The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-06-08
LATEST NEWS.
SOUTH AND W EST,

Osyka, Miss, is going to build a cotton
factory, and so is Port Gnvson,
Inc co'i crop of Arkansas last year
VIZ, about eighty million bushels, while tho
wheat produced amounted to sixteen MIL
lion bushels.
The Alabama sNrtGmG court has de.
cidcd tha' ,hc Act Of March Z 1876, provid,
iSS 10Y impcaching certain officers, is uncon,
stitutionul.
The New Orleans Picayunc says there
were twcnty.ninc negroes killed In Wilkin.
son county, Miss, during the recent distur.
Dances there.
The first sack Of Texas Hour, shipped
from Dallas to Galveston, sold at auction for
$SN, II was purchased by the Brazil cohre
importers. They will spnd Il TO Dom Pedro,
Emperor of Rrasil.
a grand jury at Atlanta Ga, found Il
true bill against the late state treasurer
Jones, for Illegally Withholding money from
the state to the amount of $ll0,21. Jones
was arrested and required to give bond for
$4,000.
Columbus, Ga, has shown more sub
stontial progress than any city in the south.
While Atlanta, Macon, Augusta, Savannn',
and other wealthy cities arr talking about
building unc cnt'nn factory, Columbus has
erected Nix, and now has another in progress.
At Galveston, on the 23rd, u fire de
stroycd the SOuthwick building "a thrccstory
brick, corner OF Strand and Dwcnty.f0urth
streets, and two wooden buildings nd djoining,
The loss is estimated at one hundred thou.
sand dollars; partially covered by insur.
nncc.
The Piedmont factory, on the Saluda
river in South Carolina, has Just been com.
plcted, and is now in smooth running order.
making cloth equal in texture to the Gran.
itoyille factory One hundred hands are
employed, and the annual consumption of
the raw material will be about four thousand
bales Of cotton.
The house that Mississippi built on the
centennial grounds il composed Of every
variety OF wood that grows in that brave old
statc-ffty-six in number, forty.two kinds
will be used in the Rnish on the inside. Mr.,
Il. Bcrglund loft McComb City on the Sth
instant to supcrintend the erection oil the
hcadQuartcr building for tho centennial
board Of the state of Mississippi,
"A large meeting of citizens interested
III rice and sugar planting in Louisiana, was
held at the chamber of commerce, in New
orleohs, INST "cek, in opposition to the IIo.
Wallah Treaty. Hon. Vim. NJ Burwcll, Licu-
'eia' Ex-Governor G. c. Antoine, John G. Potts
and Tobias Gibson were appointed a com.
mittce to proceed to Washington and urge
the 'eieat Of the llawaiian treaty,
Hon. Thomas l.. Jones, of Kentucky,
has introduced u bill in the house to charter
a railroad lrem Charleston, S. c., to Chicago.
The proposed road passes through the mid
die of Kentucky. The bill provides that the
government is to guarantee the bonds of the
company, payable in fifty years, TO the
amount of 100000 per mile, the principle
and interest (at 5 per cent? payable in gold.
The bill will not come up for passage until
the next session of congress.
The Port Eads correspondent Of the
New Orleans Times thinks there is no rca-
son now why sailing ships as well as steamers
should not make use of the jetties, and says: :
"Captain Fauria of the Keyser, examined
the channel few days ago, and was SO
pleased with the results that he has decided
to use the jctties hereafter. Ilc deserves
great credit for his pluck and energy, and
has shown his confidence i'll the success Of
the jctties by deciding to have this ship go
through here"