The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-02-20
OUR SOUTH ATLANTIC NEIGHBoRs.
Florida.

Florida.
The Most Rev. Archbishop Bayley, OF Bal
timore, is in st. Augustine.
The ladies Of the st. AUGUSTINE Catholic
Church are holding fair in aid Of the hospital
for the sick.
What @ woman can do, who has mind to
do, is seen in the following which we take from
the Ocaa Banner: A lady IN Orange County
has twenty guava bushes from which she has
shipped twelve bushels of rult, receiving toui
dollars for each bushel; she has made up one
hundred tumblers of jelly which she sells for
four dollars per dozen; she has also made uI
one hundred tumblers Of marmelsde which she
sells for the same price, and her crop ls but
haif gathered.
of that section are making preparations fol
planting, and are further advanced in theiE
arrangements than they have been since the
war. There is no scarcity Of labor, and while
there is great scarcity Of money and some
inconvenience 10 consequence, there ls NJ
want of good cheer and general indulgence
of hope tor large crop. The probability l:
great that larger crop Of cotton will be
planted this year than was attempted 10 be
10 plant corn aud raise meat iB fearful to con-
slider. The qnaDtily OF fertilizers expected to
be used will exceed that OF last year.
Georgia.
-Matrimouy is epidemic in Albany.
Mrs DOVE, wife Of Rev. Caleb Dove, rec.
tor of ST.. Georges Church, in Griffin, is dead
Miss Patterson gave readings in Atlantis
on Tuesday evening.
-Gnfln has fewer idle negroes now than at
any time since the war.
Forsyth, besides rebuilding Der burnt dis
trict will erect another handsome brick sruc.
ture opposite Greer's hotel.
Two small frame houses on Bryan street
Savannah, one occupied by Mrs. Anderson as o
store, and the other by Moses Scarlett as q
dwelling, were burned on Wednesday morning.
The passenger train on the Georgia Rail.
road, leaving Atlanta on Sunday night for
Augusta ran of the track near Alcova River in
consequence Of the mispacing OF switch.
Fortunately no one was hurt.
The number Of acres OF land returned in
Il 9 State in 1871, was 81 130 104; in 1872, 49,
555 GOA decrease of 564 219. Aggregate
vaure of land in 1871, $50, ,857 512 in 1872, 1886
918 5S9; average value in 1871, 81 81; IN 1872,
s2S7
"A man named Dennis Lysaught ian en-.
ployee of the Georgia Kailroad,) whilo walking
on the top of train OF cars in motion on the
Central Railroad track in Augusta. on Sunday
afternoon, fell between tho track and was
seriously injured by the truck, one leg being
broken and the other cut.
North Carolina.
A shellroad is to be constructed In VIII
mington, from the city 10 Wightsvhle Sound.
Wilmington intends having walerworSs
similar 10 those OF Savannah.
THE grocery of Messrs. Stalter & Bremen,
In Wilmington, was burned on Monday night.
General Wade Hampton lectures on ''Gen.
eral Lee" iE Wilmington soOn, uuder the aus.
pices OF th3 Young Mems Christian A.socia'
tIon.
-Be:ween Washington and Greensboro
last week, The dead body oil Mr.. w. A. Alex
ander, oil While County, was found, with his
throat cut and kulfa in his hand. This
causes The suppOslion that he committed
suicide, but most singularly his money was
missing.