The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-01-02
OUR SOUTH 41LANTlC NE1GHBoRs.
Georgia.

The freight blockade. continues at At
THE Ice company of Augusta will begin to
manufacture ice on the lst OF February.
The Metbodists and Baptlsts OF Dalton are
building female colleges there.
The Masonic Temple In Macon WILL pc
completed,hy the first OF April next. -!
-fhe grand tournament ball at the Screven
j House, In Savannah, takes place tonight.
An attempt al incendiarlsm was made on
Tuesday night in a store on Broughton street,
but was frustrated by timely discovery.
Rev. George 7. Geotohins, OF Albany, has
been invited to accept. the pastorate OF the
Presbyterian Church at Mllledgeville.
The sabre clubs of Auguela and Savannah
| will contend for prizes tomorrow at tie fair
grounds in Savannah.
Colonel Hurlbert estimates that twenty
thousand people have left Georgia In the past
| ten years.
The city council of Augusta have, by q
unanimous vote, Increased the salary ofythe
$500.
"A we'll known citizen of Savannah, whose
name should be published, but has not been
thus far, abandoned bis wife and children on
Sunday last, and eloped with paramonr.
The mayor of Augusta has received one
thousand yards of Graniteyllle shrtng as, as q
present to the poor tr9m the GranteVllie
Manufacturing Company.
,-"Watch Night" was religiously and ap-
proprlately observed at the st. James Metho-
dist Church in Augusta, and addresses were
delivered by Rev. Dr. Hicks and others. ~
H. n. Turner, colored preacher OF Sa-
vsnnah. has gone to Washington to endesvor
t6persuade President Grant to appoint acof'
ored man collector of that port.
,NA Young man named Calvin Logue, WIS
fatally stabbed 10 q country store IN Glas-
cock County on Christmas day, by Joseph
Kitchens. An Inquest was held, and verdict
of murder returned.
Policeman Strong, accused, probably,
without just grounds, OF the murder OF MS
confrere, McElllgott, In Savannah, mas oeen
released on two bail bonds OF five thousand
dollars each.
.-On the farm of Mr.. Harrison Whaley, of
Lumpkin County, innumerable bones have
been found, evidently the remains oil an e3-
tiuct species OF the human race, far more
gigantic than the race which now inhabits the
earth,
A shooting ARRAY occurred at Milledge.
vile, on Saturday last, In q drinking saloon,
arising from mistake on the part OF the
keeper thereof, who suspected some parties
OF being burglars. No serious results except
that one man was badly wounded.
The passenger train from Macon for Co.
lumbus on Friday last ran of the track near
Geneva, injuring several passengers, bat
"AN
Columbus, received the most bruises, and
President Wadley had one of his hands pain
"A sem. annual meeting OF the stockholders
of the Augusta Factory was held on the 3lst
instant. committee from the canal board
asked from the factory company modidca-
tion of the present contract between that cor
poralion and the city council as to exemption
of it's capital from taxation and the present
amount of water guaranteed to the company
In perpetuity by such contract, and alter some
discussion the matter was referred to the
president and board OF directors, with power
to act.
Pork So per hundred 10 Oxford.
-Sleiqh-ridiDg last week In Fayetteville.
The Raleigh Baptist Female Seminary is
lin donrishing condition.
-Only one death In Wilmington last week
ont of a population of twenty thousand.
1t ia ruuored that Raleigh Is 10 be Lighted.
Raleigh is laying ln a supply of Ice for
NsmaIl-pox is raging eight miles from
Loulsburg, but Ia suUBiding In Hamett County.
General Lane has declined the poslton
rendered him in the Hillsboro' Military
Academy.
The masquerade and fancy dress ball In
Wilmington on New Years eve was magni-
lceDt success.
Mr.. John 8. Means, Jr., was arrested on
the 3lst Instant at Charlotte, charged with
killing Frank Kerr, colored.
Murders, robberiss and house 0urnlngs
are becoming alarmipgly frequent In HALIFAX
County. go :.
North Carolina for the past fiscal year are
SAG. 900. ,-,
day last aud skating In Wilmington on Salur-
E.Tbe First National Bank of Wilmington
has declared dividend OF per cent, payable
On last Saturday the festiTal:of the Holy
InnocenLs was appropriately observed ID ST.
James and st. Johns Churches 9! Wilmington.
-Counterfelt five dollar United States
treasury notes are In circulation IN WILL
mington... ,h,nr.
that Wilmington will be benefited instead OF
injured by the New York, Norfolk and Charles
ton railroad movement
The foreman of the Newbern Journal OF
CONNIE rec la only sixteen years old. He ana
bis brother, aged fourteen, set up In DAY
fifteen full coumns bourgeois.
The fire among the smouldering ruins OF
the recent confagratlon IN Wilmington oroke
out on Friday last; it took some time TO sup
press the flames.
ti-BaylIss Henderson, who was convicted at
Webster of the murder OF Captain Nlmrod
Janett, will be hung on the 24th Oh tnls
month. 20
The Flat Shoal end suara Town Noun
taIns were ON FIRE several days last week.
The fires were the most sweeping and terrific
even seen In that section, and endangered
many farms.
& -On Christmas night, John Allen Ketchey,
the notorious horse lhief Of Rowan County,
was captured near Salisbury by party OF
three gentlemen, aud ls now med1tatlng on
things in general in salisbury jail.
Florida.
-Fogs still prevail along the Florida coast.
The German Schutzen company gave
ball on New Years eve, at Metropolitan Hall,
In Jacksonville. -, ~,
The harbor OF Jacksonville was filed With
vessels last week. -,
The Presbyterian Church Of Jacksonville
has O new organ.
The emigration OF colored people from
Georgia 10 Florida Is large. -,
The lighthouse near st. Augustine has but
slxty feet OF sand left between 1t and the sea.
Mayor Edwards, of Tallahassee, promises
if elected to serve without salary.
New rails have been laid on the T0coi
Railroad.
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