The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-03-17
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Virginia made $1,000 gallons of fruit
brandy last year.
THERE'S still q large amount of cotton
ungathered in Amite county, Missis-
sippi.
| A man was fined round sum in
Petersburg, Va, recently for failing to
commit suicide.
The only female editor in Mississippi
is Miss Piney w. Forrest, who controls
the Liberty Advocate.
The Louisiana State fair las been
postpoP ed until November 18th, 1871.
Mr.. Payne, an old Texan, died re-
Gently in Denton county, at the adj
vanced age of lis years. III
Col. j. w. Hill, of Marbutt, Giles
county, Tennessee, was taken from his
house several days ago and maltreated
by disguised men. .,rF 81.
Hon. A. III. Stephens was able to
walk in his garden with the aid of his
erutches on Sunday last, for the first
time since December last.
Gen. VIM. Moore, an old soldier of
Jackson's army and q prominent DEM
ocrat in Tennessee, died at Tullahoma,
Jackson county, Of that State, last
Friday. s-'--,.-...-... -. -
A yawl boat was recently carried
across Cape Fear, off Washington, N
C., the motive power being large kite
the string of which was held by two
persons in the boat aforesaid.
1t is understood that Capt j. L.
Breese, lately Treasurer of Col. Ames
circus, has fallen heir to quite fortune
In Luzerne county, Pa. The Captain
is now in New Orleans.
Several negroes have died recently
in mysterious manner in Memphis
and vicinity, and tales of poison and
VOudoism float through the superstiti-
ous minds Of the colored people.
A Virginia "nayvieo recently fell in
to the river, was rescued in an uncon-
scious state, taken to q neigh5oring
farm house, and provided with dry
clothes by the inn ates. On his recov-
cry, he quietly walked off with the
borrowed garments. a
Gov. Warmo..., of Louisiana, while
upon an excursion down the river last
Wednesday met with a most painful
accident, his right foot having been
badly torn and crushed by becoming
entaDgled in the machinery of the little
harbor police boat H. G. Warmoth. on |
which he had taken passage.
Five X. KS were arrested i'm WASH |
ingtOn county, Georgia, last week, and |
are now boarding at the Sundersville |
jail. They are all negroes. They no. |
titled another negro, who didn't please |
them, that they We're coming to pay,
him visit, and he called in help, and |
when they appeared, bagged the whole |
party. HHc a "a |
While a carpenter named Gracy, a
resident Of Dongview, Texas, was
quietly seated in q store, stranger |
stepped behing him, placed DerrinSer |
to his head and instantly blew his
brains out. The murderer was arrested |
and placed under q strong guard. The
only cause assigned for the crime is
that the murdered man refused to take
q drink with his assassin. |
The Texas Frontiersman says: "Our
friend Woodturn, who has Just return
ed from trip to Llano, Mason and
other frontier counties, informs us that
parties have recently discovered gold
deposits in Llano county, and that
there is some excitement in that sec
lion in reference thereto. Several old
Spanish mines and works have been
discovered, and besides an abundance
Of iron, gold, silver and lead has been
found. He learned that q company
with q capital of S115,0OO, has been
formed, and were soon to commence
work at these mines.u
S. w. Dale, an old printer of Mon
icello, Miss, claims to have invented
IN improvements on the band-press.
A Texan paper reports that since last
September, 119,0OO immigrants from
tennessee and Georgia, with 1854
wagons have entered the "Lone Star"
State, and that this is bat part of the
great tide wave Of population flowing
to the southwest. II is noticeable that
4 large number of freedmen are remov-
ing from the northern and the border
States to supply the vacant places of
The white people leaving the Older cjt-
on States. /
They have little girl in Williams
own, Mass who is irregular bird and
lnimal charmer. The birds come to
Ter feet for crumbs when she sings, and i,
ofcats and dogs are almost
besfegiDg her house for the
they know she will not
efuse.