Richland beacon., 1879-12-20

The lad IS IN the lookup.
A force is now busily engaged in con
structing a telegraph line along the She
nandoah Valley railroad, between Shcp-
herdstOwn, W. ", and Front Royal.
Va.
The South Carolina legislature is CON
sidering a bill to prohibit the running
of freight trains and to regulate the run
ming of mail and passenger trains on Sun
day.
East Tennessee marble is to be used
in the construction of the proposed mon
ument to the memory of the late Gen.
Robert +. Lee in the city of New Or
leans.
Sunday two members of the Christian
church ut Little Rock, Ark, each pre-
scnted a title to 100 acres of land, a.
the beginning of a fund to builda church
cdifice.
| Jackson, Miss, is building new
opera house, capable of seating 900 peo-
pie, and it is said that when completed it
will be one of the prettiest theatres in
the south.
Twenty-Five youpsspen will apply for
admission into the North Carolina Con-
ference, NJ. +. Church, at its next session.
This conference already embraces l7O
members.
Memphis Ledger: Gold eagles and dou-
bles were freely paid ont by those who
had debts to settle to-day. The yellow
medal will soon become Il drug in the
market.
Laborers from Pennsylvania have be
coming to Georgia lately. Quite num-
Der of them are employed at the timber
mills of the Georgia Land and Lumber
comrany.
There are two colorcd centcnarians
in Spalding county, Ga. One aged l63
and the other l0S and both are women.
Thirty million cigars were made in
Wheeling, w. ", last year, and the
number will be largely increased this
year.
An eel six feet long got into the wheel
of watcr-mill 1T Goldyillc, Alabama,
and was sufficiently large to stop the
wheel.
The Little Rock Democrat says that at
no time since the war have the negroes
of Arkansas had SO much money as at
present.
Lynchburg Va.) News: The Mid
carloads OF non v---a,..I--.-..h Tho
ore is to be furnished from RiverviIft'; ns le
the canal, below the city.
A Mr.. Stoddart, at Pensacola, Fla,
has an orchard of $500 fig trees, many
of which were imported from Europe,
Asia and Africa. Almost every known
variety is represented in this orchard.
A negro named Leach escaped from
iail in Robeson county, y. c., last week,
and deputy sheriff named Cole, while
irving to arrest him, ives shot and in
stantiy killed. Leach is still at large.
Some burglars at Charlotte, y. C., en-
tered store on Tuesday night by boring
a few holes around the two locks on a
door, filling the holes with Kerosene and
burning the door until thelocks dropped
off.
The Avalanche says that there seems
no doubt that Il sewer system, to cost not
over S225, 900, and perform all the nee
essary service will be agreed on for Mem.
phis. 1t is within the city's financial
scope.
1t is thought that special session of tho
Tennessee legislature will he called soor
, to pass an act enabling the taxing dis
trict of Memphis to levy a tax for i'm
proving the sanitary condition of Mem
I phis.
Brookhaven Ledger: There is som,
1 talk of changing the gauge of the Chica
90. st. Louis and New Orleans railroa,
: to four feet eight and half inches, t.
make it conform to the standard o
s northern roads.
David h. Adamson carries the mail ol
4 foot between Ridgway and Leakvillc, Va.
distance of twelve miles. He has no
failed to make II trip for several wears
and receives twenty-five cents for eacl
round trip.
c The Arkwright Cotton Factory, a
Savannah, Ga, which has been close
for some time, is likely to be purchase
Us bv A. Campbell, capitalist and larg
Y manufactures of Philadelphia, who vii
resume work at once.
G. The school children of Georgia pr,
J. pose to contribute enough money To creo
a monument over the grave of the lat
70 Prof. Bernard Mallon, of Atlanta. Th
" suggestion is credited to Miss Laura \
Haywood, of that city.
nc A large steam ginning and milling e
o. tablishment at Mikesville, Fla, w;
burned on the night of the 2lst inst, 4
r. gethcr with 10000 pounds of seed cottol
Of The fire is believed to have been II
work of an incendiary.
- Wilmington (N. c. Star: The hou
" of one Jacob Keaton, colored, on G.
" French's plantation, at Rocky Poin
Pender county, was accidentally d
as stroyed by fire on Monday last and h
no four children perished in the flames.
-, The South Carolina public schOo
81 we're attended during the last school We
" by 122,663 pupils, of whom 5S,3
were white and 64,095 were colore
ad This is the largest attendance the schoo
nd in that state have ever had in one yea
prevent it, and the novelty of the bu
Il ineSs is sufficient To make IL popular