The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-04-14
LATEST N EWs.
SOUTH AND WEST.

Mississippi will be repre esented at the
centennial by handsome building, com
/ posed of every variety of wood grown in the
state.
The California Legislature has passed a
bill abandoning tuition in languages and
music in the public schools The two cost
in San Francisco $4,000.
The Security bank, of Washington, has
closed and will go into liquidation. Liabili-
ties about 100000, of which 5000 are due
depositors.
The Consolidated Virginia mine has
just divided its thirteenth monthly dividend
of $1,OSO,OOO gold In twenty-three months
the mine has taken out S3O,bOO, 600 OF treas
ure, and divided Si7,2SO, 900 of profits.
The supreme court of Tennessee sen
fenced i. A. Gilbert to be hanged at Fayette-
vile, May 29th, for the murder of VIM. John
son, blind magic-lantern Snowman. The
prisoner received his scntenfe with laughter.
Elizabeth T. Greenfield, a colored
singer, famous throughout the country some
wears ago, under the name of the Black
Swan, died in Philadelphia last week, at the
age of sixty-eight. She was born a slave in
Georgia, but was manumittdd while a child
Ten carloads of machinery, including
engines, boilers, etc, were shipped from ST.
Louis last week for San Fr;ncisco, destined
for Nichalaivisk, Siberia, where they will be
put into eight steamboats, being built at that
point for AmOOr river.
The impeachment articles preferred
against Governor Ames in the Mississippi
legislature have been Withdrawn, Ames re-
signed his Office and is once more private
citizen. President Stone OF the senate has
been recognized as acting governor.
The Galveston News says the cold
weather has killed vegetation in nearly all
parts of Texas. Early corn and oats, fruit
and vegetables have been destroyed. Cot
ton, except in isolated instances, had not
come up, and escaped, but where it had
peered above the surface of the ground it
met its death.
The Memphis cotton exchange has dis
charged itself of a very delicate duty and
awarded its handsome prize of $1,000 to Mr..
William Taylor, of Lee county, Arkansas,
as the owner of the best bale of cotton i'll
competition, and the best bale ever seen
here. The judgment of the committee was
reached after maturity and the careful exer-
else of their skill as experts.
Col. Edward i. Jones, prominent
resident of Canton, Miss, and now widely
known throughout the south, temporarily
located at Indianapolis, Engaged in intro
ducing his several patent inventions, COM
mitted suicide by taking liydrate of chlOral
Report says, business trouble, coupled with
excessive drink, was the cduse.
The United States engineer in charge
of harbor improvements on the southern
coast, is now constructing D harbor in cross
tide some six miles above the city of Savan-
nah, in order to defect from its natural
course n large portion of the waters of the
Savannah river. The Charleston chamber of
commerce protests against it, as threatening
the commercial interests Of the city and the
rice of plantations of the BOAST
The hog cholera is becoming matter
of serious concern out west, the terrible raw
ages of the disease rendet ring it a subject of
grave consideration alike for producer and
consumer. The Illinois state board of agri-
culture has lust taken STEPS to gather al the
possible as to the nature and
causes of the disease, and the various meth
DDS of treating it, for the information of
breeders and others who are experimenting
in the hope of finding a re medy for the NAL
adv, or preventive.