Richland beacon., 1880-07-10
SOUTHERN NEWS.


years old Thursday.
MANY new furnaces and rolling mills
are going up in Alabama.
THE bottom of the lake opposite Vicks-
burg is coming to the top.
THE cattle drive from Texas this year
will realize about S3,OOO,OO0.
A BEAR weighing 200 pounds was killed
this week near Vicksburg.
BrLLFRoG legs are being shipped
North from ReelfOot Lake.
The newspapers Of Tennessee have an
aggregate circulation of 211 $50.
THE farmers are all hopefulin Georgia,
the only drawback being in the wheat.
THERE is one field of broom-corn in
Hill County, Texas, containing 600 acres.
THE sugar-cane beetle is a new pest of
the Louisiana plantations about New
iberia.
The work on the new Sbley cotto
mills in Augusta, Ga., is progressing
rapidly.
THE Bath Paper Mills were sold at
Aiken, S. c., at public outcry June 8,
cor s56, 500.
COMPETING ice factories in Augusta.
Ga. have reduced the price to half
cent a pound.
A FENCE is to he placed around the
Jackson Statue at Nashville to protect it
from vandalism.
THE negroes in Louisiana have stopped
talking about the exodus business; some
thing better to do.
They have formed an anti-dueling as
.ociation at Camden, S. c., with Judge
Kershaw as President.
DURING the last two weeks there have
been but two deaths in Natchez, Miss, a
city of 5000 inhabitants.
THIRTEEN teachers institutes for the
special benefit Of colored teachers will he
neld in Tennessee this year.
The total receipts from all sources of
the late centennial exposition at Nash
vile are said to be $2s, 1876. 90.
ANDERSON COUNTY. S. c.. has twenty
three Democratic clubs thoroughly organ
lied with q membership Of $500.
SnK-RArsrNa in the South is receiving
attention, and bids fair to be leading
feature in commercial statistics.
Bars are swarming in New Orleans
Parish Prison, and Mr.. Pedalahore Of
fers to exterminate them for $500.
THE pastor of church at Austin, Tex.
has announced sermon on the subject,
"a Tight Squeeze, or the Round Dance. ."
The Board of Trade at Natchez recon-
mends that place as a good crossing for
any through railroad that may be pro-
jected.
Jackson, Miss, within the last few
months, large cotton-seed mill, an ice
factory and steam sawmill have been
erected.
A NIECE of the late Hon. John C. Cal
houn, Mrs. L. T. De Graffenried, aged
seventy five years, died at Decatur, Ga. Z,
last week.
TEXAS has fund in ready cash of $780,
OOO raised from the sale Of public lands,
with which it proposes to build State
University at Austin.
The last report of the State Adjutant
General of Texas shows no less than G. 900
fugitives from justice, Of whom 1000 are
charged with murder.
A COMPANY has been organized in New
Orleans to establish jute factory, and q
considerable quantity Of jute seed will
be planted in Louisiana this year.
THE float of cypress this spring from
the swamps between the Mississippi and
Atchafalaya Rivers exceeds that Of any
previous year. Thousands of laborers
are working at it.
SEVERAL citizens of Marietta, Ga. =,
have united in sending to New York for
twenty-five white servant girls. The un-
reliability Of negro servants has rendered
his step necessary.
THE Continental Guards, of New Or
leans, will participate in the anniversary
of the battle of Bunker Hill. Their uni
;orm is brilliant with buff and gold, after
the old Continental style.
The people of Memphis are compelled
10 go outside the taxing district limits
TO indulge in Sunday amusements. To
get shaved or take a horn, they get on
one Of the steamers and indulge.
BOYs under twenty years old in Men,
phis, who want to play cards or billiards.
Or drink intoxicating liquors, must carry
written permits from their parents or
they will be refused by saloon-keepers.
The State of Virginia hires out five
hundred and twenty-five of her convicts
TO work ON her railroads and other public
improvements, for whom she receives