The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-01-20
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Hogs root up the Mobile sidewalks.
Nayasota, Texas, is crammed with
cotton.
a single band of Indians, Oh a raid
i'll Texas, carried OIL 800 head of horses.
Adams county, Mississippi, has vo-
ted $500, 900 to aid in building the Jack
son and Natchez railroad.
In Boston it IS now the style for
young ladies to be accompanied on the
streets by their maids, la Paris.
The census shows that North Caroli-
ma has gained 70,005 inhabitants during
the last ten years, and now has pop
ulation of ,072,000.
One day last week, Mr.. Cornelius
Gleason, a brakeman On the Philadel-
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore rail-
road, was run over by passenger train
near Chester, Maryland, and instantly
killed.
The laborers on the ruins of the
Spottswood Hotel have discovered the
remains of Captain Hines, who, after
rescuiDg two persons from the burning
building, lost his own life in the attempt
to rescue third.
Col. Walter Harrison, late chief of
staff of Pickett's celebrated division of
the Confederate army, died in Rich
mond, on Thursday, from the dropsy
of the chest. He was well known
throughout the army of Northern Vir-
ginia, and in the State generally, and
the announcement of his death will
cause deep regret in the heart of many
a sorrowing comrade in arms.
The bill before the Virginia House of
Delegates to authorize the people of
Augusta county (outside of the town of
Stanton), to vote on the question of a
subscription of $780, 600 to the Valley
railroad was defeated one day last
week, but it was to be reconsiderei,
with the hope and belief that it pass.
1t would be a strange thing, indeed, to
deny a people the right to vote on an
appropriation of their own means for
their own benefit.
One of the favorite modes thus far is
for planters to make contracts which
provide that the farmer shall furnish
land, stock and utensils, give the negro
| one-half the crop, and the freedman
| to agree to share half the current eX-
penses of the plantation. 1t is reported
that this plan Ras been generally adop-
| ted.
Miss Ada Mosby, Il sister of Col.
John :. Mosby, died at the residence OF
her father, in Bedford county, recently.
1t is said that Georgia has has recu-
perated more rapidly since the close OF
the war than any Southern State, and
her planters are in better condition than
| those of any other State. She has con.
sumed more commercial manure in the
| last four years thauall the rest of the
| cotton States combined.
Miss Lizzie Van Lew, Postmistress oi
Richmond, Va, has decided that the
frank of a Congressman will not carry
| a letter mailed at that office, when she
| has reason to believe that the Congress-
man is not in the city. That is, she
| means to stop the bad practice indul-
ged i'm by some Radical congressman
who furnish franked envelopes to theil
| friends therein order to cheat the
Government and save their postage.
A centlemon of Richmond, Va, well
| known as skillful draughtsman, has
| made a plan for city in the sea. 1t is
| one of his hobbies that the scheme i,
| entirely feasible and practicable, and
| that such a city would have many adj
yantages, not only for the prosecu.
| tion of commercial pursuits, but for al
the business of life. He has laid it of
| into streets, squares and parks, and sur
rounded il with rows of beautiful ant
| stately trees. His idea as to how it cal
be protected from the violence of storms
and the action of waves is novel in tn,
extreme, and at least merits the atten
ton of CYRUS w. Field, who is propos
ing stations i'll mid sea for the suppor
of his cable.
Financial affairs in Virginia are rep
resented to be in a deplorable condition
Asa general thing. business is PROSTATE
and the people are very gloomy, being
very desirous of emigrating West
Many ylandholders express willingness
to sell their estates at any price to rails,
money for this purpose. Those who
have attempted to locate in the Stat,
claim that this is but the natural resul
of the policy pursued by many people
who have discouraged Northern emf
grafton in every possible manner. A
! the close Of the war there was stons
mayement OF small farmers of Penn
sylvania ahd other Northern States t.
Northern and Central Virginia, VIII,
purchased lands in those localities il
considerable quantities. That move
ment has now been thoroughly check
ed, and those who bought with the in
tention of permanent settlement ar
now most anxious TO sell. In many in
stances land within a few miles O
Washington are offered at much lowe
rates than in the Western States.
is predicted that both from North Car
olina and Virginia there will be larg
migration westward when the seasol
opens. The localities which will secur
the most of this population will b
. Southern Illinois, Missouri and Kansas