The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-07-29
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SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

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The prospects are good for establish
ing paper mill at Iuka, Miss. i
A giant is reported in Florida nine
feet six inches high.
A.teamer from Jacksonville, Fla,
the other day, brought $500 watermel-
Ons to Savannah. ,ga ass
Wheat is selling at 81 per bushel in
Cherokee county, Alabama.
BY the law of Tennessee, drunken
ness is made a legal cause Of divorce.
Rev. J. M. Woodruff, well-known
Baptist minister of Oxford, Alabama,
is dead. !
Montgomery, Ala, claims to be the
champion carpetbag-ridden city OF the
South" 5!cl 2 '>,gie1e 80 =
The population of Leesb1rg, Va, as
reported by those taking the census, Is
1907. Il
The crop report from all parts of the
State of Arkansas is favorable for an
average yield ,.g.- 81 =
Atlanta, Ga, is in training for a
grant tournament, which is to take
place at the coming fair.
There are twelve hundred guests at
the White Sulphur and the arrivals in
creasing daily. - :" ~
Shan It. Cleer, of jackson county,
Ark, was crushed to death last week
by having tree fall on him.
Mr.. w. Moss has established
tri-weekly .stage-line between Belfs
Station and Dyersburg, Tenn.
Mr.. Joseph II. Conner, formerly an
alderman of the city of Huntsville,
Ala, died, on the 18th inst.
Mr.. Colin Gardner, for several years
a resident of Eufaula, Alabama, died at
Troy, Ohio, on the 3Oth ult.
The census gives Columbus, Ga,
nearly ten thousand inhabitants ana
Augusta, Ga, about sixteen thousand.
Ham Ryan, Col. Jas. Davenport and
Charles Banman, of Knoxville, were
prostrated by sunstroke in Knoxville,
Tenn, on Wednesday.
The carriage-bouse and barn OF w.
c. Griffin, Esq, Of Hayneyille, Ala,
was destroyed by fire last wednesday.
Loss about $500. ~
James NJ. Conway, son-in-law Of
Mr los 70. Anderson, of Pittsylvania
county, Va, has been arrested, charged
with the murder of his father-in-iaw.
Clark G.. Hall, citizen of Cherokee
county, Ala, died at his home on the
7th inst. He was a native of Virginia,
and among the first settlers OF that
county. -...- ----.t
Some of the butchers in New Orleans,
prompted by the carpet-baggers, are
irving to prevent the sale of Texas re-
frigerated beef, and can not, as it is
better than theirs. .....,.,.
Susan Grubb, daughter of Mrs. E.
Trainer, of Wytheville. Va, supposed
to have committed suicide, Is suspected
of having been poisoned by some I'M
known person. .......-t
Samuel Poston, Henry Wisener and
Frank Graves are the ruffians who
murdered John w. Schoefield at Cuba,
near Memphis. They have been ar
rested and put in Jail. ..--<
A negro woman named Mary made
a bold attempt last: Tuesday to poison
thirty six persons. ON the plantation OF
Judge H. II. Southworth, near Sidon,
Sunfiower county, Miss. .T.fFF (.
Rev. Sanders Durham died at the
residence of Col. VIM. Mitchell, in
Taylor county, Ga, some days ago.
He was one of the oldest and most es-
teemed citizens of that county.
The 54th mile of the Southern Divis-
ion of the Alabama and Chattanooga
railroad was completed on the 9Th, and
ON the 9th the first train went out from
Meridian for Boligee. -r. =.
At Tuscumbia, during a recent storm
q cedar tree near the house OF Mr.. w.
A. Nelson was struck by lightning.
Mrs. Nelson and another lady i'll the
house were seriously shocked. a
,Messrs. Jacob Alexander and Ed.
Martin, of AllsborO, Ala, met at luka,
last week, and engaged in an encOun-
ter in which Mr.. Martin received three
wounds from pistol shots. 1N.''is"
Mr.. Cunningham, contractor on
the Little Rock and Fort Smith rail-
road, was found dead ON the track near
Lewisburg, recently. 1t is supposed
heat and congestion were the cause OF
his death.
Z Sarah Stith, colored, aged 100 years,
died in Halifax, N. c., a few days
since. She remembered seeing COM
wallis army pass. -
Thomas Vernon, q noted gambler,
Familiarity known about Selma as "Un-
Gle Tom Vernon" died at his residence
in that city on the Sd inst.i3 l.t...p =
In Selma, the other day, a man NAM
ed O'Brien, with delirium tremens,
jumped from third story window on
a pileo of bricks, and walked away UNI
harmed. ID a'Sr - p JLlHS.---
There is an acre of corn at Griffin,
Ga, planted May 5, which is nine feet
high and has not commenced tassel-
ing. It stands three, feet apart in the
row and ten inches in the drill.
+ DR.. w. B. Read, an old practicing
physician of Copiah county, Miss,
who had Just returned home from o
visit to Florida for his health, fell dead
few days ago.
The extensive establishment in
Townsville, Ga, known as Dekle's
Variety Works; was entirely consumed
by fire on Thursday of last week The
loss is set down at $50, 900. No insu-
rance. 527''@
The Synodical Female Institute
building at Talladega, Ala, OF which
Mr.. and Mrs. Hale, formerly of Ten
nessee, are to take charge next session,
is being repaired and considerably inn
proved. -. ..-..,...
James III. Mclaughlin, a lad of eight
years of age, son of John Mclaughlin,
ESD, of Savannah, Ga, was drowned
while in bathing at Bradley's Mills,
Saturday evening.
Near Paint Rock Station, Jackson
County, Ala, on the 10th, a daughter
of Mrs. Rutledge's and a man named
Hairless were severely whipped by six
disguised men-Harless nearly to death.
Mr.. Ira L. Manning died at Provi-
dence, La, OH Thursday, the 23d day
of June, of congestion. Mr.. Manning
was among the oldest citizens of Car
roll parish, and before the war was q
large and successful planter.
The Knoxville Wing says East Ten
nessee has raised this year five million
bushels of wheat, and will have sur
plus of three million bushels for sale.
More than has been raised in that Sec
ton for twenty years. tyf...- ..-.
The Thomasville (Ga.) Enterprise
says James Millen, a citizen of that
county, was thrown from his horse last
week and had his right shoulder crush
ed and his collar-bone and right arm
broken. His condition is considered
critical.
A few days ago Thomas NJ. Alexan-
der, aged twenty six years, son of DIR.
]. NJ. Alexander, of the firm of Alex