Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-16
SOUTHERN ITEMS.

SOUTHERN ITEMS.
The Catholics of Augusta, Ca, have
raised six thousand dollars for the pur
pose of building parsonage.
Two Century plants, in the garden of
Mr.. Allen, at Tallahassee, Fla, are ex-
pected to bloom this week.
Mrs. DR.. Fl. II. Steiner, wife of the
well known surgeon of Augusta, Ga,
and most esteemed lady, died last
Friday.
In Water Valley, Miss, last Monday,
John Calhoun White, teacher of col
ored school, and colored railroaa hand
named Hunt, exchanged shots, but with
out damage.
Columbus, Ga, had received II, 740
bales of cotton this season, up to Sstur-
day.
Mr.. E. A. Hart, formerly editor of the
Tallahassee (Fla.) Sentinel, died very
suddenly few days ago.
A fire Friday night last at Savannah,
Ca, burned ten frame buildings on Will
liam street, near Fahm, and caused loss
of So, 900.
Several persons were stunned by a
flash of lightning, near Fayetteville,
Ark, ole night last week.
The Charleston NelUS says that the re
mains of John G. Calhoun were exhumed
on Saturday morning last, and replaced in
the vault where they originally reposed.
Jacksonville, Fla, shipped !, 763, 600
feet of yellow pine lumber last week.
VIM. Kimbrew, for many years con-
nected with the police force of Macon,
Ga, died in that city Saturday.
The Charleston Chamber of Commerce
has called convention Of delegates from
every county in South Carolina, in Co.
lumbia, on Tuesday, May 9, to consider
the financial condition of the State.
Capt. C. w. Marshall, of the schooner,
1. a. Edwards, trading toSayannah, was
shot and killed by mistake at Fernandina,
Fla, last week, by man named Moo
ney.
Columbus, Ga, contributed one thou
sand dollars, clear of all expenses, to
those interesting orphans, the Davenport
Brothers.
Mr. VIck's residence, in Pope county,
Ark, was burned recently.
The annual parade of the Macon, Ga
Fire Department takes place On Saturday
next.
Mariana, Fla, has squashes and to-
matoes in full bloom, and cotton large
enough to "chop" out.
The Davis executive mansion at Rich
mond, Va, is being fitted up for public
school purposes by the Board of Educa-
ton, by whom it was purchased.
Mr.. Role, 8 tobacco dealer, was way
laid by three unknown mea ct Atlantis,
Ga, recently, and robbed of three hun
dred dollars in money.
The Berryville CVa) Courier an
nounces the sudden death of Judge ]. 9
Carson. He had been holding County
Court at Winchester on Monday and
Tuesday, ana, in apparent good health,
lert the courthouse on Tuesday evening
and mounted his horse to take ride,
when he was attacked with spoplexy ard
died ia few moments.
The lake City Press says: Gone of
the largest land sinks with which Florida
has been visited occurred within a mile
of this city yesterday. 1t is supposed,
by those who have seen if, to cover at
least two hundred acres of ground.
About one hundred acres of Mr.. Peter
Jernigan's cleared land is now inundated.
The most remarkable feature of this new
lake-fOr a lake 1t isis that it is al
ready inhabited by vast numbers of ALI
gators and fish of all kinds, inciudipG
mutton heads. A visit to ihla link will
repay curiosity"
Montgomery, Ala, is about TO COM
mence the erection of new 800, 600
hotel.
The General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church South will meas al
Huntsville, Ala, on May 20.
Mrs. Maria Thorpe, wife of James
Thorpe, of Henrico county, Va, who
has for some time past been much de-
pressed, hung herself by a rope tied TO
the kitchen jOists at the residence of her
husband on Friday morning.
A party of capitalists propose working
the silver mines of Rutherford county,
North Carolina. Heavy machinery has
also been shipped to that county for the
gold mines of that region.
AT public meeting held at the court
house in Lancaster, S. G., 2 committee
of twenty-one were appointed to wait
upon Gcv. Scott, and after laying before
Kim true and faithful statement of the
case, to ask the removal from Office OF
the County Treasurer, COMMISSIONS of
Elections, Trial Justices and o:h.er county
officers,
There has been q fine run of shad in
the Savannah river within range of
Augusta for several days past, and the
catch has been large. A day or two since
about one thousand shad were exposed to
sale at the markethouse in August.
Prices are letting down, ranging from
thirty to sixty cents.
Texas has s, 800, 900 cattle, consisting
of $4,000 beeves, $780, 900 COWS, and
10000 young cattle. The plains on
which these cattle roam contain about
l52, 900, 900 acres Of ground. The prin-
cipal pasturages are on tie Neuces, Rio
Grande, Guadaloupe, San Antonio, Colo
RADIO, Leon, RrazoS Trinity, Sabine and
Rod ri-roro