Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-12
DOWN SOUTH.
Dr.. MunseY is leeturing in Augusta.

Dr. Munsey is lecturing in Augusta.
The Catholics of St. Augustine will
shortly erect a new convent.
A child was born a few days ago in Heard
county, Ga, that had two heads and three
legs.
The resent freshets raised the waters of
the Ogeeehee river higher than they had
been for thirty years.
Rome reports a fruitless attempt at assas-
sination. a young man was fired upon in
the dark, from ambush, some few nights
ago.
There is much inquiry about ScottsbOro,
Ala, for German millet seed, and dispo-
sitiop is manifested for the production of
hay, among farmers
Judge Hopkins, of Georgia discharged
jury the other day because they had read an
account of the case they were to try in the
newspapers.
4 Georgia convict escaped from custody
and violated the wife of an employee of the
Central Railroad. 1t IS currently reported
in Sandersville that she intends to ienter
suit for damages against MeSsTs. X ddle,
Smith, and Taylor, the lessees of the oOn-
victs. The suit will be for consequential
damages.
offthe keen edge of the editors sensibilitieS.
Witness the style of the veteran Sdrduldh
| Ne1cs man: calvin Brigham, a colOred
burglar in the Waynesboro Jail, assaulted
the taller so savagely that the latter
was compelled to shoot the negro in self
defense. The darkey died in about fifteen
minutes after receiving the wound" Again:
| ''An Albany negro punched the breath on
| e tI,o 1,ar II no
white man tried to shoot the negro. No
| funeral"
The Albany, ca, Nelrs has this strai ght-
| forward talk: 1t is no longer worth while
| to try TO deceive ourselves with the vain
hope that crops are not injured by these
floods, and the still more disastrous cold
weather. Cotton is fatally damaged, and
we fix the damage at low estimate in
naming twenty per cent. We have sad ac-
counts from all points, and though many
regard the damage as trifing, and express
! the opinion that cotton is not so seriously
hurt but it can recover, the weight Ofcommon
sense testimony and natural conclusions
tells decided story of disaster.
The st. Augustine Press says the mana
! tee, or sea COW. continues her domicil in
Bar creek. Fishermen have again reported
it, and citizens are anxious 20 90 after it
but the owner Of the land which enclOses
Bar creek claims it as his property, aud has
forbid any one from meddling with it, I'M
der a prosecution for tresSpass. The mouth:
of the creek are to be stopped by strong
fences, and the animal kept there for exhi
bition next season. 1t will be remembered
that two or three years ago a very large one
was seen in st. Augustine harbOr. 1t cam'
I'D to the water battery of the fort, where
it remained until pelted away by the boys
Fishermen report them as having beef
frequently seen in the harbOr.
The question of abolishing English
grammar is now agitating the minds o
Georgia pedagOgues, and was seriously dis
cussed at a recent Convention Of the Stat'
Teachers Association. DIR. Z. Ii. Myers
President of Wesleyan Female College
severely criticised the present cumbersome
and unintelligible mode of teaching Eng
lish grammar. He said that all the gram
mar necessary to be learned by the SUDDEN
could be comfortably comprised in less thar
seventy-five pages, and that all the moods
: and all the lenses except the past, preSen
and future, should be swept away. Prot
Train, of Savannah, went a step further
He said all the so-called gammarS now il
use ought 10 be collected upon a solitar
island in the Pacific Ocean and there burn
ed. He intImated, furthermore, that tn
study of the English language should b
| substituted Tor the usual eOurSe of gramma