The Florentine hotel, at Huntington, W. Va., has passed into the hands of Messrs. L. H. Cox and R. F. Jones. Mr. Cox is from Louisville, Ky.; Mr. Jones formerly conducted the Joy house at Findlay, Ohio. They state that large improvements will be made.
The Hotel Indian River, at Rock Ledge, Fla., has 350 guests and expects to be crowded all through the month of March.
A new hotel is to be built at Charleston, S. C., at a cost of something like $450,000. It is to cover a block 150×545 feet. The plans provide for broad verandas adjoining the parlors and opening upon a garden space to be larger than any similar grounds owned by any hotel in the country.
Fort Worth, Texas, expects to have a new and first-class hotel.
The court has refused to confirm the recent sale of the Oglethorpe hotel at Brunswick, Ga., and has ordered a new sale.
CORRESPONDENCE.
A Valuable Suggestion from England.
A reader of the Southern States living at Florence, Ala., sent a copy of the January number to a friend in England, and has received from him the following very interesting and noteworthy letter, which we are permitted to publish:
“Many thanks to you for the January number of the magazine, “the Southern States,” which I received this morning. I presume you sent it, knowing that the interesting letters relating to the subject of immigration to the Southern States so fully coincide with the views I have long held and have expressed to you concerning immigration from Great Britain to the South.