St. Landry democrat., 1882-03-25
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

The transmountain section of Western
North Carolina. comprising an area of %
miles long and 70 to 125 miles wide, OWN.
to the want OF railroad transportation, ha
been cut off from the outside world. Since
the sale of the Western North Carolina Rail
road to the Richmond and Danville syndi
cate they have been making rapid progress
completing the Paint Rock branch to tn,
Tennessee line, and are now concentrating
their entire force on the main line west O
Asheville, passing through the Counties o
Haywood, Jackson, Swain, and Cherokee te
Ducktown and Chattanooga, Tenn.-the
Pittsburgh of the South. As to the climate
of this mountain country, there is none SUI.
perior. The soil is rich and productive
The great variety Of rich growths of vaua-
Bile timbers is an inviting field for men Of
enterprise and capital. A rich growth Of
black walnut is found in almost every coun.
ty west of the Blue Ridge.
Attorney-Gen. Blair, of Virginia, has
given a decision that coIored citizen Of
that State had been improperly deprived OF
the right to vote on the ground of his con-
viction Of felony while slave. He says
that the man had no citizenship then and,
of course, had no franchise or rights to lose,
and that by virtue of the fourteenth and tf-
teenth amendments to the Constitution of
the United States, being former slave,
he was habilitated with the elective fran
chise and all the rights Of citizenship.
A saw-fsh recently captured near
Jacksonville, Fla, is one of the strangest-
looking inhabitants of the sea, and is over
eighteen feet in length, the saw being about
four feet long, and armed on either side
with row OF savage-l looking teeth, twenty
six in number, or fifty-two in all. His skin
and posterior parts are like the shark, while
his fore fins, measuring across the back,
while extended, are over six feet across, and
resemble those of the devil fish, or any
other of the ray family.
We have now within radius of two
and half miles OF this burg, says the Dab
lonega (Ga.) Signal, one forty, three TWEEN
ty, and five ten stamp mills, all running or
getting ready to run, making $50 stamps all
told, with two more twenty stamp mills in
prospect in the near future, and any amount
Of good mill sites awaiting the advent of
some lucky man or men to open and develop
them.
Steamers are making good time on
the Lower Mississippi. They can cut across
the bends and find plenty of water every
where. The steamer City of Baton Rouge
made the run from New Orleans to Cairo in
three days and fifteen hours.
Thomas Hays, manager of the Pullman
Southern Car Company at Louisville, KY,
and one of the directors of the Southern
News Company, recently made an assign
nent to James Caldwell. 1t is estimated |
hat his liabilities are $50, 900 and his assets
s55, 900.
Durham County, North Carolina, has
he heaviest Probate Judge in that State $500
pounds, and the lightest Sheriff (ninety five
)ounds).
The plan of hiring farm labor instead
If letting freedmen work for part OF the
;rop seems to be gaining favor in Alabama.
Panthers sre devouring pigs and
ambs on the hills of Harrison County, Ken
ucky.
The Supreme Court of Arkansas holds
he Memphis & Little Rock Railroad liable
or a loan of 500, 900 by the State on mort
age which was not recorded. Unless the
DAD pays over 800, 1873 and interest a spe-
ial commissioner to sell the property will
re appointed.
A few Confederate bonds were sold in
S. c., the other day at $l.75 per
1000.
IT is reported that a rich silver mine
as been discovered on the waters of Upper
rosby Creek, in Cooke County, Tenn.
One of the industries of the noun
sins of Western North Carolina and East
ennessee is the collection of ivy roots,
'hich are shipped to Philadelphia and Bos-
IN to be made into door-knobs and bowls
,r pipes.
A young man of Rome, Ca, was twit-
ID so often about his striking resemblance
} Guiteau that he shaved off his beard to
oviate the annoyance.
A strawberry raiser in Chattanooga
ys the prospects for the coming crop are
lcellent. He expects to raise 10000 pounds
I nine acre patch.
A man seventy eight years old, living
Arkansas, opposite HaIe's Point, Tenn,
scoming respondent at seeing everything
ling swept away by the water, got into q
,at, rowed out in the river and blew out
IS brains.
The manufacturing of naval stores is
tting to be quite an enterprise in South
eorgia. !
A Confederate half-do of 1861 was I
d off at $50 in New York, few days ago,
| an order sent to the auctioneer previous
the sale. 1t was purchased in the name
South" the auctioneer declining to say
no the purchaser was. 1t is said that only =.
ur of these half-dollars were ever struck. :
lie was in Jefferson Davis's possession at
e time of his capture, and has not since ..
EN- heard of, and there is no trace of the