Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-19
DOWN SOUTH.

DVWN DVUIHs
I The fruit about Dalton, Ca, is unir
jured.
: The tax on liquor collected in Columbus
Ga, amounts to s2,i0 annually.
i "The iniquity known as the civil right
bill" is fayorite expression of Southern
journals,
4 Cotton plants fifteen inches high an,
full of forms have been brought to Monti
cello, Florida
4 The darkey immigration into Mississipp
from the Carolinas are turning their faces
homeward again..
A man named Jordan and hlsthree sons,
arrested in Columbus, Ga, for counterfeit
ing nickelS, have been sent to Savannah for
trial.
A number of notorious burglars have es-
capped from the Louisiana Penitentiary and
made their way to New Orleans. The city
| is reported full Of desperate characters.
A negro boy in Athens, Ga, who was
bitten by dog some time AGO, died last
week, with marked symptoms of hydropho-
bia. The dog that bit the negro was not
rabid, Lf.f 4 -
It Is hoped, by the more liberal of the
Georgia papers, that the State Press Asso-
citation viii clasp hands with the "patent
outsiders" across the bloody chasm that has
for sometime divided and estranged them.
The gTangemen Of Pike county, Georgia,
had Direct Trade picnic a few DAYS ago.
Gen. Colquitt, Tom Hardeman and Bob
Aston made speeches, and a large amount
Of stock was subscribed 20 the Direct
Trade Union. ff
An intelligent correspondent writing
rom Florida says that there is very no
hceable desire in the southern part of the
State to abandon the cultivation of long sta
pie cotton for something better. Cultivation
Of fruit, growing of sugar cane, and cattle
raising are in popular thought.
Gov. Smith, of Georgia, is anxious to in
duce Prof. Joseph LeConte, of the Uniyer-
sity Of California, a Georgian by birth and
an eminent scientist, to accept the position
of State Geologist for Georgia. But the
salary Of $1,000 offered is not likely to
draw the Professor away from the Pacific
slope.
The New Orleans papers are very COM
plimentary to Hon. A. A. Attocha, the new
criminal judge Of that city, for his infex-
ible administration of the law, to the
burglars and desperadoes that have so long
been a terror to the people An upright
judge is some comfort to official-cursed
New Orleans. 1900 .,.,a +,
1t is said that great deal of restitution
prevails in and around Chieot, Ark, on ac-
count of the food. The large planters are
suffering equally with the small farmers.
Everything in the shape of chattel proper
ty and provisions have been swept away.
and unless aid reaches them soon there
will be sacrifice of life from starvation.
The principals in the recent duel. near
Bay st. Louis, have, in pursuance of the
promise Of Gov. Ames, been indicted by a
Mississippi grand jury. The seconds and
iookers-on, however, were treated more
leniently, and the probability is they will
be permitted to 60 scathless. The author |
lties, however, announce their intention of |
the principals to the utmost ex-
tent Of the law.
1t having been stated by Washington |
correspondent that the widow of ex-Presi- |
dent Tyler had settled down on her Vir- |
GINA estate, after winning several law |
salts with her own and her husbands fami- |
lies, John Tyler, IT., of Tallahassee, Fla, |
denies the statement and SAYS: Permit me /
TO say, If you please, that no member of my /
Iaiher's family has ever had any legal con-
troversy with my fathers widow. Her con-
troversies in this respect have been alto
yether between herself and members of her
1wn fathers family.
Last week, at Newman, Ca, a man
named Stephen B. Brinkley stabbed his
wife to the heart, killed her instantly. and
hen attempted suicide but was arrested.
This was the finale of an angry alteration
between Brinkley and his wife. Mrs.
3rinkley had instituted proceedings for d.
Torce because of his cruel treatment of
Ter. AT the last term of Coweta Supe rior
Court, Brinkley was tried for an assault
With intent to murder his wife and &C
Iuitted.
Statistics furnished by the Georgia Rail-
Dad Company viii serve to correct n very
eneral error regarding tie relative amounts
f grain shipped from the West to that
tate before and Since the war. In the
last -epcrt a statement is given
+ the grain Ind -four transported by the
abroad from 1916 to 1ST4Ha period of
leariy thirty years. In 1867 the road
roug.It only 265,2 bushels of grain.
hiIe as far back as in 1888 it brought U.s.
al. Last year it received ], 107.3S2 while
n 1856 the receipts were LIE, 331. Geor-
,ians begin to feel greatly relieved because
he figures show a marked falling off this
ear IN their acquisitions upon Western
,rain growers.
Anewspaper correspondent called on Mr..
stephens at Liberty Hall the other day,
weighed the little genius, measured him,
not emitting 20 contrast his mind and
Iody. He says: s.UpOn entering his
Dom, We found this wonderful little mans
lifting in his cushioned chair, reading
Senator NOrwOOd's recent speech on the
Civil Rights Bill, which he pro-
to be sEyery interesting reading.n
N reply to our inquiry after his health, he
tated that it was much improved; that he
lad in a great measure, gotten over the
atigues of his trip from Washington to his
lome; and he though with the coming
warm days Of spring he would be restored
o his usual health"
The Atlanta Herald states that as the
Sheriff Of DeKaIb county, Georgia, was
aking a man named Ware TO the peniten-
iary to be imprisoned for life, in passing
trough the public square Of Decatur to the
lepot, they encountered a crowd in which
wO men were seen in furious alteration.
Though this wretched convict, it would
eem, had but little interest left in life for
nan, he meekly asked of the Sheriff the
privilege of stopping for moment. Walk
nc up to the enraged men, he said: 'My
friends, hear me. My troubles began just
ike yours is doing now, and look! here
holding up his bandcuffed wrists-s'is the
md of it." He Immediately resumed his
march to the cars, and, as if stricken with
lanic, the two men to whom this timely
warning was given, separated and left the
round without another wCrd.
FRANCES NEW CRISIS.