The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-11-15
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SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

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The Georgia railroads are all crowded
with business.
Religious revivals are reported from
all parts of Alabama.
The cotton mill recently burned dowI
at Rome, Ca, is to be rebuilt
The sugar houses are all in fun bias
| in Louisiana, and the yield is good one.
More cotton has been sold at Charlotte
up to date than at any other time in hel
history.
Letters are pouring into Memphis con
| tanning offers to adopt fhans left by the
plague.
Two steamers are to be built for clear
| ing obstructions from Oconee River
Georgia.
A convict in the Texas penitentiary
got pardon by means of forged petition.
| and letters
Diphthelia is sadly prevalent in sew,
eraI of the Southern States, particularly
North Carolina.
Houston merchants lost large consigu-
q tbs efty 81 otssSns tssssSnnfsaasnss the wreck
Fifteen acres of land near Brooksville,
fernando County, Florida. have prodIced
s., eco worth of tobacco.
Father Spinner, late of the Treasury
Department, is prospecting ut fernandiRa,
with view of locating.
Athens. Ga, has 5000 inhabitants, II
churches, 20 lawyers, 9 doctors, railroads,
male and female schools.
The State Grange Fair OF Alabama
has been postponed until December 3, on
account OF the prevailing epidemic.
Montgomery contributed $4,000 to
yellow fever sufferers, and sent the 500 re-
naming to the family of the late Lieutenant
Benner.
The Irish of Richmond are being
aroused against General Joe Johnson, be-
cause he had two 'Louisiana Tigers" who
happened to be Irishmen, shot at Manassas.
A Texas paper has found the most un-
popular candidate on record. 1t declares
that he has not popularity enough to muster
a corporaPs guard on an invitation to take
drink.
The Grand Jury in session for three
weeks past at Sherman, Texas, returned 3S5
indictments, four of the number being
against candidates for county offices, charg
ing them with gambling.
Colonel O. NJ Davis, of Calhoun
County, Ga, produced from eight potatoes
which he brought from Florida, one hundred
bushels. They were planted On the 11tn of
July. They are cluster potato.
Nashville owes 81, 1,7I2,6S4. and not
cent in the Treasury. In ten years the
valuation of real estate has run down from
S17,0O0,000 to Sl1,000, 600, while the taxes
are not quite as high as they were ten years
ago.
Dallas Commercial Immigration has
set in at a much earlier period than usual
and at a lively rate. Almost every train that
enters the State brings a crowd OF future
Texans. They are settling generally In
Northern and Western Texas.
The Southern Historical Society has
perfected satisfactory arrangement with
the War Department for the exchange OF
copies of the Confederate archives. The
exchange will begin as soon as lists Of the
desired copies can be made cut.
The medical societies of Charleston,
South Carolina, and of Shelby County, Ala
bama, declare the quarantine system 'ineon>
sistent with the most generally received
views of the ori. in and propagation of yell
low fever, and opposed to the humanity Of
the age"
The foundered steamer, General Barnes
6sfes OF cotton, 81 bafre}s OF spirits of tur-
pentine, 373 barrels OF rosin, 40 casks of
rice, 500 barrels of cotton seed oil, and l ,335
sacks of cotton-seed cake, but carried no
passengers.
Cotton factories and cotton-seed mills
are constantly increasing in the South. A
little establishment near Westminster, Ga,
of which the machinery only cost 2,500,
turns out about $27 worth of manufactured
goods daily, and employs eight hands at fifty
cents a day The village consumes the pro-
duct, and the owners, who are planters, OBJ
tain a vastly higher price for their cotton
than il they shipped it.
The mortality from diphtheria along
Hyco, in CssweB County, South Carolina,
aad at Bethesda Church, is nearly as alarm
ing as the spread of the yellow fever. Iver-
son Stevens, on HycO, lost four out of six
children, and another gentleman lost every
one of his children A Inau forty years old
had it, but recovered. at Bethesda, some
weeks ago, they buried FIVE, and the next
Sunday there were eleven open gcaves IN the
same chursh-yard. Sixty have died around
there.
Within a radius of twenty miles of
Atlanta there are enough spindles to annu-
ally consume 10000 bales of cotton, the one
cotton factory of the city employing 600
hands. Atlanta also has e rolling-mill en-
ploying 500 men, three railroad car-shops
several hundred, and the largest
brewery south of Cincinnati, four boiler
shops, six iron foundries, two door and sash
factories and four planning mills. For the
year ending with August there were added
nearly 80 per cent. to the manufacturing in
dustries OF that city.
New Orleans Democrat: A private
letter from an intimate and dear friend of
ex-President Davis, written at BeauvOir, IN
forms us that for some months past Mrs.
Davis hse been seriously Ill, and that Mr..
Davis has himself been fearfully prosfrated
by anxiety and care for his beloved and de-
voted wife. To add 70 their distress, while
Mrs. Davis was eOnvaiescing the news came
4t.afw Vaff foil
i'll with the fever in Memphis. Mrs. Davis
was again taken violently i'll and narrowly
escaped death, though convslescing, and has
been declared out of danger by her ply
sician. Mr.. Davis, overwhelmed by the loss
of his only remaining son and the illness
and danger of his wife, is still much pros
trated.