Richland beacon., 1880-04-24

build a substantial brick prison to con-
tain ZOE convicts
Ir is intended that the Jackson statue.
when taken to Nashville and mounted,
shall be unveiled by Zephaniah Weaver,
who has attained his nincty-sixth wear,
and who was soldier under Jackson in
The Indian wars and at the battle of
New Orleans.
\ BOY of seventeen married a woman
of seventy at Jasper, Ala, but his
parents captured him Immediately after
the ceremony and bani,hed him to a
distant school The bride was wea thy,
and the husband claimed to know what
he was about.
THE Virginia Bible Society is about to
commence a canvass of the entire State
with view to supplying every family
with the Bible. Nearly fifty active
Christian men will be employed for this
work at salary of S25 per month and
expenses.
On Cumberland Island, near Jackson.
vile, Fla, while Gen. w. G. NJ. Davis
was handling doubla-barrel gun, the
weapon was discharged, sending the
whole load into the body of his little
son Bernhard, six years old, who only
survived twenty minutes.
THE report of the Superintendent of
the Gas-works at Richmond, Va, shows
that last year, at 1880 per thousand
feet, a net profit of sto, 600 was made on
a sale of GO,0O0,000 feet. The price h S
been reduced to 50, which will still
leave large margin for profit.
Two colored benevolent societies at
Richmond, incorporated under the laws
of the State of Virginia, are known
respectively as The Sons and Daughters,
Brothers and Sisters, Cousins and Aunts
of Noses" and "The United Order of
the Sons and Daughters of the Four
and Twenty Elders"
HON. HENRY G. DAVIS, United
States Senator, is said to be the richest
man in West Virginia He is a native
of Maryland, is tifty-seven years old, is
President of the National Bank at his
home, and is engaged in mining and
shipping coal and manufacturing
lumber.
THE tax-dodgers are getting the city
of Little Rock into a bad condition.
The city has failed to pay gas bills until
the gas has been turned off from the
street, and all hired labor on the street
has been stopped. There is no money in
the treasury, and none of the city taxes
for this year have been collected.
SOME English hounds imported into
Maury County, Tenn, for the purpose
Of chasing foxes, have caused so much
destruction among the sheep of that Sec
tion that the farmers have determined
to petition the next Legislature to pro-
hibit the importation of these hounds
into the State. This will be the leading
issue in the next contest for legislative
honors in Maury County.
THE saloon-kcepers of Richmond, Va,
propose to give banquet on the day
the law goes into force superseding the
MOaett system. They also propose to
buy up the ole MofIett registers and have
them cast into cannon to herald forth
the dawn of any new freedom they may
acquire in the conduct of their business.
THE Supreme Court of Talbot COun-
ty, Ga, in the case of Singleton VS.. The
Southwestern Railroad, has awarded the
plaintiff the sum of $l4,5SO damages.
About year ago Mr.. Singleton boarded
the pay train by mistake, and was re-
quired by the paymaster to jump off the
car while the train was in motion, and
in doing so he broke his leg The dam.
ages were laid at $4,000. The case will
be appealed.
SOUTH FLORIDA journal: While
throwing up the grade for the South
Florida Railroad, near Lake Monroe
the workmen cut through what seems t'
he bed of pure shell mari. Although
it has not been analyzed, it has the ap
pearance Of being a fine fertilizer. Bed.
of natural firti.izcrs will yet he found
in many portions of the country suflicien,
to enable us to do away with all foreign
kinds
SINCE last October J. A. Killebrew
Commissioner of Agriculture, Statistics
Mines and immigration of Tennessee,
has received 5000 applications for docu-
ments descriptive of the resources Of
that State. The result will probably be
a large immigration to the State. While
not a few of the colored population are
leaving Tennessee for Kansas, theil
places are being filled by intelligent and
thrifty settlers from the Northern
States.
WYrHEvILLE( va. } Enterprise: "Johr
Yonce, employed on the farm of New
ton II. Repass, in crossing fence fell