The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

There are $400, 900 worth of improve
ments in progress in Atlanta.
Wild turkeys are very plentiful in
the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia.
The Atlanta Constitution advises
planters to hurry the new cotton crop to
market.
Twelve years ago Texas shipped only
| 70 900 bales of cotton. Last year she ship.
| ped 100000.
The Knoxville, (Tenn.) jail contains
States prisoners.
Gen. Hoods book, telling the history
of the Confederate army of the West, will
soon be published.
The amount of tobacco sold in Dam
vile, Va, for the year ending September 80
VII reach 100000 pounds.
It is many years since the cotton mills
of NewburypOrt have enjoyed so good bu
! siness as they are now doing.
The call for railroad iron and supplies
has of late been very great, one of the best
| possible signs of improving business.
/ So extensive are the Improvements
Nashville that it is said there is more brick~
making gong on there than IN Philadelphia.
| In Leesburg, Fla, when a man is fined
| by the mayor and he can't pay, he is hired
1 out to farmer, who pays the fine and takes
| Che offender to work out the amount on the
farm.
Contributions of the most generous
sort are made by people in all the leading
| Southern cities for the benefit of Gen.
/ Hoods children.
In the town of Marion, Virginia, there
| is a child living and growing whose neck
was broken several years ago, and whose
head is supported by steel bars.
A negro prisoner Jumped Off boat in
South Carolina the ether day and committed
suicide, whefeupon a jury of rice-feId ne
groes indicted the captain of the boat for
murder.
The Mayor of New Orleans has re-
ceived letters from two ladies, one in New
York and one IN Baltimore, expressing de-
sire 60 adopt two of the children of the late
General ]. B. Hood.
A bill has been introduced in the
Georgia Legislature granting the Cincin-
natl Southern railroad the right of way over
the Western & Atlantic railroad, and ex-
tending from BOyce Station to Chattanooga.
Savannah never before made such an
exhibit in general business as she does to-
day. She is not only the second cotton port.
but the second in naval stores, lumber and
rice,
DuE0dHl.
NC, The bud presents the natural appear
ance of the ordinary rose, but in its develop
ment and expansion the petals seem to have
been displaced by an abnormal duplication
or multiplication of the eslyk, the sections
of which are crowded together, making q
full, green Bower.
The Clarksville Tobacco Leaf states
that Just after the big rain Tuesday. Hon.
G. A. Henry discovered man in his field
who appeared intensely interested in some
thing, and on going out to see what was the
matter, found th t the man was gathering
up little catfish, which were lying so thick on
the grOund as to be scraped up by the
double handful,
The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph says the
indications are that business in many de-
partments OF trade this season will be bet
ter than it has been for many years. The
iron men of that city have all the work they
can attend to. One of the iron works is
running on double time, and another has
adopted the eleven hour system. Hands are
scarce, end more are wanted to do the
amount of work required to keep up with
the incoming orders.
Atlanta Constitution: Georgia was
the first freeNsoil colony ever established.
The trustees decided that no slave should be
imported into or owned in the colony. The
owning of slaves in other colonies had al.
the trustees felt would be out of place in the
new one. Besides it was felt that to allow
slavery in colony initiated in benevolence
and to be sustained by charity, would be
doing violence to the prOprieties So that
Georgia was established as the first freeson
colony ever established.
Savannah News A primitive wedding
ceremony took place near Lithonia, De
Kalb county, Last SATURDAY. night. the cere~
hoir fba hav
were standing on a log in a swamp. It seems
| that it was runaway match, and the parties
had engaged the services of the Rev. E. III,
Clarke, who left for the endezYOus about
nine o'clock at night. The parties were
hidden out in a swamp, and as the reverend
gentleman passed through they whistled to
him and called out, here we are" In
few moments more they were man and wife
and went on their way rejoicing.
Nashville American Hitherto Nash
vile has taken rank as the ninth city in the
United States in publishing interests. Now,
however, she appears in the United States
Postal Guide as the eighth. New York has
entered as secondSclass matter 379 publicae
tions; Chicago, 102; ST. Louis, ninety;
Cincinnati, seventy-eight; Boston sixty.
three; Washington, forty. eight Milwaukee,
thirty three Nashville, twenty eight.
Every passer-by observes our brick and
mortar improvements. Parents throughout
the south make recognition of Nashville as
as the educational center. Our merS
chants are prosperous. And we now
take rank IN publishing Interests with seven
of the most pOpulous and thrifty cities of
the nation is, to say the least, eommendable
Speaking of the horse and mule trade
the Atlqnta Constitution says: 1t is held by
some Of the drovers that have already ar
rived that prices will be high this year. This
it is said is occasiOned by a scarcity in the
Western markets of the class of animals that
are suitable for this trade. The farmers of
the South, and especially OF Georgia, have
become so independent during the past few
years that they will not buy anything but
first>clsss horse or mule. The animals have
got to be OF good size, well shaped and SER
viceable before sale can be made to the
progressive and well-toNdo farmer of the
present day, and Georgia is getting full Of
them.
New Orleans Times: Though New
Orleans has not suffered from the yellow
fever this year, it has suffered enormously
from the results of a groundless and silly
apprehension of an epidemic. The period
for the opening of the business season has
already arrived, and the river landings ap"
pear abandoned. Much of this misfortune
can be traced to the folly of our official doc
tors. However, it is possible that they were
only affected by an epidemic of fright, which
was the result of last years terrible vista
ton. An old merchant made the remark
the other day that it always took year to
get over the scare. Next year." said he,
ssycu won't hear of quarantine"
Nashville American State Treasu-
rer Marsh I. Polk, who recently went to
Washington at the suggestion of Gov. Marks,
returned home last night. He says that as.
tonishment was expressed at Washington
that the state should have asked for aid in
behslf Of Memphis and that it was thought