The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1872-03-21
SOuth ern News,

through the Sputh.
South Carolina has only 7O5,GO6 in
habitants.
TIE Meridian Miss kuklux trials
are still dragging YEARLY along.
The couyicts in the Texas peniten-
tiary are put TO work on the railroads.
Memphis has nearly three hundred
lawyers and eighty-ive physicians
which goes to show that the Men
phiuns are more careful Of their pockets
than their lives,
A Mr.. Hughes, All old citizen uf
Huntsville, Ala, died recently from the
effects Of poison imbibed while skinning
u COW which had been attacked with the
murrain.
In three States Of the South the ne
groes outnumber the whites by large
maiorities. In Mississippi che majority
is 61,305; in Louisiana, 2,l45; and IN
South Carolina, 1904
The Savannah and Memphis railroad
is completed, says tho Columbus (Ga.,)
Sun, to a point twenty-seyen and a half
miles from Opehka. This road comes
direct to Tuscumbia through the coal
fields of Alabama.
OF the 42G acts passed by the Alabama
Legislature, there were 10 Of a general
and 1856 Of 4 local character. Ofthe local
acts 81 were prohibiting tho sale or
giving away Of spirituous or vinous
liquors within" certain boundaries there
in FAMED.
We learn from the East Mississippian
that the negro who killed Senator Gam
bril-, OF kempOr, escaped from the jail at
DeKalb, last Friday. Another prisoner,
named Higgins, walked out quietly,
took q comfortable supper and a glass
of grog and returned to his quarters in
the Jail.
1t is the Lebanon Tenn Herald that
is guilty of this: "a member Of the last
graduating law class, who was noted AZ
q male Malaprop, in taking leave Of the
lady with whom he boarded during the
session, remarked, pstheticaliy, that he
"disliked to say neutrality-suspicious.
with friends was always 80 painful"
Grant, Alexander & Co., of Atlanta
have leased the Georgia penitentiary
with all the prisoners, for u term Of two
years, they paying fifty dollars per CAPT,
ia per annum. They expect to work
them in different parts of the State
where work can be procured, 80 as tc
give the people generally the benefit o.
the labor.
The warehouse of Mr.. J. p. Mason, il
: Greenyille, Tenn, was burned to the
ground ON the night of the 18th, and
among the ruins next morning wore
, found the charrel remains Of the uuiOr
. tunate owner. From various circum
q stances attending the event, 1t il sup
posed that he was first murdered, tn,
safe rifed and the building fired TO con
ceal the evidences of tie crime. NJ
clew to the perpetrators,
The Waco Tex Journal says: "Fron
r what We gather from our exchanges
Tom Scott proposes to make the Texa
| Pacific Railroad q reality. 1t has beer
a myth long enough, and if this las
r change does not result in something
a better than the Fremont and Robert
2 management, we would advise everybod,
e to hush about the Texas Pacific, anC
prepare to freeze, if they should be com
PEELED to %jodrney Californiawards on til,
# Union Pacific in winter-time.
e A bill has passed both branches Of tn
Mississippi Legislature, and is now
law, which provides that all lands whicl
have heretofore been forfeited to tn
State for the nou-payment OF taxes shal
: revert back to the counties in which the
y, are located. They shall then lie adyer
= tised in the counties for a period Of six
ty days, after which all lands then I'm
claimed by proper tax receipts and I'LL
redeemed by the payment of unpai,
taxes and costs, will again be sold a
delinquent tux lands are usually sold.
The first number of the Memphi
70 DAILY Register, o Democratic e%venin
paper, has appeared. Among its ed
- tors are Messrs. ". L. Barry, formerl
of the Nashville Union and American
G. W. Winchester, Emmett l.. Woodsor
and G. Z. Tucker. The senior edito
was formerly connected with the Appea
In its saiutatory it says: "W0 have n
generals, colonies, captains, or majorsi
70 our office. We are all plain men wit
plain names, and will thank our friend
to leave the handles off. We do nc
~ desire to be known by any but tru
q appellations."
l. Missouri.
v Kansas City proposes q ten-acre unto
depot Of glass and stone