The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-08-05

selma, Ala, u 10 nave srIeee E1ii-
road.
The planters near Searcy, Arkansas,
have good crops.
Mobile Is hot and dull almost every
Is out of town.
Two thousand and eighty Is the CEN
sus of Lebanon, Tenn.
The matrimonial market in Column
bus, Ga, is unusually brisk.
Columbus, Ca, has about 10, 900 in
habitants: Augusta some IL 600.
Col. B. F. Sawyer has assumed the
editorial control of the Rome (Ga.)
Courier.
Henry Martin Reule, agent on the
Montgomery and Mobile railroad, is
dead.
TIE yield of wheat i'm portions of the
Shenandoah Valley, in Virginia, Is
light.
The examination of J. J. Clayton
for killing s. NJ. Myers in Augusta still
progresses.
The Natchez (Miss) Gymnasium So
ciety has formed itself into military
company.
Norfolk, Va, has voted net to sub.
scribe q million to the Norfolk and
Great Western road.
1t is proposed by q southern PLANTER
to have q convention of planters in Oc-
tober or November, in Memphis.
The people of Cross Plains, Ala,
have met and deplored the hanging OF
Lake and others there.
General Lee and his daughters are to
spend part of the summer at White
Sulphur Springs.
Thomas Arkwright has purchased
the Savannah Theatre and will improve
it for next season.
Governor Bullock was too i'll to help
the negroes to celebrete the Fifteenth
amendment in Atlanta.
On Monday last, Isaac Herring, of
Stanley Valley, Hawkins county,
Tenn, was killed by lightning.
Captain Chas. A. Grice and David
Doddridge Fiske, IAN old editor of
Portsmouth, Va, are dead.
The Masonic Temple in Savannah
was damaged to the extent of fifteen
thousand dallars by the recent fire.
A "bunchn of "loil' citizens have
already gone to Washington to mis-
represent the hanging affair at Cross
Plains, Ala.
A young man, near Center, Ala,
was bitten several times in his wooden
leg, the other day, by snake, which
was subsequently killed.
Rev. G. w. Deems, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, father of Rev.
DR.. Deems, Of New York; died recently
in Baltimore.
New Orleans wants some enterpris-
ing man, who knows how to keep
hotel, to take the st. Charles Hotel,
which is now vacant, and keep it first.
class.
San Antonio, Texas, now raises, not
more than mile from its center, fruits,
such rs peaches, apricots, pears, straw
berries, figs, grapes, melons and BAN
anas.
VIM. Clark, Esq, one of the oldest
and best citizens of East Tennessee,
died at the residence of his brother-in-
law, Major w. s. McEwen, on Tues
day, the 10th inst.
Judge Cochran, of Albemarle county,
Va, on Tuesday overruled the motion
for q new trial, made by the counsel of
John H. Salmon, convicted of Murder
ing his mother and brother.
The Tuscaloosa, Ala, Observer, says q
movement is on foot in that city, look
ing to the organization of company
for the purchase of steamers to ply reg
ularly on the Warrior river, between
Tuscaloosa and points south.
Mr.. r Bryant, aged 50, and his wife,
aged "a, of Pleasant Hill, Dallas Coun-
ty, Ala, held their annual family meet
ing on the End inst, children, eight
and nine great-grand
children being present. The old couple,
who have occupied their present resi-
dence forty-three years, walk two miles
to church on Sundays.
Nearly all the Florida women substi-
tute palmetto work for knitting, as an
employment for leisure hours, and the
palmetto hats, baskets, ETC., of st. Au-
justine, are quite celebrated. A hat
which sells for 81, so may be braided by
skillful fingers in less than one day.
Twenty acres of land, just below Au-
gusta, Ga, which was cleared and in
cultivation forty-four years ago, while
the Indians were there, still produces
bale of cotton to the acre.
OF a number of men along the North
Carolina and Tennessee line, who, du-
ring and Immediately after the war
made themselves particularly notOri-
GUS by deeds of blood and lawlessness,
but one or two now survive. All the
rest have persisted by violence.
Stones patent tobacco rolling ma
chine, a late invention, Is now on ex-
hibition at the factory of Mr.. Geo. A.
BurkS in Lynchburg. This machine
makes from 1000 to 100 rolls of to-
bacco per hour.
John w. Hale killed hundred
pound panther on Denton creek, Tex
as, and the Indians recently stole two
mares and colts from the widow Ross,
three from Mr.. Pierce, one from MIR.
Pierce, one from Mrs. DodsOn, one
from Mr.. Christial and two from Tim
Moore.
The San Antonio (Texas) Express
reports Indians within short distance
of that city. 1t says that on Monday
morning the news was brought totown
that Indians had been seen only seven
miles from there, little way off the
Castroville road.
Mr.. H. G.. Moseley, of Charlotte
county, Va, was burned to death on
Saturday last by the explosion of bar
rel of kerosene oil, which caught fire
from a lighted candle he was carrying.
Mr.. Ms little daughter, who was with
him, was also seriously burned.
General J. Bankhead Magruder has
been appointed the agent of the La
dies Memorial Association of Freder-
icksburg, Va" for Texas, to solicit
subscriptions to remove and RENTER the
remains of the Confederate dead in
Virginia; and Bishop Gregg has ad-
dressed a letter to the different EpiscO-
pal pastors recommending the move
ment.
The wheat has been harvested in
Northern Texas and the yield is large;
the corn and cotton are much better
than last year, while vegetables, grapes
and fruits are abundant. Two hun
dred thousand head of cattle will 60
from the counties of Northern Texas
this year. Northern Texas has export
ed during the season, produce to the
value of $4,000.
The popular whine, "Where are
the Websters, the Clays, the Patrick
Henrys?" is answered in this way by
the Chicago Times. GAS men be-