The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-06-21
NEWS SUMMARY.
TIL u SOUTH.

A copper mine is worked within few
miles of Marietta, Ga.
The fig crop in Florida which has been
so much neglected, is attracting attention.
Petersburg is rejoicing over the pros.
pect of permanent channel of twelve feet
in her own Appomattox,
Col. Pennypacker has been ordered to
transfer his regiment Sixteenth infantry
from New Orleans to the west.
The net profit from one acre of land
planted in Strawberries near Jackson, Miss,
was five hundred and fifty dollars.
Down on the mainland of Monroe
county, Florida, they raise bects weighing
eighteen to twenty pounds and measuring
two and half feet round.
1t seems that the shad captured in the
Tennessee, near Chattanooga, were not the
true shad. Those found in the Ohio at
Louisville, KY, are all right.
st, Johns county, Florida, paid six
teen dollars last month for scalps of nan.
thers and bears. Florida wants TO get rid
of the animals; they commit too many
southern outrages.
1t is estimated that the school fund OF
the state of Texas will be $3),OOOtO) when
the school lands are all realized from. The
annual income to the school fund will be
about s., 100000.
Leonard w. Hooper, of the firm of
Hooper & Co., pork packers at Nashville,
was killed by Bell Nance, son of the presi.
dent of the White Greek turnpike company,
on the 3!st ultimo.
1t is rumored that Wade Hampton is
about to marry the widow of Gen. Pickcns,
of South Carolina. The lady is native
Mssissippian, and was long reigning belle
as Miss Lucie Patton IIolcombe.
Horace F. Smith, general freight agent
of the Memphis division of the Louisville,
Nashville and Great Southern railway, was
drowned in the river nearly opposite Mem.
3lst ultimo.
In New Orleans, the road to the lake
known as the Canal street, City Park and
Lake railway, continues to remain useless
enterprise, and, while the engines and cars
are rotting, the general inquiry is, "what
will they do with it?'
North Carolina has paid for fertilizers
within the last twelve months three millions
of dollars; Georgia, two millions, Virginia
perhaps more. These figures appall some of
the newspapers, which suggest that the
manure "costs more than it comes to-"
From March 18th to May lst there
were delivered at various points in North
Carolina ten thousand seven hundred and
eighty.three tons of guano. The Raleigh
News is discouraged at the extravaganza,
and calls cotton "the poorest crop on the
face of Gods EARTH"
The Methodists of North Carolina es-
tablished an orphans home in 1870 The
institution has been kept up mainly through
the instrumentality Of few. A mechanic
of Atlanta gave eight thousand dollars to it,,
and now works, barely reserving enough to
meet necessary expenses, donating the re-.
mainder to the same noble charity.
DR.. j. F. Grant, of Pulaski, Tenn, is
engaged in collecting together specimens OF
all the fishes that roam our waters. He has
already large variety. His object is to
have the collection complete and at Nash
vile by the 1st of August, at the meeting of
the American association for the advance.
ment of science.
In South Carolina much interest is
taken in volunteer military organizations.
The uniforms are various and striking. The
Charleston Hampton Rifemen have fatigue
or summer uniform, consisting of black pants,
linen jackets, with palmetto buttons and
green trimmings, black felt hat, with green
cord and tassel and green feather.
The Robert f. Lee Monumental As
sociation of New Orleans has succeeded in
obtaining funds nearly sufficient to erect a
monument in that city to the memory Of
that illustrious general 1t is proposed to
erect the monument in Tivoli circle, which
is the center Of the city, and the most prom.
inent and conspicuous place.
The canal around Muscle Shoals, in
the Tennessee river, will be fourteen and
one-half miles long. The size of the locks
is three hundred feet between mtre sills
sixty feet wide, ten feet lift; large enough
to pass first class Mississippi river steamer
Something less than million dollars in
addition to the amount already expended
will be necessary to complete the work.
Correspondence OF Richmond Dispatch
The grand estate OF the family of Lemon
IA Hrguenot family which came from North
CarolnaD is in Loudon county. The estate
has been kept well together in body o.
two thousand five hundred acres, and is ;
grand sight to the agriculturist. The prop
erty is carefully and successfully managed
During the war Burnside's command founC
its way 10 the Lenoir estate, and the genera
remarked to old Mr.. Lenoir that he admired
the property, and had been thinking o
proposing to trade for it. The old gentle
man said he might swap it for. Rhode islam,
If the general would give boot enough.
The New Orleans Picayune speak
cheerfully of the sugar prospect; report
from the growing crop everywhere are mos
encouraging. Labor was never more sati,
factory, the tillage is careful, the dry weathe
has allowed of the cultivation being com
pletc. The foreign production of sugar
especially in Cuba, has fallen off, and tn
Louisiana grower expects to make a prof
this season the Cuban decrease will be q
least twenty-five per cent The admissio
of Hawaii sugar free has caused but littl
diminishing of prices on the Pacific shore
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