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THE SUNNY SOUTH.
THE SOOTH.
BATE NEWS. GENERAL NOTES
AND SOUTHERN PROGRESS
IN ALL DEPARTMENTS.
Thm
■I World Comdemsed.
Opportunities in the South.
W e are in constant receipt of letters of
inquiry, says the Industrial South, regard
ing the South as a field lor investment of
capital and labor. These inquiries are
chiefly from mechanics and others of mod
erate means who are restive under the rap
idly increasing monopolistic tendencies of
the great manufacturing and trade centres
of the North. To all such we can only re
peat what has been so often stated in these
columns, namely, that it would be a very
difficult feat for an earnest, energetic North
ern man to go South, taking with him the
economic methods of Northern industries
and applying them to Southern resources—
an fall. The chances of success in the
South are a hundred to one, compared with
those of the North. The close-crowding
competition of onr Northern cities is want
ing there. The tyrant monopoly has gained
no foothold upon the sunny lands where the
cotton and sugar cane grow. There a man
can find room to expand, and if his abilities
are of such a nature as to carry him up in
the world, he does not find it necessary to
pull others down in order to make a place
for his own asoent—as one is apt to do
where men are grasping. In the South there
is no such fierce struggle for existence, on
the blood-thirsty principle of the “survival
of the fittest,” as we are accustomed to in
Yankee-land.
She awaits you with open arms. She has
prosperity in store for you on easy terms.
She has lands of unequaled richness to be
cultivated; she has a thousand staples to be
manufactured; she has unbounded mineral
wealth to be mined and milled; she has
banks to be developed, schools and colleges
to be fostered, transportation problems to
be worked out; she has industries without
number, some in embryo, some in infancy,
and she wants men tc direct and develop
them. The reward for those who go to an
swer this want will be a magnificent one,
easily gained, but none the less substantial
in character.
The above are some of the opportunities
offered to intelligent capital and labor by
the South, and now is the time to take the
advantage of them.
GEORGIA.
There w “re 477 marriages in Augusta last year.
There were twenty-five deaths in Savannah last
week.
C. W. Hood, of Harmony Grove, has 500 bales
of cotton on hand.
One hundred and forty-eight whisky dealers
liave iegi.-tered in Atlanta.
It is thought the new court-house at Covington
will cost about $26,000. That will give an elegant
building.
It: e-timiit'd that the damage to water pipes
in the city of Atlanta by the late freeze amounts
to $75, 000.
Hurwell Stout, once a popular employe at the
post-office in Atlanta, is now in an insane asylum
in Kentucky.
A steam laundry is one of the contemplated en
terprises at Gainesville; $2,000 will put it in read
iness for business.
A post-office has been established at Rilla, Car-
roll county, and Albert Simpson has been ap
points! postmaster.
The expenses of Chatham county for the past
eleven months have been tabulated and found to
amount to $111,790.25.
A factory for the manufacture of pianos is to
be built in Savannah. This is another step in ihe
^rivtt industrial movement.
A select party of Romans, whose combined
estates aggregate $1,000,000, are abobt to start on
a pleasure trip through Florida.
An election was held iu LaGrance Tuesday on
the public school question, and “no . public
school” carried the day by an overwhelming ma
jority.
It is said that Stone Mountain was oncesoldfor
a donkey, and the Georgia Rond only paid $'220 for
its quarry of five acres tliat $200,000 would not
now bny.
Patrick F. Brannan, now Mayor of Weather
ford 1 Ark., will return to his old home at Colum
bus, this spring, after an absence of twelve or
fourteen years.
Georgia is a very productive State. It appears
among ner statistics that there is an average of
mi babies bom daily throughout the year, in
cluding Sundays.
A few days ago Mr. W. Solomon sold a lot of
$2,800 Wesleyan Female College bonds at par.
Macon City bonds are now quoted at 10714, and
some were sold at 108.
On the 17th of February the Fourth Sunday-
school district, consisting of Baker, Calhoun.
Dougherty. Early, Lee and Worth counties, will
meet in convention in Albany.
The Atlanta Electric Light Company has twen
ty-six lights burning, and will add twenty-two
more in a short time. One dollar per night for
each burner is the price obtained.
Mr. J. C. Spencer, of Leary, the contractor for
artesian wells, struck a stream which flows about
five gallons to the minute. He is hopeful of get
ting a full flow within a day or two.
The Fifth Maryland Regiment will pass through
Atlanta February 22 en route to the Mardi Gras
at New Orleans, and will be extended the usual
hospitalities by the soldiery of the Gate City.
The Quitman Free Press says: Our new jail will
cost $10,000, and will be a splendid building. In
this connection we desire to say that our county
commissioners are looking strictly after the in
terests of the county.
January 31.—It having been decided to increase
the capital stock of the Griffin Manufacturing
Company by $lt>,000. the amount was at once sub
scribe! by the board of directors. This is a straw
as to the expected success of the cotton factory.
At Lexington the ground for the negro college
for the Methodist denomination was surveyed off
and deeded by Dr. W. H. Jarrell to High Max
well, colored, as trustee of the said college.
Building will probably bo commenced early Dext
fall.
Athens Banner: The stock law went into effect
in Wilkes county on the 9th instant. We learn
tliat the farmers of Oglethorpe are now tearing
a wav fences and preparing for the new order of
things. It will be like sending good money after
bad rubbish to further contest the matter in the
courts.
Fiftv thousand brick a day. That is the speed
at which work on the new Kimball will proceed
from to-day on. Her weather is the only real
match that Atlanta has.—Ex. The comparison is
a bad one. and does not do the capital justice.
Many hard things have been said of Atlanta by
outsiders, but nothing to hard as that. Atlanta is
better than Atlanta Weather.
A cotton compress is to bo erected in Columbus.
This is an enterprise upon the part of the Central
Railroad. The compress is the Morse Tiler, 90
inch steam cylinder, has the capacity of 800 bales
in ten hours, and was purchased at New Orleans
at a cost of tiO.UOO. It will be located near the
round house at the depot, and between that place
and the cotton seed oil mills.
