Richland beacon., 1880-04-03
SOUTHERN NEWS.

THE library fair at Atlanta nettcd
s2,l13.O?.
ATLANTA talks of putting up grain
elevators.
A NEW map of North Carolina is being
prepared by the State Geologist.
The new courthouse at Atlanta is to
be surmounted by first-class city clock.
NASHVILLE sends to Petersburg. Va.
for an architect for her centennial
buildings.
THE ice factory at Montgomery. Ala,
produce. CONCEALED water at a cost Of
twenty-five cents per 100 pounds.
GAs-wORKs are being erected at Spar.
tanburg, S. c., and water-works and the
telephone are in contemplation.
TWENTY-FIVE drays were seized at
Charlotte, n. c., in one day, for unpaid
licen'e.
A MILD form of smallpox ha, at
tackled four negroes at Byron, Ga They
have been guaranteed.
The Little Rock G11c'te says there is
enough stone in the Fourche Mountains
Of Arkansas to build larger city than
New York.
NOSES ID. HODGE, ID. d., of Richmond,
Va, is pronounced by the Atlanta Con-
ditufion to be perhaps the most eloquent
minister in the South.
AT the last term of court at Abbeville,
S. c., thirteen persons were sentenced
to the penitentiary for periods OF from
one year to imprisonment for life.
The Memphis gas consumer pays his
$3.50 with commendable serenity. while
the gas octopus rakes in the s. 80 with
still more serenity.
COLUMBUS, Ga. boasts of being the
birthplace of Blind Tom. A full brother
of Tom is day laborcr. as yard hand,
at the Eagle and Phoenix Cotton Mills
of that city.
THE value of the oranges shipped
from Columbus, Ga, during the ason
Just closed was $l7,o 4.4o. Columbus
is the shipping port for a considerable
portion of Florida.
Gov. ROBERTS, OF Texas, is more than
seventy years old, yet at recent leap
year ball he danced. dressed in home
spun, with seven young ladies The
next day he committed two death SEN
fences.
AT Macon, Miss, Monday, Sam Bow.
Ter, who murdered Col. J. A. Reed. n
white man, while executing writ of
seizure on his {Bowlers) property, was
convicted and sentenced to be hanged on
Friday, the I'd day of April, 1880.
The City Council of Knoxville. Tenn,
reduced the salary of the Mayor from
81 goo to 500 per year, and now that
official i. trying to block the wheels of
city legislation untilthis sweeping act of
reform is rescinded.
APACKAGE of fine tobacco sen, by a
young lady of Asheville, n. c., to Rich
mond, to be sold, brought s5.25 per
pound, when it was learned that the
fair shipper intended to devote the pro-
cecds to the relief Of the Episcopal
Church at Asheville.
THE importation of wines and liquors
is on the increase, as every foreign
vessel brings more or less quantity of
these luxurics. Three days ago the
French ship Alphonse ct Marie No. }
arrived with 1900 casks of wine and
brandies.-Ne,c Orleans Tins.
THE Muscogec correspondent of the
Columbus (Ga.) Sun writes: Many have
not half as much labor as they wanted.
think there is fully twenty per cent.
less labor in any settlement this year
than last. There is but little daily labor
in the country now.
A NEW steam rice-pounding mill is Ia
he erected at Savannah. Already over
5000 bushels of rough rice are an.
nually brought to that city to be cleaned
and, with increased facilities, it is be-
lieved that large increase will be made
in this amount.
The number of mules and horses
which have been sold at the severa
livery-stab'cs in Montgomery during the
present season is about 500 }, or prob
ably more. Three fourths Of this mum
Der were mules, and the remaining one
fourth were horses.
THE laraa quantity of improved farm
machinery Which has been sold to the
farmers recently by dealers in this city
! is taken as an Indication that our farm
ers are improving their methods OF agri
culture, and reducing. as far as possible
the cost of production. Montgomery Al
rertiser.
/ BUTLER County, Alabama, claims tt
/ have the smallest human being known
to exist at the present time. The name
OF this lliputian specimen is Miss Can
ady, of Oakley Streak. She is fifteer
years old. and is scarcely the size of the