The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-06-10
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

OBJECT, Out the negOtI8Dlo prOmlSSOry-
notes of responsible men have been.
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
Macon and Brunswick, Ga, are uni
ted by telegraph.
| One cigar factory in Atlanta employs
twenty-five hands.
A new town hall and Masonic hall
are to be erected in Washington, Ga.
The Good Templars of Jackson,
Ala, want a dispensatiOn to drink la
ger.
The President has nominated Chas.
G. Grove, of Alabama, for Secretary
of Utah.
PeytOn Lyle, an old citizen of Mon
roe county, Miss, died suddenly one
day last week.
The poor house farm of Prairie coun-
ty, Arkansas, was sold recently under
an execution.
The Bainbridge (Ga.) San says at
least forty additional houses are needed
to complete that town.
An accident OH the South Carolina
Railroad, on Saturday last, resulted i'm
smashing four carloads of molasses.
The coffin business is wretchedly..bad
at Macon, Ga, and undertakers talk OF
emigrating.
Canton, Mississippi, saloon keepers
charge two bits per charge for rifle
whisky.
A woman near Corpus Christi, Tex
as, gave birth recently to one male and
three female children All are doing
as well, etc.,
The Virginia House of Delegates has
passed q bill providing artificial limbs
| for citizens of the Commonwealth who
lost their limgs in the late war.
Hot Springs, Arkansas, is in. daily
| expectation of the arrival of two dis
tinguished visitors Fiske, Jr., and
Heenan, the Benicia Roy. How is
that for high? q" .E.
The steam mill o: Messrs. Eskridge
and Dale, one mile east of Charleston,
Mississippi, was destroyed by fire re-
Gently, and is total loss. The fire
was the result of accident.
A convention of all the counties in
/
| Road is called to meet at Bentonyille,
Ark, OH the 9th of June.
The Gate City laundry, i'm Atlanta,
Ga, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday,
involving a loss of $4,000. The con-
Germ had just been put in operation.
An alligator-gar seven and a half
feet long, and weighing one hundred
and fifty pounds, was caught in the
Bigbee river, near Demopoiis, last
week.
Policeman Hester shot and killed s.
NJ. Mccoy, of Howard, in Calvert,
Texas, on Thursday last. The citizens
think it a cold-bloOded murder.
Rev. Father Ryan, the distinguished
Catholic divine, preached his farewell
sermon in Augusta, Ga, on Sunday
last, and will leave on Saturday for
Europe.
The cultivation of fruit i'm the vicini-
ty of Norfolk, Va, has become almost
entirely limited to Strawberries. The
extensive peach-orchards of former
years have died out and no pains taken
to replace them. The number of acres
in strawberries this season is represent
ed to be about twelve hundred.
The West Point (Ga.) ihiCld says
there is great complaint among the
farmers OH account of poor stands of
cotton, it having failed to come up on
account of the dry weather. The
stand>of corn is pretty good, but it is
suffering for rain. The oat crop, on
account of the. drOuth, will prove a
failure, even should rain come imme-
diately. Wheatis also suffering.
The eolored people of Richmond are
much disturbed by their failure to hear
from their brethren who have emigra-
ted to the South to work on railroads
and i'm the cotton fields. They imag-
inc all kinds of dreadful things. The
colored churches have taken the mat
ter in hand, and it is proposed to send
a commission through the Southern
country to discover what is the real
fate of the lost tribe that has wandered
away. s--..-
Mr.. J. B. Jeup, President Of the Ten
nessee Homestead Association, has
bought, i'm the aggregate, 5000 acres
of land in Tennessee, settled forty-five
families, and made provision for three
hundred German families altogether.
The immigration comes from the farm.
ing districts of Ohio, Indiana and Illi-
nOis, and some of it from Europe di-
rect. The settlements are chiefly in
Lawrence, Lewis and Giles counties,
and the pursuits of the immigrants are
rnainly fruit culture and raising OF
stock.
Peter Shine, a sable representative OF
| the colored aristocracy of South Caro-
lima, was arrested i'm Savannah on Sat
urday and committed to Jail by Justice
Jones upon a charge of cheating and
swindling. Peter was very indignant
at such treatment, and suggested that
such an outrage would not be tolerated
by the loyal people of South Carolina,
and said that the Militia would make
short work in such case. Peter halls
from the Beaufort district, where he
holds the important position of County
Sheriff.
awe need" gays the Huntsville
(Ala.) Democrat, "at least one cotton
and wool factory here in Huntsville, q
paper factory, a factory of coOper's
ware, shingle factory, an establish
Inent for seasoning wood by kiln-dry-
ing for the various purposes of cabinet
work, house-building, and carriage and
wagon-making. For these and every
one of these enterprises there is an
opening the raw materials and facili-
ties of manufacture are at hand or ca
silly available, the demand for the fab
rics great, the markets certain anC
easy of access" s.-
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