Richland beacon., 1880-01-17
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

The salary of the Mayor of Savannah
Ga, i, $1,000 ger year.
The University of Alabama has Ii
brary CT 1000 volumes.
SIX per cent. bonds of the City q
Augusta. Ga, are sold at par.
| Of the 1000 conviets in the Texa
penitentiary only five are women.
White shad are already being caugh
in the Roanoke, in North Carolina.
Ninety-three arrests were made OH TIN
streets of Macon, Ga, on Christmas.
Thousands Of orange trees are dyin.
IN Florida from some unknown blight
Sherman, Texas, has appropriated 81,
600 for the construction Of an artesiar
we'll.
Two hundred new buildings were erect
ed in Nashville during 1870 at cost OF
5000, 900.
The guava in the near future, will b,
one of the most prominent experts from
Florida.
Not white man was seen drunk i'm
the streets of Baton Rouge, La, ON
Christmas.
The tobacco stamp tax paid in Orange
county, n. C., during November, amount
ed to 81, ,O92.7G.
a woman named Sallie Patterson was
convicted in Memphis of carrying con-
cealed weapons.
This fall the merchants of Abbeville
;. C., have had the best cash trade ever
known in the town.
1t is reported that two extensive cigar
factories a e to he removed from Havana
to Key West, Fla
The people of Perry. Ga, propose to
have one Of the finest public libraries i'm
the United States.
Hon. John G. Nichols is trying to get
100000 appropriation for the harbor
at Brunswick, Ga.
The Nashville American published A
list Of cOlOred ladies who were "at home"
on New Years day.
The negroes in southwestern Georgia
show disposition to work exclusively
for wages next year.
The annexation of Edgefeld will make
Nashville's population $4,000 by the
next birthday Of the city.
Nine hundred manned ex-Confederate
soldiers have applied to the state of
Georgia for artificial limbs.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
South has five conferences i'm Texas. en-
bracing 1868 members. .
They have colored voting population
in Winston, n. c., of $50, only twenty
six of whom pay any poll-tax.
In Walton county, Ga, Miss McRhea
raised this year seventeen bales of cotton
and good crop of corn and wheat.
Twehty-three $1,000 Of Madison
county, Ala, were sold to S. 2. Reed, of
Memphis, at six per cent. premium.
A stalk of tobacco eight feet high, from
Granville county, n. c., is shown i'm the
agricultural museum of that State.
1t is estimated that Arkansas will pro-
luce this year 600, 900 bales cotton, which |
1t low figure, will yield sSO,OOO,OOo.
Thos g. Miller, young man in Ian
,aster county, n. c., drank pint and |
half of rum and died in few hours.
The Good Templars are flourishing in
ieorgia. During the past month eight
lew lodges have been organized i'm the
State.
The Georgia Railroad. presented eight
ar loads of old ties to the Mayor of
Augusta, for distribution among the
'oOr for fuel.
Visitors to the cotton factory at At
anita have become so numerous that or
|ers have bean issued prohibiting the
Omission of any.
The buildings now i'm course of erection
n Chattanooga are most elegant in class
nj style, and more costly than were
yer before erected in that city.
Hon. A. P. Butler os Aiken county,
as been elected State Commissioner of
agriculture of South Carolina. He is
ractical aericulturist of large experience.
The fair grounds at Nashville have
cen sold for $4,000 TO a firm of Nor
bern capitalists, who propose erecting
hereOn furnaces and merchant iron
ill.
About twenty farms and twice a.
,any gardens in San Saba comfy, Texas.
ere irrigated last season. In most in.
tances the water is obtained from
prings.
Gadsden, Ala, this season will buy
2, 900 bales of cotton, sell 81, 900, 900 of
oOds, manufacture 10000, 600 feet of
lmber and thousands of dollars of fur |
iture.
The Confederate monument in Wilcox
Dunty, Ala, will be begun at once, and
ne contractor promises to have it ready
,r the dedication services bv the 26th
April. Il
Owing to the reduced appropriations
,r the city government of New Orleans
'r the ensuing year,'a wholesale reduc-
on will be made in the number of the
ty employees. i
An association for the manufacture of .
inc, with capital of $4,000, has been ,
rganized in Randolph county, Ga.
rape culture has been carried Ia great ,
in that county.