The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-10-08
SOUTH.

Four companies of cavalry have been
ordered to West Alabama.
Commodore M. B. Woolsey, comman-
der of the Pensacola navy yard died of yell
low fever last week.
Gen. Bragg is now the chief engineer
OF the Galveston and Santa Fe railroad, with
headquarters at Galveston.
The rice plantations in tho vicinity OF
Savannah, Ga, are oyerilowed, and much
damage to crops i, reported. The estimated
loss of rice is 100000.
Miss Matte White, daughter OF Mrs
Dr.. Thomas c. White, aged fifteen years, OF
Pulaski Tenn, was burned to death last week
by tho explosion Of kerosene lamp.
]. B. Goode, formerly sheriff OF Col
orado county, Texas, committed suicide few
days ago by taking strychninc. Pecuniary
embarrassment is said to have been the cause
of the act.
The governor of Georgia has ordered
the sale of the Macon and Brunswick railroad
on tho first Tuesday in December next, at tho
depot in Macon, Ga. ut public auction, to the
highest bidder.
The Texas papers are groaning over
the heavy and damaging rains which have re-
Gently fallen upon that state. The gathering
of cotton has been greatly interrered with ant
the crop has been injured
The north bound train on the Misslc
sippi central Jailroad was precipitated dowl
an embankment over thirty feet, three mile
south of Holly Springs, Miss, on the 2Sth inst
Tho ladies' car and Pullman palace car turne
over twice. No one was killed, but iiftee
were wounded. ono seriously a cOlorcd mar
The accident was caused by heavy ram dui
ing the morning, which undermined the en-
bankment.
Atameeting of them. Orleans exchane
committee on classification it wasresoiveh' tl'
4 We End after a careful comparison tho foilo'
ing differences between tho types upon Whi'
our quotations. have hitherto been made, al
those adopted by the national exchange up'
which We are directed by q resolution OF u
board of directors to base our Official quo'
tous on and after this date: The natio!
standard of ordinary is barely equ'Vaieh'
the old type of ordinary; good ordinary eau
alont to the old type of strict ordinary
2 middling equivalent to good ordinary' Ill
ding equivalent to barely low middling 80
u middlng equivalent to middng. Inc
la standard middling fair, to agree with the
ticnal classification, will be madesequi'aieh'
the old type Of good middling.
"a A dispatch from Charleston, D.
II dated Sept 80, says The most fearful sai'
this city since 1854 occurred to-day, begun
about daylight with strong southeast VI
sndincreasng in violence until O'Clock, "
Ii had become hurricane. Tho tioe
forced up an unprecedented height, ihuh
ing the entire river front of the city, dal
ing tic wharves, and in somo instances )"
ing away pier heads. The long stone sea
a known as the battery, famous prome
q resort, was lSid in ruins, and the pubic
a ing house was demolished. The ship
"A generally escaped serious damage. Ihro
|8 cut tho city fences and outbuildings were
I'm toyed, branches torn from tho trees, anu
|& Ing the height of the storm, the air was
IL with states and tin stripped from the
~ making the streets impossible. The ma
IL brick walls Of tho new theater, which ha'
Ia been completed, with the exception OF p
Ia On the roof, were leveled with the street.
III probable that $3.50, ,0CO will not repair thu
IA agss
III A United States secret service q
tive Of the treasury department, arrl'