The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-01-11
oUR SOUTH ATLANTIC NEIaasoRs.
Georgia.


Columbus still complains of a scarcity Of
"A ars In Atlanta on Tuesday destroyed
eight buildings.
lone hundred houses in Griffin have been
levied upon for taxes.
The Savannah Evening Mirror has sus.
pended.
-Lowndes County has colored Justice of
the peace just elected.
! The governors message gives much salts.
faclion to the Georgia press.
AN attempt was made few days ago to
set on fire the machine shops on the State
Road. .l..; b.,
Tine bridge of the Georgia State Road
over the 0uslsnaula was destroyed BY an In.
cendlary on the 7h Instant.
"A race for five hundred dollars sIdewlll
between 'Nlck King" and Dandy"
-amongsJ the works OF art at the late
fair in Savannah was fine portrait of the
late Bishop Davis, of South Carolina.
Colonel Robert A. Aston, Of the Atlanta
Herald, formerly of Charleston, is candidate
for public printer of Georgia.
All the machinery OF the Arkwright Cotton
Factory, In Savannah, has been received. and
Ia being placed in position.
The Washington Steam Fire Company, Of
Savannah. will visit Jacksonville Fla, on tho
first OF next month.
Mr.. Geo. Dolby, we'll known and popular
engineer on the Georgia Railroad, shot him
self accidentally on Friday last, and 1t Is feared
the wound is mortal
The citizens Of Columbus held meeting
Thursday night to take into consideration the
extension OF the Brunswick and Albany Rail-.
road to Columbus.
AT meeting of Joseph Lodge, No. 76, I.
o. B. B.. held at savannah on the 5th instant,
Mr.. 8. Yates Levy, formerly OF Charleston,
was elected monitor.
The total receipts Of the treasurer of tho
State OF Georgia last year for taxes, rental Of
State Road and sale Of bonds, were TWO mil
lion dollars.
The oala OF cotton which was presented to
Mlas Lydia Thompson In Savannah last year.
was sold In St. Louis last week Tor $500, and
she gave the proceeds to the poor OF that
"A we'll known citizen of Savannah, sup
posed to be inaaue, was seen few evenings
ago running along 3 y street barehsaded. lt
is supposed that he fell into the river and was
drowned. E9E
-Ou wednesday last q colored boy was
run over and crushed by lun6ef traln on
the Central Railroad, and white man wae
run over and killed by freight train on the
Macon and Augusta Road.
The best time ever made by sailing YES
sel between Savannah and Bremen was made
by the ship "Savsnnah," which went from
port 10 port In twenty-five days, leaving Sa-
vannah on December IA and arriving at Bre-
men January 9Th.
An Atlanta letter says: "Many South
Carollnlans have settled in Atlanta, among
whom We may mention Msssrs. d. ]. Carter;
A. O. Darlington. Farrow, Bonham. DO, not
to forget Col. ". 8. Grisham, formerly Of Wsl-
halla, who is now connected with The nrm OF
]. N. Boon. Jr., 4 Co."
AT msrting of the stockholders OF the
Macon and Western Railroad, held at Macon
last week, a vote was taken upon the qnes-
tion Of consolidating that road with the Cen
trail, and resulted. seventeen thousand nve
hundred and sixty shares for consolidation
and three hundred and eight shares against.
North Carolina.
The citizens Of Raleigh desire to have Gu
INITIATIVE suffrage.
General Robert Ransom, formerly Of VII
mington. has been made superintendent OF
the Florida Railroad.
The proposed fire alarm telegraph for
Wilmington will cost $4,000.
The spirit-rappings In the courthouse as
Wilmington are said still 10 continue. - T.
There have been sixty.one cases OF small
pox in HarDett county, and sixteen OF l0
best cilizens have died.
The Jewish ladies of Wilmington have
formed an association styled 1.-THE Conoordia"
for the purpose OF s!ulng In building syna-
gogue. ..r... c.a..,
killed by the Wilmington and Weldon train
on Tuesday last, about nineteen miles nom
Wilmington. 81.
There is firm engaged In the lumber
bnsineas on the line Of tina Wilmington, Colunn.
bia and Augusta Railway, which has l00,o
feet of lum0er on hand and cannot ind cars
for Its transportation.