Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-29
SOUTHERN NEWS.


Galveston paid $50, l5S customs from
Dec. to the 18th.
Dogs are executed to order at the New
Orleans police stations.
Memphis claims to have four jimfsks,
who are gobbling its railroads.
The Catholic fair at Vicksburg last week
melted $1,000.
San Antonio, Texas, has a free school
in successful operation.
The San. Antonio and Mexican Gulf
Railroad is to be sold al Indianola, Texas,
on the 10th of March.
Near Houston, Texas, John Sullivan
struck Pat. McHugh on the head with a
spade, and killed him.
In the last nine months the tobacco tax
in Virginia has yielded the aggregate OF
$2,81l, 92S 90.
A man connected with Smiths Crescent
City Circus was beaten to death by roughs,
in San Antonio, Texas.
DR.. A. L. Collins, who murdered DR..
Thomas Haughey at CORTLAND, Ala, has
made his escape from Jail.
The Alabama State Normal School, 10
Gated at Mountain Home, will be opened
on the first of January.
A fruitier in Montgomery, Ala, adj
vertises oranges grown on the plantation
of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, in Flor
ida.
The residence of Rev. Samuel Anthony,
at Americas, Ga, was entered by burg
lars on Friday last, and $500 carried of.
The Young Mems Library Association
of Atlanta, has received a gift of one
hundred and fifty books from the Milwau-
kee Library.
A Charleston boy of fourteen, named
Robert NJ Snipes, died from drinking
what the coroner's jury calls can unrea-
sonable quantity of whisky"
A train Of one hundred and thirty-six
mules, belonging to q Mexican, were sto-
len bodily one night rec entity, from a
camp near Castorville, Texas.
Negroes are moving south from Vir-
ginia, and Northern farmers settling in
the State, sll of which, according TO the
Richmond Wing, is clear Democratic
gain.
A young man named Chas. A. Fields, a
printer by trade, was killed in drinking
saloon at Crockett, Texas, on the night of
the 18th inst Fields was almost a total
stranger in Crockett.
1t is a remarkable fact that the lunatic
asylums of all the Southern States are full
to overlooking. Virginia, Alabama and
Georgia cannot begin to care for the APP
plicants.
Mr. EldIidge, Assessor of Kemper coun-
ty, Miss, was killed few days since by
some person OrpersOns unknown. RumOr
has it that he was shot by Federal SOL
diers.
Judge Tabor was accidentally killed
near Greensboro, Miss, few days ago.
The wagon in which he was riding up
set, and barrel of flour fell upon his
breast.
The Magnolia Estate on the St. Johns
River, twenty-five miles south of Jack
sonville, Florida, consisting of four hun
bred acres, has been purchased by DR..
Seth Rogers and Oliver F. Harris, and
fitted up as a retreat for Northern inYa-
lids.
An old gentleman residing about twenty
miles from Atlanta, Ca, discovered Ia
long-lost piano in that city the other day.
He lost it at the time of StOneman's raid,
in 1864 He was fortunate enough to get
possession of it again.
Mr. r. Crockett, who was reported as
having died suddenly in Wytheville, Va,
from the effects of incompetence, writes
10 the Richmond Wing: 81 have not yet
died, nor have l drank a glass Of intOx-
icating beverage of any kind for forty
five years"
For the encouragement Of immigration
into Texas, the Galveston and Houston,
the Texas Central, and the Buffalo Bayou
and Colorado Railroads charge European
immigrants entering the State only half
price for passage, and baggage thrown in.
The Commissioners appointed to su
perintenG the erection of the penitentiary
at Raleigh, n. c., have reported to the
Governor that the stOCkade is sufficiently
near completion to justify the reception
of about 1875 convicts, from the 9TH to
the Goth of January next.
The editor of the Houston Times has
made a visit to Louis Moreau s. Co. g
mandatory of extract of beef. 1t is,
according to the Times, a highly cOncen-
trated article; twelve pounds being the
quantity derived from bullock. One
pound Of the extract contains 100 ratiOns
Of soup, or one gallon 800 ratiOns. Twelve
hundred pounds of this commodity are
shipped monthly to Europe. 1t is made
use of by the French cavalry. A good
deal is sold in New Orleans.
The result of the election in Mississippi
is officially announced by Gen. Ames.
The following are the State officers duly
elected: James L. Alcorn, Governor;
Ridgley C. Powers, Lieutenant Governor;
James Lynch, Secretary of State; VIM.
II. Vasser, Treasurer; Henry MusgrOve,
Auditor; Joshua S. Morris, Attorney
General Henry r. Pease, Superintendent
of Public Education.
Mr.. George Shelton was shot and NOR
tally wounded by Mr.. Henry, at Brooks
vile, in Blount county, Ala, last week.
week. The Sheriff was attempting to
arrest Shelton, who had, without writ,
seized upon some property of man who
owed him, and was moving away. Shell
ton resisted, and drew a pistol, when the
officer called to Henry, who had been
summoned to assist in the arrest, to shoot,
which he did with the result above stated.