The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-01-13
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

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The population Of Maryland under
the new census is 79O,0a5, an Increase
of To-, ,ae6 in the last ten years.
II. Bayse, or Dyersburg, Tenn,
has obtained patent for preserving
sweet potatoes. Dave Dugger, Of To-
lumbia, Tenn, has q sweet potato pat
ent also. County rights for sale.
= The Nfillennial Harbinger, publica-
ton established by Bishop Campbell at
Panhandle, West Virginia, about forty
years ago, is to be discontinued with
the current number. 7e
Nat. Bowman, who was charged with
being accessory to the murder.Of James
Church, the stranger who was so hor-
ribIy butchered in JonesbOrO, Tenn,
one night last summer, was. ON the
10th inst, acquitted by the jury, there
being no positive evidence of his COIN
plicity in the matter. 1
The ailanthus tree is now coming
into notice in this country as furnish
ing iood for the cynthia worm, which
produces superior quality of silk. In
India and China the ailanthus has
long been highly esteemed as supply
ing the food for this worm, from whose
cocoous the well-known foulard silks
have been manufactured.
Some years ago, New Bedford, Mass,
had o peculiar temperance society,
limited to thirty members. Its exis-
tence has just been discovered. Its ad-
mission fee was S.; and one of the reg
l.ulations was, that, if one of the mem-
bers got tight, he should be carried
home in wheelbarrow and pay a fine
| of fifty cents. Each additional time
he was caught, fifty cents more was
added. AS they were set of jovial
fellows, the treasury Was always full.
An order of the board Of directors for
the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio rail-
| road has povided for an immediate
| survey of the route for its Virginia and
Kentucky link, and one of the most
skilled and accomplished engineers as
signed to the duty. The tents for tho
use of the party have arrived at Lynch.
| burg, and the brick house on Scott
street, Gsodson, belonging to the conn
pany, will soon be vacated for their
use. The old location will not he adj
hered to where q better one can be
found, and we understand that many
important and salutary departures
! from ii will be made. 1t is impossible
that work ON the roadl-bed can be CONF
menccd before May, 1871. Hea-
On Friday last, says the Taboro n.
I c. Southcrner, q serious affray took
place at schoOi-hOuse in Martin coun-
ty, near the residence of w. w. purvis,
the particulars of which, 80 far as we
have been able to learn, are as follows :
| the melee, James Lee, = grown student,
during play time, angrily struck with a
! whip several times little girl named
Taylor. The next morning, III. ID.
| Taylor, brother to the little girl, went
to the school -llouse accompanied by q
younger brother, the former armed
with a navy pistol, and the latter with
a b:g hickory stick, and inquiring fOr
I Lee, asked If it was true that he had
! whipped his sister the day before, tu
which Lee replied in the affirmative
Taylor Immediately collared Lee, anu
drawing his pistol, told his brother u
Law ON with bis stick, which he did. i'll
! fiicting several heavy blows. As. Lee
attempted to pick up stick for his de
fense, Taylor fired on him, the bal
barely missing several of the children
he immediately repea.su slle siio. |, ia,
inctlng very Painiui nesn Wouao .
through the iower pars ol l.e ehiSn
Lee was carried 20 ms ialner house
wheh VI. uAlssy Was caiie" 'o aho
properly uressed 'he Woalds.
The Richmond News mas the follow.
ing account of death from alcohol,
rojsoning On last Saturday a negrt
how named Joseph Ellis, a resident o
Manchester. was suddenly seized with
a violent spelI of vomiting, which
! Continuing for an hour or more, in spite
of every effort to check it. ended onI,
I with the death of its victim. The sud
denness of the attack. and its fatal ter.
mjnstion. shrouded the case i'm myste.
nv, and Suspicious of foul play grow.
inc rife. Justice Martin Summoned 8
iurv of inauest to view the BODY. No.
Thing being ELECTED from the oral tes.