Richland beacon., 1880-07-03
SOUTHERN NEWS.

FIFTEEN new business houses are under
contract in Troy, Ala.
The turpentine business in Taylor
County, Ga, is flourishing.
Two ladies were appointed postmas-
ters in Virginia towns last week.
IT is an indictable crime to kill tur-
KEY buzzard or carton crow in Tennessee.
SEVERAL lots of tobacco were sold re-
Gently in Oxford, n. c., at S1.5O per
pound.
COLUMBUS claims to % the home of
more fine horses than any other city in
Georgia.
The Texas farmers are generally very
far behind the times in the use of labor.
swing machinery.
The farmers of many counties in Geor-
gia have planted cotton more largely this
year than ever before.
A MAN on the Peninsula Railroad, in
Florida, gathered ten thousand good
oranges from one tree last fall.
The competition in the ice business in
Charlotte, N. c., has reduced the price
to three-quarters Of o cent.
TwENrY-rHREE new post routes are es-
tablished in Mississippi by an act Of Con-
gress approved on the Sd inst.
GoLD is found in fifty-six counties in
Georgia, copper in thirteen, and silver in
three, iron in fifty-three and diamonds in
twenty-six.
PLANTING fax for the production of
linseed oil and lint il proposed to be tried
near San Antonio, Texas, where fax
grows wild.
The Mississippi mills at WessOn have
their 400 looms running eleven orders
ahead for the full capacity of the mills
for the next three months.
NORTH CAROLINA is taking an active
interest in fish culture. All the leading
streams in the State are now being
stocked with the best varieties of fish.
ALL the saw-mills along the South and
North Alabama Railroad are kept buy
supplying orders for lumber. Large
quantities of the lumber are shipped to
Northern markets.
TOBACCO from Western North Carolina
is scarcely ever injured by the horn
worm. This crop has been grown there
but few years, and the worms have not
yet learned to claim it.
PUCK quotes . colored philosopher as
saying, "twenty years ago niggers was
wuf q thousand dollars q piece. Now
dey would be deah at two dollars . dozen.
It's 'stonishing how de race am runin'
down"
The raising Of Angora goats in West
ern Texas is increasing, and is alleged to
bea profitable business. It is said that
the meat is much better than mutton,
and each goat yields about two pounds
of hair annually. In the Eastern market
it is now worth IS cents per pound.
Ar Clarksvillc, Texas, a farmer named
Canterbury has been held to answer the
charge of swindling. He made cotton
bales with one hundred pounds of cotton
and the balance cotton seed. The bales
weighed 10 much that . cotton buyer,
suspecting foul play, bored into bale
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The Ocean Steamship Company, oi
Savannah, paid $1,000 cash for city
tract on the water front, the terms of the
sale being "that the party purchasing
said property shall erect thereon a grain
elevator with the capacity for at least
100, 1000 bushels Of grain, within twelve
months from the date of said sale.
WHILE a number Of ladies were sitting
in the piazza Of residence in Mt. Pleas
ant, s. c., q mad dog rushed into th,
group and snapped several times al
them, catching the dress of one of tn,
ladies in its mouth. Fortunately, tn,
ladies were able to make their escape
and the dog finally butted its heat
against the building until it was insensi
bic.
ONE Of the prodigies brought into no
tice by the Exposition at Nashville is
boy only five years old who is able to read
promiscuously in books and newspapers
never stopping TO spell . word, emphs
sizes well and enunciating slowly and dis
tinctly, like well-educated man. Hi
name is W. c. L. Wetmore, and his hom
Wilson County.
In Edge6eld County, 8. c., Thoma
M. Blease was shot and instantly kille'
by Gardner, his son-in-law. tits reporte'
that bad feeling existed between the mel
on account Of Gardner's marriage Will
Blease's daughter, and that Blease ha.
made charges against Gardner of del
cate nature, and, threatening to kill him
had sought him for that purpose. Gard
ner being apprised Of his father-in-law