The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-08
SOUTHERN NEWS.

RIGHT REV. AUGUSTINE VERoT, Ca thoIic
bishop of Florida, is dead.
GREAT damage was done the crops of Fav-
cite county, Tenn, by recent rains.
WATERMELONs are in the Galveston, Tex
as, market.
CORN and cotton crops were never better
in southern Georgia.
GEN. JOHN C. FIZEE, prominent citizen
of Memphis, died of flux in that city on the
14th instant.
THE survivors of Hoods celebrated Texas
brigade will hold a reunion at Bryan, Texas
on the twelfth of July.
Col. ALFRED SHORTER, of Rome, Ga, do
mated $4,000 to the Cherokee Baptist female
college at the citv.
THE Chattanooga confederate memorial
association are disinterring the remains OF
soldiers on Missionary Ridge.
ATLANTA is about to start a large broom
factory, and factory for making all kinds
| of woOden-ware is also talked of.
SOME enterprising farmers IN Hood coun
ty, Texas, have planted cotton on lands from
which a full wheat crop had just been har
vested.
ALFRED BARTON has been tried at Jack
sonville. Florida, for the murder of Robert
Bush, and found guilty of manslaughter in
the second degree.
AT Little Rock, Monday, Pat Hester killed
Martin Kenneday by striking him on the
head with billet of wood. Both were rail-
way employees.
THE town of Houma, Louisiana, was par
TALLY destroyed by fire, Monday, and j. S.
Starn was arrested as the incendIary. Loss
twenty-five thousand dollars.
THE JACKSON (Miss) Times of a recent
date announces the arrival from Washington
at that city of seventy-thousand young shad,
to be placed in Pearl river.
A BILL providing that no man shall act as
juryman in Texas who can not read and
write the English language has passed the
senate of that state, with only five dissenting
votes.
THE bodies of twentv-four soldiers of Gen.
Pat Cleburne's corps, c. S. A., who fell at
Missionary Ridge, near the tunnel on the E.
T., Va. and Ga. railroad, were removed to
the confederate cemetery at Chattanooga
last Saturday.
Two surviving members of the staff which
assisted Gen. Jackson at the battle of New
Orleans-Major Thomas Butler and Gen.
William o. Butler-are now residing in or
near Carrollton, Ky. The former is over
eighty-seven and the latter in his eighty
sixth year.
THE people living near San Felipe and
Eagle Pass, Texas, are in a state of terrorism
from the raids they are subject to from the
Mexican side of the river. Raids, accompa-
nleu by muIuef anu TODDcTy, VI frequent
occurrence, and Americans are believed to
be among the guiltyparties.
SPECIAL agent of the postal department
last week arrested Clarence Wells, assistant
postmaster at Midwife, Georgia, who con-
fessed that for some time past he had been
robbing the mails. Wells was detected
through decoy letter containing a counter
felt $50 bill which he used in paying an ac-
count.
CAPT. EADs the jetty builder, received the
following dispatch from Cornell university a
few days ago: "The students of civil engi-
neering in Cornell university have heard
with pride and pleasure of the successful
passage of the Hudson through the South
Pass, and send their congratulations to the
successful engineer who has opened the val
ley of the Mississippi to the commerce of the
world.'
THE st. Louis Globe in lengthy article
on the success of Eads' jetty plans, says !:
" The present indications are that the COM
merce between the Mississippi valley and
Europe will pass through the mouth of the
Mississippi inside of the next twelve months,
and if the same mattress system can be
adopted for the river generally, depth of
water sufficient to carry heavy tonnage can
be made permanent between st. Louis and
the gulf.