Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1880-07-17
SOUTHERN NEWS.

feet deep.
THE orange crop Of Florida will be fine
this season.
BILL-Posr1NG is forbidden on telegraph
poles in Charleston, s. G.
The new courthouse at Gallatin,
Tenn, is handsome building.
CIDER is made in Texas from tomatoes,
and sells at $1.25 per gallon.
Two more new factories will soon lie
under way on the canal at Augusta, Ga
The site for the Marine Hospital has
been located at Fort Pickering, Memphis.
The Star claims 20, 900 population for
Wilmington, N. c., under the new census.
MOBILE has received $50, 900 bales Of
cotton this season, 10000 short of last
year.
FLINT River has Just received de-
posit of loo, 900 young shad, at Albany,
Ga.
CorrON goods manufactured in South
Carolina are being sold extensively in
New England
The ladies of Little Rock have build
ing association, and $50, 900 have been
subscribed.
The Lane cotton mill at New Orleans
has been enlarged to 5000 spindles, and
is doing we'll.
The stock of sea-island cotton at
Charleston is nearly exhausted, only $40
bales remaining unsold.
GREAT fears are felt everywhere in the
cotton belt on account of the appearance
of worms at different points.
New cotton factories are springing up
everywhere down South. One will be
started at Chattanooga this season.
VTcKsBURa is looking into her sanitary
condition and is determined that Yellow
Jack shall not catch her mapping.
Or the 1000 oonvicts In the Virginia
State Prison only two admit that they
merit the punishment they are enduring.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New Orleans
Times, from Kansas, says he has never
yet seen half q crop raised in that State.
GALVESTON has controcted for an arte-
sian well, 1900 feet deep and eight
inches in diameter, at a total cost of
$23, 1000.
THR Kansas exodusters are still SLOWLY
and sadly working their way back to
their old homes in Mississippi and Louis
lana.
Cows are going blind in the neighbor-
hood of Jackson, Tenn, and no cause
can he assigned for so remarkable
disease.
The Board of Health, New Orleans,
has adopted stringent measures for
sanitary purposes, and seems determined
to enforce them.
A MAN at Helena, Texas, believes there
will be another food in November; and
this second Deucalion is building an ark
for the occasion.
A DIsaUsrED negro, returned from
Kansas, says that If Kansas should be
rooted in it would be the biggest nigger
pOor-house in the world"
POINT CLEAR, near Mobile, is the New
Port Of the South. It is situated at the
entrance of Mobile Bay, fronting both
on the gulf and the bay.
THE princely rancho of Capt. R. King,
of Nueces County, Texas, is inclosed by
a wire fence ITS miles in length, inclos-
253, 900 acres of grazing land
The bullion assays at the Charlotte
mint will reach 500, 900 during the pres
ent year. The mining interests of Nortl.
Carolina are being pushed forward with
great energy.
A NEGRO man in Pointe Coupee Par
ish, La, pulled an old log out of the
river the other day and found in it $3.50
in old French coin, much blackened with
age and exposure.
0DCANNrNo shrimp and preserving fresh
figs for the general market is . successful
industry Of New Orleans: rivalinx the
famous canning establishments in Balt.
more and the North.
The census enumerators have ascer.
tanned that for the last ten years the
mortality in New Orleans has been
twelve in 1000 per annum, an exceed
ingly low death rate.
THE Columbia and Lexington Is. c.
Water Power Company will send their
agents to different points South to COM
municate with capitalists with the view
Of inviting them to invent.
A PARTY in JacS sonville, Fla, has en-.
tered into an engagements with large
London firm to furnish them with an un-
limited number of sticks of orange and
ether Florida woods suitable tor walking
canes and umbrella handles.
VERY few Of the working men thrown
out of employment by the failure Of the