Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1880-01-24
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Seventeen newspapers are published in
Raleigh, n. c.
Two spring bed manufactures are in
operation at Troy, Ala.
A colony from Michigan has arrived
in Orange county, Fla.
The ministers of Greensborough, n:
c., are preaching against dancing
Several negro guards have been en-
ployed for the Virginia State peniten-
tiary.
The population of Augusta, g., is 27,
Ol2, gain Of 1,S44 during the past
year.
Anderson county, 6. c. had no sales
of property under tax executions last
year.
The canal at Columbia, :. c., was
be. .un in 1923. They hope to coniplets
it soon.
The Agricultural and Mcdaniel
Cole e of ALBANIA, at Auburn, has go
students.
The TEN perance movement is spreading
ike wild fire among the negroes of Sa-
vannah, Ga,
In POwhatan county, Va, during the
last month a Mr.. Watkins had 100 sheep
killed by dogs.
The Alexandria Gazette, the Oldest
newspaper in Virginia, has entered upon
its eighty-first year.
A company has been organized in New
Orleans for the supply of gas for heating
and cooking purposes.
The Hood relief fund amounts to $lO,-
963, of which SlO, 800 haveV invested
in United States bonds.
The cotton trade of Charleston, S. c.,
amOnts to $20.O0O,OcO a year, ard the
rice trade to 100000.
Twenty-Five shares of South Carolina
railroad stock were sold at auction in
Charleston at $50 per share.
Macon, Georgia, is to have United
States Court, and now her people want
a neat Government building.
The city treasury of Nashville will be
drawn upon for about s25, 900 to aid in
the approaching centennial celebration
there.
In Savannah, Ga, an anti-profanity
pledge is being circulated, and very gen.
orally signed. The signers wear white
ribbons. + :..
Nashville American: One thousand
steel rails for the Chattanooga rail-
road arrived at JOhnsOnville yester-
day morning.
Richmond, Va, is taking precautions
to prevent the introduction in that city
of smallpox which has appeared at
Washington city.
A petition is in circulation in Elber-
ton, Ga, requesting the Council to fix
the license to retail intoxicating liquors
III that town at $1,000.
There are more cOlOred pupils than
white in the public schools in Columbia,
S. C, but the white people pay three
fourths of the expenses.
Several hundred workmen were dis
charged from the navy yard at Ports
mouth, Va, Monday night, on account
of reduced allowance.
Vaccination is being practiced to a
great extent in Petersburg, Va, in view
of the fact that smallpox is infesting
some of the northern cities.
The Mobile Cotton Exchange has
proved such a financial success that the
members have decided to erect a hand
some building for its exclusive use.
Raleigh IN. CO. News: The city gas
works are nearly completed, the genera
tor is in position, and the pipes are laid
from the street to the market-hOuse.
A wonderful saving to the farmers of
South Carolina has come from the adop-
tion of the fence law. In many counties
there is now no opposition to it what
ever.
An extensive cotton factory is about
to be organized at Charlotte, N. c., the
city authorities having promised the
company exemption from local taxation
for ten years.
Little Rock (Ark) Democrat: The
panther killed few weeks since a short
distance from the city, and now on exhib-
ition here, measures seven and one half
feet in length.
The people of Rome, Georgia, are very
proud of their public library. During
its existence of only ten months it has
2lS contributing members, and contains
900 volumes.
The dividend on factory, bank, rail-
road and gas stock, and the interest on
state, city and railroad bonds that will
be received in Augusta, Ga, this month
amount to $499, 900.
Forty graves have been robbed in Oak.
mood cemetery, at Richmond, Va, since
acto Der. The police seem to have done
othing to put an ehd to the outrage,
nd many citizens are indignant.
Chattanooga Times: The rail-mill OF
the Roam Iron Company turned out fol
f, its last day of the years work l2O tons
of steel rails. One of the melting furna.
ces produced in the last six days ia ton.
of good steel.