The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-10-18
NEWS SUMMARY.
TIE MOUTH.

Memphis received nine hundred bales
of cotton on the lSt instant
Hon. A. II. Stephens has educated
more than sixty young men and boys,
Two Cherokee Indians have been sent
to the penitentiary in North Carolina
A stalk of cotton with four hundred
bols on it is on exhibition at Augusta, Ga.
Colonel j. |. Thornton, first secretary
of state Of Alabama, died at Euiaw recently.
James Magce killed two of the men
who took him into the woods to hang him,
xaescs and in Texas, and esaped.
w. G. Meadows has been sentenced to
death in Arkansas for throwing Il train from
the track and killing fireman.
Judge Mackey, of South Carolina,
says: "The condition of the public roads
measures the civilization Of country"
Only five hundred and seventeen con-
victs in the South Carolina penitentiary, but
the doors are yawning tor many more.
Miss Matte Davis, aged twenty.one,
blew her brainsout with n pistol in Wynnton,
Georgia.
General John b. Gordon entered the
confederate service as captain Of the "Rac.
coon Roughs."
The grape crop of Florida is unusually
heavy, and the orange groves are reported
fine condition.
John Neely Bryan, the founder of the
town and city OF Dallas, died in the asylum
tor the insane at Austin, Texas, a few days
since.
The Marietta (Ga,) Journal says that
Cn..
bushels of corn last year per acre, and says
his crop is better this year,
If South Carolina carries out all the
railroad projects now agitatcd, future maps
of the state will look like they had been
struck in the face with big gridlron,
Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee
and Kentucky have nearly the same number
OF convcts in their respective penitentiarics;
not varying ten from nine hundred and fifty
each.
New Orleans Delta A body of thirty
four white farm laborers arrived here two
days ago from Minnesota and Wisconsin on
their way to sugar plantation on the Teche,
twenty miles from Morgan City.
The Augusta Chronicle learns from
Governor Hampton that Hayes has promised
to make q southern tour during the winter,
and will visit Savannah, Augusta, Charleston,
Columbia, New Orleans and other cities
Texas has l,65O,O0O people, and Louis
lana only about 100000. When the war
ended Louisiana was the more pOpulous
state of the two. Three years from now
Texas expects to have twenty congressman.
Montgomery Advertiser: The cotton
men are in high dudgeOn at the report that
the late rains will cut down the quantity to
nominal figure. 1t is all moonshine that
thirty thousand bales have been destroyed
in Alabama, although it is not denied that
much damage has been done.
Liberian immigration meetings are
fashionable now in many of the southern
states, and the Raleigh News taks the Occa-
sion to remark: II is probable that the meet
ings will be held ten years hence Just as at
present, but it is extremely doubtful whether
any one will reach Liberia unless he pays his
own expenses
From the Shreveport Times we learn
that the people of north Louisiana, east
Texas and south Arkansas, who are depend
ent on the Red river as an outlet for their
products, intend to ask at the next session
OF congress for an appropriation of 100000
to secure low water navigation in that river
all the year round,
Mesilla New Mexico) Independent:
A number of emigrants passed through town
this week en- route from California and
Arizona to Texas. Among the party was a
burly old backwoodsman, his wife and a
dozen tow.headed children, who have moved
back and forth over the road from western
Texas to California three times within the
last thirteen wears.