Richland beacon., 1880-01-03
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Selma, Ma, receives over 200 bales
of cotton daily.
There has been no winter this year in
Southern Georgia.
The blue ribbon is worn by 3,50S pco-
pie at Atlanta, Ga,
Retail whisky houses are taxed Sl0,-
coo each in Greensboro, Ga.
Every village in McNairy county,
Team, has Il chartered school.
Eighteen of the scventy-four counties
i'll Arkansas have no newspapers.
The Herald says that Nick,burg has
the poorest streets in the United States.
The manufacture Of plug tobacco ha,
be n begun at Raleigh, North Carolina.
OF the sixteen officers elected by the
Virginia Legislature five are Rcpubli-
can.
The Alabama Conference of the VI.
f.. Church South embraces III minis
tiers.
Coopcragc and ,hoc-making are taught
in the ARKANSAS Institute for Deaf
Mutes.
Over 200 men in Fl Worth. Texas,
are out of employment, and the number
Is increasing.
In Hale county, Ala, there have been
recorded this year l,2l9 mortgages and
only 10 deeds.
There is great commotion in the New
Orleans city hall over the general rcduc-
ton of salaries.
Mr. Joe Jefferson mas the fiEest orange
orchard in Louisiana. lie has 5000
trees on his place.
Gov. Holiday, in his late message to
the Virginia legislature, recommends the
repeal of the bell punch .dw.
The Atlantic and Gulf railroad will
hereafter he known rs the Savannah,
Florida and Western railroad.
Richmond, Va, has >oup-house for
the poor, established through he efforts
Of the ladies' Of the City Mission.
Fifty indictments have been brought
against the saloon-kccpcrs of Dallas,
Texas, for violations of the Sunday law.
Three hundred and thirty German
destined for Texas, arrived at
New Orleans Monday per steamship
Hanover.
Montgomery (A!a.) Advertiser. 1t is
stated the profit, of the two furnaces of
the Eureka Company at Oxmoor now
reach nearly 1000 per day.
The Commissioner of Agriculture of
Georgia, anticipates a considerable profit
to the State from the inspection of fer
iilizcrs during the present year.
Annual meetings of the stockholders
IF a number of southern railroads have
been held recently, and all of them re-
port gratifying financial progress.
The complete returns from Louisiana
,how democratic majority of 30,1jl,
md an overwhelming majority in favor
If the new constitution, reaching 59,012.
Constitution: During the present cot
on season it is estimated that Sl00,O00
n gold has been brought to Atlanta
md passed from here into the currency
# the State.
The bcll-punchcrs are trying to effect
compromise with the city authorities
If Fort Worth, Texas, by paying the
quarterly tax as formerly, instead of the
'ell punch tax.
Two hundred and fifty iron workers at
If the refusal of two members of their |
inlon to work at mill where negro roll
RS are employed.
Thomas +. Owen, of PittSyIvania
ounty, the past season, with the help of
me hand and one horse, made crop of
obacco which brought 81 900, besides
,ats and wheat and meat enough for his
wants.
The exodus shows no sign of diminish |
ncnt. \ number of negroes from Kan
as, bound to Grimes county, Tex,
'assed through Denison Monday. They |
eprescnt the situations as fearful and |
ay hundreds of colored people are with
'ut food and shelter.
Lynchburg Nirginian: John C.. Moo
nay, the proprietor of large fruit-can-
lin establishment in Botcourt county,
las purchased four hundred acres Of land |
ormerly owned by Benjamin Wilkes,
# Bedford county, for S12,0 900. He will |
onvcrt this land into Il fruit farm.
Memphis Ledger: The Odd Fellows
# this city expended last summer,
Trough their Relief Committee, among
ick brethren and families, the sum of |
9, ,506.9S, and this was all they received.
t was carefully handled, and used where
would do the most good.
Union Springs Ala.) Herald: Not
css than million choice fruit trees,
hrubs and plants have been sold and de-
ivered in Pike county within the past
light wears, and fruit of every kind
rows to perfection and is prodnced in
quantities to make il profit
bic.
Charles Jenkins, near Lynchburg, Va,
'as found hanging in his barn by Il rope
nade from a sheet, and cold in death.
When the body was cut down large
arving knife was discovered, with the
lade deeply imbedded in his breast near
he heart. Financial embarrassment is
opposed to have led to the suicide.
The Mobile {Ala.) Register reckons
hat $40, ,000, 900 will be made this year
" Southern planters by the rise in crops |
yer what they expected to get for them,
nd it urges that part of this be put !
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