The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-29
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

The Supreme Court of Alabama,
which recently adjourned, will meet
again the first Monday in June.
The proposed Masonic Tablet" to
be issued at Jackson, will start OH the
1st of May. y
Alabama has given S767.So TO the
Lee Monument.
Good Templar lodges have just Or
ganized at Elyton and HaneyvilIe.
Mumps and whooping cough have
almost become an epidemic in Green
vile.
Rev. J. p. Start is going to hold
series Of Sweedenborgian meetings in
Demopoiis.
Two new churches Catholic and
EpiscopaliaE) are soon TO be erected at
birmingham. is.... r,..r.
Memphis Methodists are building ..
magnificent church. . 81
The Lookout FIGURING Mills, Chat
tanooga- are turning out 500 barrels of
flour per day.
Several Alabama papers are out in
favor of Hon. &. &. LangdOn for Gov
ernor at the next election. Id -.
A man named J. U. Benzieger, at
Knoxville, dropped dead the other
day while sitting ip his roam reading
u book. =
Mr.. George Hogg, of Rehoboth,
Wilcox county, was killed few days
since by, the falling Of house which
he was erecting. "a ~ f't
The Huntsville Reporter of the Sth,
says: "a. Hughes, an old citizen, died
Sunday from the effect Of poison im-e
bibed while skinniDg cow which had
died with the murrain." tt''' NV
John Dye, fernando, Miss, is ad-
vertisinS in the papers for information
setting forth the whereabouts of his
son, +. n. Dye, who started for
Grenada, or Jacksoa about Christmas
last, and has not since been heard
from.
| "A negro policeman at Jackson was
shot 10y a negro hog-thief a few days
ago, aid severely wounded. He was
trying to arrest the thief without ask
ing permission.
They had Jewish wedding in high
life at Meridian on the -6th-Mr. Abe
Ruman, a prominent merchant of
Vicksbarg, to Miss. Jenny Kornik, a
beautiful young lady Of Meridian.
The Hinesville Gazette says that
there Is disposition this season
among the farmers af Liberty county
to plant less sugar cane than they did
last year. - -.
The Sandersville Georgian says
that owing to the vast quantity of
rain which has fallen during the past
month, the planters are greatly behind
in preparing for the next crop.
Last week two Savannah lawyers
went to Screven's Ferry to settle
point OF veracity with pistols, coffee
and surgeon. Friends interposed, ex-
planstious made, and only the coffee
used. No names. ..s..-.
Rev. John Neeley, minister of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, native
of Ireland, and graduate of Dublin
College, for the past twenty years
prominent teacher in Augusta, died in
that city few days ago.
The Atlanta Sun learns that the
books of the Western and Atlantic
Road show S1,69S.752 OF due the State
by railroad, steamboat and ship lines
Ebesides personal accounts and the
claims on those who have plundered
the road and State.
Grant, Alexander & Co., of Atlanta,
have leased the Georgia pentitentiary
with all the prisoners, for . term of
two years, they paying fifty dollars
per capita per annum. They expect
to work them in different parts of The
State where work can be procured, so
as to give the people generally the
benefit of the labor.
A ne " and extensive paper mill has
gone into operation in New Orleans
the only ole in the State.
The Jews of Shreveport have ad-
vertised a grand masked ball, to come
off on the evening of the 26th.
The Brenham (Texas) Times saws
that one thousand British farmers are
epected to arrive there about the
month of October next. Arrange
ments are being made to bring them
out without expense to the planters.
The Weatherford (Texas) Signet
says that a remarkable salt and salt
petre mine has recently been discov-
cred in Dallas county by +. A. Fiiz-
gerald. He has refused S25, 900 for
half interest i'm his own discovery.
A coal bed has been discovered on
the east side of the Clear Fork of Trin.
ity river, on the line of Dallas and
Denton counties Texas, about ten piles
southwest from Lebanon, in Collin
county. The quality is thought to be
excellent aud the quantity unlimited.