Richland beacon., 1880-04-24
SOUTHERN NEWS.
r, ANITA is overrun with rats.

ATLANTA is overrun with rats.
Hot SPRINGS, Ark, is infested with
opium dens.
No bunko men are allowed in Jack
son, Fla.
SMALLPOX is raging in Rio Grande
City, Texas.
THE railroad spirit is still uppermost
throughout Georgia.
The public schools of Aberdeen, Miss.
cost $500 per month.
THERE are six announced candidates
for Governor in Arkansas.
TWENTY newspapers and periodicals
are published in Raleigh, n. c.
INCREASED attention is being given
to bee-keeping in Georgia.
In Charleston, s. c., a man was fined
So for stealing three potatoes.
THE ice factory at Baton Rouge, La,
manufactures three tons daily.
Nor single Mississippi River steamer
burst her boi er last year.
ARRANGEMEST are in progress to re-
move the Confederate dead from Andcr-
sonville, Ga.
THE Mayer of Charleston, S. c., il
vigorous y pressing the campaign against
the gamblers of that city.
The game law of Mississippi is in
tended to protect deer, partridges,
doves, and field-larks.
Iris estimated that the cotton crop of
Texas for 1869 will bring into that State
100000.
BLACK bass weighing four pounds are
now being caught in the James River at
Lynchburg, Va.
NINE new tobacco factories have been
contracted for and will be built this year
in Danviile. Va.
THERE are $500 churches in the
South belonging to colored congrega-
tions
IT viii! require 5000 bales of cotton to
pay for the guano to be used in Marion
County, s. c., this year.
THERE are twenty-one counties in
Eastern North Carolina in which there
is not single Presbyterian Church.
ONE hundred extra workmen will be
employed during the summer by the
Georgia Railroad to build freight cars
OVER $1,000 have been subscribed by
citizens of Nashville to the proposed
free bridge over Cumberland River.
IT is impossible to borrow money for
the public schools of Louisiana while
the school system is subject of legsla-
tiOn.
EVERY free citizen of Mississippi is
allowed to keep dog who will buy a
81 so brass collar from the State, and
keep it on the dogs meek.
SIXTY Mormon emigrants from
Georgia and Virginia, in charge of FL.
der Morgan, went West this week, bouni
for Armosa, Col.
In Kinney County, Texas, last winter,
forty-two bears were killed within five
weeks, and most of them bya boy fifteen
years old.
The new State bonds of Alabama are
redeemablc at the option of the State at
any time after the expiration of ten
years.
The Grand Jury of the Circuit Court
of Bartlett County, Tenn, includes three
colored men. The Petit Juries are also
composed partly of colored men.
A LARGE amount of building is likely
to be done this year in Petersburg, Va.
Notwithstanding there has been grea,
advance in the cost of building material
Ex-Gov. JAS. L. ALcoRN. formerls
of Kentucky, is the most extensive and
probably the most successful cottor
planter in Mississippi.
A NEW circular-saw mill is in process
of construction in Suwanee County
Fla, which will be capable of sawin,
10000 feet of lumber daily.
The Charleston Is. C.) News says tha
the Southern cotton planters will eithe
be made very rich or terribly poor by
the commercial fertilizers they are
using.
NINETY-FIvE centennial trces-ont
for each county in Tenne ,sce-are to bt
planted on the Capitol grounds at Nash
vile, to be known by the names Of thei1
respective counties.
JAS. R. DODGE, in his investigation O
sheep husbandry in the South, report
more than 100000 killed by dogs las
year, or more than FIVE per cent. Of th'
entire number in that section.
THREE thousand dollars worth of rop'
was used to secure the RATS in the Cum
berland River during the recent freshet
The value of these RATS was estimated
at from 500, 900 to 500, 1000.
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