The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-07-22
VOL. .XV.---NO. 4S.
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Lice are killing the cotton I'm Sum
ter county, Georgia .,.,1 ol.,-...,
Texas wishes that, like Georgia, sht
was" out in the cold" -. 3I,'.r. ..s
Colonel Davis Cockrell, of the Pea
body Hotel, Memphis, has retired
rom 1t. zgi-ouu1 --5.. ..i r,-..r., ...-t.
The two gas companies of New Or
leans are fighting for the right to light
the city. ~ .',..., -. +. -
General John b., Hood Is now the
happy father of three girls; two of them
tWlnS.i 7p1Uo-' ..g5d vs- .t..-...r. So.
The cotton crop of Marshall county
Miss3 it Is feared, will not be an aver
age one. Too much rain. .-fi .t-,.
Clarksville, Tennessee, had two
headed baby the other night, which
lived there only twenty minutes.
Germans of ofSavannah, Georgia, have
formed a society under the name of
"The German Immigrant Aid Society
of Georgia." -r,. ..u.,-' -.
A Huntsville (Alabama) fiddler fid-
died a queer looking snake out of his
hole, and held him down with his fid-
die. Fiddledeedee. 'r: -st
The trustees of Oglethorpe college
have purchased the Lyons house in
Atlanta, Ga, for the use of the college,
at cost of $4,000. f- .r,.
The many friends of Hon. g. A.
Henry, the eagle orator of Tennessee,
will be pleased 10 learn that he is now
in a fair way to recover his health.
From all that can be learned an AL
eXandria lady carried off the palm for
beauty at the late commencement ex-
ercises of the University of Virginia.
Mr.. Abel C. Vail, a well known citi-
zen of Milledgeville, Georgia, died on
Friday morning, aged sixty-six years.
He had lived in Macon and Miliedge-
vile over thirty years. -
Gen. Lofihg writes to Gen. Lowry,
of Brandon, Miss, that he likes the
service of the Viceroy of Egypt very
much. Gen. Loring is q brigadier gen.
eral in the Egyptian army. r...r7ts-
Two young ladies, daughters of b. F..
johnson, living near Dallas, Texas, are
cultivating with their own fair hands
twenty-four acres of cotton. Their
crop is the best in the country.
The Panola Miss Star, of the 9th,
says the yield of wheat is proving very
fine. Apples and peaches will be
scarce this season. ,s.,.sf ..FF
b. t. Higginbotham, planter of
CatahOula parish, La, was murdered,
on the 4th inst, by some unknown per-
son.
By the new militia law of Texas ev-
cry man must enroll himself either in
the State palice, or the militia, or pay
SIS exemption.
Mr.. Marion Baker, of the editorial
staff of the New Orleans Picayune, has
left for summer trip North i'm search
Of health.
Joseph E. Anderson, who lived eigh-
teen miles from Danviile, Va, was
murdered OIL Monday night by parties
unknown. The deceased was an old
citizen. ,..- .....-.
e. b. Strickland, arrested on suspi-
ciOn of being the party who shot and
killed Merideth Roberts, was tried at
Homer, La, the other day and acquit-
ted. o.. . -.
A Mrs. Gordon, of Norfolk county,
va, uleu III NOIIOlk, n IeW uayS since,
from the effects of chloroform admins
tered by a quack doctor for the tooth
ache.
w. T. S. Pugh, an old citizen of Mad
isOn parish, La, died the, other day
He served in a Madison company dur
ing the war, and was much esteemed
as q citizen. 80 q
In franklin parish, La, DIR. w. w.
Lee and G. III. Dunn got into dispute
about the height of cotton, i'm which
Lee was shot through the breast, al
though not fatally. .... ..
Ed. Stapp and Tody Clifford, of Gal
weston, Texas, who lately went with a
party buffalo-hunting, were cut off by
the Indians and are supposed to have
been killed.
]. B. Stanley, living ON the Big-creek
road, near Memphis, found it necessa-
ry to shoot negro on Friday night at
his own house, whom he found i'm his
yard, and who tried to kill him with a
stick ......