A public meeting in the interest of the Colum
bus Female College, lately destroyed by tire, was
held at Columbus recently. There was not a large
attendance, and upnthy on the part of the citizens
toward the enterprise was reported. The capital
stock of the college has been fixed at $50,000, in
shares of $50 each. A committee of twelve was
appointed to solicit subscriptions and procure a
charter.
The Lincolnton Nines says: “Mrs. Fannie War
ren. one of the largest share holders in the Sale
gold mine, sold her interest, (it being a one-fifth
interest), to T. J Hardaway, of Charleston, for
*30,000. The deed was sent to Mr. Hollinshead
last week for record, and it expressed the above
consideration. If it is bona tide we may; look for
further purchases soon. All sales of interest,
however, will be subject to the ten years lease of
Dr. Lane and Captain Cade. No one need be sur
prised if this mine should turn out to be worth a
million dollars.’’
It has been discovered that the iron casing
through which the water of the Artesian House
well at Albany flows is possessed of magnetic
power. A knite. when rubbed on the inside of
the piping where the water cumw boiling over at
the rate of forty gallons per minute partakes of
this magnetism, and Will raise a needle the ^me
as it would if it had been brought in contact with
a regular magnet or piece of loadstone. It drill
ing or boring the well the tirxll doubtless passed
through a strutum of loadstone, and, in being
drawn up and down through lL transferred it to
the inside of the casing or outride pipe.
Januarv 31.—Three deaths in Barnesville last
night. Mrs. Wilson Davis, whose serious illness
has b»*en reported, died last night with fever. Mrs.
James T. Rose was found dead in her bed about
dawn this morning. She was attacked with
paralysis ten days ago. and it is presumed she was
again last night. Mrs. Rose was the widow of
James T. Rose, who was killed at The Rock two
years ago. Ten children, ranging in age from two
years to twenty, have thus suddenly been rendered
fatherless and motherless. The calamity is heart
rending. The infant child of Henry ft. Harris,
Jr., died last night.
A resident of Toccoa writes to the News of that
place as follows: “There seems to be consider
able excitement through North Georgia over the
wonderful exploits of Miss Lula Hurst—moving
chairs and bedsteads simply by a touch of the fin
gers. Whether this is true or not I cannot say.
Hut then* is one tiling I do know to be true: There
lives in Walton county a Mr. Arasmas C. Wright,
about fifty years old. that has been blind from in
fancy who can, with his own hands, make as good
a wagon, buggy, or as neat a coffin, or do as good
work in the cooperage line, as any other man in
that county. I have known him, when crowded
with work, to go into his shop at midnight and,
without the aid of anyone or any light whatever,
work for hours putting together bugry and wagon
wheels, or any part pertaining to either, with as
much accuracy asfif he had he had two goo<] eyes.
He has a farm which he saperintends himself, and
is one of the most successful farmers in the
county, as very few have made more cloar money
farming since the war than he has. If any one
doubts these facts I can refer them to hundreds
of witnesses in Walton and Oconee counties.”
FLORIDA.
Leesburg is sinking an artesian well.
Ex-Sheriff Dykes, of Sumter county, is dead.
An ice factory is in process of erection in Tam
pa.
An opera house is in course of erection at
Tampa.
The Tallahassee public library fond has reached
over $700.
The St. Augustine mail line has been extended
to Port Orange.
A Quincy farmer has sold $100 worth of syrup
from one acre of sugar cane.
Lots in Key West, which sold a few months ago
from $9 to $30, now bring $125.
Twentv-two excursionists from Indiana stopped
several days in Tallahassee last week.
A number of wagons loaded with immigrants
and their goods arrived in Fort Dade on the 25th.
A wild goose was killed at the Haulover last
week. This is about the only goose killed there
for fifteen years.
An old lady by the name of King, living a few
miles north of Gainesville, died last week at the
advanced age of 107 years.
Last Monday James 8. Denham was elected for
the fourth time Mayor of Monticello. There was
not a vote cast against him.
Mr. DoLand has offered to give $5,000 to the
Baptist Female Seminary if it is located at De-
Lund, and $1,000 if located elsewhere.
Senator Call has introduced a bill to appropri
ate $5,000 for the improvement of Manatee river
from Fort Harmer to Mitchellville, Fla.
A new and ^substantial dock has been built at
Surf City, near St. Augustine, which will enable
boats to land passengers at any state of the tide.
It is said that the probabilities for the removal
of the county site of Clay county from Green
Cove Springs back to Middleburg are very good.
A farmer on the Alafia river recently obtained
five and a half gallons of juice from ten average
stalks of cane. It was second year stubble and
grew on pine land.
The fast sailing yacht Rambler, of Mobile,
sailed a race against a Palma Sola yacht on the
22d for a parse of $300, and was beaten twenty-
two minutes and thirteen seconds on a ten mile
course.
Mr. Oates, of Alabama, presented a bill in the
House, at Washington, Saturday^ appropriating
$100,000 for improving the navigation of the
Choctahatchie river from Caryville, Fla., to New
ton, Ala.
Several of the Pennsylvania excursionists have
invested in lands in the neighborhood of .Key
stone Park, and express themtelves as highly
pleased with their purchases and with the country
generally.
Near Tampa, Sunday morning, when the steamer
Alabama was going oat and the Dictator was
coming up the channel, a slight collision oc
curred, doing considerable damage to the Dicta
tor’s starboard paddle-box.
The committee which was appointed at the
public meeting last Monday to draft a constitu
tion for the governing of the Board of Trade of
Pensacola, have been busy at work, and are ready
to report to the members on next Monday, when
the adjourned meeting will take place.
A stock company has been formed at Palatka
for the publication of a daily paper. The organ
ization is said to have ample capital, and among
its members are some experienced newspaper
men. It is to have no connection with either of
the papers now published at Palatka.
At Bartow, a few days ago, a band of despica
ble boys amused themselves by pouring coal oil
over a cat mid then touching a lighted match to
the animal. The poor brute died m fearful agony.
In her run she tried to crawl under the Baptist
Church. Had she done so the edifice undoubted
ly would have been fired. There can be no good
in men or boys who would be guilty of such
cruelty.
