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railroad the bridge ing MERE-MENTION. Eminent physicians of New York make Hon. from $40,000 to $70,000 a year Robert L. Taylor, Democrat, of the first Tennessee District, will be the youngest member of the forty-sixth Congress, being just of ConstiWash A tutional age-twenty-five years. ington paper speaks of an increase in Hon. A. H. Stephens' weight, as "another DemoIn Collin county, Texas, cratic gain. The corn is seling at 10 cents per bushel City Bank of Atlanta, Ga., has suspended. The stock-holders lose their entire investment. The national House of Representatives is composed of 293 members. In the last house there were 209 lawyers. In the Senate, the proportion of lawyers was equalTennessee hogs are selling ly as great in Asheville, North Carolina, at, 41 cents, Before this year's pogross, per pound litical contests are fairly over, those of 1879 have been begun. - The Kentucky Democratic State Convention has been called to meet Chicago at Louisville, May 1, 1879. has in her warehouses 50,000 barrels of flour, 6,000,000 bushels of grain, 64,000 barrels of pork, 37,000 tierces of lard and 61,500,Gen. Gordon has 000 pounds of meats. been re-elected to the United States Senate by the Georgia Legislature, receiving all but The Commis five votes in the two houses. sion of physicians, appointed by some- Wash ington authority, to inquire into the causes of yellow fever at certain points, say that the only preventive is strict quarantine. DisinBecause fectants, they say, do no good. it didn't pay, the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad took off, last Sunday, its Atrecently added night passenger train torney Turner, of the Memphis Criminal Court, who was elected last August on the National ticket, has appointed Frank Cassels (colored) as Assistant Attorney Gen Dr. Carver the wonderful markseral. man, has been astonishing people of Augusta, Ga., by his skill with the rifle. From AugusFor the fiscal ta he goes to Aiken, S. C. year just closed, the colored people of Georgia returned taxable property reaching an agAs a regregate value of $5,430,844. sult of the effects of the prohibition law in Maine, it is stated that while the consumption of liquor has been largely checked, the consumption of opium has greatly increased. Walter H. Lynch, an express messenger between Yemassee and Augusta, has been committed to the Augusta jail, charged with taking a $25,000 package of money which had been started to Augusta per express by G. W. One Williams & Co., of Charleston. day last week, the Governor of Pennsylvania issued five death warrants. All the executions are to be on the 18th day of December. The prices of some articles are eighteen per cent. lower than before the war. Corn has not been 80 low since 1845, excepting in 1861 cotton not S0 low in twentyA three years, and mess pork since 1844. Washington dispatch says in his forthecoming message, the President will make the alleged outrages and violations of law in the South during the late Congressional elections, a prominent topic of comment, and present the subject to Congress for such action as the cirThe Howard Assocumstances demand ciation of New Orleans, is unable to pay its debts by $30,000, and is appealing for aid. Thomas H. Powers of the drug manufacturing house of Powers & Weightman, of Philadelphia, died in that city on Wednesday of last week. The forthcoming naval report of the Secretary, will show that our navy is well adapted to a peace establishment, and that even in case of a foreign war, ninety vessels for hostile purposes could at once be supplied.
