Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-23
southern Points
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Rye in Pulaski county, Ga, Is nve
feet high.
In the Mississippi P~enitentiary
. there sre 27a ~convicts.
Arkansas scrip is worth fifty cents
on the dollar ct Sercy.
Georgia expects to have 1000
Grznges by January l, 1875.
Augusta, Ca, uses daily 100000
gallons of reservoir water.
Next November the people OF Ala
bama are to elect $50 officers.
Key West Ella. has captured a
green turtle weighing 700 pounds.
The Oranges of Lowndes, Ala,
are going to organize 8 County Coun-
Gil.
Dallas, Texas, wants some i1sh-
farms organized in that neighoor-
hood
The old French Garden, in Mem
phis, was destroyed by fire not long
ago.
Charleston, s. c., strawberries are
selling in New York at 90 IS per gal
Ion.
Covington, Ca, has a negro witch
who is the terror of the colored
folks there.
During the last freshet in Alabama
the Cbatahoochee River rose forty
feet.
Two hundred acres of land we're
recently sold in Florida at FIVE cents
an acre.
Several Northern men propose
starting a cotton factory In Water
Valley, Miss.
OF the forty inmates of the Vicks-
burg Work-H House, there are only
five white men.
Suicides in DeSoto county, Miss,
use a hank of thread to shuffie on
this mortal coil.
In San Antonio, Texas, there are
1000 Americans, 1000 Mexicans,
and 1000 negroes.
Galveston is ahead again. 1t is
the only town in Texas that has yet
ordered postal cards.
st. Louis is now engaged in q
praiseworthy attempt to establish a
direct trade with Brazil.
The bill to reduce the salaries Of
Judges and other officers has become
q law in Mississippi.
During the last twenty years over
eight hundred lawyers have been IL
censed in North Carolina.
The South and North Railroad re-
Gently sold 1000 acres of land to the
German colony in Blount, Ala.
Elyton. Ala. schoolboys have q
pleasant way of locking their teacher
in school snd taking a holiday.
The negro Daniel Delaware, who
killed his brother in Hawkinsville,
Ca, some time ago, has been cap
tured.
The Presbyterians of Selma have
been carrying on a %protracted meet
ing for several days with most happy
results.
The late Baptist revival 10 Chat
taHoogs last week was the most sue
cessful protracted meeting ever held
in that city.
A bill is up before the Legislature
OF Texas to grant lands in the aid of
canals for the purpose of irrigation
in Ell Paso.
Smith county, Tenn, has voted
against the school. The people there
evidently believe that a little learn
ing ID q dangerous thing"
Gov. Coke advises every person
who holds just claims for money
against Texas that they r worth v
cry dollar they call for in q hun
bred days
The Nashville Board of Aldermen,
at their last meeting, passed a bill
providing for the levying of a two
mill tax to pay for the erection of a
fre-alarm telegraph, to cost S22, BOZ.
Oxford, Miss, is improving. A
constable has been arrested for forg-
cry, and a tax collector has been
placed in Jail for unlawfully appro-
priating wealth that was not his.
Athens. Ga is trying to capture a
man named Nicholas, who has food
ed. that town with counterfeit nIckels.
Without this Nicholas they feel q
nickel less.-LouisviMe Ledger.
Julia Houston, who so shockingly
murdered her step-dsughter in Ope-
liks, Ala not long ago, has been
convicted of murder in the second
degree, and will have ten years to
think about the affair in the p~eniten-
tiary.
In round numbers Columbus, Ga,
has sold about $4,000 bales cotton.
At the low rate of 14c. per pound. or
$40 per bale, the total proceeds will
amount to $500, 600, which is dis
tributed in a country whose radius is
hardly thirty miles.
Marathon NTnkkar /