The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-10-01
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

There is a small gold-fever boom around
Edgefeld, s. c..
Pensacola, Fla, is the leading lumber
port Of the South.
CbarIeston's business last year amount
ed to $53,OOO,000.
The pecan crop Of Texas this year
will not be abundant.
The dTummer's tax in Texas has
already amounted to $4,000.
Shrimp oatchers are doing a lively
business elong the Texas coast.
A fatal disease called, typhoid fux, is
prevailing near Pikesville, Miss.
The woods are alive with wild turkey
and deer around Pine Hill, Ark.
The cotton crop OF Tennessee is not so
promising as it was a month ago,
The second crop of cOttonscatefpiIlars
has appeared in Northern Georgia.
Next year will be one of unexamrIed
activity in railroad building in Texas.
The t-easurer's office Greene co nty,
Alabama has been robbed of $4,000 or
$1,000.
The forests of the Blue Ridge region
| in Georgia are covered with the eggs of the
! eutworm,
A large oed of bituminous coal has
been discovered hear Mountain View,
Stone county, Ala.
D.: A n. Bell, of the national board
/ of health, says New Orleans is the Cleenest
| city he ever visited,
A bill hes been passed in the Georgia
Legislature furnishing limbs and arms te
disabled Confederates,
A company wish large capitsl has
been OIgani6 ed in Cuthbert, Ga, for the |
| manufaeture of scuppernong wine
The Forsyth (Ga y Clarion says there |
IS gold enough in the county to cover it with |
a layer of the precious metal.
Among the property destroyed by
the recent hurricane in the South were seven
churches in the parish of IbervIlle, La.
In South Carolina a statute provides
that all persons having no reasonable or
lawful excuse shall attend some religious
service every Sunday.
In north Alabama the corn crop is so
large that it will be sold there at twenty-five
and thirty cents a bushel. Mobile county
has uncultivated tillable land enough to
produce thousands of bushels Of corn.
The United States raises about
$50 000. 600 bIshels OF grain more than the
entire product of France, Germany anJ
Austria, and if we could always be sure of
profitable market for our grain we could
easily double the aggregate.
The Wilmington IN. o. Review
knows q turpentine man who has farms in
North Carolina South Carolina and Georgia,
who made $4,000 last year on terpentine,
and in one year since the close of the war
he made $4,000 clear in this business.
A number OF persons in Dallas, Tex,
will discontinue the sale of liquors at retail
after the 1st OF October, when the bell-punch
goes into effect. Others will refuse to
comply with the law and oppose it upon the
ground ofits not being constitutional.
Lexington, (Va) Gazette: A gentle
man has recently been engaged in examining {
certain iron property in Virginia for party
of northern capitalists, and tells us that they
(the company only await the settlement of
the debt question to invest in Virginia
property. They will do nothing until they
know how the election goes.
The Albany (Ga.) News says shat the I
cotton fields along the Atlantic and Gulf
railroad, between that point and Camilla,
present o deplorable spectacle. Many OF
them are completely stripped of leaves, aud
the bare stalks tell pitiful tale. Scarcely
any of them seem to have escaped the
ravages of the worm.
Wilmington Star: More vessels from
Norway than any other nationality are
engaged in the foreign carrying trade from
this port fact not to be wondered at
perhnps, when it is known that Norway has
the second largest mercantile fleet in the
world, numbering, according to the latest
maritime statistics of that kingdom, 8,064
vessels.
Columbus Times: The tramp bill in
the senate has been the cause of a great deal
of lively and humorous discussion. Rev.
Senator Houston was afraid Lazarus would
be arrested as Il tramp under this bill but
Senator Speer, who is not preacher, read I
from the Bible to show that Lazarus was |
gs,,, - Xbov- J, 30 Aa I
fore could not be called a tramp. {
Avalanche: Memphis is greatly
afflicted, but it is not sick unto death. 1t
will speedily recover Its lost health and
regain all its trade, and ultimately attain
prosperity without a parallel in the Mis-
sisippi valley. Other cities have had the
yellow fever plaques and marched steadily
onward in prosperity and wealth and health,
and Memphis will follow for time their I
example.
Constitution: The coal trade of Atlanta
has assumed proportions that rank it as one
of our important commercial interests. Up
to the close of the war wood was chiefly used
for all domestic purposes, but the abundance
of good coal within comparatively easy reach
of Atlanta soon brought it into active
demand, and the establishment of manufac-
consumption of coal has steadily kept pace {
with the growth of the city.
Reidville IN. @ Times: It was told |
in Milton concerning the recent death OF ,
citizen of DanviIle, Va, that in turning him ,
over to shroud him, the words 80 Godp'
escaped his lips 1t was accounted for that
when he died those words were left in him
unuttered by his last breath, aud in handling 5
his body they came out. Could such a case j
ever have happened? Can there be such a |
theory? We only know that it is seriously ,
talked of in Milton. Science and spectacles !
to the 'front.'
Jacksonville, (Fla.,) letter to Saw !
made in carrying on the excavations required !
for the water-works, AT the depth of twenty |
eight feet the workmen encountered an l
extensive bed of oyster aud clam shells,
mixed with pieces of wood and charcoal, I
showing evidently that the arcients were as Z
fond as the moderns of these delicacies, and !
able in the days of remote antiquity. Truly !
there is nothing new under the sun.
The Southern Pacific road is making :
a satisfactory degree OF progress eastward, ]
and viii doubtless meet the western terminu.
Of the Texas and Pacific early next springs I
By that time the Atchison, Topeka and {
Santa Fe branch, the Missouri river, Fort
Scott ana Cult and the St. Louis, Iron Noun q
tain and Southern viii be pushed forward ,
so as to make close connection with the !
Texas and pacific, and thus give a through !
route from Chicago and st. Louis to San
Francisco below the snow line.
Memphis Avalanche: One of the
rules of the Meridian, Miss, board of health
is that "no two grown persons are allowed to {