The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-06-15
WAY DOWN IN DIXIE.
Interesting Items From Our Sister states
in the south.

| Interesting Items From Our Sister states
in the south.
4 syndicate Of Houston (TeXas) men is
working a coal seam in Erath county, Texas.
They found. at "a depth Of l30 feet, a vein 30
| inches in thickness and said 10 DE OF much
better quality than has heretofore been sup
| posed 10 exist IN the Southwest. The coal Is
almost free from waste. 1t Is claimed 10 be
an excellent quality Tor steam and d0mes-
| tic use and 10 be suited for making good
coke and gas. The shaft is two miles from
the Texas a Pacific Railroad main iIne and
the Houston and Texas Central Railroad
has made "A survey from Dublin TO Gordon,
which runs through the land and within 300
yards of the shaft. When this line is i'm
shed il will give almost direct transporta-
ton 10 Houston.
4 house in east DOugherty county. Ga,
for some time vacant and used as rendez-
yous or shelter by tramps. SayOyards with
| bears, and Other strOlling gentry who make
up the worlds procession through the high
ways and bvWays, has become infested
with those queer insects the Texas ileas or
chigres. These Vermin, smaller than the
| common flea and without its hopping pro
pensty. have the unpleasant habit Of start
| ing head first and heels downward through
the epidcrmics Of humanity AMI the brute.
upon the skin, within which the chigre
is safely esconced. They attack pOul-
| try, c0ngregating upon their heads and
| burrOwing through the Uranium into
the brain. Grease is the only thing that
will destroy them. In this house that has
become infested these insects show aston
| ishng intelligence. During the day they
hide in the creases of the floor, ana at night
when the inhabitants have retired they
emerge from their hiding places and crawl
ing over the rollers and up the legs Of the
bed attack the sleepers whom they soon
render slumberers no longer. IL lit can
die and watched them the other night"
said the man Of the house, land TO my as
constituent the bed legs were black with
! them and they were making time, too. The
| light did not appear to affect them and
they continued upon their fOraging eXhi-
bition. The baby being tender is their
fayorlte object of attack, though we all suf-
ikr from this mighty industry"
John A. Wheeler, Of Fitchburg, a repre-
sentative of the American Missionary AssO-
ciatiOn,i inCOlumbia,S ;. {. making arrange
ments in regard 10 the erection, at Green
wood, Of the buildings for colored college
TO be located there. The association re-
ferred 20 is an extensive Ole, and spends a
thousand dollars day for missionary work
among the negroes, Indians. and Chinese.
The present c0l0red school at Greenwood,
located about Il mile from the railroad, is to
be taken as the nucleus OF the intended col
lege. The present building there is 10 have
an additional story put on, and will be re-
modelled into a building Of the Queen Anne
style. Two other buildings are TO be erect
cd near by, both of wood, and the whole out
lay of the association in connection with
the college will reach large sum. Dir. +.
W. Wing, Of Columbia, will furnish large
quantity OF building material for the pro-
posed building, the erection Of which Mr..
Wheeler will superintend himself.
John Charyous, llindoo and cannibal,
originally from the Fiji Islands, but more
recently from Canada, lectured 10 the ne
gr0es at Fairburn, Ga, a few nights ago. at
the negro Methodist church. His lecture. |
learn, was on Africa and the history OF the
negro race and their future. He said to
them that this was the white mans cOun-
try. and that the white race would rule:
that there are very few negroes in the
United states as compared 20 whites. He
insisted that the negro was inferior 10 the
Caucasian; nearly as much so as the Him
doc was inferior 10 them; that the South
ern people were the best friends the
negro had, and would and did do