Richland beacon., 1880-03-20
SOUTHERN NEWS.

The Middle Georgia Military and
Agricultural College has 800 students.
The military fever is raging in most
of the counties of Southern Georgia.
GoAT-sKINs worth $4,000 were
shipped from Corpus Christi, Texas,
last week.
/ The exports of hides from Texas in
a single year amounted to nearly s3,-
100000.
/ A NUMBER of farmers are successfully
cultivating upland rice in Monroe
County, Ga.
THE amount of lumber exported from
Pensacola, Fla, during January was
"a $50, 900 feet.
FIFTEEN Tennessee stables are to be
represented at the spring meeting of
the Chicago Jockey Club.
CHARLESTON people complain of the
lack of facilities for daily and weekly
recreation, and want public garden.
TAMPA, Fla, boasts that murder has
not been committed in that place for the
past six years.
AN appropriation Of $500 has been
made for an educational exhibit at the
approaching centennial'at Nashville.
ONE thousand men and 2j0 teams are
making things lively on the line of the
Texas Pacific Railroad.
THE ground in certain localities in
Nash County, n. c.. has sunk several
inches, and an earthquake is feared.
THERE will be no nominations for
county officers in Franklin County, Ala,
this year. The field is open to all aspi'
rants to Office.
THE average expense per mile for
keeping up the county fence between
Abbeville and Edge6eld Counties, S. c..
is s27 per annum.
TWENTY-FIVE different brands of com.
mercal fertilizers are on sale in York
Vile, S. C. The demand for them now
is greater than for any year in the past
THE wool growers of Atascosa County,
Texas, have organized for the purpose
of eradicating the disease known as the
scab from the sheep of that county.
NEAR Valdosta, Ga, J. c. Jones killed
five wild turkey gobblers at one shot
Their aggregate weight was ninety-five
pounds.
SIxTY-SEvEN per cent. Of the death!
i at Memphis are from more or less pre-
e ventable diseases, such as consumption
: malarial and typhoid fevers, scarle
fever and diarrheal diseases.
, EARLY amber sugar-cane will b.
t largely planted in Fayette County
;, Texas, this year. A sugar factory i
being established at Lagrange with {
! capacity of sixty tons of cane FER day
e THE Missouri, Kansas and Pacifi
I Railroad, Texas Pacific Railroad ant
n Dallas and Wichita Railroad have agrees
tn build large union depot at Dallas
y Texas.
n THE wife of United States Senate
g Wilkinson Call, of Florida, is the young
d est of ali the Senators wives, and is sal
II to be the most beautiful. She was
Miss Sinking, of South Casolina.
DURING the tornado lat Nashville o
e Thursday the wind reached velocit
y 'e of forty miles per hour. 1t blew steadil
# from twenty to thirty miles an hour fo
g two hours and half.
y A RECENT ordinance of the city Q
n n Charlotte, N. c., prohibits all work o
:, % Sunday about freight Offices, the shift
" ing of freight trains and all other dutit
re of railroad employees except what al
7e connected with the regular passenge
y trains.
is SINCE Nashville and Edgefeld ha,
OF been annexed the next thing will be
~ ~ bridge for free travel between the tw
At At places. The present suspension brids
I'd can probably be purchased, but it hi
Sc been suggested that new stone-art
b. bridge be erected.
ae NEAR Charlotte, N. C., negro gi
IN twelve years old fell down mine 1or
lis ;cet deep, where abe remained min
'se hours without being discovered. Sh
ILL., was drawn up smiling, and has sufiere
40 i'll effects from the fall.
NATHAN Cook, of Terrell Count.
~ m Ca, is 102 years old. and still earns b
IL. daily bread. He has ten children, Il
ty youngest of whom is forty years oil
on he has lived in the same yard that no
"a, lncloses his home ever since the India
- war.
rn- The Georgia Historical Society, vii
ad its headquarters at Savannah. has near
en- 10000 volumes in its library. DuriI
he the year 932 volumes and 22S pamphle
tly have been added. The income OF q
eo eo society last year;wss $S,1SS.7l, whi'