Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1881-06-18
NEWS GlEANlNGS.
<orth Carolina has 96 counties.

North Carolina has ~ counties.
The school fund of Kentucky 81
600. 900.
Key West, Fla, shipped 900, 900 cigars
last week.
Apricots sell in Lake City, Fla, at =
per bushel.
Pensacola, Florida, is to have new
hotel, cost 100000
Wilmington, North Carolina. ha> a
population Of Il, ,Jo6.
North Carolina has a commissioner o |
immigration in England.
New Orleans is to have a school for
the training of women nurses.
North Carolina has 22l Masonic lodges
at work with membership of s,l".
Six hundred thousand oranges will he
shipped from Enterprise, Florida th''
fall.
Monticello, Fla, has shipped this sea-
son 503 barrels apd >? crates OF IRISH
potatoes.
A green turtle, weighing over ~"
pounds, has been captured of the l"r-
ida coast.
One hundred children work in the
Mavsville, Ky, cotton mills Ter - cents
to Sl25 week each.
The Association of Atlanta Preachers
have signed respectful protest agaln-'
the issuing of sunday paTer-.
Mr.. Matthew Berry, near Ramer,
Montgomery county, Ala, is sending L"
the high school his eight chi ldren.
Nine spongers came into Key West
Fla, last week, after nine weeks
cruise, and sold their sponge for S2''i l.
The Adycntists of Granbury, Texas
have erected a large tabernacle Tor the
purpose of expounding their doctrines
Six thousand cans of oysters were re-
Gently sent North in one shipment by
the canning establishment at Newhern
North Carolina.
One hundred and two thousand, elgh
hundred and thirtv-five pounds of straw
berries have been shipped from Chatta
nooga this season.
A correspondent of the Atlanta Con
stitution saws Savannah il the moder'
Sodom and has four hundred bar-room'
or one to every twelve adults.
Such a severe storm prevailed IN lie
and Sumter counties, Georgia, that !
one place. for nearly mile. you c"ul
walk ON the trees that had been blow
down.
In Harri. county, Ga, dinner-horI
are said TO have gone out OF fashiol
pr,v;s;ons are ~ scarce that when
horn sounds all the ncighborhood r
spond to the call.
Charles johnson, Of New Orleans, u
convicted ship-burner, says that nuI
Der of business men, cotton hroSe
chiefly were interested" with him
his business-the shiP-burning bu-ine
4 number of young men from Gree
csuntv. Ga, started down the river Ii
canoe about six months ago to Try
novel business of trapping beavers. l
voyage was very dangerous, but succe
ful and each mans skins netted
800
Two little boys, Clarence Gross
Willie Dominv. were wrestling IN ~
lin. Ga, and fell on their sides. WI
cot up, leaving Clarence on the grou
The hv.stapders noticed that he did
stir, and approaching they found he
dead.
Nr J. w. SlauChier, near Pinevi
Georgia. was having well dug on
place. and when about twenty i@t q
well-preserved oak leaf waS found
" imbedded in the chalk when al
fifty feet deep live snake OF the D
SPECIES was found.
The Atlantic and Gull Coa's =
and Okeechobee Land Company Is
d;pnifed title of the organization W
rroposes to reclaim the FLORIDA
c,ades The company will have a
;,al Of $4,000, 900, and will hui
canal to drain Lake okeecno'*e'
and west. and al-o canal 300 miles
along the east coast of Florida {
;sts from Europe are to he settled o
lands Sugar and indigo are
grown on the reclaimed lands:
company held a meeting at fhilade
last week.