Richland beacon., 1880-04-03

ferrcd stock of the Petersburg and Wei
don Railroad, owned by the city. ltwa'
sold to pay the bonded debt of the city
falling due August |, next. The amount
realized NV the sale, which was confirmed
by the Council, was $l63,O00.
TIE Nashville Americon mentions n
few signs of progress i'll Tennessee. as
follows: A mammoth cotton compress
in course Of construction a. jackson; an
ice factory started at Chattanooga Satur-
day; Columbia is also to have an ice
factory; the Roam Iron Company at
Chattanooga and lockwood is employ
ing over l,2OO hands; the Nashville cot.
ton mill running day and night.
FIVE little stonc-cuttcrs are whack-
ing away on the marble for the Custom
house building. 1t would take them
about one thousand years to finish the
stone necessary for that purpose. Unless
the United States looks Into the matter
the present generation will be long in
the grave before the the CustOm-housc
is finished.-.lemphis appeal.
SOME lively business has been done
in silver during the past few days. Ten
thousand odd dollars in currency were
taken in yesterday and $ll ,57l in stand
ard dollars. The last sum was derived
from the customs. Silver fractions are
running heavily, especially quarters and
halves. The small coin comes in Jumps
OF $4,000 at time-Neu Orleans
Times.
They are just beginning to find out
in Virginia that Sir Walter Raleigh was
never in that State. In North Caro-
lima it has been known from the first
that he was never on this continent,
never at Roanoke Island, as some sup
posed. and never in Wake County,
where the present town the capital
stands that is named in his honor.
In the pastoral regions of Texas one
thousand head of stock cattle, as is us
ually found on ranches, will double the
number within three years. This al.
lows for losses from age, diseases and &C.
cident. The net increase is at the rate
of thirty-three and one-third per cent.
per annum. This accounts, in part, for
the fortunes accumulated in few yeans
by cattle raisers. Some of the cattle men
are immensely wealthy.
THE gambling mania has full sway in
the city, and the keno rooms do q pay
ing business. The mania seems TO per-
wade tho upp,r-crust and the under-crust
Of society, and tie young man and the
old gather in the rooms and the genial
keno men, gather many penny from
the better part of the city's denizens.-
Aus'ia Ter } Statesman.
HApDoN & Co, of cambridge, Ga,
have just caused "A sensation by obtain
ing the contract on the lowest bid fur
fishing the pine flooring for the great
bridge extending from New York City
to Brooklyn. The contract calls for
l,112,0OO feet of yellow pine and 264,o9o
Of white oak lumber. The Georgia bid
for the yellow pine contract was only
1880, the lowest price that has been
asked in the vicinity of New York for
many years.
THE Mississippi House Of Represents
tivcs refused to pass the Senate bill
granting the release of the penitentiary
! to the present lessccs at $1.lO for each
convict per month, and adopted sub
.titute, appointing commissioner to let
out the same to the highest bidder. A
long and angry debate of ten hours
duration followed. The substitute pro-
vides that convicts be worked on public
works, and that lessees shall not charge
beyonds50 per head for convlcts so EN-
ployed.
POINTE COUPE (La.) Pelican: Our
negroes who were foolish. enough to 20
to Kansas have written to their colored
friends to send them money to return to
Pointe Coupe. This, our cOlored people
emphatically refuse. They say that, if
these deluded darkies could 90 to Kan
.as, they may return the best way they
can. Some of them suggest that they
should work their way back. Indeed,
some have expressed the wish that these
modern pilgrims should remain in Kan
sas
Iva few days the construction of two
hundred freight cars will be commenced
at the Georgia Railroad Shops in this city.
One hundred of these will be box-cars,
fifty coal-cars and fifty fat-cars. The
construction of this large number Of new
cars is necessitated by the great increase
| of business of the road. Gen. Alexander
says there is great demand all over the
country for more freight cars. The bust
ness Of the Georgia railroad is much
greater than it was at this time last year.
Four frst-class passenger coaches for the
road are now building at Wilmington,
Del.-Augusto (Ga.) Chronicle.
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