The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-20
SOUTHERN NOTES,
Selma. Ala, is to have an electric
street railway

Selma. Ala, is to have an electric
street railway.
Edward Elliott farmer living near
Atlanta. died in December last, aged
eighty-one years. There was an old safe
on the farm. and when it was opened
the other day was found to contain nearly
5000. principally III gold. His wife. who
survives him. did not know that the safe
contained money.
Three local option bills have been in
troduced in the South Carolina House of
Representatives.. The significant, feature
of this is that the suthors of these sew
eral bills have heretofore been strong dis
penSary men.
The BrmiiAs ham Age-Herald says tina,
several more furnaces this week add their
production to the output of pig iron in
Alabama and that if the present activity
is maintained for Il few months, there
will be no idle stacks in the State.
Buck King, i well-known negro clIarac-
Ter of Thomastton Ga. died the other
day, aged one hundred years. a CORE
spondent, in referring TO his death, says:
This old and respectable negro while he
was harmless, caused many children 10 go
out Of the way in order to avoid him. He
generally carried with him a bow and
arrow swords, horse shoes and many
other thinSS-On the order Of Macon $ IA
nous july He could below like q
COW ana could out-butt a bull, and for
this reason he was named Uncle Buck
The cigar business Of Tampa is flourish
ing. a correspondent says there were
49,. I99 G19 cigars made in the city during
the year. Careful estimates, based on
figures obtained from the best authority.
show that the selling value of these cigars
was $685., 9l;. SO. The same estimate places
the amount actually paid out for the man
ufac1ure of these cigars at S2,921,57Ss2 On
a canvass of the cigar factories, it is es-
.cinated that employment was given to an
average Of 6,S00 persons in the product OF
these cigars.
A Chattanooga correspondent says the
Southern Methodists Of that CITY are at
work raising a fund TO be applied to pay
ing off the encumbr ances on the building
an6 grounds of the Chattanooga Normal
College. having rereiYed g proposition
from that institution that if sucn indaDt-
edness We're paid. the church could have
the buildings and grounds for co-educa-
1ional college of .: high grade. This pro-
position it is stated, has been accepted
and the local inshitution will be made the
college OF liberal arts to Vanderbilt Uni
Tersity.
Al a large meeting of prominent citizens
Of Savannah. in GLIDING many large 1nHr-
chants and fnarlciers. held Tuesday after
noon there was. organized the Citizens
Industrial Assoc citation of Savannah The
association will probably be incorporated
aud will gather by subscription u capital
of $4,000 from its members to DO '.sea
for the purpose of inducing manufacture
in; enterprises DO locate in Savannah
For the first time in the history OF
Macon, the birthday of General f.obert
e. Lee will be observed. The schools will
be given half holiday, the banks, public
library and other public buildings will be
closed. and the local military companies
will parade The Daughters of the Con-
federacy have arranged an entertaining
night.
After a somewhat animated debate the
South Carolina House OF Delegates by 4
vote Of IS TO %, agreed to submit the mat
ter of biennial sessions of the Legislature
10 the people.
AFTERMATH.