A dispatch to the Morning News announces that
the last rail was laid on the Kissimmee and Tampa
line of railroad yesterday afternoon. The com
pletion of this line marks an important step in
the progress of railroad development in Florida.
It opens up an immense section of the State,
heretofore almost inaccessible, and also a new
route to Cuba. The terminus of the line on the
gulf is the nearest railroad point in this country
to Cuba. A line of steamers, it is understood,
will be established between Tampa, Key West and
Cuba. The South Florida Railroad, from Tampa
to Kissimmee, was purchased last summer by the
Plant Improvement Company. One of the con
ditions attached to the sale was that the road
should be extended from Kissimmee to Tampa.
The extension was begun rt once, and under the
able direction of Colonel H. S. Haines, the gen-
erhl manager, was pushed rapidly forward. It is
about 100 miles in length, and it is an important
addition to Florida’s railroad system.
VIRGINIA.
The capital stock of the Lexington Manufac
turing Company is to be increased from $5d7000 to
*100,000.
A citizen of Southwest Virginia caught 400 rab
bits one day last week, and it was not a very good
day for rabbits either.
Daniel McCormick, a well-known citizen of
Richmond, and for many years a justice of the
peace, died Wednesday.
The Medical Association of Alexandria has
elected Dr. William Gibson, president, and Dr.
Aedford Brown secretary.
Eightv-four car loads of stock passed through
Alexandria over the Midland railway, going
north, during the past week.
George Robinson, living in a cottage on the
Tollbridge road, just outside of Norfolk was
frozen to death Friday night.
Rev. John C. Repass, of Roanoke county, has
accepted a call to the pastorate of the Lutheran
Church at Crockett’s, Wythe county.
Capt. James L. Cole, a very prominent and pop
ular citizen of Washington county, died on the
16th at his residence, seven miles east of Abing
don.
The latest project in connection with the arse
nal property at Harper’s Ferry is to urge its ac
ceptance upon the government commission as a
site for the proposed cannon factory.
On Thursday a man named Burgess was killed
at Newsom’s depot, in Southampton county, by
having his head caught between the band and a
fly-wheel of a cotton gin at that place.
A shooting affair occurred in Carroll county last
week between John Thomas and Wm. C. Mar
shall, in which the latter received a shot in the
head, from the effects of which he is not expected
to recover.
Robert Jefferson and John Harris, both color
ed, Had a quarrel in Madison county last week,
which resulted in Harris having his throat cut by
JeffersoD. causing his death in a few minutes.
Jefferson escaped.
The widow of the Rev. William N. Pendleton
who died in^ Lexington on the 15th inst., was
born in the Nelson House, Yorktown, December
16,1806, and was the daughter of Francis Page
and Susan Nelson. Gen. Thomas Nelson and Gov.
John Page being her grandfathers.
Suffolk Herald says: Mr. L. W. Bradshaw, of
this county, killed his pig. 28 months old last
Thursday. It was a Jersey Red, and had to be
quartered before it could be weighed. The total
footed up 699 pounds, with enough trimmings to
have taken it beyond 700.
There is no longer any question as to the loca
tion of the building which the United States Gov
ernment proposes to erect at Lynchburg. The
title to the Owen lot has been confirmed, and the
check for the purchase money, $13,500, is now in
the hands of Postmaster Morris, subject to the
pleasure of Dr. Owen.
The famou^Rockbridge Artillery has bden re
organized. The membership numbers about 70
men, some of them veterans of the old organiza
tion. The batterp has secured for drill purposes
the two Letcher guns at the Virginia Military In
stitute, and have applied to the Adjutant General
for sixty stand of small arms, as they propose
drilling also as infantry.
Staunton Vindieatur says: Mr. James N. Mc-
•land, couofery treasurer. has in his possession
'manao which belonged to hi^hceased fath-
ev. Mr. MeFarland. It is dated in 17t>4. a: d
Philadelphia. It is recommended on the titte
page as “Fitted to the use of Pennsylvania and
neighboring provinces.” The little book iaabout
three inches long by two wide, and has alternate
blank leaves for diary keeping.
The efforts to establish a disabled Confederate
Soldiers’ Home at Richmond, are attracting much
attention. It appears now that the State will
probably lend its aid to the cause, and a bill has
been introduced into the Legislature to that ef
fect. After the lapse of nearly twenty years,only
a comparatively small number or needy Confed
erate veterans survive, but a home should be es
tablished for them in every Southern State. The
Federal Government properly provides for the
support of its disabled veterans, aDd the day has
at last come when the following of each a hu
mane example will not be considered an evidence
of disloyalty on the part of the South.
SOUTH CAROLHA.
A valuable deposit of gold has been discovered
on a farm of Felix Love, near Edgefield.
The new postmaster at Statesborg, Sumter
county, is E. J. Douglass, colored. He is said to
be giving satisfaction.
South Carolina has no divorce law. It is the
only State in the Union in which a marriage,
lawfully constructed, is indissoluble except by
death.
The laws of South Carolina require all physi
cians who graduate in medical colleges outside
the State to pay a fee of $20 before they are al
lowed to practice in the State.
The Supreme Court has remanded the case of
Riley Anderson to the Circuit Court. He will be
resentenced and hanged. He has a neice and
her child in Greenville county.
Colonel Sames L. Orr, who has been to Wash
ington, thinks that the chances for an appropria
tion from Congress of $60,000 for the United
States Courthouse at Greenville were never so
good as at present.
Wesley Butler, colored, has been convicted at
Orangeburg of criminal outrage on a seven-year-
old colored girl named Isabella Richardson. The
penalty is death. Sentence had not been pro
nounced at last accounts.
An attempt was made by the prisoners in jail at
Kingstree on the night of the 18th instant to
escape by setting fire to the jail, their intention
being to assault the jailer when he came to put
out the flames and securing the keys to thus make
their escape. One of the conspirators became
frightened and the plan fell through.
Camden, January 20.—Information reached
here yesterday of another homicicide in the south
eastern portion of Lancaster county* The re
ports are meager, but from information received
one Rochelle Gregorv shot and killed Henry Cly
burn, about four miles from Tradesville, in Lan
caster county, Monday. Gregory is 6aid to be a
brother of William Gregory, who killed Funder
burk, near the same place, last week.
