The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1879-10-23
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Of Memphis.
Charleston is to have Il velocipedc
ournamcnt.
The cotton mills in the South are run
night and day.
Hon. ;. McLin, cx-Secretary OF state
OF Florida, is dead.
Nashville has sent one hundred barrels
of -four 70 Memphis.
The bell-punch law Is shutting up
many saloons in Dallas.
Game was never so plentiful as now IN
Mississippi river counties.
Edison's agent is hunting for mineral
platinum in North Carolina.
There is S4,500,000 in cash and bonds
in the State treasury of Texas.
Montgomery, Ala, has over one hum
dred new buildings going up.
The Indians of Western Texas use cot
ton-wood leaf tea for snake bites. 3-''.
Quite number of Texas farmers have
put in their second crop OF corn. 49,,
The Norfolk peanut dealers have agreed
to sell peanuts hereafter by the pound:
Nashville thinks she is the best situated
CITY in the South for iron manufacturing.
There are seven hundred and thirty
miles Of railroad under construction III Texas.
In Tuskegee, Ala, there is a negro boy
rs black as the ace of spades who has blue
eyes. -
A son of Gen. Bee, of Texas, has re-
rcived the appointment to West folitt CADET
ship.
Corpus Christi, Texas, shipped this
season 2,547, ,4S2 pounds Of wool OF the spring
clip.
The only WOODEN mill in Texas is at
New Brauniels. Last year the prohts were
SS1, 900
In Mobile pickpockets are so numerous
that it is becoming dangerous for ladies' to
walk the streets.
Jefferson parish, La, does large
milk business, selling 100000 gallons, worth
100000 Il year.
Students who take the benefit of the
Texas State normal school are required to
teach five years.
Baton Rouge has appointed a commit
tee 10 raise $4,000 for the repairing OF the
old StatchOuse.
The cotton factors at New Orleans be-
lieve there will be 100000 more bales received
there this season than last.
A party of ninety emigrants from Eng
land and Scotland, bound for interior Texas,
has Just landed at Galveston.
There is Il bill before the Georgia Leg.
islature to divide the State funds and estab
lish repositories in the principal cities.
The planters of Point Coupe, La, are
discussing whether or not they should bring
abor from Georgia to improve their lands.
The exodus fever has died a natural
death III East Fcliciana Parish, La, and
everybody, black and white, is picking cot
ton.
The New Orleans Board of Health pro
poses that hereafter no man shall stable
COW within twenty feet of the lot OF an adia-
cent ncighbor,
In order to rob the residence of Mr..
Theo. Soniat, in Jefferson parish, La, the
burglars chlorOformed the entire family, con-
sisting OF eight persons.
Among the colored refugees in Kansas
is an entire Baptist church of three hundred
and nine persons from Delta Louisiana, led
by their pastor and dcacons.
4 negro at Murfreesboro, Tenn, aged
one hundred and three, has just married his
seventh wife, who is thirty-two. The old
man has twcntv-seven children.
The widow of Alexander Campbell, the
founder of the Campbellite or Christian
church, is living with her son-in-aw, Col.
Barely, near Hillsboro, in Alabama.
In the Hastings Court Richmond, the
hot +o1
and defended by negro attorneys. This is
probably the first case of the sort on record.
A negro woman in the employ of DR..
Riggs OF Callerene, Ala, poisoned the whole
family by mixing morphine with the coffee.
None have died, but several are seriously i'll
danger.
Natchez, Miss, has built cotton fac
tory, every dollar OF the stock in which is
owned by her own citizens, and which is
yielding the very handsome return of nearly
twenty per cent on the investment.
4 witness in 4 case before Judge
Quarles, OF Nashville, declared that he did
upon the Judge ruled his testimony out of
court. Sf!"." l. 90. ...
For months this year there has not
been drop OF water Ill the Rl0 Grande Tor
4 distance OF about five hundred miles There
is great suffering of the people oi that dis
trict i'll consequence.
A member of a leading cigar firm in
Jacksonville says that it is susceptible of
proof that Middle Florida can raise as good
tobacco for cigars as Cuba, but that the farm
ers do not understand curing it.
Memphis Appeal: We are getting to
be yellow:eyed race OF people in Memphis.
1t is the fever poison that has been absorbed
into the system during the epidemic that pro-
duces yellow eyes; at least so say the dis
ciples of Galcnl ."-"e = c'rs> 'i,'
The. last Alabama Legislature appro-
priated $4,000 for the benefit of the maimed
Confederate soldiers in the State, Three
hundred and thirty-swo applications were
made, and the pro rata share OF each one was
fixed at $50 y.
Memphis Avalanche A sluggish filthy
stream is Wolf river. In fact, it is nothing
more than an extremely dirty bayou full of
vegetable poisons. Yet We are not only