Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1880-06-05
SOUTHERN NEWS.

A NEW postotice in Sumner County.
Tenn, will be known as A. Il. Z.
EIGHT tobao go factories are in Opera
ton at X. edsviile, \ G
The lumber business in Florid, il
constantly assumiog greater proportions
THE convicts at the Texas state peni-
Tertiary turn out 10000 bricks daily
GUANo OF the value of $l46 220 ha.
been sold mis- season at Hawk insville,
Gn
ARKANSAS has more miles of navi
yable rivers than any other State in the
Union.
OvEf 200 900 hesd of cattle will be
driver from Texas TO Kansas this sum
me,
iHE peni.entiary shoe shop, at Rich
mond, Va, has been leased Dy Boston
firm
CHATTANOOGA is to have paint fac
tory with a capacity of five tons per
day.
Tom BOYD received only SIS for
leaping from the bridge at Nashville
! Saturday.
VIRGINIA has a new county-Dickln
son--form.i of portions of Lee a-d al
joining counties.
ONE hundred and sixty thousand
shad were placed in Deep River, North
/ Carolina, last week.
RICHMOND. Virginia, has fOrty-fve
churches, which are attended by one in
sixteen of the population.
/ THERE are fifty colored type setters in
the United States, nearly all Of whom
/ find employment in the South.
The cotton mills of Columbus, Ga,
have used during the last eight months
II, 462 bales of cotton.
A PARTIAL census of the physicians
in Arkansas shows that there are ,O79
in sixty counties in tnat State.
The South Carolina State Library
which occupies = single -oom in lie
State Capitol, contains Is, 600 volumes.
ALoT of jute seed has been iistrlb I'D
among the farmers o. Hanover County,
n. c., for experiments in jute culture.
EIGHTEEN gentlemen in Bryan
County, Ga, have organized a Society
for The Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mails
A QUARANTINE warehouse, 20 re
used for fumigating mails end freigh,s
in case of quarantine, is being erected
at Orange, Texas.
The growing of pineapples and bana-
mas has been successfully tried on the
Upper St. Johns and the Indian River
country, in Florida.
AT YorkviIle, S. c., a dealer, while
distributing some guaLo. found in it
two joints of human finger. on which
was a gutta-percha ring. =
The fines and costs of a man con-
victed of selling beer illegally, as aa
sessed by the Criminal Court at Nash
vile, Wednesday, amounted to $3.50.
THERE are in one hundred counties
of Texas $3.50 registered physicians.
Grayson County has the largest number
-15S. One county was without q
physician.
The deer which have been driven 20
the high grounds of Louisiana by .he
high water are being slaughtered IN
large numbers, regardless of the game
laws of the State.
TWELVE mOlders at the Wason Car
Works, at Chattanooga, have stopped
work because q negro was put on the
force and given place in the room
with the other workmen.
THE Baptist revival in Raleigh, N
c., has assumed such proportions tha
the church can not contain those wht
attend, and the congregation had to se
clre Metropolitan Hall.
THE third annual fair and races of thu
Georgia Stock and. Fair Association will
be held at Oglethorpe Park, Atlanta
commencing Monday, October 1S, and
continuing six days.
The capital invested in the sugar in
terest in twenty-fOur Louisiana parishe!
smounts to $50, ,OOO,O 900. TIE product o.
sugar aud molasses in these counties IL
1879 amounted to $22, ,O00,0 900.
some of the hest signs of the return
of better times in Eastern North Caro-
, lima are shown from the general goot
condition Of the county finances. II
many counties their paper is as good .
,, gold.
Two large ships have been chartered
by the Virginia and Tennessee air-lin
! to be loaded for Liverpool with cotto1
from Memphis direct. Seven thousan'
bales will arrive at Norfolk in a yer.
; few days 20 be loaded by that line.
OVER three hundred men are employed