Richland beacon., 1880-04-03
NUMBER ID.

bright leaf, grown in Southwest Nlrginla
and North Carolina, weighing 5000
pounds. was sold at the Centre Ware
house at prices ranging from $3.50 to
SO per one hundred pounds. Most OF
it ranged from $35 to $40, and was
raised by Capt. A. NJ. Alexander, OF
Asheville, Buncombe County, n. c. Al
the same warehouse three fine one horse
plows were given to persons having piles
weighing over 1000 pounds obtaining
the highest price.
LITTLE Rock Democrat: Sheriff c. 7.
Fox, of Epson County, Ga, passed
through the city yesterday, with man
loaded down with chains. The prisoner
was a murderer, ficnd in human shape.
who, on the lst of March, 1873, took the
life Of his wife, eluded the officers and
escaped to Texas. Ever since then the
officers have been on his trace, and ~
last their efforts were awarded tv cap
turing the villain, at Forney, Texas.
His name is Andrew c. Irwin. In Texas
it was something else. Fox is a good
officer, and takes his man to Thomaston.
the county seat. Upton County is in
Middle Georgia.
HOUDoUN's statue of Washington in
the rOtunda of the State-honse was made
under the direction of Jefferson, one of
his Revolutionary compatriOts, and an
other one, Madison. supplied the inscrip
ton. The old stove, which its fabricatpr
stiles "a warming machine ornaments
the same locality after ninety years ct
existence, and having afforded comfort
to the honorable Burgcsscs of William
burg. as we'll as modern legislative
solons in Richmond. it has on the
sides in raised figures. OTTO" the year
in which it was presented to the colony
of Virginia by the Duke of Beaufort
Richm,nd Va.) Commonwealth.
THE first African Baptist Church at
Richmond, Va has 5000 members; but
this immense aggregation Of Christianity
does not prevent terrible church quar-
rel, which is shaking the congregation I"
its foundations 1t seems that two
sisters were found fighting for supremacy
in the favor of their dear pastor, and
this is how a rious old brother summed
up the matter for the Commonwealth:
Ode members is still conse1uencing on
Brudder Holmes, bout dat ar affair viii
de wimin, but as yit no receedins he
bin menced gin i'm. I'e fac is clar.
hovsomdever, dat if de sistcrin gin DER
evidence dat's he's guilty, dere is plenty
folks in de church what will 90 for
bouncin' Brudder Holmes, suah."
GILES Vrginidn: J. VI. Peters. Of
this place, made this week, for one Of
the convicts employed by the New River
Railroad Company on the New River
Railroad pair of shoes which, we think,
are about the largest ever manufactured
in the State, or, in fact, anywhere else.
These shoes actually measured fourteen
and quarter inches in length and five
inches across the b'ttom. Four and
three-fourths pounds of sole leather and
two and three-fourths pounds of upper
leather were used in their manufacture,
and they weighed, when finished, just
five pounds. Mr.. Peters bill for making
them was $3.50.
NASHVILLE american: Messrs. W. n.
Cherry, VIM. Morrow, Thos. O'Connor
and A. NJ. Shook closed trade Monday
for the ground, forty acres at Cowan,
on which they propose to erect, at once,
two iron furnaces. (hot-blast cokc) at
cost of $4,000. These gentlemen.
owning the most of the stock in the
Tennessee Coal and Railroad Company,
including the Scwanee coal mines, have
made up their minds to 60 to making
iron on large scale. They have at their
miner, in operation now, 200 coke ovens,
and they are building 200 more, 80 that
in less than six months they will have
one of the largest coke works in the
United States. As the coke has been
tested for several years, no risk is taken
| in erecting the furnaces