The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-12-17
SOUTH.

Mr.. HaIebucl, merchant of Tacoma,
Ark, was waylaid and shot Sunday nigh wLi'e
going home from his store. No clue TO I'll
murderer.
The president has granted pardons 10
Jorn Wbisonant and Jerome Whsonant' OF
South Carolina, convicted of ku-hluX oheiiSe7
and sentenced to five years imprisonment Ill
the Albany penitentiary
The village of Perryville on the ZEN
nessee river about twenty miles above Johll-
sonville suffered a severe loss by fire Tues
day morning. A large warehouse with ABOUT
200 bales of cotton, and some other buildings
were burned, having taken fire about p NJ.
The Little Rock and Fort Smith rail-
road was sold last week for l,OOO,Ojo being
boupbt in lv the first mortgage bondholoer5'
The postof1ice and several business
bouses in Darien, Ga, were burned on Iho
10th. Loss $50, 600.
A bale of cotton, which received Vne
HIGHEST prize at the Vienna Exposition was
rocortIv shipped from Memphis to Chlcopee
MASS. y firm 1t is judged to be as perfect "
bale of cotton as ever was or IL hNe'y 10 Do
raised. 1t was done up in blue SILK rep wrap,
pinrs with gold bands around 1t, ana auorno"
uith eliminating cards telling what 1t was ana
where it had been. Its weight was 45o pouIo9'
and the Memphis dealers wanted to buy pach
rort or all of it from the Chicopee hrm, 10
keep as reference, being willing to pay twenty
five cents per pound or even as hSh a' H''!
cents if necessary ,,.-
The executive committee OF the Mis-
souri state Grange, which has been IN 7eSsion
al st Louis, adjourned last week after the
.u,,.oo,io, of considerable business apper'
tanning to the order. They also adopted " 80
r;os of resolutions approving the efforts now
,o;ro made by the citizens OF st. LOUIS 1t
.oo, drect trade between the MISSISSIPPI
y,l,ev states and Brazil by steamship iln'
from New Orleans and Arkansas, the farmer
~ tbe valley states to aid i'll supporting 'h
ent,rprise. They recommend the iarulo'S y
Miss,r,i and the other valley states 10 iiiaN
avery effort to induce shipments uo"h VI
M;ssissipni river, instead of by rail to the ea7
and assert it il the policy and imperative du'
NJ tho farmers to patronizo western an
soutbern railroads in preference 10 lco'i''
eastern roads and capitalists. Ihey a'So II
commend to tho oranges OF tho 'aiiey '''''
IN adopt resolutions requesting their repreSe'
tatives and senators in congress to give Hu'
support as they can to capt oa7' d. i,'''
ietty plan for the immediate Improvement
the mouth Of the Mississippi river
In the cheap transportation conven'i'
now in session at Richmond, Va, bill pi
pared by Gen. Duff Greene, OF ueors'a' p
viding for the inauguration OF scn'n'v
internal improvements ID be snstatiieu v
system Of banking connected 1hore"i'n, v
presented and referred. NJ. Il. Lloyd oi l
nois, presented his views as to the coi'7'i
tion Of n double track trunk railway Dy
government to secure competition III
transportaton of freights. Gen. forpel,
Georgia. presented a resolution looking u
establishment and maintenance OF coiiiihei
intercourse between the states oil the un
to reviye the commerce Of the nation.
committee on resolutions presented rel
based upon resolution of Col Johnson
North Carolina in which they declare IN II
Of asking the government to AID III tiio
struction of the Southern Pacific raliroau'
of the great water lines, such ald 10 COZ
to the government tho right to coh'roi
rates Of transportation over such lines,
proviso that the government guarantees
shsll be 40 guarded as to protect the nat
treasury from loss. -Four members VI