The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-07-01
SOUTHERN NEwS ITEMS.

SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
The crops throughout North Carolina
have suffered great injury by recent
heavy rains.
Judge Tculey, of Little Rock, Ar
kansas, is urged for U. s. Senator IN
place of Mcdonald.
The soldiers of g the Mexican war u
living in Jackson, Tenn, have formed
an association. ...-
/ Lynchburg should be the paradise Of
tobacco planters. Eleven pounds sold
there, the other day, for Sl37 50.
Two mules were stung to death by
bees at the residence Of Mr.. Brown,
near Thomastown, Miss, a few days
since.
The new Methodist church in Attain
tn, Ga, is designed to seat 900 per-
sons, and will measure SO by 62 feet.
Its estimated cost is $50
Mr.. III. /. Kimball, who is erecting o
magnificent hotel in Atlanta, Ga, is
expected to offer handsome prize for
a suitable name to be given it.
Three Pennsylvanians have made
arrangements to establish i'm Savannah,
Ga, large mandatory for the max
ing of chemical soaps of every descrip-
ton and quality.
A young lady of high standing in
Savannah, Ga, the other day entered
q drug store and purchased and swal-
lowed dose of strychnine. Remedies
were instantly applied and her life
| saved.
The proposition o: the City Council
Of Mobile, by vote of all the members
of the two boards except three, to vote
the bonds of the city to the amount of
$500, 600 for the purpose of laying Me
olson pavements has been defeated by
the popular vote.
The Cleburne Chronicle of Johnson
county, Texas, says: "The number of
cattle driven from Texas this spring is
almost beyond calculation. Our friend
Coltharp, living seventeen miles north
of this place, informs us that over 2OO,-
600 head of cattle have passed his house
this spring, going north"
Mrs. General Gaines has gained, in
the Louisiana Federal Court, all that
was conceded by the Supreme COnrt of
fhe United States, and she is now be-
ing placed i'm possession by the DEGREES
of the local Federal Court
There is quite scramble for the po-
sitiOn of postmaster of Alexandria, Va.
There are seven "principal competi-
tors, including the present incumbent,
besides host of smaller applicants too
numerous to count"
There were killed on the plantation
of Samuel Cox, near Bainbridge, Ga,
on Sunday last, two rattlesnakes, one
of which measured i'm length nine feet,
weighed fifty pounds and had sixteen
rattles-the other had thirteen rattles
and was seven feet long.
The Augusta, Ga, canal is to be
thoroughly dredged and otherwise i'm
proved. With sufficient supply of
water assured, the Augusta Factory
Company will erect an additional fac
tory. A New Jersey capitalist con-
templates doing the same. The engi-
neer thinks the use of a dredging ma
chine on the firstlevel of the canal will
increase the capacity of the factory
about five thousand spindles.
A writer i'm the Southern Cultivator
says: awe need Texas botany. New
species meet the eye constantly Of all
the leading orders. Several native
clovers (trofOli,an), oneOf them beau
tiful pink, of which the bees are very
fond. If my knowledge ofthe science
were varied enough would be tempt
ed to undertake the preparation of
botany myself"
The proposition to build great air
line railroad from Columbus via La
Grange and Rome, Ca, connecting at
Chattanooga with the great airline
from Cincinnati and the Northwest,
thus making the shortest route from
that section of the country to the sea-
board, extending down by Bainbridge
into Florida, is creating unbounded in
terest among the intelligent people
and capitalists along the whole line.
Two big Middle Tennesseans, the
other day, started off tn Xenia, Ohio,
with a few hundred dollars i'm their
pockets to purchase young shOrt-horn-
ed cattle at q celebrated stock farm
near that town. The calf they fixed
eyes on was put up at two thousand
dollars and knocked down at four. The
Middle Tennesseans gathered up their
mouths for whistle, thrust their enor-
NOUS fists into their breeches pockets
and sloped. They arrived home with
out a shOrt-horn.
A gentleman named Sattewhite, y
years of age, was in Columbus, Ca, the
other day, and stated that when he
was twenty-six years old he formed
one of an Escort of o regiment of ZOO
cavalrymen to General Lafayette when
he passed through Columbia, South |
Carolina, and thence to that place the
ground over which Lafayette walked |
was completely covered with carpets.
A successful fair closed at San Anto
nio, Texas, last week. The express Of
that city has glowing Occount of the
display. Potatoes, three to the pound;
cabbagcs, four pounds each; onions,
nearly pound each; pine-apples; to-
baccO; Norway oats; Texas hams; pre-
served fruits; ciover-seed; wild flowers;
beautiful needle-wOrk; pictures; boots,
work, very fine; Guinea pigs; silk
worms in every stage; hedge-grass and
lager, and a thousand other articlesn
were on exhibition.
Rev. Josiah Lewis, Jr., the accom-
alished professor of Greek at Emory
College, has been appointed by Bishop
Pierce presiding elder upon the Attain
ia, Ga, district for the balance of the
year, in place of Rev. A. G.. Haygood,
who goes to Nashville, the seat of the
Southern Methodist Publishing House,
to discharge the duties of Sunday
School secretary, including the edirori-
al supervision of the Sunday school
literature of the church, to which posi-
ton he was elected by the late General
Conference. This arrangement will
not interfere with Professor Lewis du-
ties at Emory College.
A witchcraft case recently occurred
in st. Charles county, Mo-, the parties
to which were all negroes. Uncle
Nelson" had died, and CDR. Jones"
declared that he had been bewitched to
death by "Uncle Ed. Talley." The
doctor also performed certain ceremO-
MES on the body of "Uncle Nelse"
with bugs and lizards that reused the
negroes of the neighborhood into great
fury, and they determined to kill "Dr.
Jones'" They went to the old mans
cabin armed with guns, threw him out |
on the ground in front of his door,
bound him with q rope and then con-
veyed him to The woods and tied him to |
q tree, where they were ON the point of
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