The Macon (Ga.) news is urging the building of a great hotel at Macon in emulation of Savannah and the Florida cities. * * * * * 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.