The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-11-26

court. twas bought by the first mortgage
bondholders, for s3,O22OOO This saves the
state from all loss.
Two droves of cattle, stolen by Mex
lean thieves, were recently recaptured near
Matamoras, The Mexican soldiers stationed
along the Rio Grande say they have no or
ders to interfere with cattle thieves.
Last year the Baltimare and Ohio
railroad earned ga, ,Oi7 ,O9O its expenses be-
ing 80, 4l6,G5O, leaving a clear profit OF ;j,
O7OG26. 1t has accumulated a surplus fund Of
S32, l44, 100, being an excess over its entire
mortgage indebtedness of $685. 595.
The New Orleans, Mobile and Texas
railroad section west Of the Mississippi river,
was sold recently by the United States mar
shal for 1850 900 to Frank NJ. Ames, son of
the late Oakes Ames, new company will
probably be organized to complete the road to
the Texas terminus.
Lawrence Mathews, an old citizen OF
Overton county, Tennessee, was struck by
lightning about noon on The 18th, and in
stantly killed. He had just finished his din
ner and passed into an adjoining room. The
lightning set fire to the house. but tho family
succeeded in eXtinguishing it,
At Frankfort, KY, on the night of the
Goth, the whisky wareh use of Robt. p. Pep
per, situated on the Kentucky river, and con-
tanning about 2,7OO barrels of whisky was to-
loll 1oat,npnI hHH Hra wit ito npntnuta Tho
whisky was insured for nearly 3GO,OOO The
fire is supposed to have been the work OF an
incendiary.
A proposition to fund the entire debt
of the southern statoe has been made by q
London syndicate, or company known as the
American bond funding and banking assoca-
ton. Mr.. j. j. Macknnon, the representative
Of the association, il now travelling through
the south, and has opened negotiations with
the governors Of several states The matter
will be brought before the Legislatures OF these
states at the sessions to be held this winter.
In reference to the debt of Virginia, which
amounts to about thirty million dollars exclu-
sive of past-due and unpaid interest and the
one third allotted to West Virginia as her fair
share Of the dnte-bcIuim indebtedness, Mr..
Mackipnon has offered to fund in bonds run
ming ten years and bearing four per cent. in
terest in gold or in bonds running twenty
years, bearing five per cent interest in gold,
the ,riuclpal and interest to be paid only in
London. The association prescribes, as one
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to mako with the state, that the money to pay
the principal and interest OF the new funded
debt shall be derived from fixed portion OF
the revenue, to be invioIably set apart for that
purpose. Southern state bonds are said to be
rising on account of this scheme Of funding
The regular lower coast packet EN-
pire, Cast. Jungfrau sunk to her texas about
4 o'clock on the morning of the 18th, at hei
landing at the foot of Conte street, Now Or
leans. Capt. Jungfrau states the Empire hat
only a fair cargo; was not overloaded, ant
that the guards were we'll above the water
| At the time of her sinking he was awakened
bv great noise, and in the confusion caugh
one OF his children and swan with it to th'
shore. He saw his wife standing on the deci
with the babe in her arms. As the boat wen
down she clung to the wheelhouse OF tn
Bradley Johnson, which stood alongside, bu
tho violent shock wrenched from her gras
her child, who fell in the water and wa
drowned Capt. Jungfrau cannot tell hoy
many passengers are lost, as the books are i
the IA fe in tho clerks room. He thinks ther
we're about thirty-fve lost, among them fou
of his children. The following are the names
M far as known OF the missing and those be
lieved to be lost by the Empire disaster
Henry jackson, Robert Carpenter, william
Green, engineer Mr., Maddox, all from Bolai
plantations; Mr.. and Mrs. Kemper and tw
children, Mrs. Joseph, Point Louisiana
Mr.. Mazelle Union plantation Rose st. John
stevardess Charles Ward and John Williams