West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1883-11-16
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGs.

After much litigation IL has bcon decided
that parties involved must pay twenty.nvc
dollars por share, with interest for four
years, at u per cent, or suffer the possible
penalty OF vexatious and expensive law
suits and an ultimate liquidation at ono
hundred dollars per share. Already legal
counsel arc pressing the.o suits, aud the
hrst OF January next is fxod as tho ulti.
mate day Of grace. There seems TO be no
escape for solvent parties.
Tux miners employed i'm the East Ten.
ncsseo mines at Jellico, aud i'm those of the
Jellico Mountain Coal and Coke Company.
at Newcomb, struck for an advance i'm rates
last week, but finally agreed TO return TO
work at the old figures.
lS answer 90 an inquirer as TO the condi.
tion of the Georgia farmers this year, Hon.
y. L. Henderson, the State Commissioners
Of Agriculture says; "From tho long and
disastrous drouth, tho hill aud upland crops
are failures. This has cut or tho yield Co
the farmer. still they are more economical:
have learned how to live wi ithin themselves.
and one thing TO our advantage IS that the
hog crop this year Is larger than ever bc.
fore. There will bo no scarcity of meat I'm
the country. Corn is I'm good quantity; the
potato crop Is fair; tho sugar cano Weld Is
good, and husbaudry is moro diversified,
showing more healthy tone I'm tho plant.
ing world"
THE National Refrigerator and Construc.
tion Company, OF Washington ID. c., nrc
about TO build ice G9ctories and cold storage
houses at several points i'm Florida, their
purpose being 60 run a freight steamer bc.
tween New York and Cuba, touching AT
Fernandina, the hold OF which is Co bo fit.
ted up ON the cold storage plan. Thoy will
also run refrigerator cars from Jackson.
Vile 20 the North. and will establish
slaughter houses i'm Sumpter County, from
which they expect to ship dressed beef tu
Cuban markets.
MRs. BEAsLEY visited skating rink nt
Rockmart, Ga, few days ago, very
much against her young husbands
wishes. He dropped I'm during tho
afternoon, and, seeing number Of men
skating around and no lady present but
his wife, he thought sho was engaging
in stag-dance. MIR. Beasley disappeared.
and has not since been heard from.
SIX ostriches intended for an ostrich
farm near Sanford, Fla, have arrived nt
their destination.
lT rs estimated that the pecan crop I'm
the vicinity OF Victoria, Texas, will reach
$4,000 bushels.
As AN evidence that Alabama prefers TO
raise her own meat, il Is stated that Caleb
Gordon, OF Dallas County, has over three
hundred and fifty head of hogs that are fnt
and ready for killing Mt any time when the
weather gets cool enough. He has several
that will weigh over four hundred pounds.
A NORTHERN journal says: "Miss julia
Jackson, daughter OF General StonewnlI
Jackson, will make her debut into Southern
society this winter. She Is very beautiful
and accomplished, and already half the
wealth OF tho South has been laid at hen.
feeto
THE City Council of Galveston has np.
pointed n committee 10 confer with CAPTAIN
Eads In reference 20 the improvement of
their harbor, and ascertain II he believes
that twenty feet Of water can be obtained,
what time it will take, and tho amount OF
money IL will require for the purpose
MISS MINNIE Hill, niece OF the late
Georgia Senator, met Todd Read at n
fashionable wedding at West Point, On,
recently, for tho FIRST time, and married
him the samo day.
MARTIN II. BovEE, the agitator for the
abolition Of hanging, a Wisconsin man,
will visit the Southern capitals the com.
ing winter for tho purpose of advocating
before the Legislature his pet hobby.
SINCE the Mobile authorities have com
menced enforcing the gambling ordinance.
tho gamblers have moved just beyond the
city limits, whore everything i'm their line
Is now in full blast.
A LETTER in reply 30 ono addressed 10
Messrs. Moody and Sankey has been ro.
ceived in Richmond. IL was written i'm
ireland by Mr.. Moody, and states that he
has received an invitation from the various
religious denominations Of the city 10 come
over and help them in their good work.
Io says that he Gnds 10 impossible 10 ac.
cept the invitation before the spring OF
1884, but at that time he, I'm company with
Mr.. Sankey, will be in Richmond and
commence a series of evangelical meetings.
TuE negroes Of Sumter County, Ala. are
said 20 have organized Themselves into
farmers club that surpassos tho Grange.
II any member Of their club fails 10 attond
properly 20 bis team, and wilfully causes
or permits any sore on a mule, or loses any
gear, or suffers any deroliction Of duty to
occur wit~'ut sufficient excuse, no is fined
ono dollar, which money goes into com.
mon fund 10 defray the burial expenses of
any member who dies. They examine tho
crop of each other no certain timos, and n
not in suitable condition, tax is imposed
which is always paid.
WOLVES are so plentiful in the Black
Mountains Of North Carolina that they arc
poisoned with strychnine, aud their dopre.
dations render farming and shoop.raising
very uncertain.
Two men, while hunting ducks in
Louisiana swamp q few days since, wero
attacked by an alligator fourteen feet long
Their boat was upset and a rough aud
tumble fight ousuod between mon and ALI
gator, in which the latter was finally killed
GEoRgE McFApDEv, a sober and industri
Gus young man, nineteen years Of age,
committed suicide near Arkadolpbis, Ark,
n few days ago, by discharging load Of
buckshot into bic left side. He was a mem.
bcr N tho Pre- byterian Church and SON of
T. .. McFadden, n highly respectable
farmer, and one OF Che oldest settlers of
that section. Tho cause OF the rash act is
not stated.
Tho Philadelphia youth is growing
moro and moro prccociou Am up-
town Grammar School hoy became so
obsirepcrous yesterday that DIS toa.h-
cr new in her vocation, young and
pretty, determined o. try the plan of
Keeping him in Aitcr school She sat
with grim determination until it be-
came dark. and then she let him de-