West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1883-12-14
SOUTHERN NEWS sLEAsINas

shipped for various parties about 1000 head
! OF tattcd hogs TO Nashville, Louisville,
! Cincinnati, Baltimore and other markets.
| A large number OF mules and cattle also
shipped through Columbia, during tho
week, have boen stopped 10y their owners to
! bo fed
TpERE is a vast amount of cotton yet in
tho fields unpicked in Carroll County,
| Tenn.
\ MISSISSIPPI paper refers 20 the suicidal
course pursued 10y farmers in selling their
| young calves and hcifers. Tho policy is
! denounced as very foolish, and just as alb
surd as it would bo for a farmer To sell his
socd-corn The young cattle are sold for
song, whereas they should he retained un.
til they become valuable, and, most OF all,
every heifer should be retained on the
farm FOR brccdng purpose
| SEVERAL public cotton woighors for Gal
vcston County havo fled suits against NOR
| chants in the city Of Galveston, claiming
| damages because the merchants had em.
| ployed private parties TO do their weighing
OF cotton The cases will bo watched with
| interest, as they involve some very i'm.
| portant points.
The Texas PcuitentiOry Board proposes
| having cane and farm wagons made in the
| penitontiary on IA limited scale, and furni
turo also as an experiment. Ifsucccssful
! II is thought the Legislature will bc asked
| FOR an appropriation 20 enter into these in.
dustries extensively.
| AT Newport News, Va, large hotel for
| summer and winter guests has Just been
| opened To the public. lt il called tho Hall
| Warwick, and will accommodate three
| hundred people. It's situation on tho banks
| OF the james river, twenty 1--we feet above
| high wntor mark, commands attractive ma.
rino views. Tho hotel is handsomely furn.
ishcd.
THE building OF tho rond from Sweet
water, Tenn, TO Tellico Plain is again being
agtatcd. Therois a scheme ON foot 20 have
| $4,000 appropriated to aid in carrying out
tho enterprise, 1t Is thought that with this
amount 10 begin with, there will be but lit
| tie trouble In securing tho funds necessary
TO build the road.
SEVERAL Northern families ha We settled
| IN franklin County in tho last three months,
and others are now prospecting with Wow
10 locating.
THE Memphis ,Scimitar favors restrain.
ing the evils OF gambling by tho adoption
OF licensing system.
ARKANSAS coal is being offered for homo
use. IL is n new experiment. Tho high
| price of wood is inducing the people to
look ON all sides for a cheaper fuel.
Tue celebrated beach at Galveston Is be-
ing rapidly washed away. In sons plaeea
there Is actually nothing to prevent q
heavy swell oe water fropl eiaptying over
| the adjacent portion OF tile Island, an, AZ
other points the waves have begun 60 ON ,
croach on the natural soil.
y, RorHscmLD, pawnbroker,who re-
ccontly commeanced business in Memphis,
has been arrested at the instance of New
| York parties whom ho is accused OF de-
| frauding., Representatives Of these par
ties are in Memphis for tho purpose OF
| prosecuting him.
THE Houston, CTex) Port gives the his.
| tory Of an old clock which occupies place
! i'm the Office OF the Gulf, Colorado and
| Santa Fe Railroad. IL has twcnty-four
| hours marked on its face, and has been ir.
the state since 1886. 10 wns the time.pieca
which told the hours 90 the Representatives
In tho Capitol Of Texas. H. has been i'm ex.
cellcnt running order for tho past forty.
seven years, and In this respect also, il
different from the modern clock H. was
sold at auction some years ago. aud since
| then has boon buheted around here and
there, but never has failed to tell tho cor.
rect time. IL is large, circular nat.
! dutchy looking thing Of Swedish make.
| The maker is unknown, as is It's origin, but
| the fact that it did service in the Texas Re-
| public is we'll established
THE shipment Of cattle from Massachu
| setts 20 Florida, without my change of
, cars, IS a considerable undertaking, hut il
has been successfully dono. A few days
ago the first through car Of cattle passed
| over the Charleston and Savannah railway.
II was consigned 10 John Bradford. Of Tai.
lahasseo, and contained thirty.six head of
fine Ayrshire and Jersey cattle, valued nc
81 800.
a SPECIAL TO the Grand Rapids (Mich.)
Times says: "The Governor to-day an.
pointed p. VI. Carroll and y. a. Burlin.
game, Of Grand Rapids, and a. J.. Swine.
ford, OF Marquette, as Special Commission
ers 10 visit and report upon Southern TX.
positions for 1885, Tho appointment is
made thus early 70 allow tho Commission
ers ample time TO coliate specimens Of
Michigan products for exhibition NJ tho
Louisville and New Orleans fairs.0
THE excursion party ofland buyers from
the Northwest, were given grand banquet
at Jackson, Tenn. They were met at Cairo,
H.; Fulton, Ky; and Martin, Tenn. by
committees from Canton, Miss: Holly
Springs, Miss; Walden, Miss, and jackson.
Tenn. The hospitalities Of these places
wero extended them, there bolng mo- hotel
or hack charges.
as Mas. WmrING stepped out Of her
residence in Baton Rouge, Lo.. ono nipbt
recently, sho felt something winding
around ono OF her lower limbs. She
screamed and shook on tho reptile, which
when killed, was discovered TO bo two feet
Boz length and Of tho species known as tho
highland moocasin, which is very poi.
sOngus
AT Galveston movement is on foot 20
amend the city charter so as 10 authorize
the issuance of 10000 worth of bonds q,
build a breakwater to provout The cast end
of the island from washing away.
Two negro employees in Virginia fur.
mace got into o difficulty the other day.
and ono OF them was thrown into tho macs
OF molten IRON
ARMAND HEfvE, wealthy banker who
recently died boo Paris. France. made bi4
nrst start in New Orleans. Tie was the
hrst man e. ship cotton direct from this
country 20 North Germany lie married
Miss Cohen, OF New Orleans, who brought
bim a fortune of $4,000.
TINS farmers in some parts of Georgia
lost their seed cane during the recent cold
spell. nnd will have 20 depppd on tt, .+,,f.