The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-05-04
LATEST NEWS.
SOUTH AND WEST.

The Louisville, Paducah and South
western railroad, now in a receivers hands
has been ordered to be sold at time to bt
hereafter specified.
A new cotton mill will be built in
Columbus, Ca, with six hundred looms and
twenty thousand spindles. It's capacity will
be six thousand bales per year,
The supreme court of Louisiana ha'
decided the issue of two million five hundred
thousand dollars OF state bonds to the Mobile
and Chattanooga railroad to be invalid and
unconstitutional.
Capt Eads informs the jetty company
that the depth Of water in South Pass varies
from fifteen and a half to twcnty.eight feet
The former depth il on the shoals, which will
have disappeared by the first of May.
DiaZ writes to Antoine, of New Or
leans that he has four thousand men with
whom he expects to cOnsummate the revolu'
ton begun under his name at Matamoras,
lie says he will begin at once his advance
upon the capital.
The proprietors of the Missouri state
lottery have brought suit against the board
Of police commissioners of st, EOuis, asking
100000 damages for breaking up their busi'
ness by the late raids upon their offices and
seizure Of their property.
The Nashville life insurance company
and the Odd.Fellows' widows and orphans
life insurance company have both been sus.
pended by the state insurance commissioner.
The available assets of the Nashville life
were $2S9,S7j; liabilities, according to the
act Of 1878, $0lS,7G0. The company pro.
poses reinsuring the policies. The available
assets Of the Widow and Orphan Life, $685.
00O. The liabilities are over SiO0,006.
The New Orleans Times says the break
at Bass evee, in Carroll parish, is n mile
wide, and the water is flowing through with
OF making ripple. The loss there is tre
mendous, and it is estimated that it will
reduce the crop fully two hundred and fifty
thousand bales. This levee is the largest
protection levee in the state of Louisiana.
On the Mississippi side, at Buck ridge, the
breaks will devastate Bolivar, lssaquena and
Warren counties, and the loss will be equally
as large as on the opposite side.
A heated fight is raging in west-bound
passenger traffic out of Cincinnati. The
contest is carried on by the Ohio and Missi'.
sppi and the indianapolis, Cincinnati and
LAFAYETTE and Vandaia lines. The latest
reports were that roundtrp tickets from
Cincinnati to Kansas City were selling at
twelve dollars; to Omaha, thirteen dollars
and Fifty cents. Fully as heavy reductions
are also made to many other prominent
western points. The opinion prevails that
still lower rates will be offered before the
war is over.
The Charleston Courier finds that
northern manufacturers of fertilizers have
made large shipments to southern ports
These have generally passed into the interior,
and, in some instances, were offered at UNI
usually low rates. But the greater part of
the shipments are believed to be in the hands
Of agents awaiting buyers The Courier adds
that the planters are poor; that the tendency
year by year is to rely more and more on
small grain, and to make cotton an incident
and not the main object Of the years work,
and the conclusion is that they who count on
a big cotton crep, because of the shipment Of
fertilizers this season, will surely be disap.
nninied