Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-29
DOWN SOUTH.

The c0nvic; labor Of Florida is to be
famed out.
Florida is making heavy shipments Of wa
| teTmel0us to Savannah.
The Euglish-bOn citizens Of Augusta
have organized q 81. Georges Society.
a contract for the erection Of an ice fac
tory, in Atlanta, % cost $4,000, has been
closed.
Savannah is growing loudly over having
vauquished Charleston in a yacht race, III
which the crack craft Of both cities partici-
pateG.
Augusta has challenged Atlanta to a
spelling match, the proceeds to so to the
Ladies' Memorial Association Of the for
mer city.
Tie grand iIryo Muscogee county, Ga,
has found true bills for murder against the
two pOlicemen-Cash and MCEachman-
and Cash's brother, who killed Col. HOl-
land some weeks since.
Ex GOV. Vance, Of North Carolina, has
been presented, by the yOGng Jewish peO-
pie Of Wilmington, with j gOld-headed
cane, as a token Of their appreciation Of
his recent lecture On The Scattered Ma
ton"
Some negroes attempted to escape from
the penitentiary at Raleigh, y. g, the other
daV, by making a sudden rush on the gate
keeper. They We're pursued, one killed,
one MORALLY wounded, and the other re-
captured.
James Monroe, coloTed, was hanged ia
Gainesville, Fla, last Friday, for the muir
der OF Mrs. Smith. Ills last words were:
"My friends, both white aud black, you see
my condition. Take warning, and don't DO
as l have"
A South Carolina paper announces that
another English company has been formed
for the purpose Of manufacturing furniture,
ship frames and other articles Of wood, in
/ that State. Saw mills and manufactures
| of different kinds viii be erected at once.
The s0-called Belle Boyd, who has been
| legturing at OpgliEa, Ala, cured a negro OF
/ Civil Rights SeCJWdeHt GTtCEi, a day or two
ago. he ObtUded himself into the ladies
car bound fu Atlanta, and took a seat, but
/ Belle drew her little pistol and ordered him
/ ont. He left in a big hurry.
Twelve black fish or grampus were
| driven ashore at ST. Augustine, Fla, dur
! ing heavy gale that prevailed last week.
! They consisted of bulls, cows and calves.
/ One of the old bulls yielded one hundred
/ and twenty gallons Of superior oil, and
/ measured JWeuiy-Oue feet in length. The
/ grampus is a smaller variety Of the whale
family.
a correspondent of the FcuudRa
! (FIa.) O5ScrUer says that there is an orange
/ tree near Waldo that IS one hundred and
/ ne inche-. OF eight feet five inches, in Cir
| conference a. the ground. Ten inches
! above, IL branches, making four trees or
! limbs. One of these is thirty-se7en and
/ o half inches; one thiTty-nine and half;
! one forty and half, and one f0Tty-three in
| circumference. 1t Is believed that the
/ tree will bear five thousand oranges this
/ year.
Maf. VIM. Allan, Of Curtis Neck, on
/ James river, Virginia, died last week Of
1 apopleXy. Prior 10 the WI, Maj. Allan
/ was perhaps one Of the wealthieSt native
/ Virginians, owning some eight hundred
/ slaves and nearly forty thousand acres Of
tie best Eastern Virginia land, including
! the famous Jamestown Island. Curtis Neck,
ClaTemOnt, etc He had his own railroads
and engines. and sailed a splendidly ap-
pointed yacht manned by his own people.
Col. d. Wyatt Aiken, Master Of the
/ South Carolina Grange, and a member of
the National Executive Committee; Col.
/ Wardlaw, Master Of the Florida State
Grange: Col. ". II. Chambless, and Mas
fer E. N. Law. Secretary Of the Alabama
/ state Grange; Col. T. j. Smith, Master,
and Col. L. TAYLOR, Secretary, IS well as
the Executive Committee Of the Georgia
State Grange, viii meet in Atlanta on the
! Sth prox., to confer about matters of in
teresg and importance to the Order Of
Patrons of IIusbandTy in the South.
The demand for grain cradles in the Ma
con market has been larger than it ever
was known to be before, more having al
ready been sold this season than were dis
posed of in the whole of the past six sea
cons combined. The Telegraph and Mes
i Sruger SAYS cheeIiIy: 1--WE begin TO feel
i thai there is life in the old land vet An
unusually large area Of wheat was sown