The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-12-14

"A fire In SmllhVllle on Monday night des.
troyed three dwellings, occupied respectively
by Mr.. James Thompson, Mrs. Daniels and Mr.
Enoch Daniels.
Mr.. James A Beeka has been elected
mayor Of Griffin.
making things llvelIer In Columbus.
Alter January the Office OF mayor OF Balm
bridge will BIZ one Of honor with no salary
attachment.
The North Georgia Conference Of the
Methodist Church embraces a total. negloe:-
snip of torty-slx thousand four hundred and
forty-seven.
The %bondholders OF the Brunswick and
Albany Railroad propose to discharge the in-
debtednpss oil The road AMI complete the same
TO Eufaula " the State will give them q valid
Endorsement OF fifteen thousand dollars per
mile on their bonds as the road is completed.
An ambitious Atlanta boy challenged a
man the other day Tor some triflng occur
renee, and was taught o pretty serious i1sson;
The man accepted the challenge, and fell dead
at the FIRST tire. The young man Left 10
double-qul ck and has not since been heard
from. The dead party got up when the other
disappeared, and everybody had q hearty
laugh. The ordnance Was charged With pow
der only.
Mrs. Charles Bone, quite q young lady,
born and reared in Savannah, but at present
a resident of Macon, made . desperate at.
tempt 10 commit suicide on Sunday last by
cutting her throat with 8 razor. Tue cash
penetrated to the windpipe and even TO the
roof of the tongue, making q terrible wound.
On Monday abe was still living, though her
recovery was deemed Impossible. No cause
was assigned for this rash act,
Florida.
Jacksonville Is paving her streets With
oyster shells.
Tho annual mcctIns Of the Grand Dlvi-
sion Sons of Temperance OF Florioa has been
again postponed TO the 9Th day OF December.
The ravages of the boil worm were more
serious 10 Florida aud Alabama during the
past season than In any other State:
Mr.. R. L. Campbell, Of Pensacola, has a
Bartlett pear tree which he's borne and ma.
tured TWO crops during the present year.
the ladies' of Tallahassee have opened q
depot In Jacksonville for the sale OF flowers.
The proceeds are TO be devoted to the pnr-
chase of an organ for the Methodist Church.
The Conservatives of Tallahassee have
nominated P. T. Tatum for mayor, b: Mat
thews, Jr., for marshal, c. L. Demilly, for
clerk.
the nav Catholic Church at Jacksonville.
Bishop Verot Is now soliciting donations Tor
"A lyceum association, with o capital of
three thousand dollars, has been recently Or
gapized st Fernandiua. They propose 10
erect a hail for the purpose OF the association:
The recent Baptist Convention, held at
Lake City, approved the proposed establish
ment Of q religious paper, devoted TO the ln-
terests orthe Baptist Church, In Florida.
The lake country, at the head OF the Ock-
lawaha River. Is rapidly filling up With an In
tpllIgept and thrifty population. This section
presents q fue opening for the cultivation OF
the orange, cotton and sugar.
The Boards OF Trade and Chambers or Com
merce OF New York, st. Louis, New Orleans e,
Mobile and other large cities have memorial.
lad Congress for q favorable consideration or
the protected canal across Florida.
At Wellborn, Florida, on the 9th instant,
q street fght took place between two young
men, who used doubled-barrelled gums ana
pIstoIs. Thirteen shots we're fired, and three
pistol caps failed to explode. a Mr: VIM.
Slansel was mortaliy wounded; ana MS iataer'
VINO was close by him, wes Killed instantly:
A Young man, fifty yards of, got a buck shot
through the call OF his leg; another In q store
house close by had an arm grazed.
The Jacksonville Republican Is bringing
its attention to pastoral pursuits. rms 10
ahout the castor bean: Among the multla-
rIoIs productions of south Florida, 10 an agrl.
cultural point OF view, none ID perhaps more
worthy Of trial or more likely to prove o suc-
cess than the "Palma Christie" or castor 0ean.
Instead of being an annual lt here becomes q
tree, standing and producing Ter years. IL
can be grown on the forest laud which, e4pe.
rieneed observers say, IL enrlches instead OF
imnoyerIshInp, No animal will eat or molest
II. 40 II the bars or the fence happens to be
down. or the gate to be left open, the crop Is
slill secure from marauders. We say 10 our
friends give Il q trial. It will not COST mucn,
and from It's alleged advantages WILL no oouot
prove profitable.
NThe Floridlan says: zone farmer employed
ton hands on shares and five for wages.
Early In the season his prospects were nue.
and he counted on forty bales certain. Tne
ten hands made just exactly ak small oales,
| and the five squeezed ont one apiece NOT
| much money made there. Another planter
| mad thirty hands and twenty mules at WORK.
| he. too. counted on a good thing, but when
| the CROP was gathered had just thirty bales
] one to the hand and nothing for the mules.
| Rather q losing business that. SLill another
| one rented some land, mules, Implements
| be-, to q number OF freedmen, and was to re.
ceiye In payment ten bales OF cotton. He gol
inst three bales, which was every pound the
men made. Two colored men renteo lano a.
one dollar and q half an acre, and planted
cotton and corn. The total OF their crop wa:
one small bale Of cotton and about enough
corn to las. them until Christmas. Aud this
is iust about the way things stand througnou
the country"