The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-02-03
SOUTHERN MEMS ITEMS.

a recent fire at Plattsburg, Mo-, de-
stroyed $50, 600 worth of property.
The rice crop of South Carolina fol
IS70-7l is estimated at 2S,0J0 casks,
being thirty-one bushels to an acre OF
23, $40 acres.
One manager Of the late elections III
South Carolina, for neglecting his duty
goes to Jail for six months, and another
for nine.
There is 4 great deal of cotton still
unpicked in many parts OF North Car
olina. One planter alone has one hum
dred bales in the fields.
The sheriff of Fairfax county, Va,
resigned because his duties required him
TO oeXecute the orders of court infiIcting
stripes upon offenders.
Its announced that some Of the Mis-
souri, agricultural lands will he ready
for-sale or lease by the lst of March.
There are in all 2i0, 600 acres.
The fortification bill recently passed by
Congress appropriates S25, 900 for Fort
Mouitrie and like sum for Fort Sum-
ter. These appropriations are just half
the amount recommended by the chief
of engineers.
A Ramie Planting and AIanufactur-
ing Company has been organized in
New Orleans for the purpose of manu-
featuring fabrics to be woven from the
fiber of the ramie plant. The company
have elected officers and purchased a
plantation.
It's feared that the seed cane in Louis
lana was seriously injured by the De
cember frost. Tie upright ricks were
more frosted than the fiat mass and
windrowed seed. Some planters are
grinding their upright or round ricks.
The upper portion of the mats must
have suffered severely. The sugar crop
of 1871 must necessarily be short.
The Savannah News says that the
leading commission merchants III Col
umbia have resolved that after the lst
of March next they will not credit out
sunplies to planters who may be IN
debicd TO other business houses for ac-
conlInodations extended during the
past or previous years. 1t Is probable
that a similar movement will be inau-
gurated in all the principal cities.
Bv deed lately executed in New
Hampshire village the buyer bound
himselfto to give suitable maintenance
to the seller through his natural life,
TO pay him s. 30 annually on the lst OF
SepteInber TO keep him in tobacco, "and
the other ncccssariCS Of life" and TO
rive him decent burial at his death.
In the Legislature of Florida, several
days ago, Jesse Robinson, colored
man, gave notice that he would contest
the seat of !. c. Mclean, Conservative,
from jackson county. The Assembly
was notified 10y him that he withdrew
the contest, but the majority refused to
allow such an unusual proceeding as a
Republican declining 10 claim seat to
which he had not been elected, anu re-
ferred the matter by solemn votetH the
Committee on Elections.
In June, 1716, DR.. Thomas Walker,
of Virginia, who had been His Majesty
George the Thirds colonial surveyor,
while surveying lands in that part of
Virginia, now Kentucky, lost his sur
veyor's hatchet, marked on the helve
with his initials, az. w." and in his
diary recorded his loss, which diary is
now in the possession Of his grand
daughter. Mrs. w. G. Riyes. Some
few wears ago that hatchet was found,
minus the handle, at the place where
three-fourths of n century ago it had
been lost, and ii was returned to the
late Hon. w. c. Rives. Probably 10
foot had trod over that tract from the
time of the survey I'LL the day OF finding
the lonr-lost surveyors hatchet.