The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-05-14
so UTH.

Nashville has collected 1913 for the
benefit of the Louisiana sufferers.
The oat crop in southern Georgia has
been cut short half by bad weather, rust and
Insects.
The stockholders of the st. Louis and
Iron Mountain road have voted to consolidate
with the Cairo and Fulton.
IT, is estimated that not less than
$4,000, 900 worth of cotton has passed through
Nashville since September. i.
North Georgia papers continue to ex-
press apprehensions of rust in wheat, ana
those of southern Georgia to report rust.in
oats.
Uncle Frank Preston, one Of the
band of pioneer hunters, which had made
Kentucky famous died last week at his home
near Maysyille, Ky.
Jno. d. Stevenson, nephew OF Gov.
Brown, was shot and killed by man named
John W. Carter, about eleven miles east OF
Athens, Ala, on the 9Th inst,
The part of the Selma, Rome and
Dalton railroad which lies in Georgia, Will be
sold before tho courthouse door i'll Rome, on
the second Tuesday in July, to the highest
bidder
Peter G. Cox has recovered verdict
for $35, 900 damages before at Louisville jury
for the loss of leg, on the Louisville and
Nashville railroad The road will apply for
new trial.
A curious fact in South Carolina econ
omic3 has just come to light. Tventy-seven
conyicts have been pardoned out of the pen
itentary because the state was toopoor to pro-
vide for their support
Thsre is TO be a convention of cotton
exchanges at Augusta, Ca, on the 3Oth of
June, to consider the feasibility of improv-
ing the facilities for obtaining information
about the cotton market and the crop.
Reports from New Orleans say all
the creyasses on Plaluemine are closed. The
work of repair and of replanting rice has COM
nenced The sugar corn on the inundated
places has not been entirely destroyed.
An appeal is published for the urgent
relief of sufferers by floods in the south.
1t states that over 142 900 people have been
driven from their homes and are now without
food or shelter, and that to furnish these pro-
visions alone will cost S25 0OOa day.
The police of Atlanta have had trou-
BILE with the Federal troops stationed there.
In the melee that occurred last week one
soldier was killed. and it was feared that a
regular pitched battle would occur. 1t If
thought however, that the difficulty is ended
The legislature of North Carolina has
passed an act which provides that any person
who manufactures, sells or deals in spirituous
liquors as drink, of any name or kind CON
tanning foreign properties or ingredients pois
onous to the system, shall be punished witt
five years Imprisonment in the penitentiary.
A petition has been filed in the
United States court for the involuntary bank
ruptcy of Franklin Moss, Jr., governor OF
South Carolina, and an injunction granted re
straning the sheriff of Richland county from
seizng and selling his effects until the fur
ther order of the court. The debts Of th'
governor in excess Of assets are currentl,
stated at over 32jO,000.
The consolidation of the st. Louis
Iron Mountain and Cairo and Fulton railroad
has been fully effected. and new board o
directors elected The road will hereafter b.
known as the st. Louis, Iron Mountain ant
Southern railroad. Arrangements have bee
made to run trains through from st. Louis t.
Austin, Texas via. tho International road o
Texas from TeXarkana.