed, and two young men,
Oxford and Faruth, wounded, but likely
to recover These were all the parti-
eipants.
The Summit Miss Times tells of Miss
Rebecca Cox, of Amite county who
graduated in June, 1867, returned home
Ia January, 1868, and with the assistance
of an old negro and his two daughters,
cleared over $500 on farm. She
should vote.
{ A lady in Caroline, Virginia, has a
child five years old with six perfectly
formed toes on each foot. She has an
infant with six on one foot and five on
the other All the bones, joints and nails
are complete, and the corresponding
bones of the foot are also fully deyel-
oped
The Florida Senate last Thursday
agreed to support the United States gov
ernment against Great Britain in a
demand upon the latter for full indemniI
ty for the Alabama spoliatiOns. This
fact gives new confidence 10 Secretary
Fish anoaNr Sumner, and will make the
British Lion howl with rage.
We observe that the practice in Flori-
da is for the Governor to draw up the
bills himself and submit them to the Les
gislature for their action. Whether this
Is claimed by the Governor as a right, or
it be done for the convenience of a Les
gislature who have not the capacity to
draw their own bills, does not appear.
The Democracy Of the 9Th, or Hunts
vile, Alabama, district are alive and de-
termined 10 defeat that nonstrosity Rad
icalism. They held q convention at
Gadsden the other day, and nominated
Hon Peter NJ Dox for Congress. Every
county in the district was represented,
and the convention was able, harmonious
and enthusiastic, each member confident
Of success.
Mr.. VIM. Peck, living two miles from
Cedartown, in Polk county, Ga, has sold
two hundred and fifty acres Of his home
tract, with very indifferent improvements
on it, Tor twenty-five thousand dollars,
or one hundred dollars per acre, and
he has negotiated with another party for
the sale Of all additional two hundred
and fifty acres, Of the same place, with
out improvements, at eighty dollars per
acre. These are the highest prices we
have heard of any farming lands selling
for in Georgia p. rt.. .ft. 4.
The Florida Senate ON the 18th inst.
passed resolutions declaring that the pe0-
ple of Florida, through their Represen-
tatiyes, pledge themselves to the full sups
port Of the government in its demand for
indemnity for the Alabama Outrages
from Great Britain. A Tallahassee con-
temporary says Of the debate that a
"Mr. SmithsOn made quite sharp
speech, which wOuld have caused the
Lion Of the London Times to shake his
shaggy name in anger, if he could have
heard the impassioned sentences that fell
from the lips of the Florida Senator"
A terrible storm passed over SAvsn-
nah, Georgia, Tuesday afternoon. The
News says about half past one the storm
burst over the city with a suddenness
and violence truly tropical. During its
prevalence, hail stones, some of them
nearly quarter of an inch in diameter,
threatened all the windows in the city.
A fierce gale Of wind prevailed at the
time, and its effects are visible in all
parts Of the city, where large limbs and
| whole trees were torn down OF dragged
up by the roots.
The storm lasted about two hours, and
ceased as suddenly as it cOmmehced.
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