The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-09-02
SOUTH.

The attorney general has issued an
order dismissing Assistant Attorney James
Brizzolora, of Arkansas.
The people of Rockport, Texas, and
vicinity are gathering their own salt in
large quantities off the flats on the bay coast
near. The hot, dry winds have produced 30
much evaporation that tons Of superior salt
are lying around loose, waiting to DO taken
up.
Mr.. John G. Hale, the owner OF the
Hot Springs property in Arkansas, died at the
Hale House, Hot Springs, last Tuesday His
whole life was tenacious fight to hold pos
session Of the property, and the suits IN con-
nection Herewith were carried into almost
every department of justice in the United
States.
A fire in Memphis on the night OF the
Goth destroyed the Memphis wood works on
Georgia street. together with large amount
of lumber and valuable machinery A staDle
belonging to the company, in which were
number Of wagons and dseyeral mules, was also
burned. The total loss is about S27OOO, on
which there is $17 800 insurance.
The Courier Journal publishes esti-
mates from all sections Of Kentucky, and the
tobacco centers OF adjoining States showing
the average and condition OF tobacco COM
pared with 1873. Tho largest tobacco crop
ever known was planted, but subsequent mis-
fortune reduced it to a prospectively moderate
yield-perhaps light average, il future con-
ditions are favorable. The returns cover
territory which produces about throo-toorths
Of the crop of the United States.
In 1865 the taxable property in Geor-
gia was 1926, $40; now it Is S273, ,Oo2,OOO,
more than doubling since the war. There arc
35 railways in the State, with an aggregate
length of 5000 miles. The State debt ls %, lOo,
600, and this is partially Offset by property
owned by the state worth s6,OOO,COO leaving
the net indebtedness s2,0OOOOO. 1t has So
GOO 600 invested in cotton and woolen mills,
s795, 100 in iron foundries, and s6OO'oOo III
tonnage.
James II. McNeal, q well-known
plauter living eighteen miles below Memphis
on the Arkansas side WIS assasslhated iast
Friday. lie had just left tho field where his
hands we're at work and rode out into the
road. when they heard shot and saw ils
horse riderless, running up the ROAD, roilo"-
ING man on horseback. When thoy reached
tbe road they found McNeal lying dead,
whole charge of buckshot having entered his
preast. No clue TO the assassin.
Reports of the result OF the census OF
Louisiana recently taken in compliance Win
the reauirements Of the State Constitution
show the city Of New Orleans to contaln'
whites 145, ,721; colored, 57,047; total, 2O2,7GS,
an increase of II, 906 upon the census OF lS'o'
Formulation of the whole State: whites, 4Oi,-
361 colored, 45O,O29, an excess OF colored
over whites OF 45, ,66S, and total increase OF
1913. 115 over the census Of 1870. These figures
may be subject to some slight modlilcations
the returns of one or two remote parishes not
being quite complete.
There is quite collection OF southern
notables at Greenbriar, White Sulphur Springs,
Virginia. Luchi oio -
Johnston, General Robert Toombs, OF Geor-
gia the Hon. A. b. Fl. Stuart; ex-United
States Senator Kennedy of Maryland; United
States lSenator Caperton, of West Virginia
General G. T. Gilmer of Georgia, and Custis
Lee Lilley and Echols of Virginia; Col. Wal
ter II. Taylor, Speaker Hanger, Fl. II. Mat
thew. Attorney General Of West Virginia
Judges Manning, Of New Orleans, Jackson,
of West Virginia, Mclaughlin, OF Lexington,
aud Col. Wade Hampton, Jr., OF South Caro-
lima.
South Carolina raising wheat and
grinding it iuto flour for consumption in
Massachusetts is something new under the
sur but the Baltimore Sun, of the 9th, says;
Among the cargo brought by the steamship
Calvert from Charleston yesterday, were three
hundred pounds Of flour, the wheat of which
was raised in South Carolina the present year,
the flour being made at Charleston, at the
Campsen Mills. The flour is Of fine quality,
and is equal to our Maryland product. This
shipment, which is the insugura tion Of new
enterprise, goes to Boston. Five hundred
| bsrreIs Of the same kind Of flour are now