Richland beacon., 1880-05-22
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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COLUMBUS, Ga, is to have public
bath house.
TwENTY-sEvEN vagrants were Ar
rested in Raleigh, N. C., in one day.
A JUTE mill is being established in
New Orleans with capital Of $500, 900.
THERE are one hundred and forty
FIVE orphans in the asylum at Oxford,
n. C.
1T is estimated that $40, 90 900 have
been sent out of Texas this spring TO.
COWS.
A COMPANY has been fo,mei at
Barnwell, s. c., for building stree;
railway.
THERE is not q Hebrew in Covins.
ton, Ga, though it has over 1000 in-
habitants.
LARGE quantities of Western ecrn
are being sold in Burke and Terrell
Counties, Ga.
The commissions on the sale OF the
Greenviile and Columbia Railroad
amounted to $780,
The increase of tax values in Lynch
burg, Va, for the last five years has
been nearly 81 coo. 600.
THE police force of Nashville is now on
the lookout for vagrants, against whom
the law is to be rigidly enforced.
THE Directors of the South Carolina
Penitentiary propose to supply the city
Of Charleston with building stone.
The new code of Mississippi allows
a married woman to convey her property
without the consent of her husband.
THE cotton worm vii. again be in
vestigated this year by committee of
the National Government.
The Board of Public Works of Mis-
s.ssippi have decided to lease out the
peniteptiary and convicts to the best
bidder.
THE subject of building q railroad be-
tween Greenville and Laurens Court
house. s, e, is attracting attenti"" :"
THE Governor of Arkansas has par
doned Clement Burchett, who was con-
victed of murder in 1870 and sentenced
to the Penitentiary for twenty-one
years.
; The Goode farm in Bell County,
Texas, contains. 400 acres, 1900 in
cultivation, and between thirty and
forty tenant houses. 1t belongs to E.
n. Goode, who settled there without
capital some twenty-five years ago.
THE congregation of the First Metho-
dist Church at Atlanta, on the appeal OF
their pastor last Sunday, subscribed
over $17,0 900 in about an houl md
half, to be expended on the cAurcn
edifce.
THEC Chamber of Commerce of Challes-
ton has adopted resolutions urging upon
the representatives in Congress from
South Carolina the importance of hav-
ing a full appropriation made for the
Jstties in tho harbor At that city.
THE Hon. John T. Harris is confident
that he will get his bill for returning to
Virginia the money advanced to The
General Government in 1872 passed At
this session of Congress.
The Lynchburg Manufacturing Com
pany, in Virginia, Is manufacturing
sumac in large quantities for use In
tanning, turning out fifteen tons daily
The company designs erecting q paper
mill at Lynchburg at an early day.
BLIND" or "Black" measles is said to
be prevailing at Wadesboro' and Shoe
Heel. N. G. Persons are attacked with
the disease who had the measles ye,r1 ago
1t is q very severe form of measles, and
in several cases has proven fatal.
CONSIDERABLE excitement has been
caused by the discovery of . vein of
silver in Dickson County, Tenn. The
ore has been assayed and pronounced to
be very rich. A company has been or.
ganized with 1 capital of $25, 900 to de-
velop the vein.
The Young Mems Library Associa-
ton of Atlanta ie thirteen years old, has
$500 volumes, $4,000 worth of paintings
and other property, xnd has contracted
for three story brick building, with
Mansard roof, to cost $2l, 900. The cur.
rent expenses per annum are 1000.
WITHIN the past six months more
than 900 white people have smigrated
from the neighborhood of Greensboro,
N. c., to Indiana and the Northwest.
More than that number of colored
people have gone into Georgia and
other Southern States from North Caro-
lima.
THERE has not been q death in the
old family of J. w. Mize, of Sumter
County, Ga, in sixty-rhres years, and
he has six uncles aud three aunts vhose