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

A mule race Is 10 Ue leatuEe VI tuc
Georgia State Fair.
The GAINESVILLE Tenn) fair COM
mences September Ia, and lasts 4 days.
Chattanooga offers prize of wax
doll to the best little skater on roller
skates.
The price of board i'm Memphis is
going up along with rents, aud impc-
cunious people are in distress.
During a rain storm a couple Of
water spouts were observed near Cor
pus Christi, Texas, recently.
The Masonic fraternity of Memphis
are making rapid progress in procur-
ing the necessary funds fer their new
temple.
According to the census just taken
the population of Grenada, Miss,
stands: whites 1,O72, blacks 740.
Augusta, Ca, has established reg
ular line of steamers between that
city and Savannah, making ten trips
aweek.
A stratum of good bituminous coal
five feet in thickness, was found five
miles from Fairfield, Texas, by parties
who were digging well.
Richmond, Virginia, will have
brilliant theatrical season the coming
winter. Edwin Forrest, Ristori, and
other celebrities will appear.
W. f Mallory, brother of the Secre-
tary of the Navy of the late Confed-
crate States, died i'm TufcaloOsa, Ala
bama, OIL the 18th instant. ..
In New Orleans on Tuesday even
ing Joseph Seymour, forty-six years
old, committed suicide by she otiug
himself in his head with revolver.
The Houston Union is informed
that the census of Houston will not
foot up over 10000 souls, and that of
Galveston about 1900. This is much
below what every one anticipated.
Memphis now boasts of two militia
ry companies, thoroughly and hand
somly aimed and equipped, the per-
sonnet of both representing many of
the best young soldiers, survivors of
the war, who served in the COnfeder-
ate armies.
The habit of kissing little children
by ladies when passing them on the
street has been almost entirely sus-'
pended in New Orleans. The little
ones have gotten it into their heads
that they are to be kidnapped, and
wont stand any such familiarities.
Quite SING amounts have within
the last few days been added to the
French war subscription in New Or
leans and Louisiana. At OpelOusas
S272,5O have been collected among the
French residents, and $396,JO have
been received from Thibodaux. The
performance at the Varieties Theatre
Tuesday night, netted $2l2.
A gentleman who has just returned
from q trip along the line Of the Vir-
ginia and Tennessee railroad, between
Lynchburg and Bristol, says that the
crops of corn are the best he has ever
seen, and are indeed magnificent. The
farmers are busy preparing for seed
ing wheat, and propose sowing an I'M
usually large breadth of land.
The cattle disease is still doing DAM
age in the vicinity of Knoxville. A
very experienced cattle raiser and
dealer, who is himself loser by the
disease, advises the overs of any cow
that may become unwell to treat her
at once for the hollow horn. lie is
satisfied from the developments made
that the most of the deaths enumcra-
ted were caused by want Of knowl-
edge in treating the sickness.
An Infatuated brother compelled a
gay Lothario to marry his sister the
other day in Baltimore. A couple of
horse pistols, a marriage license, and
a preacher met him at the door when
he went to see her, and rather than
confront the equine machines he &C
cepted the license and the ceremony
was performed. He Immediately left
and had the brother arrested for as.
saulting and threatening to shoot him.
A singular procession came into
Kansas City the other day. 1t consis-
ted of party of Negroes woman,
who carried OH her back a heavy pack
of bedding; two girls and four boys,
pulling, by means of rope a home
made wagon (wooden wbeels), on
which sat helpless old negro, whose
head was snow white with age. They
were going to Saline county, from
Lawrence The wOman's husband
was dead and the family left destitute,
yet they were hopeful and cheerful.
Mr.. M. NJ. Wright, OF Floyd coun-
tv, Ga, saws: about the 10th of No
vember last, | sowcd five bushels of
white and a small fraction over one
bushcl of red wheat on nine acres of
stalk land, without any preparation,
and pIoughed it with a common twis-
ter. 1t come up very well, but was
seriously injured by the ground spew-
ing up during the winter, and then
again by the heavy winds and hail
just before reaping. thrashed out
219Ia bushels of white wheat, and
46is of red, making 266 bushels from
the six and a small fraction of bushels
sowed."
The Selma, Ala, Times, says: "Day
b fore yesterday five car loads OF
Chinese were landed here. They were
sent from San Francisco by Koop-
manschap & Co, who had mode a
contract for furnishing them with the
Selma and Gulf Railroad Company.
They are to be employed as laborers
in the construction of this railroad,
and have contracted 10 work three
wears. Each laborer is to receive SIG
in gold monthly, free board, lodging
water and fuel. The contract stipu-
lates thct the working hours shall be
ten hours per day, six days in the
week; that there shall be five cooks
that sufficient quantity of rice, pork,
fish, beef, and vegetables shall be
furnished; and when a man falls sick
he shall receive no wages, but provis-
ions, and guarantees free return to
San Francisco after the term of SER
vice. There is one interpreter who
has to receive S75 month, and there
are four foremen who will be paid