Richland beacon., 1880-06-12
SOUTHERN NEWS.

The culture of peanuts is becoming
more general in Virginia.
THE proceeds of the Frog opera in
New Orleans amounted to 81 $50.
TEXAS 8 per cent. bonds are quoted
At 102 and are scarce in the market.
ONLY one hotel in Jacksonville, Fla,
will remain open during the summer.
UNMrzzLED dogs on the streets oi
Memphis are shot down without mercy.
NEARLY 1000 workmen are employed
upon new buildings going up in At
lanta.
The summer uniform of the police
Of Richmond, Va, includes white
gloves.
II is estimated that the present rice
crop in Louisiana will be double that of
last year.
A COTTON compress. costing 5000.
will be erected At Brennan, Texas, thi.
summer.
FISK University, At Nashville, ha.
been presented with . bell weighing
1000 pounds.
DURING this year 100000 bushels Of
corn have been shipped to Europe from
Richmond. Va.
VIRGINIA is set down for 1926 900 in
the Congressional River and Harbor An.
preparation Bill.
A GOOD quality of white porcelain
clay has been discovered in Forsyth
County, n. G.
A GRAND agricultural aud mechani-
cal fair il to be held At San Antonio,
Texss, next fall.
Mrs. SALLIE Gray, of Meridian, Mass,
is III years old and still engages in
letter-writing.
In Henry County, Ga, . whole drove
of hogs, while lying in . heap, wee
killed BY lightning.
LONG staple seed cotton il 20 scarce in
East Florida, but one.third the usual
crop will be planted.
NEW ORLEANS has shipped {, France
and Italy within . year 100000 gal.
Ions of cotton seed oil.
An evening paper has been established
at Lynchburg, Va, making three dailies
now published there.
The Hon. John N. Hudson, State
Senator from Americus, Ga, has been
sent to lunytic asylum.
THERF is lady postmaster At Elon,
Amherst County, Virginia. Her las.
predecessor WAS also lady.
The Legislative Council of Memphis
.:as passed an ordinance abolishing
all hanging signs from over the SIDE.
walks.
A coLoRED barber at Macon, Ca, was
stabbed to death with an umbrella
while engaged in quarrel with another
man.
A CONFEDERATE Memorial Associ.
atiop is to be organized At Memphis to
care for the heroic dead in Elmwood
Cemetery.
The average yield of the oats crop in
the vicinity of Austin, Texas, this year
II from eighty to one hundred bushels
per acre.
J. F. WEST, who killed . negro some
time ago 1t Barnesville, Ga, has been
refused bail and il now in iail At
Griffin.
A FARxEI in Montgomery County,
Tenn, drove the bugs from his tobacco.
plant beds BY treating them to . dose of
rotten egga
The water in Wolf River, ~ long de-
tested BY Memphians, has been officially
pronounced the third best water in tho
United States."
The planters Of Alabama and North
ern Mississippi arc moro engrossed than
ever in the cotton crop, and are neglect
ing everything elss for it.
TIE President of the Mississippi
State Agricultural College, at Stark
vile, receives An annual salary of g, 500,
and the professors 81, 900 each.
OVER $400. 900 has been raised in the
North for the construction of the new
Sibley mills in Augusta, Ga, and the
remaining 5000, 900 10 promised.
TIE cotton mills at Carrollton, Mis.,
have been bought BY one King, .
Georgia manufacturer, who will add 200
operative to the working force.
TIE credit of the State of Mississippi
Il At par. Her warrants are equal to
currency and are paid on demand. Her
bonds command . premium in the mar
ket.
TBEls il not . single liquor saloon
In any town on the line of East Tenpes-
see and Georgia rsilrosd, between Chat
tanoogs and Knoxville, . distance Of
il2 milea