The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-11-11
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SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

1 Mobile is noted for miserable sidewalks 5.
| They are now. manufacturing ice in
Memphis IN large quantities.
I A lady of Richmond was buriiei 10
death by trcading ON parlor matches.
The knoxville Iron Company recently
| shipped ten car loads of spikes to Mis-
| sissippi.
| \ child was sealdetl to death in a pot
OF boiling coffee in Kansas City last Fri,
| day.
| Mullins, the Tennessee Eagle, was TO
| nave delivered speech at Fayetteville.
Tennessee, last Saturday, but, as there
were no hearers, the thrOes of eloauenee
were deferred. - .
In the City Surveyors office in Menu
phis there Is a map Of North America
made in 1865 Virginia oecnpies tbe
place of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. and
Memphis did not then exist.
Several gentlemen from PENNSYLVANIA
/ have recently been making 4 tour
through Fentress and adjoining counties
with q view to purchase land. T1ey
were highly pleased with East Tennessee.
Nashville, knoxville and Memphis are
among the points designated by the Sec
rotary of War as stations where storm
reports, meteorological observations.
etc.. are to be made. ,--4-.s.- -.
The broom factory OF knoxville has
been destroyed bv fire. Loss, $4,000.
The fire was the act Of an inccndiarv.
The laying of the corner OF u new Az
rlcultural Implement Mandatory in
Nashville short time since. was atten-
ded with imposing ceremonies.
A. B, Long, United States District At
torIiey, was found dead in his Office. in
New Orleans, yesterday morning. with
his throat cut. Suicide is suspected.
Anegro named Frank Godhoid has
created sensation i'm BroOkllaven, Mis-
si>slppl, by marrying white girl. one
Angeiine \. Nrotcn, aged sixteen.
The masks were removed from a couple
( of kluxeS. u few days since. by the oiii-
cials Of PontOtOc county. MiSsissippi:
when they turned out to be ,inlon-p pure
negroes. e.a
The knoxville OF Elst Tennessee and
Virginia route To the Eastern cities is |
again open and i'm good order for travel !
the damage from the recent big fresh |
having been fully repaired. 4
The wheat crop Of Giles county, Ten |
nessee, may be set down at loo OOO BUSH |
els, and the cotton ut from 10000 20 H. !
900 bales, while the corn. potstoes. and |
fruits have never been better
Large numbers of negroes from .Vir-
ginia are passing over the East Tcnnes- |
see. Virginia and Georgia railroad. bound /
for chattanooga. They are 10 work on |
the Chattanooga and Alabania road.
The other day, as negro who had
been convicted in the criminal Court at |
knoXville, Tennessee. was coming out Of /
the court room. he met u witness who /
had testified In his case and Knocked him
down. A
tbs proposed in the Memphis Cham
Der OF Commerce to discilss the rates OF |
charges defined by the Memphis and 1
Charleston and Mississippi Central roa,ls,
anu appoint q committee to inquire |
whether the State may not remedy /
wrongs committed BY companies il has
enriched.
On Wednesday last j. II. White. a
young man living at Milton, in Ruther-
ford county, Tennessee, committed sui |
eide by shooting himself i'm the head.
No clew to the cauSe has been found.
He was soon to have been married to
beautiful girl.
At the Georgia State Fair L wealthy
bachelor saw beautiful young lady in
specting new cook stove, sought an in
production. proposed, and was accepted
since which all the girls crowd about
the stove department.
The Memphis Appeal says that w. .B.
Greentaw, and others like him " full OF
pluck aad energy have undertaken to
complete the Memphis and Little Rock
road ut once. Also. that measures will
speedily be adopted to insure the COM
pletion of the Nicksburg and Memphis
Railroad.
Recently the dead body OF a negro
man was found hanging to limb in the
neighborhood OF Ilazlegreen, Alabama.
His crime was attempted violence upon
the person OF white woman. 4 placard
was found pinned on his breast stating
the crime for which he was hung.
Last week little child of Mr.. Mc-Alee.
living In East Knoxville. Tenn. died
from the effects OF a bite inflicted by
spider about ten DAYS previous. Ii was
bitten on the finger, which soon swelIeJ
when the swelling rapidly extended
through the arm and whole body. which
assumed the appearance Of having been
blistered.
the Franklin Review says: Mr.. Geo.
), NichOl, gallant soldier Of the Lost {
Cause, received couple of wounds in /
The head during the war;. One ball struck
him in the mouth and terribly mutiIated
his whole face; the other entered his
right eye and the doctors could never !.
tell where it stopped. The. other day
MIR. Nichol was intlulging in hearty
laugh, Wien. much to his surprise the
ball dropped down into his mouth. and
he was thus pleasantly relieved Of a ball
hat had been an annoyance to him for {
more than six years. r--.'. - .