The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-12-28

Hon. Geo, A, Trenholm, secretary o
the confederate treasury, WAS buried at Mag
nolia, ). C., Sunday, The Charleston Jour
nal OF Commerce says Of him; Geo. A
Trenholm was the son Of VIM. Trenholm, m
English merchant His mother wus Mis-,
he Griffin, the daughter of a wealthy plant
er Of st. Domingo. They He'd with many
others from the insurrection which swept
over that unfortunate island. The subject
of this notice was born in this city on the
25th of February, 1907, and had nearly
reached the full age Of three score years and
ten. lie left school at the early age Of tAir,
teen years, and then, embarking upon the
sea of fe,commenced that voyage through the
future which, marked in It's course by the
most eyentful incidents, yesterday reached
It's end.
Wytheville, (Na) Enterprise: A
wagon was driven into town Wednesday
loaded with bear meat, venison, wild turkeys,
pheasants, rabbits, etc, They We're killed in
the stony Fork neighborhood, in this coun.
ty, we learn, and belonged to different par.
ties. Twenty cents pound was asked for
the bear meat at first, but it went of at nshi.
ling.
Corpus Christie Gazette; A severe
drouth for several months has 50 impover.
ished portions Of the range that cattle and
horses are already beginning to show want
of nourshng food, but the animals most nj.
fected are the oxen used by Mexican team.
sters from the Rio Grande to this place.
They are forced to rely almost exclusively on
burnt nopal, and already many Of them can
be seen lying dead between this point and
Laredo.
Savannah News The fruit crop Of
Florida has undoubte dly suffered by the 81.
we're weather. The st. Augustine Press of
the second says: "Iast night was the cold.
est for three years. Ice formed nearly an
inch in thickness, kilingmany tenderpants,
and many if not all OF the oranges, which
were so abundant and promising As
the wind was high throughout the night, it is
hoped that n portion OF the crop has es.
capped, but we hardly think it possible"
Oranges have advanced one.half cent
The vote of Texas is as follows: The
democratic electors for the state AT large re-
ceived lo3,6l2 votes; republican electors
state at large, iij52 votes. Democratic ma.
iority, 59,O6j. Total vote, li9,lj9, against
vote the last state election of 2OOOSl.
The new Texas turf wonder, Crockett
was bought for $40 while in the shafts of a
Galveston sand-cart, and driven in water two
feet deep to change his pace to & trot. At
the Dallas fair western turfman offered Sl3,.
900 for him, and at the Austin fair he made
record of 9:&l, which his admirers think will
be reduced to 2:2O. lie is on the pony order,
and nothing is known of his pedigree.
A st. Louis dispatch says the wrecked
steamers and their loss are about as follows :;
South Shore, $1,000; Southern Belle, SS,OOO
Fannie Heener, $1,000; insured for $4,000
in Cincinnati offices; Jennie Baldwin, IS, coo;
Davenport $4,000; Rock Island, $4,000
Bayard, 5000; Centennial, S6O,0oO. The
damage to other steamers and lerryhouts and
the loss and damage oi numerous bargeS aud
such like crafts will probably increase the
Total loss by the ice movement to nearly, if
not quite, $ljo,000.
Between ten and twenty negroes and
three or four whites we're wounded in New
Orleans on the 18th, in riot which grew out
of the arrest of negro deck hand who had
wouneed two negroes with his little pistol.