Governor Thompson has offered the following
rewards: 1. One hundred dollars reward each for
the arrest of William M. Gregory, Russell Greg
ory and Thomas Gregory, charged with the killing
of J. (’. Copelaeil, in Lancaster county, on the
19th instant. 2. One hundred dollars reward for
the arrest of Wm. M. Gregory, charged with the
killing of W. A. Funderburk, in Lancaster coun
ty, on the 19th instant. 3. Fifty dollars reward
for the arrest of the party or parties who burned
the barn of Dr. H. A. Shaw, in Edgefield county,
November 23d. 4. Fifty dollars reward for the
arrest of }he person or persons who burned the
ginhouse of Mrs. Susan Walker, in Aiken county,
November 10th.
The Abbeville Medium says: “Last Monday a
most inhuman and atrocious crime was attempted
just below McCormick on the Knoxville and
Augusta Railroad. As the engineer of one of the
down trains was running along at full speed,
about three miles from McCormick, he discovered
a child on the track. He did all in his power to
stop the train, and succeeded in doing so iust as
the engine reached the child. Then it was discov
ered that the child, a white boy about four years
old, had been tied hard and fast to the iron rails,
so ihat a horrible death was sure. The railroad
men unbound the little fellow and took him on to
Augusta. There is some suspicion as to the par
ties who attempted this diabolical crime. If dis
covered they should be burned.”
ALABAMA.
Birmingham is said to be ambitious of becom
ing the capital of the State.
Columbia, Ala., near Columbus, Ga\ had a $10,-
000 fire three days ago. Nearly the whole town
was destroyed.
.^By legislative action the Southern Univers' y
of Greensboro, is the joint property of the Ala
bama and North Alabama Conferences.
Birmingham is complaining bitterly of the
condition of its sidewalks. The Age warns the
authorities that the city of losing money and
population in consequence.
The death is announced of Dr. J. B. Lennard,
at Nix burg, Coosa county, who, as a pYysician
and a man, bore the best of reputations. Dui^Dg
the war he was a surgeon in Grace’s Alabama
Brigade.
The Black Diamond Coal Company of Alabama,
who have opened mined about three miles west or
Birmingham on the Georgia Pacific Railroad,
have made a contract to deliver all the coal they
can mine on board the cars at the mines, for $2
per ton.
The New Orleans Time*-Democrat is advocating
the establishment of an iron 6hip building at
Mobile, und asserts that pig iron can be manufac
tured in Alabama some $6 per ton cheaper than
in any other State in the Union. Alabama appears
to have unsurpassed advantages for the economi
cal manufacture of iron.
The Birmingham rolling mill company’6 force
is increasing rapidly. Bar. guide and forge trains
are running full. The strikers offered to come in
and work at the Pittsburg prices, provided the
company would break their contract with the
non-union men now at work and discharge them.
This proposition, it is needless to say, was-refused
by the company. The new force are doing good
work and are well pleased.
Huntsville, January 25.—Ye: terday morning
two Gypsies, man ana wife, namea ALcJiman,
were found dead in their tent, nine miles north
west of this place. No marks of violence or indi
cations of robbery appear. Upon the bodies of
the couple were found $400 in cash and $2,000 in
checks on banks of Canada, whence they claim to
have come and where they have relatives. When
found their little child was sitting up between
the two bodies laughing.
TEMMESSEE.
R. W. Bell, of Bell Brothers, nurserymen, of
Nesta. fell dead while eating at a negro restaurant
ia Clarksville.
Mr. Lewis O. Leiding, a son of Herman Leid-
ing, left Charleston some years ago to seek his
fortune. He settled in Pulaski, Tennessee, and
accepted an engagement in the gas works. Last
Thursday evening he went to his room and shot
himself through the head with a pistol, where
his body was found soon after cold in death. It
is thought that he kil ed himself accidentally.
Chattanooga has risen since the war from a
‘‘Sleepy Hollow” landing to a commercial city of
20,000, teeming with profitable industries, among
which are furnaces, manufactories, mercantile
houses and a tannery of immense capacity. Tnis
latter, owned by J. B. Hoyt & Co., New York,
pickles half a million hides per annum. A drove
of this number of animals in line, each occupy
ing ten feet, would extend from Lookout Bluff
far beyond their prairie home :n Western Texas
into New Mexico, or from New York to Chicago
—one thousand miles!
Mr. E. C. Branson, one of the students from
whom Dr. Stearns recently withdrew the Pea
body scholarship at the State Normal College,
has been elected principal of the Murfreesboro
public schools. Mr. Branson won the first hon
or of his class last year in the Normal College,
and was one of the Erosophian Society represent
atives in the annnai society la6t May, Before
coming to the Normal College he won a gold
medal at Trinity College, N, C., and for some
time was first assistant in the Raleigh graded
schools. Murfreesboro may be congratulated on
securing the services of Prof. Branson.—Nash
ville Daily World.
MISSISSIPPI.
To-night a grand banquet is going on in honor
of the officers. Macon’s fair ones are vieing with
each other in entertaining the guests.
The military companies of Vicksburg are pre
paring for their 6pnng campaign. They are am
bitious to carry off first prizes at all the compet
itive drills, and are working with that object in
view.
The Sisters of Mercy at Vicksburg of late have
been much annoyed by thieves, who enter their
back yard at about midnight and make way with
all they can lay their hands on. What they do
not bear off they destroy.
At Water Valley, a few days ago Mrs. J. Adams
snapped what she supposed to be an empty pistol
at the head of Mrs. Cartright to amuse a sick
child. It being loaded, the bullett entered the
unfortunate lady’s head, blowing her brains out
and causing death in a few minutes.
Hon. W. R. Spears, one of the ablest crimi
nal lawyers of Vicksburg, died Saturday night.
The deceased was a member of the Senate of the
present Legislature for that county, and was one
of the ablest members of that body, being a man
of fine eenee and brilliant intellect, and an able
and eloquent speaker.
