The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-24
LATEST NEWS.
SOUTH AND WEST.

An English company is buying up
100000 acres of the wild lands of Georgia.
The Cairo and Fulton railroad COM
pany is vigorously preparing to build a
branch road from Little Rock to Pine Bluff
The tornado which swept through part
of the northwest last Friday afternoon was
very disastrous in its effects, involving not
only great destruction of property, but the
killing and manning of twenty or thirty per-
sons.
The Macon, Ga, Telegraph and Mes
senger says that there has been more guanO
sold in Macon this season than has been sold
any season since 1870. The farmers are COM
ing for it from far and near, and buying it to
the very last limit their credit will reach.
They promise to pay for it in cotton, deliv.
cred next fall, at fifteen cents pound.
A premium of one thousand dollars
will be paid by forty members of the Men,
phis cotton exchange to the producer of the
best bale of cotton from Tennessee, Missis-
sippi, or Alabama, to be exhibited at Phila-
delphi: in July next. Memphis cotton bales
have already taken prizes at the principal
worlds fairs.
A special to the COurier-Journal from
Mount Sterling, KY, says that q most Won
derful phenomena transpired in that section
on the Sth. The correspondent says during
sunshine and clear sky there fell from the
heavens quivering aesh, which came down
in large quantities, and filed many acres of
territory. Hogs and chickens eagerly de-
YOUR the flesh, specimens of which have been
sent to this city for scientific examination.
Capt. J: B. Eads states that the twenty
feet depth has now been carried down one
mile and a quarter from the upper end of
the works, and the channel is cutting out
rapidly. Where the Matte III. Atwood
grounded on the 4th, drawing thirteen and
half feet, there is now sixteen and half feet |
of water. Capt. Eads is confident that before |
the end of the month he will have more water
between the jetties than there is at south
west pass.
The latest intelligence from Hazel |
Green, Wis, reports these facts: The storm |
struck the village between four and Eve |
o'clock in the afternoon on the west side |
sweeping through the entire village and !
leveling to the ground some twenty FIVE
and killing outright some eight
persons, besides seriously wounding some
twelve or more others. The carnage is re-
ported as terrible. The hurricane was sue
ceeded by deluge of rain and hail The
village of Hazel Green mas a population of
probably ene thousand inhabitants. 1t is
situated twelve miles directly east of Du-
buque. 1t is almost wholly mining village,
and is situated in the very heart of the best
Wisconsin lead diggings.
Capt. J. NJ. Beck, n retired lawyer of
Mount Sterling, KY, and a gentleman well
known for reliability, arrived in Louisville
last week, with specimens of the flesh which
fell last Friday in Bath county. The flesh
covered two acres of ground, and resembled
mutton, and left traces of blood on trees and
fences which were touched by the falling
fakes. Chickens and hogs devoured it with
evident relish. The heavens were clear and
he sun shone, and only floating clouds were
-isiDle at the time-two p. m, March 5rd.
Quantities of flesh have been preserved.
That brought to Louisville was given to Prof.
Smith, n well-knOwn scientist, who
ays it is no doubt animal flesh. He pur-
POSES making further examinations soon.
of people are willing to attest with
Iffidavits to the truthfulness of the entire
natter.