Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1880-06-19
SOUTHERN NEWS.

THERE are 5000 Knights of Honor in
Mississippi.
A DOZEN iron furnaces will soon be
in blast in Wythe County, Va.
THIRTY thousand sav-logs are being
RATED down Pearl River, Mississippi.
RAILROAD ties are being shipped
from Norfolk, Va, to South America.
The ice factory At Chattanooga,
Tenn, after . years inactivity, is again
in operation.
A COMPANY has been formed at Rock.
port, Texas, for the purpose of doing .
large business in canning fish.
Four mills at Richmond, Va, manu-
factured, during the ten months just
closed, 2S7, ,476 barrels of -four.
WILLIAM H. HARRIS has been ap.
pointed State Commissioner of Immigra-
ton of Louisiana by Governor Wilt.
The receipts of cotton At Houston,
Texas, this season are 150,446 bales,
against 97,346 for the ssme time last
year.
LYNCHBURG, Va, is doing heavy
business in the guano trade, large
quantities being shipped in all direc-
tions daily.
THERE have been filed in the Eufaula
branch of the probate Office of Barbour
County, Ala, since the 1st of January,
l,042 mortgages.
THE Bersha zinc works of Wythe
County, Va, will furnish the United
States Government with zinc, for alloy
with silver in coinage.
The Mississippi State Board of Health
has ordered a quarantine to be estab
lished at the port of Pascagoula against
vessels from infected ports.
In Montague County, Texas, q gentle
work OK went mad and attacked a man
on horseback, goring the horse to death,
while the rider escaped by climbing
tree.
The Commissioner of the General
Land Office of Texas has had prepared
separate maps of dfty-seven counties in
that State, to be used in attracting emf
grafton.
The Farmville (va.) Foundry and
Saw.mill has secured q contract from
the Atlantic Oil-re6ning Company, OF
Philadelphia, for l, 100000 barrel stav 8
and headings.
BARLOW iron furnace, in Barlow
County, Ga, with a capacity Of twenty.
five tons daily, has closed on account of
the advance in freights BY the Western
and Atlantic Railroad.
THREE-FoURTHs of all the Baptist
Churches in the country are in the
South. The membership of this denom-
ination in the Southern States is / ,5OO,.
200. of whom 900. 900 are colered.
The Lynchburg Ne,rs publishes re.
ports from eight prominent tobacco.
growing counties in Virginia, in all Of
which there is great scarcity of plants,
caused BY tho cool weather and the
ravages of insects.
The people of Arkansas are no great
office-soekers. The candidates for Chief
Justice, Treasurer, Secretary of State,
Superintendent of Public instruction,
Chancellor and Chancery Clerk in that
State have no oppositiou.
Two men, without any other facilities
than . tin pan, in Eve days obtained
500 worth of gold in Byrd's Greek, ten
miles from Christiansburg, Va. They
have now hired . number OF hands aud
gone to work systematically.
A HANDSOME dome is to be con-
structed over the new capitol in Baton
Rouge, La, broad enough to accommo-
date dancing party at the height of
over one hundred feet from the ground.
Extensive Improvements are going on
all over Baton Rouge.
A LARGE lime-kiln has been built in
Washington County, Ga, where there
is large quantity of limestone, on the
Central Railroad. This is three hun
dred miles further south than any other
lime-kilns, and promises to meet ready
demand for its products.
A MAN in New Orleans has for pets q
host of big and little spiders. He first
became enamOred Of them on account of
their thrift, courage, industry and skill.
Dc has at length become 30 engrossed
With them as pets that he spends his
whole time with them and does not care
10 see visitors.
The valuable water power of Maj. G.
W. Anderson, near Williamstown, 6. c.,
.ogether with 272 acres of land, was sold
for $4,000 to . representative of q
Charleston capitalist. The object of
this purchase. it is understood, is the
erection OF cotton factory with cap
ital Of 100000
A BOY was stamping some packages Al