The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-04-20
LATEST NEWS.
SOUTH AND WEST.

The present agitation OF the Cliil'eSe
immigration question in California, is likely
to result in bloody riots.
Mississippi will be represented at the
centennial by handsome building, COM
posed of every variety of wood grown IN the
state.
The Security bank, of Washington, has
closed and will so into liquidation. Liabli.
ties about $4,000, of which $4,000 are due
drpositors
The Vuc de Leau hotel, noted sum-
mer resort at IlowelPs Point Hampton
Roads, burned Inst week, Loss, $4,000;
insurance. $4,000.
The California legislature has passed Il
bill abandoning tuition in languages and
music in the public schools. The two cost
in San Francisco $4,000.
The will of Mrs Edward Creighton,
the widow of millionaire Of Omaha, Nebi
bcQucaths 100000 to found and support Il
Roman Catholic school in Omaha.
Burton Hcndrick, formerly secretary
to Gov. Warmoth, of Louisiana, was found
dead in his room, in st. Louis, last week, with
an empty chlorform bottle at his side
The Georgia press generally report
that the late cold spell was not as damaging
in that state us at first apprchended. In
many sections fair fruit crop is expected.
Ricc-growing upon Cape Fear, North
Carolina, has became nearly extinct. Only
10000 bushels were raised last year, against
an annual product Of 100000 bushels before
the war;
A man named Jones was shot and
killed by A. P. Mitchell in apersonal rem
centrc at Traskwood, twelve miles south OF
Little Rock, on the st, Louis and Iron Noun
tain and Southern railway, last week.
The Consolidated Virginia mine has
lust divided its thirteenth monthly dividend
of 81 ,OS0, GOO gold In twcnty-thrcc months
the mine has taken out S30,000,O0O OF treas
ure, and divided $l7,2SO,OOO of profits.
The supreme court of Tennessee sell
fenced l.. A. Gilbert to be hanged at Fayette.
vile, May Goth, for the murder OF VIM. John
son, u blind magcantern Snowman. The
prisoner received his sentence with laughter.
Elizabeth Y. Greenfield, colored
singer, famous throughout the country some
years ago, under the name OF the Black
wan, died in Philadelphia last week, at the
aye of sixty-cight. She was born slave in
Georgia. but was manumitted while child.
The property of the South branch dis
tillcry company, Chicago, owned by Haas,
Powell IL Co., has been declared forfeited
to the government Simon Powell pleaded
guilty of conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment. Indictments as to other members OF
the firm were dismissed.
In the Ohio house bills were passed
to confer police power upon conductors OF
railroad trains and to compel them to eject
three card-monte men and other sharpers
practicing their v0cations, from the trains,
and also to forbid employment of children
under fourteen years of age as gymnasts or
public singers.
Col. Edward p. Jones, a prominent
resident of Canton, Miss, and now widely
known throughout the south, temporarily
located Mt indianapolis, engaged III intro
ducing his several patent inventions, cont
mittcd suicide by taking hydratc OF chloral.
Report says business trouble, coupled with
excessive drink, was the cause.
. The United States engineer in charge
of harbor improvements on the southern
coast, is now constructing harbor IN cross
tide some six miles above the city OF Savan
nah, in order to defect from its natural
course large portion OF the waters OF the
Savannah river The Charleston chamber o.
commerce protests against it, as Threatening
the commercial interests of the city and the
rice of plantations of the coast.
A Kansas City special states that dur
ING the snow storm last week Mrs. Geo. Ilol
Ion and two little children, living near Wa
mego, Kansas, on the line Of the Kansas
Pacific railway, started to go to n neighbor'
house, only quarter OF mile distant
Darkness coming on and the storm beating
them so furiously, they became bewilderet
and wandered about the prairie until eX
hausted. They were found frozen to deatl
not twenty yards from the house they wer
in search OF. The mother had taken ol
nearly all her clothes to protect the children
and was herself in an almost naked con
dtion.
The annual report of the stockhold0r
of the Langley manufacturing company IS al
, encouraging exhibit 1t shows that there
certain profit in cotton manufacturing III Tn
south, even in these times Of depression an
dulIness in trade. The profits for the yea
were $S52ll, from which had to be deducte
SlO37 for interest, and SlS,9OS to repair tn
losses by fire last year-leaying Sl2,
net profits. 1t will be remembered that on
t norton of the property, with considerabl
stock, were destroyed by fire, caused b
lightning, few months ago. No dividen
was declared, as the company are applylh
|, ,,rotits TO an increase Of the capital stocl
The Langley mills are situated i'll Sout
+ Carolina, near Augusta, Ga.
EAST.
The New Jersey legislature has d'
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