The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-11-10
News Items.

GLOW are your chills ~ is the ordinary
salutation in Macon.
Dalton, Georgia, is struttiug over .
sweet potato which is 4 seven FOUNDER.
There are two hundred and twenty con.
victs in the North Carolina Peniteptiary
Old Judge Bailey, of Domopolis, Ala.
died in his chair, On hearing Of the death
Of Lee.
Negroes in the South are creating "in,
conyeniencc' in tho Radical party, by
wanting Office.
There has been a great food IN Western
Texas recently, causing an immense de-
stracticn Of property.
Gen. Boaurogarl has been appointed
one Of the Directors in the Lee Monu.
mental Association Of Louisiana.
Fred. Simpson, a sleeping car porter on
the Western and Atlantic Railroad, was
killed at Tunnel Hill . few nights since.
1t is proposed to put memorial tablets
IN Christ Church at Alexandria, to the
memory of Generals Washington and Lee.
A paper in the interests of the Episeo-
cal Church, will soon be established in
Atlanta, with Rev. Cross, D. D., as editor.
Guilford county, II. G., makes a supe-
rior quality of brandy from dried fruit.
One hundred pounds viii yield from four
to five gallons.
Wednesday, November 23d, has been
selected for the o~bsegyances of the Geue-
raj Lee memorial services III Raleigh.
E&-Goy. z. B. Vance is to pronounce the
eulogy.
Gen. John B. Gordon has been invited
to deliver the address /. the Alabama
STATE Fair, which opens in Moutg)m cry
on the 18th Of next month.
The receipts for duties at the Custom
House at New Orleans, last Thursday,
were greater than ever before, on any one
day. There was $98,76O in gold. The
total receipts were 100000.
Acommittee Of A~lexandrians are in the
valley Of Virginia, visiting the different
towns and localities Of the recent food
and distributing the contributions from
their city to the sufferers.
Pittsylyania county, Va, has given the
requisite throe-ffths majority in favor oil
y subscription of $l5O,0OO to the Norfolk
aud Great Western railroad, and $3.50,
OOO to the Lynchburg and Danyille rail.
road.
The freemen in Florida are worked ur
to such a degrees Of excitement, by the
carpet-bsggers, that the planters find il
difficult to get their cotton picked out, and
a considerable amount of the staple now
open will be lost.
A sample of q crop of tobacco, among a
great many others, which were brought tc
the Danyille, Va, Fair, with the view to
take the premium, was made by a widow
lady and her daughter, without the aid Of
a horse or pillow. And it was cured BY
them.
There has been a continued stream OF
emigrant wagons passing through Des Arc.
Arkansas, the past two weeks. Their des-
tlnatlonS are different parts of Arkansas
and Texas. Occasionally wagons are seen
passing in the opposite Notwithstanding
Texas and Arkansas and returning to the
old "North State" or where they origi.
nally emigrated from.
One evening, near the first Of last month
several gentlemen at the Virginia Militia.
ry Institute saw a strange flight of butter.
flies. The column was fifty yards wide
and stretched across the horizon as far a.
the eye could reach. They we're of the
large broad wing kind. They seemed
weary, and several lighted on the build.
ings, rested, and her resumed their Jour.
ney. This brilliant bow of "winged flow,
ers' spanned the evening sky, attracting
much attention and comment from the
wondering spectators.
III Franklin county, Va, the wife of
colored man, some weeks since, took the
child of a deceased sister, aged Il
months, to raise, to which her HUSBAND
was opposed. During the absence of hi
wife, on Monday night last, he took the
child, stripped it naked and held it Owe
a hot fire until it was so severely burned
that it died. Mr.. Galloway, on whose
farm the man resided, had him arrested
and started him off, in the custody of two
colored men, to a magistrie's, several mile:
distant, for trial, but while on the way hi
escaped.