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


ol Morganton. The colonists have refusa
Of $4,000 acres in body, Of which lQ,OOOis o
heavy white pine timber.
Texas papers are puzzled to know how
II lS that pecanS are sold in New York ant
The western market at exactly the sam,
prices as they are sold at in Galveston an,
Houston. Texas, perhaps, is Iaborng undel
the delusion that she has monopoly Of pc
cans, but she must remember that while heI
settlers were wantonly cutting down the
magnificent pecan groves in the bottom lands
OF Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi con
"l'lded that their pecan trees were valuable
and not only preserved them but planted
more, and now Texas has competition in the
pecan crop.-N o, Times.
Diphtheria continues very fatally in
portions of North and South Carolina.
Stonewall Jackson's daughter Julia
says an exchange, is now a pretty girl Of six
teen, with large eyes, a good head and an
expression full of sweetness and character.
She is said to be exceedingly gentle, modest
and thoughtful. She is living with her
mother at Charlotte, n. c.
1. Markwalter, of Augusta, Ga, has
been awarded the contract of building the
confederate monument at that place. His
bid was $l4 400
Augusta (Ga,) has received ll3,llG
bales OF cotton this year,
Columbus (Ga.) has received 35,jlS
bales Of cotton this season, a large increase
over last years receipts.
The British steamship, Student, sailed
from Brunswick, Ga. the 7th, with l,7l7
bales of cotton lor liverpool It is the frat
direct European shipment ever made from
that port and the enthusiasm of the Bruins
wirkcrS was immense.
Capt. McNelly's rangers have, in the
last few months, captured or killed about
seventy.fve Of the worst desperadoeS in
western Texas.
The Fort Smith (Ark, New Era offers
this novel solution to the Indian problem;
Let Oklahoma be thrown open with all the
right OF ownership TO the land secured to the
legal inhabitants, and the problem is solved
for every Indian girl will marry white
man and every young Oklahomian will read
lily secure white spouse, for whenever a
division of land is once made every inhabit
ant will be, if not rich in good circum.
stances. And with the restraint removed,
Indians will be proud to mix with and be ab-
sorbed by the whites and become citizens Of
the United States, ilS sure as water runs down
stream.
New Orleans Democrat: On Friday
about noon, a duel occurred between the
Hon. V. Simeon Dolany, who was not
elected administrator Of water works, and
Mr. Robert TOrmey. Rifles were the weap.
ons, aud at the third exchange OF shots Mr..
Tormey was wounded in the left breast, from
the effects of which he was dying at last ac.
counts. ThiS is Dollany's second duel with.
in year, aud, as on the first OCCASION upon
lealning that his adversary was mortally
wounded, incontinently hed and left his sec
'il'lS w uN1lNt tlUSt VI HlN bhNtIHdIy
Among the articles found in possession
oi the burglars captured in Montgomery,
Ala, was gold watch belonging to Hon 7.
II. Watson, Lincoln's assistant secretary Of
war and member of the democratic commit.
tee sent to New Orleans. Mr.. Watson APP
peared in court Saturday and received his
property, which he said cost him $50 in
London.
Savannah News: the bronze statue
that the old Palmetto guard of South Caro-
lima are soon to erect at Charleston, in COM
memoraton OF the valor and patriotism of
their regiment and of its fallen members, was
successfully cast in New York to-day. The
statue is OF Il soldier in continental uniform,
carrying an old and buIlet.torn flag tied to
the ramrod of a cannon.
Jacksonville, (Fla.) Union: 1t is
feared that few days OF warm sunshine will
develop far greater injury to the orange
groves than now appears The tidal wave OF
oJld seems to have travelled and extended
far to the south, and great damage must have
resulted from its extraordinary severity.
No doubt the smaller limbs OF most trees are
killed, and the sap in both limbs and bodies
Of which the growth was not fully matured
is probably so nearly lisintegrated that the
suns rays will cause ii to coagulate to such
an extent that the trees will anguish and
eventually die of the injury.
Lorenzo D. Cox, OF Marion county,
Miss, was twice fred upon while making
fire in a clearing, and shot through both
lungs. He crawled to stump where his gun
was sitting, and firing, dropped the assassin
as he peered out from behind a tree. He
then crawled to him and stabbed him in the
heart with knife. The would-be murderer
proved to be VIM. Morris, who had come all
the way from Texas to settle an old feud
Cox will not recover.
Bolixi (Ala.) Sea Coast Mirror; They
are shipping on an everage twenty thousand
opened oysters per day, besides several car
loads week. This oyster trade on our
coast is rapidly assuming vast proportions,
and in few years will afford employment
for thousands of our people as we'll AS profit
to shippers.
Three brothers by the name of Millet
have 26,0OO cattle on range one hundred
and eighty miles north of Dallas. There are
but few residents in the county, and though
several hundred warriors, party OF United
States soldiers, and large body Of Me4icans
have been hunting buffalo in that locality,
they have caused no trouble. Buffalo
caused much trouble last year, but hunters
are thinning them out.
Mrs. Walker, of Lauderdale county,
Tennessee, heard a man under her bed, and,
taLiuo a reyolypr from under her ,iOw she