Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-01
DOWN SOUTH.

Georgia has only eleven newspapers with
patent outSides.
The Alabama river is higher than since
1865, and still rising and rain fading.
Accounts from the crops in Middle GeOr-
gia are discouraging, caused by the floods.
The people of Savannah raised $1,000 on
short notice to relieve the Louisiana suffer-
ers,
The Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad
is to he sold by decree of Chancellor Turner
on June so.
The Columbus factories have taken six
thousand six hundred and sixteen bales Of
cotton this season.
The alabama state Journal represents
that the negroes who have emigrated from
that State to the West are retracing their
steps.
The Judge of an interior County Court
Of Georgia has decided that to play a game
Of billiards in which the agreement is that
the loser pays for the game, is an indictable
Offense under the gambling law.
The grand jury has created quite a stir an
Montgomery. Its revelations reflect the
utmost discredit upon the county govern
ment. We judge that corruption has now
eliminated there and that a reaction has
begun.
OF the North and South Railroad. the
Rome Courier says: The condition of
the company is very unfavorable. and the
work upon the road, so far as the extension
of its construction is concerned, has been
altogether discontinued" Gov. Smith has
seized the North and South Railway for a
failure Of the company TO meet interest on
State bonds.
The cremation question excited unusual
attention in Georgia, owing to the fact that
the public has had the benefit of interviews
on the subject with her leading statesmen.
The sensation took a marked turn the other
day when letters from the distinguished in
terviewed began to reach print, denying
that they had given expression to opinions
on the cremation question. The author of
the joke evidently thinks it has worked
well.
Merriweiher county, Ga, is to have
another Enoch Arden case. Several years
ago lady was abandoned by her husband
and left to take care of her family as best
she could. Having heard well authenti-
Gated report Of the abSconding husbands
| death, the lady married again last year.
The latest intelligence is that the former
husband has returned and is in an adioin-
ing county. As yet he has not made his
appearance before his quandam spouse.
There is man residing at Sandersville,
Ga, a newspaper man, who was born in
Washington county, reared in LaurenS, and
lived a large portion of his life in Johnson.
without removing from his birthplace.
Local self-government is carried to such an
extent in the GOober State, that county
lines are changed pretty much according to
the whims of militia" districts. Not only
so, but one rarely finds the same form OF
government in more than one county.
1t is now regarded certain that there is a
movement among the moneyed men and
capitalists of the Houston and East Texas
Narrow Gauge Railroad; the main line, as
intended to run through Liberty, Tyler, An
gelina, San Augustine, and Shelby coun-
ties 10 the Sabine, TO connect at Logansport
with line from Shreveport. A branch OF
the Houston and East Texas is to run also
through Jasper and Newton counties to the
Sabine, there to connect with a road now
being built from Baton Rouge.
The people of New Orleans are certainly
| great lovers of pageahtry. Soon after the
last MaTdi Gras festival number of the
best citizens organized themselves into a
society called the "DiscipleS of Thespis'
Among other things, it is their intention tC
| celebrate each Shakspearean anniversary
They observed the last by a tableau enter
tainment representing many Of the more
| imposing scenes in Henri ", Measure fol
| Measure, and Julius Caesar. Like many
other clubs, the Disciples have been Civ.
| ing benefit entertainments for the sufferer.
/ by the flood.