Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-29
DOWN SOUTH.

Macon has new paper called the Star.
The Alabama river is cutting swell this
week.
| A movement has been inaugurated in
Macon, Ga, to establish public library.
A fire in Gadsden, Ala, on the 22d inst.
destroyed about $4,000 worth of pro-
perty.
1t is appointed that Lutheran Synod
viii be held in Savannah, Ga, on the 30th
April.
A young man named Peter Jackson muir
dered a colored man few days ago near
| Station No. 10 on the Central Railroad.
The merchants of Columbia, S. c., are
said to be doing an unusually large bust
ness.
A mystery in Columbus has been the
constant shaking of windows. 1t is now
solved by the theory that the shaking is
caused by ground-wayes from waterfall in
the vicinity.
Georgians claim that one of the most in
yiting summer resorts in that State is Stone
Mountain.
The people of Selma have had a boat
race on the Alabama this spring. They
have quite mania for that kind of sport
The press of Georgia deprecates the quar-
rel between Hill and Stephens. The pa
pers take no sides and criticise very boldly
both Of the disputants.
There have been so many and marked
revelations in spiritualism in Selma of late,
that the subject Is commanding much at
tention and is creating considerable excite
ment.
Wheat in the Southern States is fine,
though it has sustained some injury by the
constant rains which have fallen recently.
Oats are damaged with rust.
Miss Easton, Mobile lady, who is the.
atrically inclined, made her debut on the
stage in that city recently under peculiarly
flattering auspices. She played Pauline.
The cornerstone of Pic Mono College, a
Catholic institution being built in Macon,
Ga, will be laid next Sunday. Bishop
Gross officiates.
Hopewell Cotton Factory, the property
of John Thompson, situated in Ebert
county, Ga, was destroyed by fire at mid
night of the goth inst. Loss, 100000; in
surance $4,000, in the Liverpool, London
and Globe Companies.
The other day the Ladies' Memorial As
ISOLATION of Augusta received a beautiful
banner inscribed, 'From lady in Balti-
more" to be awarded to one of the fire
companies-the one which shall receive
the most votes for patriotism at so much
a vote. 1t was presented by Mrs. Gen.
Pegram, of Baltimore, Md.
The Montgomery Advertiser and Mail
has the following: "The mismanagement
and corruption which have marked the con-
duct of our county affairs during the last
five years Gas revealed by the report of the
grand jury, caused much excitement and
Indignation in the city, and a movement
was put on foot to employ competent coun-
sci to prosecute the officials against whom
indictments were preferred, and otherwise
to Iprntect the imperiled interests of the
taxpayers"
The Graniteville Manufacturing Com
pany, near Augusta, has just held its annual
meeting. The report of the President
shows the net earnings of the company for
the past year, including dividends paid, to
have been 15S, 1872, which is a little more
than twenty-five per cent on the capital
stock. The number Of bales of cotton con-
sumed during the past year, amounts TO
1858, at an average cost Of sixteen cents
per pound.
A Georgia exchange expatiates as follows
on the gold outlook in that State: The
mines are being developed in a more sys-
tematic and energetic manner than hereto
fore The principal operations are on the
Chestatee river, which rises in the Appa
lachian mountains, in Lumpkin county,
and flows southwark to Hall county, where
it empties into the Chattahocchee. Both
these rivers traverse the gold belt, mostly
at right angles to the strata of the gold
veins, and rich deposits are found in their
beds. The Chestatee from its mouth to its
junction with the Tesnatee has not been
worked excepting at the shoals, which
yield largely. Two companies are now en-
gagged in preparations to work the bed of
this river-one from Ohio, which is cutting
a canal and tunnelling through a ridge so
as to make available three miles of gold
deposits; the other controlled by ]. II.
Bartlett, of Boston, who has engrossed
nearly ten miles of the river. Other COM
panies are preparing to operate in the same
region"