The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-03-27
OUR SOUTH ATLANTIC NEIGHBORS.
Georgia..


The cotton factory in Houston County is
paying institution.
The Columbus factories will probably take
seven thousand bales Of cotton this year.
General Darlington, OF Atlanta, Ga, mas
lust completed drama which embraces The
period OF Buffers reign in New Orleans.
The remains OF Rev. ]. T. Kirby have
been received al Augusta from Baltimore and
Inferred under The hiSn altar of st. PatrlcKs
Church.
More than $500 tickets have been sold at
the Atlanta Office alone TO emlgr0nts going
West over the Memphis and Charleston rail-
road. They were nearly, II not all, negroes.
The young men oil Savannah have formed
dramatic association, which they nave
named the Arkwright Amateur Association.
10 honor OF Mr.. Thomas Arkwrlght, Of tina,
city, who has also become the president OF the
association ut the request OF The founders.
Commodore Farrand, al one time al OH
Ger of the United States navy, bnt better
known as the defender OF Drurys Bluff, near
Richmond, Virginia. during The late war, died
on the 18th instant at bis home In Attala,
Etowah County, Gl.
Mr.. Crawford Nally, respectable citizen
OF Pauldipg County, Ga, with family num-
beIiug Lweuiy-one parsons, rmgraled To Ar
kansas, IN November last. On the way, some
oil The party contracted smallpox, and all OF
The Albany News says The planting nIer-
ests oil Southwestern Georgia are In better
condition al this seuson Than any year since
The war. Corn Ia up and growing hnely, and
the cotton fields are In splendid preparation
for The seed. Planters generally are in good
spirits, and the outlook is cheering.
The general conference OF The Colored
Methodist Church OF America, now In session
at Augusta, last Saturday elected Three new
bisuops Rev. Joseph A. B1ebe, Rev. l. h.
Halsey, and Rev. Issac Lane-and they were
ordained last Sunday afternoon In the Trinity
NJ. E. Coorrd Church, Augusta. i,
Under the head of "lndlguant outrage,
tho Savannah Advertiser describes an aLLnck
made on Sunday upon member OF its edllo.
r,a! staff by ruf11 IN, who got the worst OF
the f.ht. IL Ia easy 10 account for the indig-
uatlun OF the editor, bat 1t Is rather hard 10
reuiizs the extraordinary process by Whlcn
the outrage was made TO feel Indignant.
Mr. Joshua Higgins, of Thomaston Coun-
ty, Ga, died on The night oil the lllh instant,
under very peculiar circumstances. ha was
frsL attacked with loolhacne; next bis tongue
sweled up and filled ms NOUN; nnauy Gia S,tn us
throat sWe.led out ami swallowed up Dis cn,n
in which condition death shortly ensued.
Three physicians have been trying ever since
10 diagnose the casr.
Florida.
The Jacksonville Union has The following:
As all illustration oil The numuer ol VISITORS
that have been here this season, We take from
the registers of the principal hotels lu Tue
city The following Interesting iacis: TDapthe
28l h of November, (lnn dale the motel open.
ed,) To The present date, over 1our lhonsana
persons have stopped al The st. James Hotel.
Three thousand Oi these since Inc nrst OIL Jan
uary. At the Grand National the number OF
arrivals from The 24Ln OF February tine lime
of openng,) 10 the present date, swells up 10
thirteen hundred, an average oil over htly per
day. This Ia certainly doing exceedingly well
lor q new house. AT the metropolitan Hotel,
which is well kept By Messrs. Togni Bette
lIAE there have been nearly fifteen hundred
arrivals since the first OF December last. Be-
sIdss the hotels named there nre over thirty
five smaller hotels and boardlng-nouses, all
of which have been very well filled.
North Carolina.
The merchants of NeWbern are preparing
for vigorous spring campaign.
The st. George and 81. Andrew Society OF
Wilmington celebrated their third anniversary
by grand supper last Monday evening.
Mr.. sllas N. Martin has been chosen presi.
dent of the Wilmington Trust Company and
Savings Blnk, Mr.. D maid McRIe vlce-pres-
dent, and Mr.. F. NJ. King cashier. The bank
will be In lull operation III few days.
The schooner Donna Anna. heretofore re-
ported ashore at Lockwood's Folly, some
Twelve miles south OF Ok Island Light, was
gotten off safely By The steamer WaccamaW OF
the Wuccamaw Wrecking Company, and
towed to Wilmington on Sunday morning.