The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-27
THE SOUTH.
INTRODUCTION o. Mills.

Work "a the Selma ana Pensacola Railroau
is progressing rapidly.
Angus6@y Ga,, Is working nobly Tor the re
linf OF the sufferers In ireland,
Graham county n. O.. has within her limits
an Iud!an who claims 10 be al years old.
Tho recent railroad boom threatens TO re-
ylyp Tho Chamber OFF Commerce Mt Savannah
Ga.
fatal disease iq raging among the horses
and mules in tho country around Joneshoto.
Tenn
Another cotton mill company has been full
w organized at NatcleH with capital OF
100000
The Hessian fly. dreaded enemy or whoat,
has made its appearance in some OF the Ala
bama counties.
While Grant was In Sanford Fla. he went
out and turned the frat sod Of cnrth on the
South Florida Railway.
Tho University Of Oxford. Mlss.. has ZIG
students. Four years nEo thn attendance
was only eighty, anti the trustees did not
oven advertise the school.
In Spartanhurg county. $. G., james a.
Gray. OF Iruurnns county, eho himself fatally
while Cnreleasly exhibiting his pistol 10 y
| young lady he was visiting.
| Charlotte ~ GO 0bsc,rtr Train loads Of
| plano are passing through the city daily To-
| Southern points. II IA believed that the ship
ments will he larger this year than they have
| over been before,
| Tho exodus fever has struck our section NJ
| last On Monday last there was eonetiera-
| Bile crowd pf colorea people Mt the depot to
take tho train, somn Tor Kansas and others
| for tho Nj Mississippi bottom. lGhlckhsaW.
Misa, Times.
| The Troy Ala, Nfsscugcr states the farm
ers are unable to SOW as much oats aE they
usually do on account Of the scarcity of seed
| which prevails. There Ii also y great
| scarcity OF hands and much complaint on
that account.
ii Ia reported that many IF tho colorod H.
| borers OF Sumter county, siA,, are indifferent
| ms To contracting for the year, preterring nj
present to enter by tho day. The result OF
| thi4 ii. SAYS the Americus Recorder, disor-
Enni1atiou and q consequent loss To both the
| planter aud laholer
Blountsville (Alal Ncms: Julius Potter,
grandson OF tho Rev, w. l.. ~. John. died on
| the tenth Instant nt tile latter'a residences.
near Summit, from the effects OF some blue
! Stone swallowed by him II few hours before.
Tho bllrstone was In an old cupboard, and
the child got hold o. IL by accident.
Grant spent three days In Palatfa. Fla. He
says the oranges he got there were superior
to those grown on the Mediterranean, while
the climate was tho finest In the world. not
even excepting that of sunny Italy. Fred.
even went 50 far rs to say he had great
mind to buy an orange grove down there.
Tuscaloosa, Ala, Cidri2n About two
weeks ago "A IOlOTFl IlIttlltfl OH Ute Altlittta
Grent Southern Railroad took out an accident
insurance put1y for $1,000 one night ~
o'clock, and Mt II o'clock tile snme night was
killed. His comrades believe that had he I4oi
insured his HE he would not have heen killed
Opolilxa fAla.l Lf4ilf. serious IF not fnta
accident happened=on Tuesday night about :
O'Clock. Mrs. IuhIlsOn the eStimahlr wife oil
MIR. Green >. johnson, who hal recently
moved To our city from fredonia, Ala, wlIl'
iii her room surrounded hy her children, on,
/, r,f9t II fF,,,, h.n
pistol went off i'll the hands of the child, ant
the ball pierced the left side of the mother
producing what il thought III this writing .
mortal wound.
Augusta, Ga. has six cotton factories II
operution ono is in course OF building, ant
capital II being raised for still another, th
, last to have u 900 spindles and to cost $500,
GOO. The six factories used last year 1000
; bales ot cotton, their products being wortt
81 100000. Cotton mill stocks there are quote,
at 81 2G6Ll 30. Last year the mills paid IL Il
II per cent dividends, and put away hand
some sums in their sinking funds ior eNten
stnns. The new 2i00O-spindle factory VII
! add 10 the population of the city nj least 500
souls, and will pay to employees $4,000 al
) nuHlly. These mills make. besides what the
consume, a market for 10000 bales Of cotton
! which requires S900O,000 annually to handle
: Says the Macon GA Telegraph: The tw
little darktes who Were 50 badly wounded y.
! the explosion Of mn old shell near GriSwDld
! willie Will probably recover lheS hal "
! deayored TO get into the she'll and succeeds
, , partially In getting out some of the chargt
: This was put in fire and being pleased wit
!. the effect The entire Shell was placed IN tn
fire to have an exhibition Of burning powde
on larger scale. The shell went of yer
sonn killing the little darkey who placed II @
the fire Besides fatal wounds III the hea
and in the side. his entire right hand and fore
arm was blown away, the fingers being o.
that We're found, and they scattered aroun
the yard"