Richland beacon., 1880-01-31
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

anu Sidih Counties hlssissippl, last week
for Kansas.
The Atlantic and North Carolina
railroad is now paying the interest on
its bonded bebt.
The five cotton factories in and near
Petersburg, Va. used last year 1900
bales of cotton.
There are six murder cases on the
docket for the February term of court at
Chesterfield, S. C..
The post-Office at Atlanta will be mov-
ed into the new Government building
early in the spring.
Ex-senator POmeroy, Of Kansas, ha, a
gold mine in South Carolina which paws
him $1,000 a week.
The agricultural Fair company at
Darlington, S. c., has declared a divi-
dend of seven per cent.
The Oxmoor furnace, at Birmingham,
Ala, yields eighty tons of iron, and is
netting 81 900 per day.
Atlanta ha, twelve regular passenger
trains arriving each day, and they are
said to be all we'll filled.
An orange weighing a pound and
half has been gathered by John S. Liv-
ingstOn, Of Palatka, Fla.
A bale Of cotton was raffied off at San
Antonio, Texas, for the Hood relief
fund, and brought $242.50.
Gov. Joseph E. Brown has purchased
real estate in Atlanta in the past six
months amounting to $35, 900.
Lots sold for taxes by the sheriff at
Hampton, S. C.. were bought at good
prices by enterprising citizens.
A bale of cotton weighing $50 pounds.
shipped from Wilson, s. G., was found
to contain 800 pounds of stone.
They are talking of establishing a cot
ton factory in Spartanburg county, SC,
with capital of over 100000.
The real estate in Columbus, Ga, is
this year at s77S,6S5-an in
'rease over last year Of sl2S, 900.
A first-class wagon and carriage shop
5 being established at Huntsville. Ala,
~ a Mr.. Laptes. from Louisville.
LiONSh vhicS VI Ctttoh were ueStTOvcsl
It GOldsboro through the carelessness of |
boy who was popping fire-crackers.
The shoe trade of Macon, Ga. is
,erafer in proportion to the population
han that of any other city in the south.
In Virginia the killing of partridges
nd pheasants is prohibited between
January and October Is in each wear.
Good farm lsborers in Oglethorpe
ounty, Ga, get from $50 to $50 per |
ear and their board, while few get |
100.
Texas has 1000 schools, and her school |
und is apportioned equally among the
hildren Of scholastic age, regardless of |
olOr.
To pay debt, the vestry of Christ's
hurch, Alexandria, Va, are endeavor-
ng to sell the Bible used by Gen. Wash
ngtOn.
Contractors say that the amount of
uilding in Atlanta next spring will be
nOrmous. Real estate is going steadily
pward.
The amount of stealing in Greenville
Ounty, South Carolina, has become so
reat that many persons have erected
lan-traps.
The Commissioner of Agriculture of
ennessee has prepared large and COM
lete map of the state at his own per-
NAL expense.
Montgomery Advertiser: Alabama
,al is fast becoming the fuel for
eamships that ply in the commerce of
lie Gulf ports.
The ladies of Americas, Ga, are col
citing money to pay for removing the
dead from Andersonville to
le former place.
The town council of Elberton. Ga.
as fixed the license for retailing LIQUORS
81 900: Opposition will carry the mat
r into the courts.
The directors of the coming Florida
tate Fair, to be held in jacksonville,
ave decided that no games of csance
i'll be allowed on the grounds.
The Little Rock, Gas company has
organized, and the city will again be
GIFTED with gas. The price of gas 10
rivafe consumers is 1915 per. 1000
ct.
One hundred and thirty-six loaded
Irs were sent south over the Chatta-
,oga railroad within ten hours Thursday
ight locomotives were required to haul
lem.
The only vow that a young lady in
arion county, Fla, made on the open
g OF the new year was that before the
,ar ended she would get married, by
ngo.
Prof. Jas NJ. Stafford, of Nashville.
Is been appointed assistant to Prof. f.
:. Hilgard, special agent in charge, to
rite up the production of cotton in
ennessee.
w. s. Thomas, who resides near Eliza
Tenn, has two sons, one thir-
en- years old and weighing S5l pounds,
I'd the other seven years old and weigh
g l73 pounds.
The police force Of New o leans last
'ar made S,342 arrests, of whom r.
II we're males and 1851 females: The