Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1880-06-26
SOUTHERN NEWS.
The last Mississippi Legislature passed
,even hundred pages of new laws.

The spOrtsmen OF Alabama nave Or
anized a State Association.
THERE are seven or eight candidates
or State Auditor in North Carolina.
REPORTS of the wheat crop in Tennes-
ee are still gloomy.
THE houses in Charleston, S. ~, are to
e remembered.
SOUTH CAROLINA has 10000 cOlOred
'ood Templars.
EIaHrY-Two houses were built during
he past year at Athens, Ga.
CLARK MILLS proposes to undertake
n equestrian statue of Gen. Joseph E.
ohnstOn.
The glass works of Wheeling, w.
a., are unable to fill the orders made
Or their products
THERE will be more grain and cotton
|sed in Texas this year than during
v three previous years.
The authorized capital of the Sibley
tton Mills, at Augusta, Ga, has been
creased to 81, ,O00,0 900.
ONLY two cotton factories are in
eration in Louisiana, both of which
located in New Orleans.
THE United States Fish Commissioner
depositing a large number of young
b in the streams of South Carolina.
The Sherman (Texas) Oil Mill is
Farly completed. Its owners have on
nd 600, 900 bushels of cotton seed.
New ORLEANS papers state that from
present outlook a magnificent crop
sugar will be harvested this season.
ALMOST the entire wheat crop on the
e of the: Nashville ::and Chattanooga
kilroad is seriously effected with the
et.
THE Pratt Coal and Coax Comps ny, Of
aerson County, Alabama, are now
fting out three hundred tons of coal
Fly.
ONE hundred tons of manransie
re mined, washed and shipped to
pgland last week, from Augusta Coun-
, Va.
The proposed ship canal across tn.
'rthern end of the peninsula of Florida
just now attracting great deal of at.
ntiOn.
GEORGE SENKINs, of Barbour Coun.
. Ala, killed a rattlesnake which
.ighed fOrty-two pounds and had four
en- rattles.
The orange grove of Mrs Harriet
'echer Stowe, at Mandarin, on the. St
Inns, Florida, yielded last year $1,000
the acre.
The old Colonial church at Halifax.
c., is over century old. In the
urch-yard there is a tomb stone
ected in 1772.
The Alabama State Fair Association
II hold an attractive exhibition this
ar at Montgomery, commenu ng on
9 9Th of November.
MRS. DELLA Mckinney. of Dallas
unity. Ala, will be one hundred years
on the 9TH of November. She ;s
tive of Tennessee.
In some parts of Middle Tennessee the
'mers have plowed up their wheat
lds, having lost all hopes of a crop,
have planted vegetables
A GANG of negro robbers has been
covered in Tallahassee, Fla. They
d false keys, with which every door in
; town could be opened.
IN Baker County, Ca, where las.
ars cotton stalks have been left stand
!, they have put out new leaves and |
Ve plenty Of squares on them.
TIE South Carolina Penitentiarv Ia.
eived orders for palmetto hats from
States of New York, Georgia, In. |
ma, North Carolina and other Statea
MILLER B. GRANT, who has been in
Savannah Jail for a year on the
'rge of embezzlement and forrerv tn
amount of $l3, 900, has been adiudeed |
ane.
lDAMs CoRBE1f, a miser, died near
kland, Pitt County, N. c., aged
snty. Over $1,000 were found which
had secreted, also $4,000 in Con.
crate notes.
POPULAR vote in Powhatan County,
, on the question Of subscribing $780,
to aid the Richmo.,d and South.
tern Railroad resulted in a large
ority in favor of such aid.
YOUNG man married, blowing, his
hoeing, and his baby sleeping in
fence corner in e cradle, is what a
tleman saw near Hartwell, Ga re-
tly.
ICE is becoming one of the most i'm
ant grain crops planted in southwest
rgia. The rains have given it
start, and the largest crop ever