The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-09-25
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100000. WV
/ Eighty English farmers have lust
left Liverpool Tor Texas. .
There arc $4,000 books in the
North Carolina State Library.
"A white girl from Ohio is nursing
her negro lover in Memphis.
There are 500, 200 worth Of i'm.
provcmcnts in progress in Atlanta.
~ Wild turkeys arc very plentiful in
the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia.
The North Carolina farmers have
over 420, 900 sheep, which yield Il year
ly profit Of $450,OO0.
Gen. Hoods book, telling the his
tory Of the Confederate army in the
West, will soon be published.
--The amount Of tobacco sold in
Danvil!c, Va, for the year ending Sep
tcmhcr 30 wlllrcach 20 ,On0, 900 pounds.
so extensive arc the improvements
in Nashville that it is said there is
more brick making going on there
than in Philadelphia.
-Contribuiions of the mcst gcncr-
Gus SORT arc made by people III all The
leading Southern cities FIR the benefit
VI NClls IlOOtt
In the town of Marion, Virginia,
there is II child living and growing
whose neck was broken several Years
ago, and whose head is supported by
steel bars.
Savannah never beG re made such
an exhibit in general business as she
docs tp-tlay. She is not only the sec
ond cotton port, but tho second in
naval stores, lumber and rice. ...
a negro prisoner jumped Off u boat
in South Casolina tho other dav nad
committed suicide, whcrcupon q iury
otricc-ticld negroes Indicted thc cap
lain ofthc boat for murder.
"A bill has been introduced in fhc
Georgia Legislature granting Tho Ciu-
cinnati Southern railroad Tic right Of
way over The Western e Atlantic rail
road: aud extending from Boycc Sta
ZION 10 Chattanooga.
"A grccn rose has blo,,mcd in Dur
ham, n. 6. Thc bud represents the
natural appearance Of the ordinary
iosc, but in its development and cS-
pansion the petals seemed 10 have been
displaced by an abnormal duplication
or multiplication Of the calvX, the sec
tons Of which are crowded together,
making full green ilowcr.
The ClarksvilIc IObucco .Icnc
states that just after ihc big rain on
Tuesday, lion. G. a. Henry discover
cd Il man in his field who appeared in
tcnscly interested in something. and on
going out TO sec what was The matter,
found that the man was gathering up
little catfish, which were Il ing SO thick
Oil the ground as to be scrapcu up hy
the double handful.
The Macon (Ga.) Ir'cgraph says
ihc indications are that business in
many. departments oftradc this season
will be better than it has been for
many years. Tie iron men OF that
city have all the work they can attend
TO. One Of the iron works is runuiu"
on double time, and another has adopt
cd the eleven ursysicm. Hands arc
scarce, and more arc wanted to tlo the
amount of work required to keep up
with the incoming orders.
Atlanta Constitution: Georgia
was the first frcc-s,'il colony ever cs-
tablishcd. The trustees decided that
no slave should be imported into or
owned in the. colony. The owning of
slaves in other colonies had already
established Il sort Of aristOcracy that
the trustees felt would be out Of place
in the new one. Besides, il was Gc't
that to allow slavery in colony initi-
atcd in bcncvolcncc and to be sustain
cd by charity, would hc doingviolcncc
to the proprictics. So. that Georgia
was established rs the first frcc-soil
colony ever established.
Savannah NeWS: a primitive
wedding ceremony took place near
Lithonia, DcKalb county, last Thurs
day night, the ceremony being per-
formed as the happy couple were
standing on log in Il swamp. IT
seems that it was runaway match,
and the parties had engaged the ser
vicos of the Rev. l.. IL. Clarke, who
left for the rendezvous about nine
O'Clock at night. The parties were
hidden out in q swamp, aud as thc
reverend gentleman passed through
they whistlcd to him and called out,
''hcrc wc are" In few moments
more thay wcro man and wife, and
went on their way rejoicing.