In the United States Circuit Court for the
Northern District of Mississippi at Oxford, judge
ments have been entered to the amount of $191,-
000 for Messrs. Green. Hamilton & Co., of Jack-
son Miss.: $69,00 for the Indianapolis Rolling
Mill Company, and $51,000 for Fred. Wolffe, of
New York, co-plaintiffs against the Memphis,
Selma and Brunswick RailroadTompany.
The Susie B. Steamer reached Macon on the
23d ult. from a trip up the Noxube. Although it
was raining torrents a vast crowd assembled at
was pointed by Bmj&min Franklin and D. Hall, 1 the wharf and speeches of welcome were made by
the mayor and other citizens. A salute was fired
in response to the cannon of the 8usie B. The
officers were highly pleased with the np trip, and
report the Noxube one of the best streams they
have ever navigated, and 1 that another appropria- 1
tion would put it in excellent order.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Raleigh has subscribed about $6,000 to the Ex
position ard is still subscribing.
The 40th anniversary of the Euzelian and Phi-
lomathesian Literary Societies of Wake Forest
College takes place on Friday, February 15th
1884.
An entertainment was given at Goldsboro the
other evening, the net casa whereof was eqoally
divided among the Methodists, the Hebrews and
the Goldsboro Brass Band!
Ashock of an earthquake was felt on the 18th
at Wilmington. It ook crockery on the table.
A shock was also felt in New Hampshire on the
same day, but was more violent than that in
North Carolina.
The report of Mr. J. H. Mills, 8nperin ter dent
of the Oxford Orphan Asylum, placed the re
ceipts of that Institution for the past thirteen
months at $14,308.87, and the disbursements at
$12,851.67; leaving a balance of $1,457.20. The
number of orphans reported last year, 145; ad
mitted since then, 47: total number in charge
during the yeer, 192; discharged. 54; adopted, 9;
present number, 125. The last Grand Lodge of
North Carolina elected a Board of Directors to
manage the Asylum, consisting of J. S. Carr, H
?* 9_ ra i Q &er, H* H. Munson, T. S. Kenan and
A* H. A. Williams. This is an excellent Board
of Directors and tho step taken by the Grand
Lodge, is very wise. The appointment of the
above gentlemen as directors will give general
satisfaction.
LOUISIANA.
Grand Cane, on this line of railroad;:is a thriv
ing town and has built up like magic. Such en
terprise should insure success.
. In going r orth from Alexandria we pass Natch
itoches, one of oldest towns in the State, sur
rounded by a fertile country, and noted for the
hospitality of its citizens.
The genial Tip Sebastian, of Spring Ridge,
( addo parish, is a solid merchant, whose energy
and attention to business is demonstrated by the
surroundings of his pleasant home.
Alexandria will no doubt become a railroad
centre, and if so, the machine shops will be built
there. It is a heavy shipping point in sugar and
cottoD. The town of Pineviile, on the opposite
side of the river also has an extensive business.
Stock raising i6 becoming quite a feature in
Louisiana, and will become more general as the
people see the profit that is in it. This climate is
particularly adapted to raising cattle, as they cau
run oat nearly all winter without shelter, some
thing impossible in the West.
Min den is a beautiful town, majestic trees sha
ding the main street, which is ven' wide, and pre
sents a pleasing appearance. This town is noted
for its substantial merchants. It was formerly
the home of Mr. John Chaffe, now a prominent
citizen of New Orleans. Within four miles of
Minden are some valuable medicinal springs,
that in the future will no doubt have a wida rep
utation.
TEXAS.
Texas has 6,239 miles of railway.
The Mechanics’ Building Association, of Fort
Worth, was chartered; capital $200,(X),
Round Rock now has a daily paper bearing the
significant name of the Quid Nune.
Mr. Wm. Perry, while riding on horse bark near
Gatesville, was thrown from his horse and fatally
injured.
There is a movement on foot in Fort Worth to
erect a $200,(00 woollen mill. Subscriptions are
being solicited with excellent prospects.
BOYS AND GIRLS
DEPARTMENT.
$37,679,698.
The members of the Legislature are wrath
over the interview published in the Galveston
News, in which Hon. John Ireland denounces the
Legislature for want of patriotism and 6ense.
The farmers are said to have sown a much lar-
? er small grain crop this winter than they have
or several years past. They expect a splendid
harvest unless the winter should be too severe.
The Light Guard committee, of Houston, head
ed by Capt. Scurry, collected $3000 cash for the
proposed interstate drill here next May. The
committee anticipates no trouble in raising trip
le that amount.
Miss Minnie Hall, of Temple,is the oldest maid
in America, having jnst reached the age of 100
years. The bachelors in that town feel happy be
cause she says she will not take advantage of the
leap year perogative of her sex.
A special from Dallas says: In the county court
to-day, Cbas. Matt hews was convicted for gam
bling and tinea $50 and costs. He then compro
mised 24 other cases, paying $1,400 for fine and
costs. Numerous cases are pending against other
giimblers.
The number of acres of land sold by the State
Land Board before resolving to postpone sales
till March was about 4,000,000 acres, average price
about $2 11 per acre, and over 3,000,000 acres,
leased at an average of four and a half cents per
acre per annum. It is for the benefit of schools,
the university and asylums.
Reliable information from Montague county,
says fence cutters are organizing an offensive and
defensive alliance, and threaten to kill any attor
ney who attempts to prosecute them for felony
under the provisions of new legislative enact
ments, and affairs in that locality are more se
rious than at any time since the commencement
of the trouble.
Dr. J. G. Given, assistant superintendent of the
State Lunatic Asylum at Austin, has won an en
viable reputation as a public officer. He is an
accomplished young man, beloved by the poor
demented creatures to whose wants he ministers,
and is pronounced vary scientific in his manage
ment of them. Dr. Denton, the worthy and ef
ficient superintendent, has an excellent assistant
in him.
Thos. Howard, literary editor of the San Anto
nio Express, commitied suicide by taking a* over
dose of morphine. Mr. Howard was a highly cul
tivated scholar, but for the last few years he had
been more or less afflicted with a mania for Spir
itualism. and this is thought to have affected his
mind. He left three letters to friends, stating
that he had committed the act after thorough
consideration.
In Osceola, Ga„ Jan. 24, Thomas Hodges to
Miss Bettie Luke.
