The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-11-04

i SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
stokes county, North Carolina, has
fOrty.two tobacco factories.
A band of Swedes has settled down
IN the vicinity Of Austin, Texas.
Columbia, South Carolina, Is making
bSick by steam. X fatl =
! A number of magnificent residences
are being builtin Chattanooga. T..
The largest -sqasshes Tennessee
are raised on the mountain near Ber-
sheba.
A project is on foot in New Orleans
to organize Lee Monumental Associ.
alton, s.Sssssss.-s-ress-~-7--ss-
| Amillion dollars is Sfobiie,s estimate
of her loss by the yellow fever. There
have been l34 deaths. - III .fs.i ~
1t is said that the best and most ex-
tensiye deposit of slate In the United
States is in Polk county, Georgia.
I AT 8 party in Columbus, Ga, q few
nights ago, one set OF dancers was COM
posed Of ladies and gentleman, not one
Of whom was under fifty years Of age.
| ]. A former slave of the Davis family,
named Montgomery, has received
Prize for the best bale Of long -stapled
cottop delivered at New Orlea. -.
Work is progressing on the Indiano-
In tTe1asf railroad, bat labor il limited.
dred additional laborers. =, -. - -.
David Graham, Esq, one OF the old
est. and most prominent citizens Of
southwest Virginia, died at his resi-
dence, in Wythe county, on Sunday
! merniDg last s..- .tsEel LaE ysa-.iiE
The tobacco crop of North Cardlins
is universally pronouneedthe best, both
in quantity and quality, that our PLAN
tiers have been favored with for years.
i 1t is thought that Gen. G.. w. Custis
| Lee, now professor in the Virginia
Military Institute, will be elected to
succeed his illustrisus father as Presi-
dent of Washington College, s-1 E'ds
| The venerable Mr.. J. Frost, a we'll
known Georgian, who was born and
raised near Atlanta, and who is said to
be over over one hundred and twenty
years of age, was in that city on Thurs
day. He was looking well and hearty
and still enjoys excellent health.
n revival of the old giories of the ST.
Charles, in New Orleans, is promised.
The house has been leased for term Of
ten years 10 Messrs. Rivers & Foley,
who intend to have 1t thoroughly re-
novated and refitted. A. T. Stewart OF
New York, is to do the furnishing.
At q Columbus Ca marble yard
there is solid block OF marble which
is 10 be dug out, metallic coffin placed
therein, and the whole, after corpse
is deposited within It, to be hermetrical-
ly scaled above ground. 1t has been
ordered by gentleman in Barbour
couaty, Ala. ..-f-... ~.
Last week little child of Mr.. AcAfee,
living in East Knoxville, Tennessee,
died from the effect of a bite inflicted
by spider about ten days previous. 1t
was bitton on the finger, which soon
swelled, when the swelling rapidly ex-
tended through the arm and whole
body, which assumed the appearance
of having been blistered. = ~,
A gentleman who has. made an ex-
tended trip through Southside, Virgin
ia, asserts that, in upper Greensville,
Brunswick, Halifax and Mecklenburg,
the tobacco crop surpas.5es any he has
seen since his b0yhood.. The Chatham
Tribune tPittsylvania county, says the
farmers are busily engaged in cutting
the finest crop Of tobacco ever raised in
that section.
n gentleman OF San Francisco, who
bas been and is identified with the for
wariing OF Chinese laborers, to the
Southern States, says that the total
number of Cinnamon sent across the
continent Is now about z, 200. They are
engaged i'm railroad work and on cotton
and rice plantations, the wages being
S26 to $50 per month, gold, boarding
themselves, or SIC to S18 receiving ra-
tions. The movement, however, is
only inits infancy, and during the COM
ing winter and spring it is expected |
that large numbers will be forwarded. |
The deaths by yellow fever in New |
Orleans are as follows: Week ending |
August IS, 5: weeking September 4, /;
week ending September ii, 10; week |
ending September Is, 90 week ending |
September 25, 20; week ending Oeto-
Der Q, 50; ", elk ending October 9, 81;
week ending October Is, so. Eighty |
nine deaths in one week was the high
est point reached, and from that the /
number Of deaths has already fallen to |
sixty. II is reasonable to presume that
there will continue to be 3 gradual de
crease. -i-. a ---
The Auetin Journal has this to say of
migration to Texas: "Within the last
week we Lave seen as many as fifty
wagons, loaded with immigrants from
Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana and
Tennessee, pass through our streets for
the cheap lands near our frontier. The
people are we'll dressed and seam to be
In comfortable circumstances, have
painted wagons, and fine
teams of horses and mules. Now that
the ranger force has begun to operate
on the border, there will be some prac-
tical protection, and the fine counties
Of Llano, Mason, San Saba and others
will blossom with an energetic and civ
ilized people,
The census Will show Tennessee to
be the heaI'hiest State in the Union.
There were 30 few deaths, compara-
lively, during the year ending June
1, that note Of explanation will have
to be forwarded, to the department
at Washington 10 convince it that all
dne diligence has been used to obtain
the proper mortuary returns. Tan
nessee being at once one of the most
healthy and productive States in the |
Union, there is no reason why its
growth should not be rspiu and
throughout progressive.-BanRer.
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Thrilling Incident.