The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-08-16
NEWS SUMMARY.
TIL e NOUTn.


The sale of cattle on the gulf coast
from Tampa to Punta Rassa, Fla, amounts
to about $4,000 per month.
The city council of Galveston has
ordered fire alarm telegraph, to cost six
thousand dollars
Natchez is going to turn the old gravs
yard back of the Catholic church into a
public park.
Next years tuition in the university
OF Mississippi will be free. The state ap.
preparation is $4,000.
Tao state convicts in sonth Florida are
now employed in widening lake Griffin
canal.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens appeared
in Justices court in Crawfordville the
other day ss the attorney OF a blind colored
man.
"Shadwell," the birthplace of Thomas
Jefferson, in Albemarle county, Va, is adj
vertised for sale.
A Rev. Mr.. Neill is stirring up bad
Tor rather good) blood in Virginia by trying
to prove Captain John Smith a fraud.
At Alexandria, La, watermelons are
sold two for nickel, and ripe figs can be
bought for 90 cents bushel.
North Carolina is taxing commercial
fertilizers TO such an extent that the business
is declining
Ths conviction of Il number of cattle
thieves in Ouachita, La, at the late session
of the district court, has had good effect on
the cattle.raising business.
The Henrietta (Tcxas) Journal says
that it is no uncommon sight in Clay county
for cattemen to see punches of wild horses,
But no effort is made to capture them.
The farmers OF Wilson county, Texas,
are in a quandary how to utilize the enor.
nous acsrn mast this fall. Not more than
ten per cent. of the yield could be consumed
by the hogs of the county,
Mr.. j. T. Hogane, of Bowie county
Texas, has genuine Chinese tea tree, which
was exposed to all the rigor of last winter,
and which has, nevertheless, retained robust
life and grown eight inches this season.
The United States snagboat o. G..
Wagner has been engaged in removing
snags and obstructions from the Ouachita
river, in Arkansas, and will begin on the
Louisiana portion of the river as soon as
the water is low enough to get to work.
A tract containing six thousand acres
of land in Plano county, Texas, sold for fifty.
seven cents an acre the other day. The most
of the land is river bottom, and could not
per acre some time ago,
A. NJ. Bartlett, residing near Red
river, in Clay county, Texas, has killed two
hundred and seventy.eight head of deer
this season in circumference of two miles
from his house. In addition to these, he
has killed countless numbers of antelope
and other small game.
The proposed extension of the Clinton
railroad to Baton Rouge has been postponed,
as it is found impossible to complete it in
ime to take off the present crops. 1t will
be pushed forward doubtless during the year,
as the people of Baton Rouge seem deter.
mined to have it built as matter of public
convenience.
The Montgomery Advertiser and Mail
says that Montgomery can boast of largest
compress in the south, the largest cotton oil
factory, mill that turns out a barrel of flour
every four minutes, and an Ice machine that
in one day can give every inhabitant in the
state pound of the cooling material.
Mr.. Kirkland cut open a hollow log
to catch a rabbit the other day, and on draw.
ing the rabbit out he also drew out an i'm.
mense rattesnake that had partly swallowed
the animal. He struck the snake upon the
head, when sixteen young, furious rattle
snakes ran out of the pouch under the body
of the mother snake. The little snakes were
all very bellicose, but were all killed. There
were seventeen rattles on the old snake, and
it measured about five feet in length, so says
the Hamilton (Ga.) Herald.
The New Orleans Democrat says that
the most hattering reports come from all the
great sugar plantations OF Plaquemine parish
in regard to the prospect of a full crop o
sugar and molasses. Cane is everywhere
growing most vigorously, though slightly
backward for the season. The stand is sale
to be more regular and even than usual ant
the ground in splendid condition and un
commonly free from grass and weeds. The
supply OF labor is abundant and the labor
ers more efficient and active than ever, thei
minds being more concentrated on thei
work and their own well.being and materia
advancement than on the great poltica
problems of the day.
The Louisiana state insane asylum, a
Jackson, East Feliciana parish, is in de
plorable condition. The New Orleans Time
says only the simplest fare, such as is fur
nished the ordinary field hand, is provided
the building is badly out of repair. the fur
nture, which has been in service nearly
quarter of a century, is entirely worn out
aud the clothing of the inmates is scarcel.
sufficient to cover their nakedness. 1t j
hoped the state authorities will do somethIn,
to ameliorate the condition Of these helples
sufferers or abolish the institution.
The Charleston 6. CO. Journal o
Commerce says there lies in Stono river
near Church Flat, four stone anchors, whicl
are supposed to have been cast there wher
the British first landed on Carolina soil
These four stone anchors are SQUARE an,
weigh about $50 pounds each. An iron
run through the stone and riveted at tn
bottom, and at the top are fastened iro
rings for the purpose of making them fast t