In Dahlonega, Ga., Dec. 13, 1883, Waller S. Wil
son to Mies Carrie Price.
In Wilkinson, Ga., Jan. 16, F. M. Freeman to
Miss Miidred Bishop.
In Augusta, Ga., Jan. 29, T. T. Parker to Mrs.
Yashsi Frankford.
Ip Waynesboro, Ga., Jan. 23, J. C. Reagan to
Miss Hattie M. Ivey.
In Macon, Ga., Jan. 30, Robert Pringle to Miss
Ida McWalters.
In Americus, Ga., Jan. 31, T. M. Hawkes to
Miss Annie Lew Hawkins.
In Marietta, Ga., Jan. 29, Charles N. Mell to
Miss Laura L. Kuter.
In Greenville, S. C., Dec. 21, 1883, J. F. Green
to Miss Angie A. Roberts.
In Danville, Va„ Jan. 26, Mrs. John G. Coving
ton.
In Lynchburg. Va., Jan. 28, Mrs. W. J. Black.
In Angnsta County, Va., a few days ago, Mrs.
Catharine Shney, age 77.
J Madison, Ga„ a few days ago, Chas. W. Rich-
te^age 77.
Near Linton, Ga., Jan. 28, Mrs. Matt Pounds.
In Oconee, Ga., Jan. 3), Mrs. Augustus Wood.
In Macon, Ga., Jan. 27, Mr. F W Jobson, of
Perry, Ga., age 83.
Near Athens, Ga., Jan. 22. Mrs. Jerry Booth.
In Chattanooga, Tenn., Jan. 28, J B Simpson,
of Red Clay, Ga., age 6.
In Madison, Ga., Jan. 24, Mrs. William Cons-
ins.
In Lynchburg, Va., Jan. 28, Joseph P Rey
nolds.
In Social Circle, Ga., Jan. 26, the infant son of
G A Johns.
In Rome, Ga., Jan. 23, Mrs. Robert Towers, nee
Miss Mary Dean.
Ih Vicksburg, Miss., Jan. 26, State Senator W.
fe.Kpeer.
tqft South Carolina, 8 miles from Augusta, Ga.,
Jan. 28. Mr. Jno. Butler, aged 28.
In Dallas. Ga.. Jan. 28, Charlie W. Fnrr.
In Barnesville, Ga., Jan. 27, Mrs. J. R. Edelen,
In Monroe, Ga., Jan. 27, Miss Lacy Michael.
In DeKalb, near Duncan’s mill, Jan. 27, Mrs.
J. W. Stewart, nee Miss Waldrnp.
In Thomasville, Ga., Jan. 28, Mrs. Green T.
Dodd, of Atlanta, Ga.
In Macon, Ga., Jan. 29, J. P. Buckmaster, of
Augusta, Ga. „ ,
In Macon. Ga., Jan. 29, J. T. Daniels, of Colnm-
bns. Ga.
In Marietta. Ga., Jan. 25, Mrs. Dix Fletcher.
In Acworth, Ga., Jan. 25, Col. Hardy Strick
land.
In Marietta, Jan. 30, Mr. Eli Cole, age 80.
In Centerville. Ga., last week, J. B. Calvert,
e %ti\tx
age 73.
Iu Hamilton, Ga.. Jan. 27. Allen T. Brrooks.
In Augusta. Ga.. Jan. 30, Richard Hagill.
In Barnesville, Ga., Jan. 30, Mrs. Wilson Davis.
In Barnesville. Ga., Jan. 30, Mrs. James T.
Rose.
In Andersonville, Ga.. Jan. 24. J. R. Parham.
In Lee Co. Ga., Jan. 33, Mrs. Sterling W. Exum.
Send Us a « lab.
To-day one of onr little band, a lovely girl, said
to me, “I am at work making up a club for our
dear Sunny South. How many of our L. B. wiU
join with me in trying to send in the largest list
of subscribers?" Now this is a good suggestion,
and we will give a handsome premium to the one
who sends the largest club by April 1st.
Pams. Tex..
Jan. 28,1884.
Deab Minnie MAY:- One more gallant (?) boy
from onr glorious “Lone 8tar State" comes to
join the pleasant band. May I come in? Oh! I
am a handsome lad; will I not be an addition to
your handsome circle? Oh ! here I see dear Rose
bud. and with such a bright smile. She has
placed a chair for me in a cosy corner. I read
your letter in the Letter Box, and though I am
neither an old "bach” nor a nice young lady, I
would like so much to correspond with you.
Perhaps yon would like to know what this stran
ger looks lice. I have brown hair and eyes, am
taH and sleDder and dance very well. I took a
charming young lady oat driving this evening,
and as we drove home at almost dark, past the
cemetery, we saw a white object, she took to be a
ghost, and became mnch frightened. Isn’t it
splendid to be a boy and show your bravery to the
giris by not being a bit afraid, even at eight of a
ghost?
Hal.
We gladly welcome another consin from the
“Lone Star State.”
Deab Cousins:—I have no excuse for calling
again so soon, only that it does make a poor de
jected soul feel almost happy to have Cousin Lil
lian speak so kindly to them and of their poor
letters, that I fain would write again, just a short
letter. I was surprised to find my last produc
tion occupying so much space. I will try to be
more caieful in the future.
To-day is Bad. and dark and dreary:
Mama and Mint look awful grum.
And well they might, and so might you,
For old Hard Times has come.
Many, many thanks to all yon dear cousins who
were so kind as to take notice of my preceding
letter. And you cousin Danght, ynu must be my
girl; will you not ? I assure yon the girls out here
will not claim me. I am a “lone, lorn creature,”
and if you will correspond with me, I shall feel
that the fountain of joy has been opened unto me.
Let’s write through the mail. If you agree to my
proposition, write to me very soon, or send me
your address and I wiU write the first letter. If
you write, address Hard Times, Tallasse, Elmore
Co., Ala. And yon, Cousin Roland, Cousin Lil
lian coold not have selected me a more congenial
(as I imagine) correspondent. I have noticed
particularly several of your letters, and always
read them with pleasure and interost. I shall
exert myself to be entertaining if you will accept
Cousin Lillian’s selection, and be assured that
anything you may write me will be eagerly de
voured. I have already given my address, and if
you will write please do so at an early day.
