The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-04-21
LATEST N -EWs.
SOUTH AND WEST.

The Vue de Leau hotel, a noted sum
mer resort at HowelPs Point, Hampton
Roads, burned last week. Loss, $4,000
insurance, $4,000.
The will of Mrs. Edward Creighton
the widow of millionaire of Omaha, Neb.
bequeaths 100000 to found and support ;
Roman Catholic school in Omaha.
Burton Hendrick, formerly secretary
to Gov. Warmoth, of Louisiana, was founS
dead in his room, in st. Louis last week, with
an empty chlorform bottle at his side.
The Georgia press geIerally report
that the late cold spell was nDt as damaging
in that state as at first apprehended. In
many sections fair fruit CROP is expected.
Rice-growing upon Cape Fear, North
Carolina, has became nearly extinct. Only
| 10000 bushels were raised last year, against
an annual product of 100000 bushels before
the war.
A man named Jones was shot and
killed by A. p Mitchell in a personal rem
centre at Traskwood, twelve miles south of
Little Rock, on the st. Louis and Iron Noun
tain and Southern railway, last week.
Jefferson Davis will sail for Europe on
the 1st of May. He will pass some six or
eight months in London and on the continent
to promote the establishment of a direct
trade with the cities of the Mississippi val
ley.
The property of the South branch dis
tilery company, Chicago, owned by Haas,
Powell & Co., has been declared forfeited
to the government. Simon Powell pleaded
guilty of conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment. Indictments as to other members of
the firm were dismissed.
In the Ohio house bills were passed
to confer police power upon conductors of
railroad trains and to compel them to eject
three-eard-monte men and other sharpers
practicing their vocations, from the trains,
and also to forbid employment of children
under fourteen years of age as gymnasts or
public singers.
Thaxton T. Robinson and Jesse Mitch
ell, young men highly connected in Campbell
county, Va, met Monday at New Providence
church, near Rustbury, in that county, to
settle an old dispute with pistols Robinson
was shot in the abdomen and Mitchell re-
ceived one shot in the hand, which glancing
went through his cheek, lodging In the back
of his hand another in the breast. The latest
report says that Robinson is dead and Mitch
ell could not survive. The difficulty is under
stood to have been about woman.
A Kansas City special states that dur
ing the snow storm last week Mrs. Geo. Hol-
lon and two little children, living near Wa
megO, Kansas, on the line of the Kansas
Pacific railway, started to gb to a neighbors
house, only quarter of a mile distant.
Darkness coming on and the storm beating
them so furiously, they became bewildered
and wandered about the prairie until ex-
hausted. They were found frozen to death |
not twenty yards from the house they we're
in search of. The mother had taken off |
nearly all her clothes to protect the children
aud was herself in an almost naked con-
ditiou
The annual report OF the stockholders |
IF the Langley manufacturing company is an
exhibit. 1t shows that there is
certain profit in cotton manufacturing in the
outh, even in these times of depression and
lullness in trade. The profits for the year
we're $35,214, from which had to be deducted
a, ,037 for interest, and $1S,9OS to repair the
osses by fire last year-leaving S12,1 as
let profits. 1t will be remembered that one
portion of the property, with considerable
tock, were destroyed by fire, caused by
lightning, few months ago. No dividend
vas declared, as the company are applying
,rOfts to an increase of the capital stock
The Langley mills are situated in South
carolina, near Augusta, Ga.