The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-08-27
SOUTH.

The bark Mermaid, from New Lon
don to New Orleans, is reported sunk, and the
captain and five of the crew were drowned.
Fl. d. Newcombe, president of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad company,
died at Louisvillee on the 18TH, of paralysis.
Old John Harper, owner of the cele-
brated Longfellow, died at his residence, near
Midway, KY, OH the 10Th instant leaving a
large fortune.
Il. W, CORDOBA, of Mississippi, col
ored, superintendent of public instruction,
sues the st. Louis Dispatch for 35OOOO dam
ages. The Dispatch apologised on the second
day for its offensive publication.
A duel occurred in st. James parish,
La, last week, between DR., Charles Gray and
Deputy Sheriff Prichard. They fought with
reyolyers, distance fifteen PAGES. Both fell at
the third fire. and expired in a few minutes,
There is now in Tennessee over 4, 900
white schools and over 800 colored schools,
and about G000 teachers. OF the number of
teachers fully 1000 are colored the coored
teachers being employed wholly in coored
schools.
Anderson 2, rry, John Ross, Autone
Maurice, James Williams and John Robertson,
associates i'll the murder of Elisha Eastwood,
an old ilat-boatman, on the 25th of April last,
were hung at Napoleon, Assumption parish,
La, ON the 21st instant.
kilograms from Monroe, Trenton,
Farmersyille, Shreveport, Baton Rouge La
Canton, CoIfeeville, Oamden, Holly Springs,
Durant, Natchez, Meridian, Mississippi, and
points in Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas re-
port cotton and corn crops suffering from
long continued drouth.
A Memphis dispatch says the excess
sive hot weather of the past week has produ-
ced more cases Of sunslroke than were ever
known before in this latitude The board of
health reports fourteen deaths from this
cause Reports from the surrounding country
state that the crops are suffering very much
from drouth.
The Courier Journal publishes re-
ports from correspondents in fifty counties of
Kentucky, representing rs per cent. of the
crops Of the entire state, which indicate an
unparalleled failure of tho tobacco crop in
the aggregate. Tho estimate il deduced that
the crop of 1874 will be only 10 per cent. of
the yield last year under the most favorable
future conditions.
A desperate shooting affray occurred
last week on the Tennessee side of the Mis-
slssippi river near Point Pleasant, in which
Capt Albert Hall and a young man named
Leerhaw were killed. Geo Darnell was NOR
tally and Capt Cole and two brothers named
Coe, seriously wounded The affray grew out
OF rivalry between Capt. Hall and Capt. Cole,
who run competing ferry boats at Point Pleas
ant, which eliminated in law suit.
Capt. A. Il. Butler, who was shot by
anegro at Atlanta, Ca, died on the 18th inst.
lhe citizens were so exasperated at the I'm
provoked murder that several hundred of
Them armed themselves and marched to the
JAIL where the Murrel brothers were con-
nned, took both of them out and carried
them to the parade grounds. A jury was i'm
proysed, when both Gabriel and Mike Muir
rel asserted their innocence. After three
hours investigation on the sworn testimony
vi eye-Witnesses of the murder, Gabriel was
@ken back to Jail, and Mike shot to death.