I trust all yon cousins had a jolly good time
daring the holidays. I enjoyed mvself right roy
ally. But I had forgotten the chief object of my
letter to speak of the badges. I agree with Tiger
Lilly that the red ribbon with gilt letters will be
prettiest. From whom are we to order onr bad
ges?
Mnch love to yon all sweet girls, and well—the
same to the boys. I wish Cousin LiUian I could
giveyonareal old-fashioned “hug” at this very
minute, but as I can not, will you please remem
ber that I would like to very, very much.
Habd Times.
If any one who wishes a ribbon badge will send
their name and twenty-five cents to “Calla Lilly,”
she will buy the ribbon, have the letters stamp
ed theron, and send to theiraddrese. She has the
promise of getting them up at that price.
Deab Cousins of the L. B.:—As I waB so kind
ly received by Cousin LiUian on my first visit to
the Letter Box, I could not resist the temptation
to call again and enjoy a nice friendly chat with
the boys and girls; some of whom already seem
iike friends of the “Auld Lang Syne.” Now Cons
in Lillian do help me past the waste basket. I
am sure you will as you would not be willing to
see this brilliant effusion lost to the world, es-
peciaUy from one of your own children. Well
this is my birthday, how old do you suppose I
am? Florida, I have some very dear friends in
your State; one of them sent ns a nice box of
oranges Christmas. Roland yon are one of my
favorites; your letters are very interesting. John
ny Tuberose, yon too, are a favorite of mine.
Why don’t you come forward and defend your
self? The cousins have accused you of being
“impudent” and a “dude,” but I think your let
ters are charming. So let us enjoy them oftener.
Brownie, I answered your card immediately, but
have not heard from you since. Rosebud, I al
most envy yon, all those nice compliments you
receive, but I believe in the old adage, "Credit
where credit is due.” and I’m sure you deserve
them every one. Cloud Sprite, Merle Monte, Too
Utterly Utter, and other old members of the
Letter Box, I would say to each of you, where art
thou? Come agoin. and let’s make onr columns
more interesting than ever. Cousin Lillian do
forgive me for this tiresome letter and I will be a
good girl in the future. Won’t you write us a
"chat?” Please do. With a kisa for each of the
girls, my best regards to the boys, and endless
love for Cousin LiUian, I will make my depart
ure, I fear to the delight of aU
Opal.
Deab Cousin Lillian :—Here comes a little
stranger begging permission to enter yonr charm
ing circle. Can't you let me in ? I wiU promise
to be very good, and not stay long. I have been
a constant reader of the Sunny South for some
time, and am trying to get some subscribers for
the dear old paper. Consin LiUian do give me a
seal in the corner. I would like to correepond
with Garnet if she is willing. I certainly do en
joy reading the Sunny South. Indeed I think its
ihe best paper published. Now don’t look coldly
at me and point to that abominable waste bas
ket. This is my first attempt, and I do not know
the rules of the Letter Box. If, however, I do
not succeed this time I wiU try again, t wiU
write again soon and teH yon aU something about
our town. I remain,
Sincerely yours.
Ruby.
Here is our hand Ruby and a hearty kiss too.
Yonr neat little letter shall never find a home in
that big mouthed basket. You are a good girl to
show your appreciation of our Sunny South by
working to get some subscribers. If you keep
trying I am sure you will succeed. To the little
boy or girl who sends ub the longest number of
subscribers over five, we wUl send a very hand
some present. Who wiU get it?
Douqlasville, Ga.,
Jan. 30, 1884.
Deab Cousin Lillian:—And dear little folks
of the Letter Box: You may be somewhat eur-
jrised, first, to read a letter from me, and second-
y to resd it directed from Douglasville, instead
of from Spalding Co. as my last letter to the S.
H. indicates. I sold out my Spalding county
home and came to Douglas county, and am now
settled near the beantifnl capital of Douglas
county.
One week befere Christmas I called at the Sun
ny South office and had a short delightful chat
with Consin Lillian, and a very pleasant talk
with Col. Seals, both my particular friends be
fore we had a Bunny South. Consin Lillian is
just pretty and as lively as she was sixteen years
ago. Col. Seals looks somewhat older, bat that
familiar voice was the same, those laughing eyes
as bright, that brain far superior. I had the hon
or of the acquaintance of only one of the Sunny
South’s lovely clerks, an unfortunate one. She
was simply beaatiful. My memory being treach
erous, I have forgotteD her name, but the impres
sion made upon me will last forever. I refer to
the beautiful mate. She is lovely. You love
ousin Lillian uneeen. if you could talk with her
a short time you would acknowledge yonr time
well spent. 1 am well pleased with yonr Letter
Box; continue “little folks” to write. Give the
S. S. readers a short sketch of what you read. Oh
you read novels do you? WeU the next novel you
read select the one about the little boy who threw
a pebble at the great giant and killed him, and
tell us what became of the little boy. Read also
about the “carpenter’s son,” what he did when
his mama and papa lost him, where they found
him, and who he was talking to, and what about.
Every one of you have the histories of these little
bojs in papa's library.
Now each one of you try your schoolmate for
a subscription to our Sunny South. Let’s each
one of us work for our paper. Perhaps in mv
next letter I will give you an account of where I
live, what I am doing, etc. And I may ask yon
some more questions or request you to read some
more “novels,” until then good-night.
Faemeb Willie.
P. S. If any one of you wish to write to me,
address “Farmer Willie”, Douglasville, Ga.
Now dear children arn’t we proud to have “Far
mer Willie” for our friend? Bless his heart,
who would have thought of such a great big man
caring for onr Letter Box to think he would like
to have any of you write to him; isn’t that niee?
Try it and see if you are not benefitted.
U timorous Ittatfer.
The New Orleans Picayune says that piety
cannot be measured by a long free. Nor
by a long parse.
Don’t yon think, young man, that jnst be
cause it is leap year yon are going to be
snapped up right away. The girls want a
chance to look before they leap.
