The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-22
LATEST NEWS.
SOUTR AND WEST

James Clark died in New Orleans Mon
day from hydrophobia.
The burned Kelly block, in Savannah,
is to be rebuilt.
Georgia shipped by her various rail-
roads 239, ,S69 watermelons in 1873, and only
| 1S4, ,754 this year.
There were shipped from Charleston,
S. c., last week, 7,18O barrels of resin, most
of it going to Rotterdam and Liverpool.
The price of picking cotton in Georgia
is forty cents per hundred, without rations +;
in Mississippi and Arkansas sixty cents, or
fifty cents with rations.
Macon, Ga, expects to receive the
coming season, 10000 bales of cotton, against
"a, 900 last, ard Columbus expects $1,000
against $1,000.
The lumbermen of Minneapolis re-
port that there are /, 100000 feet of logs on
their hands. They regard the lumber mark
ct as overstocked.
Gen. jeff Thompson, of New Orleans,
died last week at his old home, st. Joseph,
Me-, where he had been visiting for his
health for some time past.
The Salt Lake courts have ordered ex-
Pcution to be issued on Brigham YOung's
horses, carriages and other goods, to satisfy
an attachment for three thousand six hun
dred dollars alimony due Ann Eliza, his
nineteenth wife.
I'm order to obtain this information l have
written to the auditors of the cattle-grOwing
states and territories for the actual number
of cattle assessed in the year 1850, also for
the number in 1879, in order to show the in
crease in fifteen years.
The cattle trade of the southwest and
west has grown to be one of the great factors
to the general business properties of the
country. The following table made by
correspondent of the Kansas City Price Cur
rent of last month shows how much this
branch of industry has grown. We quote
from his letter:
Charleston Is. C.) News and Courier:
A little duck, while swimming in a pond
near the Savannah and Charleston railroad
depot, a day or two ago, was caught by the
foot by an oyster, and, as the tide was COM
ing up, would have been drowned had not
its cries attracted the attention of work
man, who released it from its uncomfortable
situation.
There is a chance that the new naval
which is to take the place of
three or more navy yards, will be located at
Tybee or Cockspur island, or on the coast of
Georgia. These points meet with some favor
among prominent naval officers, as either of
those islands afford superior natural advan-
tages for such rendezvous. The Savannah
river being fresh water is considered to be
the most suitable harbOr for our irOn-clads,
as the deterioration of that class of vessels !
is not so great in fresh as salt water. The |
location of the islands is such that they |
could be easily defended in ease of trouble |
with any foreign power.
Intelligence, by way of Bismarck is,
that on the 31st of August, Crook was near
south of the Yellowstone, en- route
10 Glendne for supplies. Terry was on the
north side or the Yellowstone, fifteen miles
below Glendine. marching towards the Mis-
souri, Eight miles below him the Josephine
Jaw large fresh trail leading north, which
ien. Terry should have struck September
Ist. The Josephine reports thirty inches of
water in the Yellowstone OH the 30th inst,
Win nilecH luChGS ou bilI idbANSJ "iiASii SAiO
passed over at that stage. The Far West is
,bove the rapids, and will winter in the
Yellowstone.
The vital statistics of Charleston are
attracting a good deal of scientific attention
n other parts of the country. According to
he census the colored population of Charles
on exceeds the white by only ten per cent,
md vet the deaths stand as follows for the
,ear ending June 80, 1876: Whites, 642;
,olored ,24O. OF the cOlored there were 466
leaths under one year, while the whites un-
Ter one year were only $50. In Richmond.
Va, during the week ending Saturday, July
9th, there died eleven whites and twenty
me blacks The death rate thus is thirteen
n one hundred for the whites and twenty
light for the blacks. A Rich mond exchange
avs that the summer is more fatal proper
ionately, to the whites than blacks, which
would make the above difference more
trongly marked for the whole year. In the
ountry districts it is probably not so bad
SdrdRnah Nelcs.
All of the following states and territories
ave furnished me the official report for
S75, and some for 1860, but those who could
lot give me the number for 1860 ! have got
en- from the interior departments at Washing-
on, and other reliable sources as follows: