Richland beacon., 1880-02-07


ers of Memphis will be constructed will
depend on the promptness of the tax
payer. The first installment of the
special tax for this purpose will be due
February !.
New Orleans Times: Most of the far
mers of Lincoln parish now raise all
their own meat. Unfortunately all who
had killed their cattle in the earlier part
of the winter have had the meat spoil OH
their hands.
Pulaski (Tenn.) Citizen: The unpre-
cedented warm weather and the late
rains are having the effect to injure seri-
Ously the growing wheat. Its effects are
apt to tell in the yield, however fortu-
nate the changes that may come.
Al Huntsville, Texas, J. J. Elkins, ex
Sheriff of Walker county, Texas, was
shot and killed by Peter Greer, farmer
The shooting was the result of per-
sonal difference which has long existed
between the parties.
Selma Times: Doctor J. H. Henry is
preparing an elaborate and exhaustive
pamphlet on the gold fields of Alabama.
He says he has the data to clearly estab-
lish that there is more gold in Alabama
than there is in California.
Drew has left Savannah, Ga, after,
gaining nearly $500 signers to his tenn
perance pledge.
Alexander jenkins and Ed. Jenkins,
on examining trial at Bastrop, Texas, for
the shooting of the Mcdonald brothers,
were released on bond of $1,000 each.
Some of the best citizens of the county
volunteered to 60 on their bonds.
The ice factory in New Orleans has
introduced new way of shipping fish,
particularly red srappers. They are
frozen in cakes of ice, or rather cakes of
ice are frozen around the fish, and in
this condition they are forwarded to all
sections of the country.
Wilmington IN. CO. Star: Sheriff
Manning transferred the ten dollars al
lowed him by law for the hanging of
Allen Mathis to Rev. J. w. Fry, of St.
Stephens A. NJ. f. church, one of the
spiritual advisers of the doomed man, for
the benefit of his church.
AtSan Diego, Tex, party of masked
men took possession of the county Jail
and jailer and released five prisoners.
Two prisoners were left in jail-Onc a
woman charged with perjury and one a
lunatic committed for murder. The
whole affair is enveloped in a great deal.
of mystery.
The New Orleans Times estimates that
at least twO-thirds of the available lands
of Louisiana are lying idle, or rather,
have never been brought into cultiva-
ton. The legislature now in session
will be strongly urged to adopt some lib
eral provision for the encouragement of
immigration.
Judge G. T. Harris, Of Georgetown,
Texas, while returning home on horse
back from a neighboring town, was
stopped after nightfall by three men and
robbed of 2,4O0. The robbers were well
armed, and are supposed to be the men
who have recently committed several
outrages in BOsque county.
Memphis Appeal: The work of sew
erage will be commenced within a week.
Hundreds of poor people will secure Ia
Dor thereby. Ten thousand dollars scat
tered among the laboring people is of
more financial value to our city than
could possibly be derived from $l,OO0,-
900 locked up in our banks.
In Dallas, Texas, a merchant abused a
little boy named Etheridge for walking
on stills in front of his st re, claiming.
to be annoyed thereby. Mrs. Etheridge
came to the rescue, and received several
blows from stick in the hands of the
merchant, when she drew a pistol and
wounded him in the forehead.
1t has been estimated by reports re-
ceived at the Agricultural Department
of Georgia that eighty per cent. of the
farmers who raise their own supplies
make money by. farming. Seventy-five
per cent. Of those who give liens and
mortgages and pay high rates of interest
on supplies fail to make expenses.
Last week thirty-two families of col
ored exodusters to Kansas, who had gone
from the southern counties of Texas,
passed through Dallas returning home.
Their home passage was paid by the
farmers in the counties, lin which they
had left, on The condition that they
woun work for them at specified rates
Savannah News: A new way of avoid
ing the duty of serving the country as a
juror now is to establish branch house
in some other city, and when summoned,
take an affidavit that you are not citi-
zen of the county. A dealer who has
been doing business in Savannah for
about twelve years adopted this plan.
New Orleans Times: As regularly as
the sun shines, every year the colored Ia
borers in Terrebonne parish break up and
move from one plantation to another in
fact, there is a general changing of hands.
There is apparently no reasonable cause
for this periodical moving. and the col
ored people Themselves give no explana-
ton Of their conduct. -.
Charlotte IN. C.) Observer: Recent.
ly a large number Of negroes, probably
200, have passed through Charlotte en-
route to the tupentine fields of Georgia,
which are now being extensively devel.
oped, They come from the piny woods
regions of North Carolina, and are gen.
erally an able-bodied set. The last party,
composed of about 120, passed down the
road day before yesterday. 1t is stated
that quite number left the. State for
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