The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1879-12-04
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SOUTHERN NEWS
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Jackson, Tenn, has coal famine. .,
oartersyille, Ga, is to- have two rpt-
ton-factories. / . = - ''-''''
Corn is worth 81 per bushel in Goliad
county, Texas.
Blight is affecting the orange trees in
southwest Louisiana.
The cotton presses of Atlanta are
working day and night.
Union City, Tenn, has just started a
bank, with $4,000 capitol.
There was state convention of spir-
itualists in Texas last week.
Savannah, Ga, received seven thou
sand bales of cotton Tuesday.
Grasshoppers have done incalculable
injury to the wheat crop of Texas.
Chattanooga's population has increased
1891 during the past twelve months.
Lady compositors. are employed in the
offices of a number of Southern newspa-
pers.
The city bonds of Savannah, S. c.,
have advanced $50 per cent. since Au-
gust.
San Antonio, Texas, is to have a pat
ent gas-machine in the Alamo, with 300
lamps.
McKendrec Church, Nashville, which
was recently burned, is to be rebuilt at
once.
Some fine jacks were sold this week to
parties near Palestine, Texas, at 1915 per
head.
The Seventh-day Adventists Of Texas
are holdingsa grand camp meeting near
Dallas.
Georgia enjoys the reputation of hav-
ing the handsOmest governor in the
Union.
Seventy-five cents per buShel has been
the price of coal in Memphis since the
lSt inst.
Paul R. Hayne, the Georgia poet, de-
nies that he intends to move to the
North. '''
Columbia, Tenn, is to have Il large
factory for turning out wooden handles
of ali kinds.
The public schools, were, dismissed in
Chattanooga, Tenn, TO Slet the Children
see "Pinafore."
Texas counts up her four million
sheep and asks that she be called the
"Mutton State" r-.
The editor of the Key West { Fla. }
Dispatch, a colored man is in Jail on the
charge of robbery.
Judge Lochrane, of Atlanta, gets $10,-
900 year as attorney for the Pullman
Palace Car company.
Warren county, Mississippi, in three
years and nine months has reduced her
Indebtedness S1l4,O95.
The young ladies of Frankfort, Ky,
not to be behind the times have organ
lied cooking club. =, -. 80.
Atlanta has eight banking institutions,
not including Jim Banks, who is sep
arate institution of his own. .......
Increased attention is being given to
fish culture in Virginia. There are now
three Matching houses in the state.
Colonel E. Richardson, of Jackson,
Miss, has given $1,000 for the improve
ment of the cemetery in that city.
A German colony has settled in Es-
Gambia county, Fla, uear the Pensacola
railroad, to engage in sheep raising.
The Americus, Ga Recorder thinks
that cattle-raising will supersedc cotton
growing to a great extent in that section.
The Houston and Texas Central rail-
road is receiving new steel rails with
which to replace those of iron now in
use.
An extra session of the Florida legis-
lature, to consider the proposition of the
Florida ship canal, will probably be held
soon.
The scarcity of water on the route of
the Texas Central railroad is so great
as to interfere with the regularity of
trains.
The Augusta, Ga, cotton mills have a
capital of 5000, 900, and pay dividend
of twenty-eight per cent. on the money
invested.
The Whig records the death in Rich
mond, Va of Capt. G. F. Pardigan,