The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-23
CONVERSATIONS or NEWS.
THE SOUTH,

put " now Il scene of devastation and de
Sructlon. The most of their dwellings mr.,
gone with all they had, their fields coyere,
with saltwater, their yessels-Grm OF III,
Sea, Mary Eliza, Ann, Augusta and Marion
high and dry on the rocks in the woods
and most of them will be totally lost.
They have captured fish in Florida
near Cedar Keys, which the i"habitant,
nave given the name Of tho tarpetbagger
1t has the head Of catfish the body Of an
eel and the less Of lizard. 1t is allied tc
the scrcwGSh, well known in Florida and
whose habts nave been made the study Of
ff"tt OF Falatka. In the summer time,
when the st. Johns yielGs its beautiful
grasses, 1t swims up and unscrews its head,
which, by the aid of four well.defned legs,
goes out on the banks and eats the sweet
grasses. Whcr winter comes it goes back,
screws the tail ON, and makes the waters of
the lovely ST. Johns its home. Naturalists
have designated it as belonging to the family
Of SpHdhS 1rchimdcw.
Sheep culture is pursued under disad-
vantages in some portions Of Florida. The
st. Augustine Press; "Out Of one hundred
and sixteen sheep which were crossed over
to the South Beach, by Mr., Bernard Masters,
short time ago, there can now only be
found twenty-nine remaining, the balance
having been dcvOurcd by bears, which infcst
that locality"
Miss Luta Bewley, not yet in her
teens, won the cooking match at the Andcr.
son, $. G., fair.
A party of Fort Bend, Texas, resisted
arrest by sheriff and posse, and three men
were killed and two wounded.
Texas has state fire association. 1t
is composed of fircmen of various cities,
and the first meeting vas held in Austin last
week.
The greedy grasshoppcrs are eating
up all the Texas turnip patches.
An English company has proposed to
Gov. Smith, of Georgia, to put on first.
class line of steamships between Savannah
or Brunswick and Liverpool at once, and
keep them running steadily, provided the
state will give them bonus of $4,000 a
year for three years. They guarantee be-
sides that they will land 5000 immigrants
per month on Georgia soil.
The Atlanta and Richmond airline
railroad, between Charlotte and Atlanta, will
be sold on the jth Of December.
The foundation Of one Of the pier, of
the railroad bridge over the Mississippi river
at Louisiana, Mo-, has been damaged by the
action Of the current, rendering the bridge
temporarily impa sblc. One pier and two
of the shortest spans will have to be rebuilt |
at a cost Of $4,000 to $4,000. The work of |
rebuilding will commence Immediately. Ar.
rangemcnts have been made to avoid inter.
rupton to the traffic of the road by crossing
on the bride at Hannibal, Mo.
Stoves are shipped from Richmond,
Va, to Norway and Sweden.
Florida Key of the Gulf. Most, if not
all the dwellings on Plantation Key, are de-
stroyed by the late hurricane. The small
steamer lately ashore on the reef, has gone
to pieces, and her crew is supposed to have
perished. Mr. Phillips, of Fort Taylor, re-
ports the damage at $4,000. The sea carried |
off large quantity of earth, from the outer
sea-wall, besides other injuries.
Montgomery Advertiser: Some ten
years age a lady Of this county, in spirit
of grlish mischief, called upon a so-caled
fortune,teller to have peep into the future.
The seer related to her that she would soon
be married and within year after marriage |
would present her husband with son; that |
in due time, at second birth, she would |
present him with twins, and at Il third birth |
with triplets-and further that her first |
born would die. Singular to relate, the pre- |
dictions of the seer have been verified to the |
letter.
Memphis Appeal; The cause Of the
accident on the Memphis and Little Rock
railroad, Saturday night, is unknown to the
officers of the road. They inform us that
the train was not behind time, and was rum
ming at a slow rate when the accident occur |
red. Only one man-Mr. Francis Moore, OF
Arkansas-was killed. The child OF Mr. |
Eggleston, of Columbus, Miss, will die from
the effects Of injuries received Mrs
Gwathney, from the mouth of White river,
will recover. No other persons were Sc
fiOusly injured.
Norfolk received during September
and October 1iS,9l5 bales OF cotton, an in
crease over the corresponding months Of 1919
of 1905.
Georgia is killing vast numbers OF tat
hogs in Alabama.
There are now about $4,000 German
MethOdists in Texas.
Dallas, Texas, has system OF plank
sewers, and has just received hint that they
are dangerous to the stability OF the town.
Before they are put down the planks are
soaked in tar to make them durable, and
the thought that this preparation might iced
subteranean fires never entered into the
heads of the builders until the town had
such Fl re to fight, which happened snort
time ago. A party Of campers built hre
directly over one Of the sewers, and the COW
ering being thin, the sewer caught hre,
which soon ran along its whole length, and
sent fort dangerous flames at various places
Piles of cotton and other property had to be
moved with dispatch, and the fire depart
ment was puzzled to know where the ilre was
or how to get at it. 1t was finally stopped
by damming the sewer and filing 1t with
water, and happily little damage was done'
except the destruction Of the sewer ITSELF
Dallas thinks OF revising its sewer system.