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Show SOUTHERN ITEMS. Tennessee and Georgia are having an iron boom. Selma Ala. (Alabama), receives over 1,000 bales of cotton daily. Gold is more plentiful than greenbacks in Augusta, Ga. (Georgia). Retail whisky houses are taxed $10,000 each in Greensboro, Ga. (Georgia). A Chinaman has registered for the city election at Augusta, Ga. (Georgia). Four hundred Mormons have left Georgia and Alabama this year. The total indebtedness of the State of South Carolina is $7,175,454.91. Texas is larger than either the German Empire or the Austrian Empire. Mexicans are again raiding upon the stock ranches near San Antonio, Texas. One firm in Athens, Ga. (Georgia) is said to have made $80,000 by the recent rise in cotton. Montgomery and Mobile, Ala. (Alabama), two hundred miles apart, are connected by telephone. Gen. (General) Grant will be invited to attend the centennial of Nashville, Tenn. (Tennessee) which occurs next April. German carp is being extensively distributed in South Carolina by the Fish Commissioners of that State. The State authorities of Texas have sent out detectives to watch how the bell-punch is rung by the saloon keepers. Thirty million cigars were made in Wheeling W. Va. (West Virginia), last year, and the number will be largely increased this year. Georgia's gold mines yield over $1,000,000 a year, and the work of getting out the "yellow boys" is increasing and expanding. California salmon are being extensively distributed in the streams of West Virginia by the Fish Commissioner of that State. The peanut crop of Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina is estimated at about 1,350,000 bushels - an increase of about 500,000 bushels over last year. The new Constitution of Louisiana provides that the vote for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor shall be counted by the Legislature in joint session. East Tennessee marble is to be used in the construction of the proposed monument to the memory of the late Gen. (General) Robert E. Lee in the city of New Orleans. Col. (Colonel) E. Clayton of Asheville, N. C. (North Carolina) has a suit of clothes in which he was married in years ago, and which was made by Andrew Johnson, afterward President of the United States. A Mr. Stoddard, at Pensacola, Fla. (Florida) has an orchard of 3,500 fig trees, many of which were imported from Europe, Asia and Africa. Almost every known variety is represented in this orchard. There are fifty-three cotton mills in operation in North Carolina, and the consumption for the past year is estimated at 38,184 bales, or 17,207,800 pounds. According to the figures of the National Cotton exchange, this was an increase of 18,844 bales over the previous year. Three large mills are now being erected, with the prospect that others will be added within the next twelve months. The funeral of Basil M. Yates, at Chatham, N. C. (North Carolina), the other day was a very peculiar one, his own directions being observed minutely. The coffin was seven feet long, three feet wide and eighteen inches deep. In it were placed a feather bed and pillow, on which the corpse was laid, dressed in a neat suit of home-made jeans, with his boots placed at (not on) his feet, and his hat resting on his hands, which were crossed on his breast, and one of which held a pair of gloves. An immense crowd attended his burial, and a grand dinner was prepared. Meats of all kinds, in great abundance, were cooked, and all had plenty to eat. |