The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-09-16
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

The Savannah census says $4,000.
All sorts of thieves are plying their
vocations at Vicksburg, Miss.
The census gives Murfreesboro,
Tennessee, a population of 1852.
The first bale of Gotten received at
Yazoo, Mississippi, this season, was
sold for twenty cents a pound.
Abe Alabama river is i'm better
boating order than it has been for fif-
teen years at this season. g
Mrs. NJ. s. H. Mitchell, has been
tried and found guilty at Natchez,
Miss, of the murder of her husband,
J. ). Mitchell.
The three deaths from yellow fever
in New Orleans, last week, are accep-
ted by the Mobile Register as warm
ing to that city to prepare for the ap-
pearance of the disease there.
A correspondent of the Hazlehurst
(Miss.) CObiapan urges the establish
ment the of five hundred dollar
steam laundry, to be placed under the
management of some poor Confeder-
ate widow. '''
The Talbotton, Ga, Standard re-
ports one of the most remarkable
things we ever heard of: An oak tree
was cut down many years ago, left a
stump about eighteen inches high and
twelve inches in diameter. Strange
to say, the bark has completely healed
over the stump, and it is as green as
the day the tree was cut down. The
stump is clear of sprouts or twigs.
Says the Norfolk Virginian ain
our issue of yesterday we announced
that the editor of the Christian Sun
had received peach measuring l0I
inches in circumference. We can see
that and 60 quarter of an inch bet
ter. A peach grown on the farm of
Mr.. w. r. T. Williams, at Shell Land
ing, on the Roanoke river, in North
Carolina, measured 10T inches. 1t
was of the Georgia press variety.
We are informed that the people of
Princess Anne county, Virginia, arc
forming immigration societies in ev-
cry township, and are determined to
revive their old county and put her
upon the high road to prosperity.
Other counties throughout the State
should do likewise, and soon the old
Commonwealth would be flooded
with the industrious classes of the
Old World, and in her rejuvcnated
and prosperous future the "Oldest in
habitant" would fail to recognize the
land in which he had spent his life.
One of the most daring highway
robberies that have been committed
in New Orleans for months, was per-
petratcd on Royal street, at abont
twenty minutes past 10 o'clock Mon
day night, DR.. Palmer, a prominent
planter, being the victim. The doctor
reached the city Monday morning
from his plantation, near Jefferson
College, and, calling at the Bank Of
New Orleans, drew six hundred and
fifty dollars, for the purpose of pay
ing some bills for ice and other stores.
On making his way home he was gag
ged and knocked down, and every ar
ticle of value taken from his person.
The receipts of cotton at Memphis
by the Mississippi and Tennessee rail-
road, during the last commercial year,
show an increase of S,252 bales over
those of last. The receipts of 1869
were 5,244 bales more than in 1868.
Increase for two years 3,4S6 bales.
The cotton received by this road is
nearly all raised north of Grenada,
Mississippi, one hundred miles from
Memphis. The increase is crafty
ing indication of the improving con-
dition of the country.