The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-09-23
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
Fine prospects for game in Georgia.
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There was a Spanish bull fight at
Kansas City on Saturday.
A couple of indignant females Wis.
tied the Office OF the Milan {Texasj
Telegram and smeared the editors
face with printers ink. o,.-.
The Townsville (Ga.) Enterprise
says Mr.. w. L. Bibb, of that county,
has had a very successful experience
in fattening hogs with boiled cotton
seed.
The British ship Exchange arrived
at Savannah, Wednesday, from Wales,
with 2,l65 bars of railroad iron and
1870 fish-bar plates for the Central
railroad. siefs '''
The residence and furniture of Mr..
Arthur Bleakly, four miles from Au-
gusta, Ga, were burned Tuesday
night. Loss $1,000 to $1,000, PARTIAL
ly covered by insurance. zi.i = "a
Cotton picking is going on very
briskly in Greene county, Georgia. A
larger area planted in corn this year
Ethan last, and in most eectione'as good
as the GLAND will produce. 1a3 }a a-s-s
IA company of rangers is organizing
in San Antonio, Texas. At the same
place an old citizen raised by subscrip-
ton $500 to ransom his son from the
Indians beyond the Rio Grande.
Just one dozen babies were exhib-
tied at the Clay county (Mo.) fair on
Friday. They were all surprisingly
beautiful, and the lady judges were
perplexed in awarding the premiums
Nearly two blocks of the new Mic
olson pavement are completed on st.
Charles avenue, New Orleans, and
the stone curbing and substantial
brick culvcrts have been completed
for four or five squares.
Mr.. Holcomb Harper, tor fifty-five
years a resident of Greensboro, Geor.
gia, died there "Wednesday, aged 81
years. In all that time he never was
too sick to take his meals regularly
at the table with his family. rluHr
/ Moonlight racing in the streets is
the latest Augusta (Ga.) sensation.
The last race, between two men on
horseback and three in a buggy, came
of on Monday night, and resulted in
spill" which necessitated a doctors
bill for the buggy party. DIX r.rs
| The Abingdon Virginian of Friday
says: eve understand while in Taze.
| hot In CT 20 r
tie would be driven from that county
this season, and that two-year-olds
were worth from $50tC $50, and three.
year. Odds $50 to $65. The grass being
unusually fine, they arc all in first
rate condition"
A singular wedding took place in
Morgan county, Mo-, not long since
A grass" widow was married to a
young man on condition that if her
truant husband should at any subse.
quent period express willingness to
live with her he should be allowed to
| do so, and her union with the young
man should be null and void from that
date.
The Houston Texas Telegraph, oil
August 81, says: The first breach OF
promise case in Texas, SO far as VIC
are informed, was, we learn, filed TO-
day in the District Court of Harris
county. The fair complainant claims
damages to the amount of $4,000
This will be caution to young and
recreant Lotharios i'll these parts.
A fire occurred at Jefferson, Texas.
on the 26th ult., which burned an en-
tire block on which were sixteen OF
the largest business houses of the city.
and which caused loss estimated al
from S250000 to 100000, $4,000 OF
(which, only, was covered by insurance
The fire was undoubtedly the work OF
an incchdiary. The buildings were
all new and of brick.
A Texas octogenerian says, from
first to last, lie has received by dis
charges of guns and pistols into his
body, 175 shot; has both legs, collar
bone and seven ribs broken and hi:
skull cracked, is the father of twenty
children, raised this year with his OWL
hands HOO head of fine cabbage, 4O0(
large beets, beside other Scraps" and
can now run pretty good quarter
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