The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-02
LATEST NEWS.
MOUTH AND WEST.

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Mrs, Van Cott is stirring up sinners
in Texas.
Six Savannah policemen have died of
the fever.
Darien, Ga, wants a physician. Tn
common want.
Judge Shaefer of salt Lake, decides
that Brigham must pay Ann Eliza that little
amount of alimony.
A late Charleston circular puts the
present rice crop of Georgia and South Car.
olina at 75,500 tierces, orabout five per cent.
more than any crop since the war.
The Corpus Christi (rex.) Gazette
keeps up its fire upon the regular Sunday
bull.fghts Just outside the town limits, but
the bulls continue to sprinkle dirt on their
| backs and gore one another as of yOre.
Deaths from yellow fever in Savannah
alone, from September to October II, were
seven hundred and twenty.siY, an average Of
eighteen per day. 1t is estimated that the
population has been reduced by refugees
about 5000.
A correspondent of the Florida Agri-
cuIturist urges the owners Of groves in Or.
ango county to pay more attention to pine
apple culture. Unlike the orange, the
rooted plants come into bearing in year,
and profitable crop can always be grown
between the young orange trees.
Corpus Christi (TeX.) Gazette: An
cntcrprising Mexican of this place recently
conceived a new plan for obtaining a liveli.
hood. 1t smoothing more than peddling OF
live meat from door to door through the city.
Young kids are driven in a flock and sold to
customers at their doors for the moderate
sum of thirty-seven and II half cents each.
Norfolk Nirginian: 1t is rumorcd
that the colonization society is preparing to
send out to Liberia from thirty to fifty col
ored emigrants next month. The secretary
at Washington city snow in correspondence
with Messrs. i. d J. iacker 4 Co., with Il
view of securing their passage ON the bark
cntinc Resolution, which is to sail for Cape
PaImas, Africa, at an early period,
Richmond Wing; For the week end
ing Saturday the shipments Of flour from
Richmond to foreign ports aggregate S937
barrels, valued at $Gl,759.7j. The number
of barrels exported the previous week was
1851, showing an excess Of $50 barrels for
the week ending the fourteenth inst. With
the exception of one cargo Of 2,i67 barrels,
bound for st. Johns Newfoundland, all the
above mentioned are bound to BRAZILIAN
ports,
Norfolk Landmark: Passengers on the
"Vaey Railroad" are attracted daily by the
conduct Of a large and intrllgcntdog waiting
by the roadside for the daily newspaper
which was formerly thrown to him from the
baggage ear for his master, who lived half u
mile from the rails. The master has been
dead many months, but the faithful dog has
not missed the mail train day since. There
Is no paper for that master now, but some
times the baggage man, in pity Tor the dog, |
tosses a paper to him as the train rushes by, |
which he eagerly seles and starts ioyiuIIy
over the hills for home. When the train
rushes by and no paper is thrown he rushes
wildly upand down the track, gazing after
the cars with an almost human look Of dis |
appointment, and joys deiectly homeward.
A dispatch from the camp on Am
phibious creek, Black Hills, October 18th,
via Fort Laramie, October 10th, says: Gen
eral Merritt, with all the best horses in the |
Fifth cavalry, left here this morning, taking |
sixty selected men from the Second and one |
hundred and twenty from the Third cavalry,
ten DAYS rations and one hundred and fifty
rounds Of carbine and twelve pounds OF pls-
tOl ammunition per man, en- route l0r the
fork of the Cheyenne river, where large
band of indians, led by Crazy Horse and
other hostiles, are reported in winter camp.
The troops are in three detachments oilicercd
by Captain Peale and Lieutenat Hall, Cap
tains Monnahan and Won Nhcist and Lieu
tenants King and Snead. No wagons were
taken, and the ratiOns are carried by pack
mules The four hundred fresh horses
which reached here day before yesterday with
recruits for the Fifth cavalry, will he used
in remounting the old soldiers OF this. regi
ment who will accompany General Neritts
flying column.