Huntsville gazette., 1882-03-25
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

20 the want OF railroad transportation, has
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 the
Tennessee line, and are now concentrating
their entire force on the main line west of
Asheyille, passing through the Counties Of
Haywood, jackson, Swain, and Cherokee to
Ducktown and Chattanooga, Tenn.-the
Pittsburgh of the South. As to the climate
of this mountain country, there is none su-
perior. The soil is rich and productive.
The great variety OF rich growths of valua-
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 colored citizen Of
that State had been improperly deprived of
the right to vote on the ground of his con-
viction of felony while a 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 ff-
teenth amendments to the Constitution Of
the United States, being a former slave,
he was habiitated with the elective fran
chise and all the rights Of citizenship.
A sawfsh 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-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 devl-fsh, or any
other of the ray family.
We have now within radius of two
and half miles Of this burg, says the Dah-
lonega (Ga.) Signal, one forty, three TWEEN
ty, and five ten stamp mills, all running or
getting ready to run, making 150 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
ment to james Caldwell. 1t is estimated
that his liabilities are $S5, 900 and his assets
$50, 900.
Durham County, North Carolina, has
the heaviest Probate Judge in that State (3OO
pounds, and the lightest Sheriff (ninetyfive
pounds).
The plan of hiring farm labor instead
of letting freedmen work for part Of the
crop seems to be gaining favor in Alabama.
Panthers are devouring pigs and
lambs on the hills of Harrison County, Ken
lucky.
The Supreme Court of Arkansas holds
the Memphis & Little Rock Railroad liable
for loan of 500, 900 by the State on mort
gage which was not recorded. Unless the
road pays over S202, 1873 and interest a spe-
cial commissioner to sell the property will
be appointed.
A few Confederate bonds were sold in
Columbia, S. c., the other day at $4.75 per
$1,000.
IT is reported that rich silver mine
has been discovered on the waters OF Upper
Crosby Creek, in Cooke County, Tenn.
One of the industries of the noun
tains of Western North Carolina and East
Tennessee is the collection of ivy roots,
which are shipped to Philadelphia and Bos-
ton to be made into door-knobs and bowls
for pipes.
A Young man of Rome, Ca, was twit-
ted so often about his striking resemblance
to Guiteau that he shaved off his beard to
obviate the annoyance.
A strawberry raiser in Chattanooga
says the prospects for the coming crop are
excellent. He expects to raise $4,000 pounds
on nine-acre patch.
A man seventy EIGHT years old, living
in Arkansas, opposite Hale's Point, Tenn,
becoming despondent at seeing everything
being swept away by the water, got into
boat, rowed out in the river and blew out
his brains.
The manufacturing of naval stores is
getting to be quite an enterprise in South
Georgia.
A Confederate half dollar of 1861 was
bid of at $50 in New York, few days ago,
on an order sent to the auctioneer previous
to the sale. 1t was purchased in the name
Of ssSouth," the auctioneer declining to say
who the purchaser was. 1t is said that only
four of these half-dollars were ever struck.
One was in Jefferson Davis's possession at
the time OF his capture, and has not since
been heard of, and there is no trace OF the
other two.
Mr.. Blackstock, of Jefferson, Ca, has
nineteen children.
There are 100000 lying idle in the
Alabama State Treasury.
One thousand men are employed in
the mills OF Pensacola and adjoining dis
tricts.
Two hundred dollars worth of celery
was sold from one patch in Nassau County,
Fla, last month.
There has been more emigration to
Hamilton County, Tex, this year than fer
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