West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1883-10-26
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.

Ine arm with 10 when tho guard stnpp.d
him and staunched tho flow of blood.
which was squirting out In stream over
tGc ground.
SkNERAL thousand bales of compressed
cotton have passed through Mobile during
tho last Tow days bound for New Orleans.
Such cotton, Il is remarked, having been
compressed in the interior, goes directly ON
shipboard in New Orleans, and leaves no
money anywhere oXcop. in tho hands of
the railroad men.
SoSE OF tho business mon OF Cedar Key
are making warm protests against tho cN-
horbitant telegraph tolls they are compelled
To pay, and think with reason that tho
oouth should he given some OF the benefits of
the recent reduction in rates announced bv
the Western Union Company. Tlmoughout
Florida the charge for messages is simplv
outragcs. Seventy five cents are CHARGED
for sending ten words from Cedar KY to
Jacksonville.
TnE Government collections from MAY
20 September 30, 1850. ina Florida wcrc SOY.
o3S. For the samo period this year tine col.
lections were SSt, los, a reduction of $l8.3,D.
or nearly - per cont, the ratio of taxation
having boon reduced 80 per cont. on tho
principal source OF Federal revenues i'm
that state, cigars and license tax for to.
bacco and liquors. Thcso figures Indicate
an increase of % per cent. i'm the business
upon which the tax is levied.
THERE are three Lee Monument Associa-
tions in existence for tho purposes ofbuild.
Ing monuments i'm Richmond. A Richmond
paper now suggests That unless tho people
who years and years ago gave thoir money
to these associations object, thcro seems no
good reason why the funds should not he
unified oyer real hearty effort to begin
work
MOBILE papers estimate tho city's loss
from the quarantine proclaimed against
Pensacola at 100000.
The Immigration Society, Of Camden,
Ark, has published TO the world i'm n
neat pamphlet u review of the resources
aud advantages OF Camden, with dcscrip-
ton of soil, climate, timber, health, etc, OF
Ouochita County, for tho Information Of
those scbdng homes i'm the Southwest
THE New Orleans School Board ,"says tho
1fmes-Democrdt Of that city, "has decided
20 reopen the public schools on Decem.
Der ., after long vacation Of six months,
being convinced that IL they arc opened
any earlier il will be impossible TO paw tho
teachers regularly. As II Is, the teachers
have not received anything for June, al
Though an earnest effort will be made to
pay for that month Mt an early date, with
"a fair prospect Of success" What dis.
graceful confession 10 make.
! UNDER the new arrangement OF revenue
districts oil the wholesale and retail deal
ers in whisky aud tobScco ~ Memphis will
have 60 send 10 Nashville Tor license.
THE Texas Legislature has been called
20 meet In extra session on the 18th OF No
vember 10 reduce tho rate Of taxation.
This is considered necessary ON account Of
the enormous increase I'm values during the
past year.
DIR. BASIL MANLY, OF the Southern Bap-
tist Theological Seminary, in his address
before tho Educational Convention at
Louisville, said that statistics proved that
the South before the war bad more colleges,
college students aud professors, more
academies aud pnrochial schools than the
North, only lacking free schools. This, he
said, was an evidence that the South has
always had strong interest in schools,
and will not fail 90 manifest it now.
RECEIPTS OF cotton at New Orleans I'm one
day this week were $500 bales against ,O3i
same day last year. Total receipts there
this season reach 1Gl 1858 halcg, aud arc
GOTOJ in excess OF last year 10 the samO
date. The receipts at atGalvcston show n de
crease this season of nearly 5000 halos.
Mobile is nearly 2o,OJJ balos short, whilo
Charleston and Savannah show bat little
change
THE increase IN the taxable property Of
Texas last year wns FljD,oOJ0lD. New
counties lo the number Of Hxty.cight were
organized, giving two hundred in an. Be
sides this thcrc is "a territory twice ne large
as the State of Georgia not yet divided ilto
counties.
a NEGRO girl has been arrested I'm Vicks-
burg for burning private residence and
setting fire 20 three children, the latter OF
whom was negro aud VINO burned 20
death.
COMPARATIVELY small amount Of live
stool. is now being shipped from Fayetto-
vile, Tenn. The great number that have
this year been carried from that county, to-
gether with tho murraiu have reduced the
supply until not more tuan enough is left
for home usas.
a PASTURE company with % capital of
SSJO,OJO, has been organized iu Dimmitt
County, Texas, having l5lyJJ acres of pas
ture lands.
THg ST. Loui, Rem5Hc7a remarks:
"Ihis, then, is what Ole South is DOING:
attending strictly and exclusively to its
own business"
WuWS "a few months six young ladies
from Atlanta have joined the Sisters ~
Mercy at Savannah, and several moro aro
expected 90 follow soon.
THE total number Of spiudlcs added %
cotton machinery iu tho United States Iust
year was G1I.n.J, OF which 5000 were
taken hy Southern States.
a cOwrAVY was organized under tIo laws
Of kansos ou the 2rh ult. for tHo purpose
of constructing 70 uarrowggugo railroad
from Denver to Momphis. ~ ~ Jones,
President of thc First National Bank Of
Memphis, IS director.
MISSISSIPPI will elect ite Legislature
November %, Virginia part OF IT'S Senate
and its full Assembly. Maryland its Cow
ornor, Comptroller, Attorney General and
Legislature.
Ir is reported that n railroad will Lo built
from Cole city o. Rising Pawn Ca. Tho
distance viii De about twenty miles.
Tho object boo constructing the limo is Co
transport coke from the mines TO the fur
naco at Rising Fawu.
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A horse baked with % Now Hamp-
shire woman the other day, and she
quietly took out her knitting and sat
there for nine hours, when the horse
concluded he'd better be going along.
He'd never had any experience with