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longing to the North Carolina penitentiary
about two-thirds of whom are judiciously
employed on the several lines of railroads
now in process of construction.
| The annual reunion of the survivors
of Hoods brigade will be held at Palestine
| Tex, Wednesday, July 8. 1t is expected
that Senator Wade Hampton and Gen. Gary
of South Carolina, will be present and de-
| liver addresses.
A letter from Walterboro, n. O., de-
scribing the recent cyclone there, cited, as a
remarkable incident, that ga sheep was
found lying in the road, with every particle
of wool taken from it as clsanly as razor
could have,done it"
Stockraisers and planters in Richland
parish. La, complain that wolves have be.
come very troublesome in that parish, and
tbat they have killed perhaps as many as
| two hundred head of calves this spring, and
as many more of lambs.
A canal will probablyfbe built through
the swamp land of st. James parish, La, in
order to reach and utilize the large deposit
of buzzard guano which has been discovered
in that parish, and which can only be
reached by means of a canal T.
Nashville American: Since the report
of the committee to settle the state debt,
Comptroller Gaines and Gov. Marks have
received letters from persons representing
81, 1856, 900, saying they would accept the 30
cents four per cent. proposition.
There are said to : be in Mississippi
31S,244 pupil children-15S,156 white and
16O0S8 colored. Of these, I0Oe76 white
and 104,779 colnred are in school. The
school fund of the past year amounted to
s262, 26S. Per capita in average daily atten.
dance $50.
The first vote of the jury in the Cox
case was seven for murder, three for Volun.
tary manslaughter and two not guilty. Then
it stood, next ballot, nine for voluntary
manslaughter, two for murder; when, after
several hours, they agreed on Imprisen-
ment for life.
The female preachers have so 'revolu-
tionized popular sentiment iu Raleigh, n.
c., that prosperous merchant of that city
according to the Farmer and Mechanic, has
offered to furnish home for Mrs. Moon and
help to build her church in Raleigh, if she
will settle there.
Raleigh IN. c. Farmer: Mr.. Joseph
Lunsford, Of Person, sold at Durham the
tobacco grown on single acre, and 200
pounds additional, for S477. Rather better
ange, sold the product Of i 100 hills less
than quarter acre. for $40.
Several years ago there lived near
KernersYille, N. c., a woman named Pol
Fitz, who was the mother of girl named
Martha. The girl lived there until she was
eighteen years of age, dressed and acted as
woman. Directly after the war she moved
to Surrey county, when she changed her
name to Julius Hall and assumed the garb of
a man, married, and she is now the father of
two children.
Wsrrenton (Ga.) Clipper: Last Fri
day, on the premises OF Mr.. JOrdon NJ
Norris, eight miles from this place, remark
able occurrence took place. A hawk,
known in the country as the " blue darter,"
dashed down at a brood of chickens. The
old hen engaged him in a deadly combat
By the time some of the family got on the
ground the hawk had been disabled by a
mortal wound.
a small boy was seen to carefully app
proach the windows of the county Jail at
Mississippi, few days since, and |
stealthily hand in through the bars some |
thing that was supposed to be an immense |
crowbar. The police were informed of it. |
and a posse OF men surrounded the lsil |
while couple of officers proceeded to the |
cell to recover the weapon from the prIs- |
oner.s The weapon turned out TO be yard |
of bologna, which one Of the prisoners was
devounng.
GAINESVILLE Tobacco-Leaf: Mr.. Ter
rel, of the United States engineer CORPS. is
taking soundings of the Cumberland river |
at Cumberland City, and of the tennessee
river at DanVille, with view of ascertain. |
ing the volume of water passing daily by
these points. All the tributaries of the |
Ohio and Mississippi will be m assured in
the same way, the object being 10 ascertain !
where the great body of water
flowing down the Mississippi river comes
from. This information is for the Missjs. |!
sippi river commission q. Il
Lyphus Killix, colored man, who /
owned property in Jefferson county, Fla,
and was leading, prosperous man, two
years ago, was taken with an absorbing de-
ire to go to Liberia. Accordingly he was a
on the bark Azor. He now
writes to the Monticello Constitution from
Liberia to the effect " that Africa won't do
hat his family are in great distress, and I
hat he wants to get back, and will pledge /
AZ labor for years to any planter In Jeffer>
son who will advance the money for his
Savannah News; The grand Jury of
Schley county are determined to suppress
he practice of carrying concealed weapons
It all hazards. Mr.. Dan Coffey, of Ameri'
,us, was recently indicted for that offense
1t Ellaville, the county seat of Schley, be-
cause he was found with a screw-driyer in
lis hip pocket, where, it seems, he had
placed it for safe keeping. He had taken it
along with him for the purpose of screwing
down some plates to burial case containing
the remains of lady, which had been
brought to Ellaville for interment,
A Galveston merchant, in the course
Of business letter to a correspondent in |
New Orleans, says: There will be total |
between Galveston and New |
Orleans again this summer. Everyone here |
firmly believes the rigid quarantine kept |
them safe last year. As a business move it |
was a great help, too. The railroads have
hurt Galveston, and the completion of the
New Orleans railroad will kill it completely;
SO the quarantine will be put on to throw all
the business via New York by the Mallory
line bringing goods here, and forcing coun>
try merchants to purchase here.
The New Orleans Times having as
serted the preseD &c of yellow fever germs in
that city, the Picayune says to those who
have become alarmed: 10 those towns and
communities we wish to say that the alarm
ing reports circulated by the New Orleans
Times are entirely unfoupded. The quar-
antine will be rigidly enforced, and, as far
as human agency can effect the purpose,
yellow fever can be kept out of New Or
leans. There is no yellow fever here now.
When a case occurs, the fact will be duly
reported to the country. No yellow fever
JoiaiteS, or germs, or infection has been
brous bit here from Havana or anywhere else.
The city is perfectly free from epidemic dis