The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-10-02
THE so UTH.


The cotton receipts at st. Louis this year
are nearly double those of last.
"A private dispatch from Shreveport re
ports tho death OF Rev. Father Qaemerais,
and the serious illness OF Rev. Father Pierre.
No other priests there. There are now two
telegraph operators in Shreveport Mr. Henry
Davis, who went from Cincinnati several days
ago, and Mr.. All Sayille, from Memphis.
The steamer James Howard, which caught
fire Commerce, Missouri, last week and was
scu tied has been raised aud is but little dam
age
Yellow fever refugees arc pouring into
Austin, Texas.
George Copeland. colored is to be hanged
in Green county, Ga, on the Goth Of October
for the murder Of Miss Sarah Richards
--Memphis There is no abatement in the
yellow fever though it's rayages are most eX-
clusyely confined to "Pinch,' or of the north
western portion of the city adjacent to the
mouth of Wolf river where it first appeared.
II is impossible to obtain reliable data in re-
gard to the mortality, but evidently there is no
decrease in the death rate. The city authori-
ties to-day took the first steptoward meeting
the exigenc'e9 Of tho occasion, the whole street
force being put to work distributing and burn
ing coal tar in the infected quarter, while the
citizens met and reorganized tho Howard az
sociation, with A. d. Langstaff, president
The association will opon an Office and be pro-
pared to furnish nurses and relief to all who
apply The exodus from the city continues,
the physcians advising all who can to leave,
and the trains in all directions are crowded,
| The widest reports are circulated throughout
the country in regard to the number dying,
| but it is safe to say that since the disease ap-
pearcd the number Of deaths from all causes
has not reached so in any day, aud since the
| flight Of tho tcrror-strcken ones there il less
excitement than during the prevalence of the
cholera.
.-3r ,wnsyiilo, TcX.-The Rio Ggande has
overllowed its banks for the first time since
1869 Tho upper country is inundated, and
there is three feet in the main plaza OF the
city Camargo and al almost unbIoken she
Of water from Brownsville to the gulf. The
cotton crop is destroyed. The Rio Grande
and Point Isabel Tailiead track s washed away
for over six miles and almost the entire line
submerged and ruined. The pole Of the tel
egraph companeg' lines to Dgazos are swept
"a, mails stopped and stage communication
with the interior suspended.
A new steamship line has just been estab
! liehed to run between the ports Of New Orleans
ard Rio de Janero, touching AT Jamaica, Port
| SpEm Trinidad, Para, Maranham, PenambU
co and Bania, making the outward trip in
twenty-five days and the home passage in
| twcnty-three days, thus opening u vast COM
mprcial trade between those ports and the
great states of the Mississippi valley.
Senator Wost of Louisiana received the
follooing dispatch from the mayor Of Sheyo-
| port: "Peoplo are panic-stTckon here. All
that could have left. The poor are nearly all
on our hands. No money in the city treasury.
| All pecuuiary aid will be thankfully received
Fever increasing"
A dispatch from Commerce, Mo, says the
steamer James Howard caught fire in the hull
yesterday while lying at that place The pas
stugers and baggage were taken ashore safely |
and the steamer scuttlcd which was tho only |
hope of saving her No further particulars |
Tho Howard was the largest steamer on west |
ern waters, being thirty-three hundred tons |
burden, owlsed by Capt b. II. Pegram and j.
II. Chasing s.. Louis, and James Howard, |
Jeifersonyille, Ind, and cost two years ago |
1850, 600.
Tho statician Of tho department OF agri- |
culture, after a careful revision Of monthly re-
turns, ri cs The following as the prosont sta
tus: 1hecOtton crop indicated in areas, il |
little over ten per cent. The condition of the |
crop Of September last year in Arkansas is he |
same also in Tennessee and Louisiana III |
each OF the other cotton states the worms have |
been moro abundant yet their ravage7 havs
not b3en disastrous or sweeping but in few |
cascs. This season has been remarkable for |
its rainfall tending to further depreciation |
OF the crop, otherwise tho conditions will bo
quito as favorable. Fertilizers have stimu-
atcd the growth, and the labor has been stea-
der and more reliable. The averages are az |
follows Virginia 90, North Carolina %, |
So til Carolina S5, Georgia 30, Florida IS, Ala
bsma s2 Mississippi 85 Louisiaua 80, Texas |
~, Arkansas 90, Tennessee o., Missouri 96. |
In September, 1872. the average was Vir |
giuia 97, North Carolina 1Ol, South Carolina |
50, Georgia 9G. Florida %, Alabama 49, Mis- |
sissippi 8O Louisiana 86, Texas 96, Arkansas
49, Tennessee 92. The cotton fields in North
C.roliniR generally make fine show of Wig
orOu3 and fruitful plants, exceptions resulting
more from falling Of forms and bolla In con-
sequence OF too abundant rainfall, than
from tho presence OF worms. In South Caro-
LIMA similar damage from excessive moisture
and tho catspiler occurs
A Virginia hanging cost 1858 80.
English farmers are settling in Walker
county, Ala.
A Wilmington man has the knife and strap
which belonged to the late Henry Berry Low
rsy.
A Washington special says the CDngress
mcn of the Mississippi and Missouri river val
l.ys have i! is understood, very generally
agreed to unite their efforts to secure appro-
prations for St. Phillip canal at the outlet Of
lne hlSslSSlppl IlNeI. ~ 10 cA l'cSsOu tIdt FlS-
900, 900 will be necessary to make ship canal
which will enable ocean ves5es OF the greatest
burden to reach New Orleans withou being
obstruc,ed by bars. 1t is claimed that with
tho completion OF this canal, Ocoan-goipg
ships during -four. months OF the year. can
proceed az far north as Cairo. Some of the
western members state that the people of the
Mississippi valley seek solution OF the
transportation question mainly in that direc
ton.
The seconds in the Richmond duel are
still under bond OF $4,000 each, the surviving
lualliat NcCartv pot haipO wall anouOh for