The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-09-30
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

0VUIHEkN MEND lIEHS.
Under the new charter of San An
tonic, Texas, all species of gaming is
forbidded. iCF9 1
The drinking public of Montgomery
is starving to death-not a drop OF
lager in the city. sai- eea i.i1 1
The census reveals the fact that
there are great many more marriage
able young gentlemen than young La |
dies in the Bluff City, g 's''i'i':y
l Atlanta, Ga, is in trouble over the !
proposed sale and closing up of the
Railroad Park in center of that city.
The new, Raleigh. On. CO. market
house cost the city some $4,000. Its
rents amount to about 200, S2,lO0
of which goes to pay the market
officers. ao'.l 49, -, &
On the 9th inst. the infant child of
Mr.. r. .Trice,'a prominent merch-
ant of Verona, Miss, was thrown in
to cistern and drowned by its nurse,
who had become tired of her, charge.
During the last commercial year
$4,000 bales of cotton. were Shipped
from Memphis to Liverpool direct, by
the National Steamship, Line, the
agent in that city giving through bills
lading. A large increase is expected
this year. sih 40. f. i''i. ~.
On tie morning OF the Sd, two fish
ermen caught i'm the river, near Haw-
kinsville, Ga, the largest sturgeon
| that has ever been brought to that
town within, the memory of some of.
its Oldest citizens. This huge fish was
thought to weigh considerable over
200 pounds. sae 81 .a of9ag
There was a cat in KANSAS City that
gave gratuitous serenades to senti-
mental people and then took its pay
from the larder of its Disguised audi
tors. = A man the other night killed
| it. its owner killed the man., and now
the law is about to slay the owner.
New Orleans has a. street-sweeping
! machine which was tested on Thurs
day afternoon OH Canal street, on that
part of the MAIN thoroughfare where
| it reaches from sidewalk. 1t cleaned
about ten feet at a. time, and BY re-
peated sweepings collected the dirt at
each end of the street. 'a -
T. w. Evans, the jailer and deputy
sheriff ut Opelousas, La, was summar-
| ily executed by citizens, few days
ago, for numbering Col. j. G. Hays in
the Jail at that place. Hays was fire.
quently warned against Evans, who
| was showing much apparent kindness
to his prisoner, but refused TO enter
tain any suspicious. ,ua-r .gr- isuoi
The fair of the State Agricultural
: Society of Georgia will be held, at
Oglethropc Park, Atlanta, beginning
Wednesday, October 18th, and closing
Saturday, Ortober, 18th. The society
have taken great pains and expense to
make this fair at Atlanta eclipse all
: former ones, and from the many in
: ducements held out we anticipate as
much. i"h-"" ''- 'e'' /
While playing poker in New ;Ofl-
cans, Mr.. O'Neil got four aces and 9
, king, and bet hundred dollars, and
, because Mr.. Smith called him and
showed five aces, the former gentle
man carved him with knife. Mos
e all the gamblers attended the funeral
and by their presence, showed thai
they approved of having nine aces IL
pack Of cards. .',' ~. -, ~.
AboutS o'clock, the night of tht
10th inst, difficulty occurred on thu
plantation of Me- J. III. Carter, of New
u Orleans, below that city, between two
men, named Madison Williams ant
Reuben Jones, Hias Ross, in which
: the latter assaulted and killed thu
!, former by stabbing him three times
4 1t was the result Of a previous quarre
: the same day between the parties.
A patriotic German citizen in Au
: gusta, Georgia, recently displayed TIN
: German flag from his residence ii
!. honor of the Prussian victories. APP
palled by the unfamiliar colors, thu
impression fastened upon a humble
S of apprehensive Fifteenth amend
: ments" that the flag was significan
of warning against smallpox. Ac
J. cordingly, the report was put in circu
: lation that horrible case of small
:, pox had developed itself on the prem
u ises, resulting in general demorall
!; cation OF the colored population.
u Miss Rogers, about fifteen years O
> age. daughter ofBen Rogers, of Cher
okee county, North Carolina, Will
y handling an old pistol, last week, &C
c cidentally discharged it while tn
i muzzle was in the direction OF he
y head. The bail entered her face nea
s the left eye and passed out at the bac
e of her head, causing Instant death.
; Isaac Bull, one of the defenders Q
n Baltimore in 1914, died at his resi-
~ dence. near ChestertowH, Md, on tn
D. 18th inst, aged seventy-eight year;
e, He had been in the habit OF dinin
= with his brother veterans on the LIT
l. of September for years past, but abou
g the time the remnant of the gallan
n band were dining on Monday the re
n mains of the deceased were being con
G signed to the tomb. n az IN ast
" In Baltimore, Thursday little so
of Levi Smith, Esq, while in all up
Is per room to himself, obtained DO
of matches, and in amusing himsel
= with them his clothing caught tirt
n enveloping him in flames, in W nc
l. state he ran down stairs into an ale!
IS where he fell writing in the creates
l. agony. The little sufferer was take
:, up and conveyed. into the house, an
e medical attention summoned, but h
|, died in the course of an hour, bcin
y burnt i'm horrible manner.
J. Some workmen engaged in digging
cuIyert in RICHMOND, Va, Of
: Wednesday, on reaching depth
It three feet below the surface, cam
n across portions o. skeleton, sup
: posed, from the ,thiceness OF the skull
: to be that of a negro. Only the large
C bones, such as the skull, thigh and hi