Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-01-28
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
THE SOUTHERN STATES.


uear McNalr station, MISS
A snowfall is reported from the section
about HeEdersonville, N. G.
Petersburg, Lincoln County, Tenn,
has subscribed $25, 900 for bank.
Prohibition will rule in all but about
dozen towns in Arkansas this year.
The Standard Oil Company is to have
a warehouse built at Tallahassee.
Pine Bluff, Ark, expects to handle
65, 900 bales of cotton this season despite
the short crop.
| Clarksville, Ark, will follow the ex-
ample of Little Rock and forbid the sale
of cigarettes to boys.
Mrs. Polly Butler, living near Cleburne,
Ark, is eighty years old and has eighty
two grand children.
Sam Lee, aged 35, died in Jail at
Corinth, MISS, last Tuesday. He was
charged with horse stealing.
Only $50, 900 has been secured of the
$10O, 900 subscription at Pensacola, Fla,
to secure the Pensacola and Memphis
road.
Two human skulls were recently
unearthed at Clarksdale, Miss, by men
diging ditch. Their presence there is
a mystery.
A northern girl now living near Tren-
ton, Tenn, takes her gun and goes afield
and kills more game than any of the
young men.
At ball near Hot Springs, Ark, re-
Gently young lady, her mother, grand
mother and great grandmother danced in
the same set.
Strangers often ask if the population
of High Point, N. G., is not about / 200.
A careful estimate shows the population
to be about 2, 500.
The jackson, Teun., Dispatch has been
presented with an egg one inch in diameter
and three inches long, and shaped like
Chinese lady's shoe.
The schooner Myra Pratt, Sherman
master, of Mobile, was wrecked on Tam
pico bar a few days ago, and two lives
lost. Part Of the cargo of crossties was
| saved.
The national democratic committe will
meet in Washington on the 22nd of Feb
ruary next to fix the time and place for
holding the national democratic conven-
| ton.
Al Nashville, Tenn, ON Sunday night,
Warden Pearcey of the State penitentiary
discovered desperate plot among the
convicts to murder the guards and es-
cape.
The oldest person in North Carolina
was buried few days ago, being about
| 100 years old He went by the name of
| Adam Mendenhall. and at one time the
body servant of the late George w. Men
denhalI.
[ Seventeen negro farmers of Attala,
County, Miss, each year give prize TO
one of their number who raises the larg-
est hog. The prize for the year was re-
Gently taken by Elan Meek His hog
was twenty-three months old and weigh
ed 615 pounds.
During 1857, says the Brookhaven
Radiator, there has been started in Mis-
sissippi three cotton and woolen mills,
one blast furnace, four mines and quar-
ries, three railroad companies, fifteen
|
one miscellaneous industries.
George Hunter, alike by name and oc-
cupation, of Ekenhockhatchie County.
Fla, expects to receive $14, 900 back
pensions from the United States gov
ernment. He is an Indian soldier, and
also claims to have hauled the first lum-
Der for the first house in Orlando.
Work on the Stokedale and the Madi-
son branch of the Cape Fear & Yadkin
Valley railway, North Carolina, COM
menced few days ago. Part of the con
vict gang on the Monroe and Atlanta
road has been removed to work on this
new enterprise.
Captain W. S. Pitt, of Orlando, well
known saurian hunter of South Florida,
has gone into the culture Of tobacco, and
will set out several acres near Orlando.
The Captain says that in 1870, in the
Poyntz, he raised fine tobacco and made
it into cigars, which he sold rapidly at
! SIS per hundred.
The reputation of High Point, n. C..
as health resort, for both winter and
summer, is growing rapidly, and the at
tention of people in every direction is
being drawn toward her. An able Pres
| byterian minister of Virginia speaks of
going there to live with the hope of i'm
proving the health of both his wife and
daughter.
Near Marion, Crittendon County, Ark,
last week awake was held over the body
of Mrs. VIM. McNelly, the religious
services being conducted by Parson VIM.
Robinson. In the course of his remarks
Rev. Robinson made use of several un-
complimentary illusions to other persons
present, whereupon the husband of the
deceased knocked him out with a club.
The obsequies came to an untimely end
Anderson, S. G., holds her reputation
as a live stock market. The stablemen
are sending out large numbers of mules
and horses every day. Some one has
asked what becomes of all the mules that
are scattered over Anderson and sur
rounding counties every year II they
do not die rapidly and are not kept