Charlotte home and Democrat., 1882-03-10
NEWS ITEMS.

in cotton last year.
The mills in Pensacola, Fla, and ada
cent points employ 1000 men.
The Montgomery, Alabama, cotton fac
tory has commenced operations.
Corn, near Gadsden, Ala, planted last
month, is fine and six inches high.
A bed of anthracite coal has been dis
covered in P;ckens county, Alabama.
The island of Elba, Napoleon Us old
home, is being strongly fortified by Italy.
Observation-Disclosures, March 3.-Chas.
Hale died yesterday after long illness.
Report says that the cabbage crop OF
Mobile county, Alabama, will amount to
100000.
IT'S said that the Gordons will put
$lOO, 900 worth OF machinery into factory
near Covington, Mississippi.
Mrs. ". X. Beard, of Tallahassee, Fla,
gathered from her garden in one day seven
hundred pansies.
Attorney General McLeary, of Texas,
has decided that it is unlawful for boys to
be employed about saloons.
A new coal company has been organized
in Knoxville, Tenn, with Col. G. T. Fore
acre, of Atlanta, as president.
az The town of Valley Mills, Texas,
was almost entirely demolished by re-
cent cyclone.
The secret of the snake charmers of
India is said to be sewing up the mouths
of their snakes.
The Hinesville Gazette says the tur-
pentine men complain that worms are
attacking the newly boxed trees and decay
follows.
Geo. B. Wall, the lawyer who was fatal
ly shot by his wife at their home at New
Utrecht, L. l., is a native of Newbern,
North Carolina.
Mr.. II. G. N'urry, who lives near Chat
tanooga, Tenn, has seventy-five acres de-
voted TO the production of sweet potatoes,
and the yield averages 100 bushels to the
| acre.
Mrs. Brooks of Idianola, Iowa, sold her
| husbands overalls to rag man, the other
day, and fortunately the rag man was
found in time to recover 500 which had
been put in the cast-of garment.
A horse which was being shipped from
Boston to Chicopee, Mass, slipped its hal:
| ter, managed to open the Car door, and
| Jumped off the train. The buyer has
learned that the animal returned TO Bos-
| ton.
A grown-up resident of Leesburg, Fla,
laughed as heartily as the boys who tied
blazing sponge full of kerosene to the
tail of a dog-untll the brute ran under
his house and set fire, which destroyed
it.
Some time ago Mrs. Brown, of Allen
county, Ky, gave birth to twins. Not.
withstanding there is but four minutes
difference in there ages, yet one was born
in 1881 and the other in 1882, one in De.
cember and the other in January, one on
Sunday, the other on Monday.
SrUNG BY BEEs.-A swarm of bees in
rattlesnake six feet long, twelve inches iu
it so that it was blinded, and afterward
easily killed with spade. San francisco
| Chronicle.
| A CoLoEED EPISCOPAL MINISTER
Charleston, March 3.-Rev. Thaddeus
Salars, the first colored man ever admitted
to the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal
Church of South Carolina, was to-day or
dained priest in St. Martins Church by
Bishop Howe.
| a. A half starved vagabond named
MacLean, of Southsea England, fired pis
tol near Queen Vlctoria's carriage on the
2nd inst. Some think he attempted to
kill the Queen, but he says that he was
starving and wanted to be arrested and
fed. Itis great pity that all vagabonds
and lunatics, and tramps, aud cranks, can
not be imprisoned before they murder
some innocent person.
JEWISH REFUGEES IN PHILADELPHIA
Philadelphia, March 3.-About seventy
FIVE Russian Jewish refugees are now al
work. Most of them are skilled workmen
but there are many tailors, shoemakers
hatters and machinists among them who
have not obtained employment.
| A new way of Furnishing children in the
Buffalo Orphan Asylum is letting the sash
OF heavy window down upon Their
hands, and thus confning and torturing
them in spite of their groans and cries.
We note that the United States Fish
Commissioner, after having had an appro
priation of $l9s,OOO for his department
for the current year, asks for 81, 1000 ad
ditional. The worst foolishness that any
government, State or national, ever en-
gagged 10, is the fish foolishness. Instead
Of giving him $77 900 more for his expert
ments, Congress would be doing genuine
service to the people who have just al
good as been robbed already of $l9s, ,OO(
in his interest, if it were to abolish Mr.
Fish Commissioner entirely.-Stateso;U,
Landmark.
Gen. Vance introduced an amendment
to the Postoffice bill granting $4,000 te
the Department to furnish country pos,
Offices with scales for weighing mail mat
ter. 1t appears that the smaller offices
have not been allowed letter-scales, YET
are charged if not enough postage be de
manded. The P. o. Dept. wrote Gen. V
that there were 10000 such offices, anG
that fines to the amount of 5000 per month
were charged for deficient postage The
amendment was adopted; and the country
postmasters Of North Carolina should Civ.
Gen. Vance good measure in the scales O
appreciation.