Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1877-10-19
NEWS SUMMARY.


Five car-IOsds Of dried fruit were
shipped frcm Knoxville last week.
The Georgia stair fair offers pre-
MUM OF 500 for the best FIRE company in
the state.
The famous Dummitt orange grove,
on the Indian river, Florida, has been sold 70
a New Yorker for $4,000
Jack Hunt, for the uold-blOOded MUIR
der Of BIZ vile in Monroe county, Tenn is
u he hanged on the 2sth proximo.
Colonel Holiday, conservative can
didste Tor governor Of Virginia, declines to
canvass the state, as there is no opposition.
Two Sisters Of Mercy have died Of
yellow fever at Fernandins, and two Others
have gene from St. Augustine to take their
places.
Twenty-Five judges are to be APP
pointed e cKaniiug the models which may
he s,. sss9nii'-@ = be Lee monument in
Hartsyille (Tenb } Sentinel The to-
hacco crop OF the state now being housed is
vastly Superior 70 any that has been rHised
fer many years.
In Virginia and North Carolina the
acreage planted in tobacco y City per cent.
larger than last year the yield promises to
be better in the same ratio.
The Columbia Is. ca Phoenix says that
there is enough material before the legisla-
tive investigating committee 10 keep them
AZ work at least eighteen months longer.
Hon. Washington LeOnidas Griee has
been appointed circuit judge in the Macon
fGa.l district vice Judge nill, who died on
the bench at Knoxville a few days ago.
Waco (TeNRs) Register The pecan
crop is reported good in this section this
year, sud hundreds Of bushels Of the nuts
will likely be shipped from this place.
Black Horse and Left Hand the In
dians who have been III at Fort Maron, st..
Augustine, are conyalescent and regaining
their usual health and natural savageness.
Four little girls the children of Mr..
Jacob Mu sewhite, Of Robson county, NC,
died lately Of diphtheria so near together
that they were all buried last sunday, at the
same time.
samuel G.. Reid, Esq, has made his
bond, received his commission, and taken
charge Of the United States marshals office
for the middle aAd southern districts of
Alabama.
GreeuviIe Is. O. News: Work was
commenced on the Greenwood and Augusta
railroad last week, one hundred penitentiary
cOnyicts being employed under Superin-
tendent Bailey.
A Georgia negro preacher said to his
flock owe have a collection to make this
morning, and for the glory Of heaven, which
ever OF you stole Mr.. Smiths sheep, don't
put anything on the plate.
A picket-ine is kept around Jackson
vile, Fla, night and day, to keep out yellow
fever rafu,ronp hut Oua NJ than EnnaLad
down colored pickle; the other night and
got in.
The demand for cotton-pickers is on
the increase IN Natchitoches, La, and the
price has reached 75c per hundred pounds.
This would be SlS so per bale for picking,
or p per cent. of its entire value.
The first official returns from Rich
mOnd under the MOfiat law are for the last
seventeen days of September. In that time
there we're registered i35,550 malt and 1877
80 alcoholic drinks. The tax thereon
: amOuFfed. to $3.50.
According TO the Columbus (Ga.) En-
quirer one Of the Strangest thugs in the
world is to find southern planters buying
tonsof northern hay, while the heavy and
grievous task the whole year round is to
Keep the fields clear of grass.
A wolf that had killed over thirty
sheep in Gadsden county, Florida, was killed
the other day, after an exciting chase, in
which there we're forty dogs and a regiment
Of men. 1t was five feet long and two and a
half high.
Carpe, who killed his daughter, her
child and himself in Bradley county, Tenn,
q few days ago, was an avOwed atheist, and
was frequently heard to remark that his
family and himself might as well be killed
by his own hands,
Savannah News About fourteen hun
dred head of cattle aud the same number Of
sheep passed through Quitmau last Saturday.
They cme from COlqutt and Mitchell cOun-
ties, and We're on their way to fernando
county, Florida, where they win run in the
Wlds during the winter.
Several letters, received by promi-
nent cotton hrm in Mobile from parties in
The Over flowed district, represent quite an
encouraging state OF things relative to crop
prospects. Reports from this region indicate
that, perhaps, not tenth Of The damage at
first anticipated will be realized by the
planters.
From November /, 1876. to August 81
1877, the foreign exports of Pensacola have
been 5,Si029i cubic feet Of hewn timber,
i.cal 20 cubic feet Of sawn timber, 20,5i1
cubic feet Of oak timber 2S93l,OOO feet Of
lumber, 1907 bales Of cotton, employing 2S6
vessels, with tonnage Of 2l5,46O tons,
Rev. F. p. Bishop, c. San MateO, one
ct the largest orange growers in east Florida
states that the present crop Of that delicious
fruit is most promising In his opinion, the
value ut wild orange groves has been in
creased over one thousand per cent within
the last nine years.
In Sumter county, .tlaEama, there are
two sherifs; one by appointment Of the
governor, who holds that his term Of office
does not expire until November; the other
by virtue Of the recent election. The circuit
clerS aud other officers recognize the elected
one the solicitor the governors appOintee
The same condition exists in Green county.
Fifty one buildings have been built or
remOdeled during the present season at
jacksonville, Florida. This does not in
clude the improvements in the seven suburbs,
comprising La Villa, Oakland, East Jack
Souville, Brooklyn, Riverside Springfield
aud HausOntOwn, where there has been
probably double the number Of buildings
erected
The late severe storm in the gulf states
has not as severely damaged the sugar.cane
as was feared q week ago Reports from the
C. 'ast line Of Louisiana state that the canes
are resumiug their perpendicular position
They will thus escape sprOutng at the ewes,
which was the chief danger. The only effect
of the storm will be to slightly increase the
price OF cutting the cane for the mills, owing
10 it' being bent and twisted
Atlanta Constitution: Here, take the
pencil" were the dying wos:s Of Mr.. VIM
A. Shorter, late editor Of the Rome Courier
Hon. Edward Shorter, his iather, relates that
on the death az his son in ponta HE ,,;fe a
home in Eufala, Ala, awoke him. asa ing The
linz II night, saying, "Willie is dead
feel that Willie is dead" He looked and
found it tbs by this time. Our Young friend
died 1t l:l0 by the time at Rome. Mrs.
Shorter knew Of her sons illness, but never
theless it is very strange that the impression
should have heen vivid enough lust at the