A smart young man picked np a flower in
the ballroom after all the girls bad gone,
and sang, pathetically: “ ’Tia the last rose
of some her.”
There are some marriages winch remind
ns of the poor fellow who said. “She
conldn’t get any husband and I couldn't get
any wife; so we got married.”
“What do yon propose to take for yonr
cold?” said a lady to a sneezing gentleman.
“Oh, I’ll sell it very cheap; I won’t higgle
about the prioe at all.”
“Lands are measured in rods, leagues,
and so forth,” said the teaoher. ,T Now
what is a surveyor?” “A land leaguer!”
shouted one of the boys.
It was a French woman who exclaimed,
holding up a glass of sparkling fresh water,
“Ah! if it were only wicked to drink this,
how nice it wonld taste!”
“Do yon buy your music by the roll?” in
quired a young lady of the deacon’s
daughter. “Oh, no,” she replied, “I always
wait until Snnday, and then I get it by the
choir.”
A gentleman was giving a boy some pea-
nuts the other day. The mother said, “Now,
what are yon going to say to the gentle
man?” The little fellow looked np and re
plied, “More!”
“Why do yon set your cup of ooffee on the
chair, Mr. Jones?” asked a worthy landlady
one morning at breakfast. “It’s so very
weak, ma’am,” replied Jones, “I thought I
would let it rest.”
One onght to be carefnl what he says even
abont the dead. A forlorn widow, sitting
by a blazing fire, sighed, “Poor George!
How he did iike a good fire! I hope they
have ’em where he’s gone.”
“I oan marry any girl that I please,” he
said, with a self-satisfied expression of
countenance. “No doubt,” she responded,
sarcastically, “but what girl do you please?”
They don’t speak now.
A few years since, at the celebration of
an anniversary, a poor peddler who was
present, being called upon for a toast, of
fered the following: “Here is health to
poverty—it sticks to a man when all his
friends forsake him.”
A bookbinder said to his wife at their
wedding: “It seems that now we are bound
together, two volumes in one, with clasps.”
“Yes,” observed one of the guests, “One
side highly ornamental Turkey morocco
and the other plain calf.” ’
A young lady had a narrow escape at a
fire a few nights since. Abont half of her
back hair was burned. Fortunately she was
not in the building at the time, having put
on her other hair and left the honse only an
hour before the fire broke out.
“Ethel,” said the teacher, “whom do the
ancients say supported the world on his
shoulder?” “Atlas, sir.” “You’re quite
right," said the teacher. “Atlas supported
the word. Now who supported Atlas?” “I
suppose,” said Ethel, softly—“I suppose he
married a rich wife.”
Two ladies belonging to the upper-ten
division of Austin society met one day.
Said one:
“Have yon heard that Mrs. B. died last
night?”
“No, bless me! Is that so? That’s too
bad. Why, she owed me a visit!” exclaimed
the other.
A little girl, aged nine, called her father
to her bedside the other evening. “Papa,”
said his little diplomate, “I want to ask
yonr advice.” “Well, my dear, what is it
about?” “What do yon think it will be best
to give me on my birthday?”
A grave-digger, walking the streets the
other day, ohanoed to turn and noticed two
doctors walking behind him. He stopped
till they passed, and then followed on be
hind them. “And why this?” said they.
“I know my place in the prooession,” re
turned he.
Mrs. Shoddy, to shopman—“Show me a
thermometer—one of your best.” Shop
man—“This, ma’am, is one of onr finest—
Venetian glass and tne best of quicksilver.”
Mrs. Shoddy—“Silver ! That would be nice
for the kitchen, but I want one for my boo-
dore. Haven’t yon one with quick gold?”
“Sambo, is yonr master a good farmer?”
“Oh, yes, massa, first-rate farmer—he
makes two crops in one year.” “How is
that, Sambo?” “Why he sell all de hay in
de fall and make money once; den in de
spring he sell all de hides ob de cattle what
die fnr want ob de hay, and make money
twice.”
A young man from Philadelphia, who
was spending the holidays in a New England
city, proposed popping com one evening,
insisting that he bad seen a large-size corn-
popper in the attic, Despite remonstrances,
he climbed up among the rafters, and, re
turning, electrified the family by prodnoing
in all seriousness an old-fashioned warm
ing pan.
“Why do you mutter that way when yon
read?” asked a man of an old negro who
sat mumbling over a newspaper. “How
onght I read, sah?” “Why, read without
moving your lips.” “What good would dat
sorter readin’ do me, sah? I couldn’t heah
it! When I reads I wanter read so I can
heah what I’se readin’ abont.”
Wash a baby np clean and dress him np
really pretty, and he will resist all advances
with a most superlative crossness; but let
him eat molaBBes gingerbread, and fool
around the coal-hod for half an hour, and
he will nestle his dear, little, dirty face close
np to yonr clean shirt-bosom, and be jnst
the lovingest, cunningest little rascal in all
the world.
An old-time clergyman of eastern Con
necticut, commonly known as “ Priest
W—e,” was a very shrewd man and quick
at repartee. Once, when on an exchange,
he was annoyed to find the room so dark,
and beckoning to a person sitting near the
pnlpit, he asked him to open the blinds and
let in more light. “We expect light from
you,” said the gentleman. “But I must get
it from heaven first,” was the quiok re
joinder.
“Well, Father Brown, how did yon like
the sermon yesterday?” asked a yonng
preacher. “Yon see, parson,” was the re
ply, “l haven’t a fair chance at them ser
mons of yours. I’m an old man, cow, and
have to sit pretty well back by the stove,
and there’s old Mrs. Smithie, Widder Taff,
’n Ryland’s daughters, ’n Nabb Birt, ’n all
the rest sittin’ in front o’ me with their
mouths wide open a-Bwallerin’ down all the
best of the sermon, ’n what gets down me
is putty poor stuff, parson, putty poor
stuff.”
“Talk about stopping the drinking habits
of the people!” exclaimed the lecturer.
“There is but one way to do it—you must
remove the cause.” “Tru* f’r you, ol’ fell,”
shouted a demoralized hearer; “true f’r
you. That’s wot I’ve been tryin’ to do all
my life. Bring on yer cause if yer want it
. emoved.”