The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-08-09
NEWS SUMMARY.



Carolina and Tennessee is said to he smaller
this year than last. 1t is sad
Jacksonville, Florida has torn up her
street railway, aud the IacisonviIians are
going to leg it,
A Palatka, Florida, preacher was
driven out Of his pulpi. recently by blind
mosquitoes.
A rich vein Of silver ore has been dis
covered five miles northwest OF the town OF
Montague, Miss. Good judges say the ore
contains 60 per cent. OF silver with enough
gold to pay all expenses.
The ship channel company Of Eous-
ton, Texas, assures the city that it intends
TO put the bays in navigable condition, &C.
oording to contract, for the fall trade. 1t
claims to have expended much more than its
receipts, in improvements,
The mayer OF Tampa, Florida, has
prohibited communication, direct or iudi.
rect, with the city Of Havana.
The health officer OF Savannah reports
the city never more free of sickness than
now. There are no epdenics of any kind.
Alabama denies that the United States
government owns one.ffth of the public
lands OF that state. Government only owns
one.cighth.
A very large establishment for con
vorting cane into pulp for the manufacture
Of paper is about to he put into operation in
Wilmington, v e., by the national fiber
company,
A number of Spanards are in south
Florida for the purpose OF purchasing beef
Tor the Cuban market. They are well pro-
vided with money, and are paying liberal
prices.
There is some talk OF abandoning the
high school az a part of the public school
system of Augusta, Ga. The newspapers of
the state deprecate the step. The working
of the school has been highly satisfactory
Immigrants from the north and west
arrive at Tampa, Florida, by every train, and
the industrial interests OF that section Of the
state were never in more prosperous con.
dition.
The new directory Of Wilmington
North Caroline, gives that city a population
Of 1890, an increase of 1914 over the United
States census of 1870, and an increase of
400 over the census of the last directory,
The Pensacola, Florida, Gazette says
there are fig trees in Pensacola known by
living men to be more than sixty years old
but how much older il not known Sixty
years more, or hundred years, may be the
limit of their thrifty lives but we have no
data for prediction. They still yield pro.
fusely and are in full vgor.
At the press convention Of south
Carolina, in May last, it was determined that
IN effort should be made to raise from each
county in the state fifty dollars for the com.
pletion Of the bust and monument to William
Gilmore Snms. SO far nothing has been
collected. Fifteen hundred dollars is
needed The bust, made by the artist Ward,
of New York, is complete. Seven hundred
and fifty dollars was paid, and the like
amount is due on it. The granite for the
shaft is ready, but unchselcd.
The Savannah News says four thou
sand acres of land, valued at $1,000, known
as the "Village property" on st. Simon's
island is being bargaincd for by Mr.. W. j.
Hays, the recent purchaser OF Cannon's
Point, fora colony of twelve Illinois families
Shreveport, Louisiana, wants town
L 10, hoo e. e.,
I'VE miles Such a time.piece will be erected
and in running order by November on the
tower Of the Presbyterian church, which
will be elevated thirty or forty feet, placing
the dial. about seventy feet above the
ground. The proposed clock, it is claimed,
will be the second largest in the country.
A Houston, Texas, man gets his poplar
lumber from Decatur, Ala.
1t is thought ten escaped conyicts Of
Marion county, Georgia, are in Tchee creek
swamp.
Hailstones fell in Clay county, Texas
during the great storm measuring eight
inees in circumference.
Most of the country parishes in ! ou-
isiana have been divided into ten wards, as
provided by an act OF the late legislature.
II j. stated that the United States
government still owns onc.tifth Of all the
land in the state of Alabama.
Flat Rock, North Carolina, il above
the level OF the sea 2,lOO feet, nearly 900
higher than Greenville. Asheville is $3.50;
rssar's Head, $500; Cashiers Valley, 1900,
OH, and is the Hottest peak this side Of the
Focky mountains. These elevations are
gwen by the United States survey.
This Hot Springs commission has taken
. recess for the summer, every member
drawing his pay during the recess, of course.
The labor OF looking after the survey Of the
government reservation and OF exercising
Judicial functions with reference to the
squatters was too much for them. They had
Just gotten well into their work when they
Adjourned until September, They will re.
main year at Hot Springs.
The Charleston On. Co. Observer says
M agent VI tnt cuionLttiou sOc1tly vi L Hli-
adelphia has purchased 10000 acres in Tran.
sylyania and Henderson counties for emf.
grants. and that he has made arrangements
for the removal to these lands OF si1ty-iive
fanilie, OF people, who expect to come to
them about the first of September, settle on
them, and there make thsir homes. These
families are from eight different states of
the union. including Maine in the east, and
Wisconsin in the northwest, and locating
here they will turn their attention to farm.
ing, stock.raising, ETC. They are practical,
Industrious men and women.