The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-04-26
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.

Lowndesboro, Ala, is organizing a
lodge of Good Templars.
Hog cholera is making pork scarce
in Jackson county, Ala.
Eufaula has an ordinance prohibit-
ing auction sales on the streets.
Mr.. Saffold Berney takes charge of
the Eutaw 'Whig and Observer"
A Council of Friends of Temper
ance has been organized at Tarboro,
NC.
Jonas Cline has been sheriff of Ca
tawba county N. G. for quarter of a
century.
More fertilizers have been sold at
Talladega, Ala, this season than ever
before.
There was frost and some ice at
Talladega on the mornings of the 1st
and I'd.
The Odd Fellows at Grenada will
give grand ball on the 18th.
Pneumoniais is prevailing to an alarm
ing extent in and about Holly Springs,
Miss.
A woman supposed to be insane,
hung herself in the Columbus, Miss,
jail lew uayS ago.
The prisoners in Jail at EIyton jour
neyed for parts unknown last Sunday
morning.
st. Augustine hopes to have rail-
road straight through to Jacksonville
before very long.
Twenty thousand dollars have been
subscribed to the stock of a new hotel
cOmnany in Rirmjnpham
The city hall in Huntsville, on
which work will soon commence, is
to be adapted for seating 200 persons
The Tupelo, Miss, journal" estat
lishment, including building, is offer
ed for sale-price, 81 ,SO0-terms, cash.
The Mckenzie "Times" learns that
steps are ON foot to locate u. S. Court
at Huntingdon.
1t is reported that Laurens is to be
raided upon-nearly 500 military war
rants having been issued for citizens
of that county.
The Round Mountain iron works,
in Cherokee county, have been sold to
Major Shelby Seymour, of New
them.
The printing press and fixtures with
which the independent Free Think
er," of Greenville, is now printed, will
be sold at mortgage sale on the 18th.
A negro mail agent, running be-
tween Oxford and Holly Springs, has
been arrested and lodged in Jail for
stealing a box of knives. His name
is Step Miller.
The Macon Saturday Night" has
suspended publication. 1t was one of
the best-conducted papers Of its class
in the South, and did not fail for want
of patronage.
The venerable DR.. Lovick Pierce
preached an anniversary sermon in
Greensboro, Ga, March 2ith-that
day being his eighty-seventh birth
day.
An effort is being made to raise
fund for the erection of a monument
to the memory of the late poet and
novelist, VIM. Gilmore Simms.
The two Clinton Nouisiana) papers,
the Patriot" and Democrat have
been consolidated, and will be hence
forth published under the heading of
"PatriOt-Democrat," I" as semi-weekly.
An excursion party starts from
Greenville to Pensacola on the 1st of
May. They have a special train and
the cost of the round trip is three dol
lars.
Rev. Wesley p. Kramef, a we'll
known Methodist minister, is about
to connect himself with the Episcopal
Church.
Mr.. John F. Whitney, thsenergetic
proprietor of the ''Flordia Press" was
rendered complimentary banquet by
the citizens of st. Augustine on the
31st ult.
The Lawrence journal" says that
the town of Pin Hook, in the South
ern portion of Lawrence county was
visited by a serious fire last week.
The store-house of Mr.. C.. HI. Farrar,
of Dalton, Ga, was destroyed by fire
a few days ago. together with the en-
tire stock of goods. Insured for 81 40.
1t is reported that the Central Rail-
road, of Georgia, has purchased a con-
trolling interest in the several steam
ship companies which run steamers
between Savannah and Northern
ports, in order to control traffic.
A steam mill in the western part of
Oktibbeha county, Miss, known IA the
Cooper & Henry mill, recently blew
up, killing the engineer and fireman,
and wounding Mr.. George Craig in
the shoulder and Mr.. Hony Harden
i'll the head-both slight wounds.