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Southern Shots.

and 18th proXimo.
By the new census the population Of Aiken
s. c., is SEQ.
Miss Ielle Boyd, the Confederate spy, is
lecturing in South Carolina.
Elliott street, the wicked precinct OF Char
lesion. S. c., has been converted.
Twenty thousand dollars have already been
subscribed by the people OF Camden, ). W
for the building of cotton factory.
The estate of the late Miss Telfair, Of Sa-
vannah. Ca, whose numerous requests have
already been mentioned, is appraised at $780,
OOO
Mr.. NJ. J. jenkins, son of the gallant Gen.
Micah jenkins, is the successful candidate Tor
West Point honors from Mackey district IN
South Carolina,
The saw mill ofShumate & Hunt, at Green
VILE 6. c.. was burned down on a Monday,
and rebuilt and running on the Friday follow
ing. Enterprise.
Fort Myers, Fla, has q man who pays taxes
on fifty thousand head of cattle. 1t strikes
us we have used this item before, but 1t is in-
terestiug at any time.
Hon. E. Il. Paine, Of louisville, has pur-
chased the " Bullock farm, in Cobb County,
Ca. for 81, 700. He lives upon it. This
cuts the last tie that bound Rufus B. to Geor-
gia.
Hamburg, s. c., is getting forward in tie
worll. A printing company has been cstab-
lished there with unlimited capital, and COM
pany is skirmishing around to start paper to
be called the Hamburg Gazette.
Ex-trcasurer Niles G. Parker, Of South Caro-
lima who was ticdend convicted Of embezzIing,
and imprisoned escaped Jail recently and 'Hed
to the the mountains" he was subsequently
caught in Camden, S. c., and heavily iroDed.
MoRrUARr: Samuel Hampton, Of Ruthcr-
ford county, n. c., aged 75.--Hngh McGul-
kin, of Anderson county, aged 60.-Joel >.
Perrin. of Abbeville, Co, {. c., aged 2s.-Jas.
b Belts. of Charleston, S. c., aged Cl.-Rev.
w. s. Lee, Of Sumueryille, S. c., aged So.
Mrs. I. NJ. Jackson, the widow Of Stone
wall jackson, has received $4,000 from the
executor Of Wade H. Bolton, Of Memphis,
Tenn. being half the sum willed to her. The
personal property of Mr.. Bolton is valued at
abont half million.
The Savannah, Ga, News announces that
| Mess. j. Roebuck Randall and n. Copperbottom
| Stevenson, Of the Augusta Constitutioualist,
who are the agents Of the celebrated long fibre
Japanese corn, are prepared to send gratis
| chromos illustrating the growth OF this Won
dsrful discovery.
An orphan boy il Lancaster County, S. c.,
! seventeen years old runs a farm of nine acres
| in cotton aud twelve in corn. The present
estimate put upon his crops is FIVE bags OF
cotton and two hundred aud fifty bushels Of
corn. He has had no assistance but from two
of his little sisters, who did some OF the hoeiug
Columbus. Miss, has tree somewhat re-
markabe for its history, as well as for its size
symmetry and the beauty of its fruit. 1t is q
| Grape myrtle, forty-siX years old, and was sent
as a present from Athens, Ga, in 1929, by
! Prof. Jackson, Of the State University, by the
! hands Of his son-the latter being then I'll bis
way to the city of Montgomery.
"Old Rock," the sobriquet by which the
late Gen. Henry l.. Benning, Of Georgia, wa;
! known throughout Lees army, is said to have
been gained in this way: Gen. Bennlng was
moving his brigade rapidly into action to sup
port Anderson, al the second battle OF Manas'
sas. \ poor wounded soldier on the ground
cried out " Hurry up, Rock, Tige has freed.
Rock and 1'ige were henccforIh the army
names of Gems. Bennng and Anderson.
Senator Norwood, Of Georgia, 10 his recent
address at Emory College, made some interest
! ing points, among them were these While
emancipation diminished our wealth, /. in
creased our political power. Negroes vote ioT
men and not for measures, and their eight hun
bred thousand votes will be added to ours -
The negro is graytating towards us. The
people of the North will soon rise and demand
a surrender of she elective franchise or coloni-
cation"
Charleston, S. c., hos a very fine oil paint
! ing, representing the last morning prayer Of
| Stonewall jackson, the hero who never led his
hosts save to victory. The painting was exc
cuted by Mr.. James Stuart, formerly OF beu-
fort in this State, but now a resident Of St
Louis, Mo, aud is fine work Of art. The
scene is laid at the memorable battlefield OF
! Charlottesville. Jackson is seen kneeling at
the base of a giant oak. In the back ground
appear the lonely bivouac fires around which
stand the sentaels, "who keep watch while
the army is sleeping" Arrange Of hills partly
yelled by the mornings mist, looms up 10 the
! distance.
The ex-Con federate Gems. Longstreet and S
D. Lee casually met at a hotel in Atlanta, Ga.
a day or two ago, aud after supper had plea
| SAINT conversation. The Atlanta Herald says
of them Gen. LoGgstreet is less changed
in appearance than recent newspaper notices
have induced us to expect. Instead Of the
rich, flowing chestnut beard Of Lees able lieu
tenant, there is now the Deatly-trimmed Burn
| side whisker of almost silvery whiteness.-
/ Gen Lougstreet ia undecided as to his future
residence, though he expressed last night, :
decided preference for a residence in Georgia
! General Stephen Lee is much younger n,an
/ than Lougs,rcct Small aud siucwy, he is
very striking 10 bis expression Of nervous force
at rest. and Of marked and seli-asserting iudi-
yidualiy.