The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-12-20
NEWS SUMMARY.
SOUTH.

Cape Fear river rose fifty feet il
twenty'four hours during the recent freshet
A genuine shad has been caught in th,
Conecuh river, In Pike county, Alabama.
Hugh McCaferty, captain of th,
schooner Silss, was knocked overheard anC
lost at Galveston Thursday.
The Louisville canal il blocked witt
q coal boats trying TO get down south before
the river falls There are 6,000,t0O bushels
awaiting shipment t
II The freezes, on Doth and 3Oth ultimo
solidiied the juice In the standing cane In
portions Of Louisiana, and are thought tc
have done immense damage.
A dispatch from Little Rock: "The
bad weather for the past month has injured
she. cotton to an alarming extent. Not hall
OF the cotton has yet been picked, and all
hat remeins in the field is injured.
Charlie Jones, the Indian who beat
his wife and raised such racked among the
Cherokees In McAllister, was found dead the
other day, and the Indian organ there re.
marks, owe know not nor do we care who
did the good deed"
Galveston News: Friday night, about
midnight, the cotton gin of Z. Blumberg, In
Guadalupe count, was set on fire by seme
villain and entirely burned. Loss about
$4,000. One hundred and seventy. .iiye bales
of cotton were burned.
Memphis Appeal: We learn that the
farmers OF north Alabama find great diff.
Guilty in procuring hands for ticld.worS, in
consequence Of which half the cotton crop
sremains in the field, and will necessitate q
good deal Of financial embarrassment.
Richmond Whig: There is a four
room two-story house, which was washed
down the river by the food and ashore near
the Philadelphia stone.yard, for which an
owner is wanted. The structure is appa.
rently in a good state Of preservation.
New Orleans Picayune: While the
new dredgeboat Bayley was at work on
Friday hemispherical anchor, weighing
seventy pounds. was pumped UP. This is an
illustration Of the force Of suction exerted
by the pump. The Bsyley ia still operating
at the other end Of the jetties.
Montgomery Advertiser We are in.
formed by railroad officials that the emigra>
ton to Texas this year from Alabama is
hardly ten per cent. what it was last year,
and the outlook for the future does not indi.
cate any greater amount. This is decidedly
determined to stick to Alabama.
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer: Our farm.
ers are taking more interest IN stock-raising
this season than for many years. They have
been buying more fine stock than ever be-
fore, and are determined to raise as much Of
their supplies US possible at home the COM
ing year. There is a growing demand for
working stock, such as mules.
Vicksburg Herald: A planters meet
ing was held in Lowndes county, the other
day, that took measures to attempt the pas.
sase of law that will make the obtaining of
money or goods under false promise of labor
penal offense also, law that will prevent
the hiring of any person who has contracted
for q specified term of service until said
service IL rendered.
A Charleston Is, C.) paper speaks o
sale of farm lands in that vicinity, only
two miles from the northeast railroad and
Webdin river, and of excellent soil. Six
hundred and twenty.eight acres were sold
for $205, eight hundred acres for 1920, one
hundred acres for $3S, all half cash and the
rest in one year.
Seaport Appeal: The population of
Georgia is 1,250OOO. OF these so per cent,
are whites and 40 per cent cOlored. The
population is mostly native, only about 49,.
600 being foreign born. The women are in
excess OF the men by about IL per cent.
OF this population per cent are engaged in
manufacturing, per cent. in trade and com.
merce, Is per cent. in professional or per.
sonal service, and rs per cent. in agriculture.
Charlie Hill, a young Irishman whose
mother lives in Washington city, gave
balloon exhibition at Manning, s. c., Thanks.
giving day. A long rope was attached to the
balloon and secured to the ground, but 1t
broke, and Hill was carried over OK swamp,
where bis dead body was found the next
morning half immersed in the water and
impaled on cypress knee"
Richmond (Va.) Dispatch: One Of the
strangest incidents in connection with the
freshet was the capture by Messrs. A. c.
Smith and Robert Morton (cOlored), Of Man.
chester, of very nice mahogony table, with
plates, water.pitcher and other articles on 1t.
II was evidently swept from before some party
partaklng of meal, as two biscuits were also
found on one Of the plates.
Memphis Avalanche Gen. Chalmers,
OF Mississippi, is trying to have a western
judicial district established, composed Of that
portion of Mississippi comprising the coun-
Ws.h;rc,nr SunAowar Yazoo. Sharkev'
fsssnmass f.sn' 'w.rrsn ria;horne Jeffsrson'
Adams and WiIksrson, and all the territory
embraced therein, which may hereafter be
erected into new counties. t.
Tho s,oodv ,orror in which the Mis-.
.;.!;n, no 1Gauy anI nn.S.d - .wan sna % IL wasb.
ing sundry and various towns and landings,
OF leis tnem inisnd: Is sPeVsa'iy h noieu Ua ~
tne Natcnel Ielepnone. o.; JWTsspn Wnf auJ
hoSney nave oeen IeIs inlsrr ma % me.eyPIo, vP;oIo
Is peing chased toward Ins ienSa' so1s TO-
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Col: Robert VIM; Baylor, propriesGb. r o. ba0s o.
the Late Richmond Enquirer seems ,s.n 70 naxe y.
oea wnusnps IN ni' .;nr. mn" vn ~ ' ,hs .us.
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