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Show SOUTHERN ITEM". ' The Austio (Texas) military institute insti-tute has 120 students. Newly discovered copper ore in Coosa county, Alabama. The Texas fever is prevailing in Atlanta At-lanta to a great extent 7 The Virginia farmers are holding a oonvcotion in Richmond. Tho email pox has reached Columbus, Colum-bus, in Western Kentucky. Sweet potatoes are selling at fifty cents a bushel at Talladega, Ala. Bill Arp and JU. A. Nevin have bought the Rome ''Commercial." Capitalists from Illinois are prospecting prospect-ing in Birmingham, Ga., with a view to making investments. The Atlanta papers continue to ory out against the present management of their municipal affairs. The railroad blast, at Lynchburg, threw a stone into a main gasometer and left the city in darkness. The Atlanta "Herald" has an able funny man who gets up the State news and writes playful ditties to the ladies. A Bainbridge, Ga., man lately made a fair meal from six cans of oysters and a pound and a half of soda crackers. crack-ers. The ceremony of laying tho corner- I stone of the new Jewish synagogue took place in Macon on Wednesday last. A loyal swarm of bees mado their homo, recently, in a sheet-iron Greeley white hat 1-6 feet high, at Maoon, Miss. i One firm in Greenville, Muhlcnburg I county, Ky., has ready for market 75,000 pounds of dried apples and poachea. A bold thief recently 6tole two large mirrors from tho Barnum and Carroll-ton Carroll-ton hotels, in Baltimore, worth $700 or $S00 apiece. The North Carolinians of Baltimore aro subscribing for the relief of Joseph Turner, whose Raleigh "Sentinel" was recently blown up. A $1,000,000 lawsuit ie now going on in Tennessee, involving securities that during the war were put into Confederate Con-federate credits and so lost . - The Baptist church of Harroldsburg, Ky., will scon celebrate their centennial centen-nial about the roots of the same tree that their first services were held under. un-der. A frightened family's chimney tumbled tum-bled into their parlor in Baltimore, the other day, and all ran through the streets to see how extensive tho earthquake earth-quake was. In Gleason county,. Tennessee, recently, re-cently, Ab. Evans attacked Daniel G. Baird in tho woods, whereupon Baird chopped off Ab's. arm with an axe, causing death. Tho Conservatives of South Carolina, Caro-lina, at the recent State election, returned re-turned eight eenators (a gain of three) and twenty-four representatives (a gain of eleven). . , . . - Parties in Birmingham Ga., are having hav-ing a wrathy newspaper controversy about some funds whioh were to have been used in the construction of a Uatnolic cnurcn. Mr. Walter Thompson has hired forty or fifty negroes at Eufaia, Ala., to go to Apalachicola to get out lumber; lum-ber; but not one of them will stir till after tho election. It in reported in tbe Virginia papers that Mr. Joseph Thornton has gained his English law-suit, by which he recovers re-covers property to the value of nearly six million dollars. Arthur Hood, of Cuthbert, Ga.,was awarded the prize of a $100 gun, for the bast Bhooting at the Eufaia fair, Saturday, he having killed every pigeon turned loose before him. The Savannah "News" says that tho negro emigration movement is gathering as it goes. Two hundred heads of t amities aro enrolled for Bibb county, and four hundred for Houston. We learn from the Newnan (Ga.,) 1 "Defender," that the Johnsons, eons of Lewis S. Johnson, tho butohcr, who decamped from Newnan, bearing off , about $10,000 in cash, are beiog pursued. pur-sued. In speaking of one of tho Athena dueling parties, the Savannah "Advertiser' "Adver-tiser' ' says, when the trundle-bed crowed get at such business it is about time that staid and sober gentlemen should abandon it. , . 'ihe wife of Bayard, the escaped murderer of Hendersooville, (N. C.,) and his father and brothor, have been arrested for complicity with his escape. It will be remembered that he escaped by wearing his wife's clothes- The managers of tho Macon ballot-boxes, ballot-boxes, duriog tha eleotion of Colonel Beck, havo been arrested for intimidating intimi-dating voters. Hanged if this thing of holding an election in Georgia iin't getting to be as serious a business as stealing horses. Old man Surrenoy says that there may bo some mistako about the "spirits" "spir-its" having been about his house, but he says that when he looks at his devastated de-vastated smoko houso and ravaged su-car-cane patch, ho feels suro that somebody some-body was on hand. A correspondent informs the Golds-boro.' Golds-boro.' (N. C.,) "Messenger," that a small Kiuad of United States troops went down in the Cohairc crook section sec-tion a few days ago on a eccret expedition. expedi-tion. They threatened to kill any person per-son who would expose their movements. |