The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-17
SOUTHERN NEWS.

DURING ten years corn has not been SO
cheap in Cherokee county, Ca, as it is at
present
GRASSHOPPERS have commenced to ap-
pear in great numbers in northern Alabama,
and are occasioning great uneasiness.
Coon horses are selling at auction in San
Saba county, Texas, at from SIS to SO. More
horses than money is the reason.
A BILL has passed the lower house of the
Texas legislature, by a vote of seventy to
nine, providing for general local-option
law.
SIXTEEN escaped conyicts from the Texas
penitentiary at Huntsville secured arms and
have committed numerous depredations ia
the vicinity Of Columbia.
WITH a population OF three thousand, Ma
rietta, Ga claims to have taxable property
to the value of $723,Sl2 and business to the
amount of 100000 annually.
A BILL has been introduced in congress to
reimburse Jones county, North Carolina, for
the destruction of the courthouse by FEEDER
al troops in 1868.
A TURTLE was killed at Bufort, North Car
olina, last week, which on examination,
was found to contain one thousand and hf-
ty eggs.
AT Covington, Ga, on banter, boy
cat fifteen hard-boiled eggs, and on being
told there were no more eggs, remarked he
was going home to supper.
THE cotton mills in Tennessee num- ber for
ty; spindles employed, fifty-six thousand
three hundred and iifty-eight, and bales Of
cotton consumed, fourteen thousand four
hundred and forty-thrse.
THE Brownsville (Texas) Sentinel reports
a good deal of destitution and suffering in
that city among refugees from Mexico, some
hundreds of whom have crossed into Texas
at that point
THE Statesville N. C.) American tells of
sofa Of fhx,~ rI,<,h has 49,,
seven years oficiated at the marriage of
eighty five couples, and has been the recipi-
ent OF less than fifty dollars.
DARIEN, Ga, has exported, since January
last, thirty-eight million seven hundred and
twenty thousand three hundred and sixty
dred and eighty-nine thousand and seven
teen feet of lumber to foreign ports.
THE Nashville N. c. Citizen says that
mica is being found abundantly in the vi.
cinity of Mitchell, that state. Two parties
there have recently sold quantity OF mica
in the lump for $37, 900. From one spot
twenty by forty feet, over $4,000 worth has
been taken.
THE Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution says that
one would not imagine that the times are
very hard, judging from the amount of build
ing going On in Atlanta at present There is
more nov than Mt any time since the war,
and some branches of business are more
prosperous than ever.
Col r. L. HERIor, of Sumter South Car
olina, has sent to the centennial a photo
graph representing five generations, each the
hrstboin. The eldest member was one hun
dred years old the day the picture was taken,
and the youngest i've years old.
THB entire western portion Of Texas is
suffering greatly for rain, as the young corn
on account of the drouth is shriveliug up and
even the grass exhibits signs of dying out.
The San Antonio Herald thinks western
Texas will have no good luck until a few
stage robbers are hung in that section.
J. K DANIELS, aged twenty-five, commit
ted suicide at Waco, Texas. on the 26th inst,
by taking chloral. The Galveston News spe-
ciai says he was reported as an habitual OPT
UNI eater. Daniels hailed from Americas
Georgia, and was q man of fine education
and good family.
SAM HARPER, the weil-known Texas race
horse, has been entered for the two and
three-quarter mile race for all ages at the Je-
rome park, in New York, next October. He
will have to compete with such celebrities as
Ozark, Aristides, Stampede, Chesapeake,
Aaron Pennington, Ochiltree and Pembroke
VIGOROUS measures are to be taken to
represa the existing lawlessness in western
Tex3s- This is as it should be, for no section
OF that great state presents so many and va
red attractions to immigrants were life and
property properly protected. Emigration
not immigration will be the word sh ould the
present state of affairs continue.
The following appointments have been
made from Georgia to the West Point militia
~ academy during the term of the present
ninth, appointed by Mr.. Hill; Edgar Her
bert, from the seventh, by Mr.. FELTON,; Per
cy +. Trippe, from the Augusta district, by
Mr.. Stephens, all of whom have been adj
mitted
THERE is a man named Thurston living on
An in
who is seven feet eight inches high and well
proportioned. He is from forty-fve to forty
eight years old, is married and has several
children. His wife is a very tall woman, and
some of his children bid fair to rival their
daddy" Thurston is from Missouri, and
was in Prices army at the beginning of the
war.
FOURTEEN persons have been arrested and
taken to Memphis, Tenn, charged with max
ing "moonshlne" whisky in that section of
the state lying west of the Tennessee river
All have given bonds to the amount of So 900
ON each Indictment but two parties, one of
whom is Rowlett, who halls from Paducah.
The two are now confined in the Memphis
Jail.
The Raleigh IN. c. News says that Or.
Hillery Wilder, living near Raleigh, is said
to be the finest pisto1-shot in America, and
at one time held the champion badge of the
United States. 1t is said he has been known
to hit target the size of silver quarter at
distance Of fifty yards, forty-nine times out
OF fifty with pistol. With a pistol lie killed
last February, twenty-three robins in TWEEN
ty- four shots.
MAYsyILLE REPUBLICAN,: The centennial
glow worm has made its appearance again
in Mason county, after an absence of thirty
years Persons who have never before seen
1t are very much edited with an examina-
ton of its beauties. They are about an
inch in length, and so brilliant in their ius-
ter that each worm resembles n miniature
bracelet of diamonds. A gentleman of relia-
biiity informs us that on Saturday night he
placed one OF these worms upon his watch
crystal, and was enabled to readily discern
the time in complete darkness. These glow
worms were quite common during the early
settlement of this county.
LYNcHBURG (Va.) News: A fish agent,
with twelve cars of fish for Broad river. in
Tennessee, passd through the city on Satur-
day. He will put them in that stream some
where near Bulls Gap. We did not learn
what kind Of fish they were, but suppose
they were composed mainly Of black bass
and salmon. The bass have been tried in
the James river here, and are perfect sue
cess. They eat up all the smaller fish, and
"chaw" up mud-cats in hurry. The indi.
cations now are that they will soon run ont
all the fish from the river, and dwindle
GRUB with eels and turtles Good Judges
here say they grow faster and are better fish
than any ever caught from our waters, the
brook trout alone excepted.
CHARLOTTE On. C.) Observer: A citizen of
Charlotte who is just from Morganton, brings
information of the horrible death in that
town, on Tuesday last, sd instant, of man
named Mcconnell He had turned his two
mules into a lot, and upon going to catch
them, seized one by the head and was hold |
ing it, when the other kicked over the neck
of the one which had been captured, strik- |
ing Mr.. Mcconnell on the jaw-bone. The jaw |
was shattered all to pieces, and the neck dis |
jointcd by the force of the kick. He fell to |
the ground and expired without struggle. !,
The mules had been driven thirty five miles |
tkat day and had been driven into the lot to |
wallow.