The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-03-31
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

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SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
Salem, Virginia, claims to have had
q sulphur shower on the 18th.
7. Z. Lawrence, of Atlanta, Ca,
claims to have drawn a prize of S, 600
in the Kentucky lottery.
Dan. Rice is peregrinating through
Arkansas. He has his entire nose and
several animals with him.
f. A. Mclaughlin, late mOney-order
clerk in the Atlanta post-office, has
been arrested and held to bail for en-
bezzlement.
The delinquency of the Memphis,
Clarksville, and Louisville Railroad,
according to the bill of Tennessee in
chancery, is S2,95S, 795 50.
General J. d. Imboden, of Richmond,
Virginia, was married on the 10Th in>
slant to Miss Annie III. Lockett, the
belle of Mecklenburg.
1t costs ten dollars in Memphis for a
man to 90 into hotel, draw revOl.
yer from his pocket, and threaten to
shoot every woman in the house.
The latest fsweet thing" with the
Memphis ladies is to promenade the
street leading pet goat with blue
ribbon tied around its neck. Go it, Ia
dies,
A fellow named Nimo recently stole
fifty bales of cotton at Jefferson, Texas,
and shipped it New Orleans, but was
gobbled before he could dispose of it.
The young ladies of Atlanta, Ga,
have resolved to refuse the addresses
of all young men who don't wear
"shiny, silk plug hats" Nothing is
said about bricks in 'em.
The Talladega (Alabama) Debating
Society has laid down the dictum that
no woman should talk about "rights"
until she can show a clean and healthy
boy baby. Sensible.
A negro woman in the throes of
childbirth was shot through the head
and instantly killed by her husband,
near Greenport, on the coosa, rlver, a
few days ago. How is that for Ku-
Klux?
The Senatobia Miss Times says
that the imported negro school-teach-
ers in that section are speculatInS IN
the scnool-books, requiring purchasers
to pay double their original cost. Is
there no way to put stop to these
swindling operations?
Quite serious difficulty occurred at
Cross Plains, Alabama, on "Wednesday
the 10Th, in which Mr.. Keith was shot
through the thigh, j. Neighbors in the
arm, S. Keith badly cut on the head
with pistol, a horse shot, and several
bad bruises given.
The Atlanta True Georgian hOists
the names of John 4. Hoffman, for
President, and John b. Gordon for
Governor of Georgia. The same paper
has a department headed "Bullock's
Column which is simply a blank of
waste paper. This is too much OF
muchness.
The cotton excess reached $40,
bales last Friday night, AMI the total
receipts of the cotton year footed up
3,I53,517. The estimates now are con-
siderably in excess of four millions.
Gentlemen, raise plenty of corn and
meat this year.-Macon (Ga.) Messen-
ger.
A school teacher named Kent, near
PIT. Pleasant, Va, recently reprimapd-
ed one of his pupils, young Sturgeon.
Last Friday Sturgeon procured club
wayIaid Kent and struck him OH the
back of the head, killing him instantly.
The murderer has not been arrested.
At fashionable restaurant in Men,
phis there are several boarders who eat
raw beef, mutton, etc., preferring 1t TO
cooked food. They claim with some
force that it is no more Objectionable
than eating raw oyster, and insist that
it is healthier and more palatable in a
fresh state.
The Mobile Tribune of the 10Th says:
ave are informed that a little negro
child, about seven years of age, was
burned to death in an old field near Mr..
Tabayan's place, ON Cottage Hill road,
about week since, by the grass taking
fire and overtaking her before she could
make her escape. When the body was
found the flesh was entirely crisped."
+. The Ocala (Fla.) Banner has this:
sThe readers of the early history of
Florida will remember that DeSoto
found pearls common ornament
among the natives. Where they came
from was mystery until now unsolv-
ed. DIR. Kidder, of Sumner county, has
the honor of being the discoverer of the
secret. He found the muscles of the
lakes to contain many pearls-out OF
one shell he obtained eighty-four
pearls, and altogether he has collected
three thousand, which have been sent
to the Smithsonian Institute for exam
ination.n
Judge M. j. Turnkey, one of the most
esteemed citizens of Jacksonville, came
very near losing his life at the hands of
Young man named Marshall in Cen
ter, Alabama, some days ago. The
Judge had had successful lawsuit
with the father of young Marshal, a
fact that so exasperated the young man
| that he determined on the assassination
of the Judge. He took his position,
armed, at the court house door to carry
his threat into execution; but Judge
Turnkey not happening to pass that
way, the young ruflian approached him
while sitting at supper in the hotel,
within six inches of Judge Us face,
and endeavored to fire. The pistol was
| knocked from his hand, and the bloody
! intent frustrated. Marshall made his
1 escape i'm the confusion.
In an article lately published in the
/ Mobile Register, the figures show that
| the production of corn in the South
paws better than it does inthe North.
True, our yield per acre is nYt so large
vet the greater value of TIE product
overbalanees all shortco31ehgs on that
score. The report of tbs Commission
ers of Agriculture for 1859 shows that
the average yield of corn per acre in
Alabama that year was fifteen bushels,
and the average price at which it was
sold was 81 Is per bushel. In Illinois,
the great corn State of the Union, the
average yield to. the acre was twenty
three bushels, and the average price
per bushel 90 cents. This shows that
Alabama made per acre Sl7 10, and
Illinois Sl3, IL; leaving balance of So, :
99 in favor of Alabama. The small
yield in the South is attributed good
deal to neglect and bad culture. Corn
is secondary always to cotton.-Mont-
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