The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-29
NEWS SUMMARY.
HE SOuTH.

Pfol lOr rernanutnH,
Gov. Jn0. Letcher was defeated for
The Legislature in Rockbridge county, Va.
The finest of Florida oranges are re-
failing at Key West at three for nickel.
North Carolins has l6O,S72 white
children of school age and lOO,Si2 volored.
To the 9Th inst. Fernandinia had re.
ceived $sl ,549l7 and expended SlO,3547S,
Virginia convicts have Ior.y-two dsys
per year deducted from f,.,eir terms for good
New Orleans nas trebled its grain ship.
mehs IN lne past month, twelve vessels hav.
ing sailed " that time.
Inc ~. Worth (Tcx.) Democrat re.
po..S The departure from that place of twen.
y'' 'o.well'todo Mormon proseytes.
The number of yellow fever deaths at
Fernandina has reacbcd nnety.four. Twelve
per cent ol the whites have died in the past
two months.
New Orleans has not paid her city off.
Gals since August, and Recorder Smith
threatens to pay himself out of the Gnes
paid into his court,
New Orleans Sunday Democrat The
customs receipts at this port for the week
ending last evening aMounted to $SS ,332.6l
gold, and $6,95s.s3 currency.
The steamboat, John f. Toole, from
st. Louis for New Orleans, with an assorted
cargo OF western produce, burned at Grand
Holf last week. Boat and cargo total loss
Lexington (Na,) Gazette About fifty
Enembers of the colored Baptist church, in
this place, we're dropped from the roll at
their church meeting on Tuesday night last
Tor attending the circus.
The same vote that elected Mr.. w. III.
'Slvls lieutenant governor of Mississippi by
yearly 100000 majority abolished the Office to
which he was elected. To Mr.. +. this IS the
most barren victory ever won.
Saturday was tho twenty ifth anniYer-
tary OF the opening of Laurel Grrse GENE.
terry at Savannah. In that time the inter>
i,nen's amount to 23,a54, A. F. Torcy has
been keeper dur!ng the entire period.
In 1873 Jacob Harris and Isaac White
qnarreled In Anderson county, Tenn, about
some feature of the late war, and Harris killed
Whlte. va Saturday the Supreme court sem
Der %.
through the bell,punch system the
whisky-dealers Of Richmond have paid tax
OF about $4,000 since the middle OF Septem.
her whereas, in the county towns, where the
registers have not yet been put up, no tax
p'ss beer paid.
Galveston News: J. W. Maddox, ar
rested at Cuero the 9Th inst, charged with
hSng accessory to the great land swindling
conspiracy of Ham Il Co., is the same who
furnished the printer his friend Fitzhugh's
"bigger man than Grant"
Whig: The breadth of land seeded in
wheat this fall in Virginia, frcm observation
and tho best means of information we can
gather, is much above the average, and il
certainly has not for many years at this sea.
ren made as favorable showing.
. Vicksburg Herald: In many fields the
ground is covered with young cotton that
has come up from the seed blown out OF the
hollis by the storms OF wind and beaten into
the ground by the heavy r,ina while the
seed in the bolls on the stalks are Rll sprout.
ing.
Raleigh On. C.) Farmer and Mechanic:
The latest intelligence from the salmon hatch.
cry ut Henry's says the fish are all cut and
doing finely. And the day is coming fast
when those quarter of million of salmon
VIII furnish many poor man his summers
meat.
There arrived at Galveston a few days
age one hundred and fifty German emigrants
Oh their way TO Marion county, Texas. On
the train from Galveston the baggage
smashers was struck with the peculiar shape
oi bundle, and, upon examination, found
in il big Dutchman.
A Miss Smith, of Keowee county, s
G., was sentenced to ten days in ail for nett,
larceny; Mr.. McLatchett was similarly sen
fenced for a like crime. After the conviction
OF the parties they were married by the tria
justice, and then delivered up to the sheriff
who will care for them during the honey
moor.
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer: George
Butt, c0lored OF Marion county, has mad,
this year twenty, three bales Of cotton will
Two mules, and corn, ETC.. in due proportion
He mad check yesterdy for SlS5, and wen
to Blanchard & Hills and purchased Si'
silk diess for his wife. He's a valuable citi
zen in any community, and we wish all o
tho farmers were half so independent.
'rhe sidswheel steamer Tom Morgan
'Sas wrecked by her boiler exploding whil'
wooding Saturday evening at the head o
Scrubgrass Towhead, on the Mississippi
shore. Her owner and Capt. d. II. Howell
Of CovingtOn; KY, and the engineer wer
killed. The bodies were not found. Th
captains wife, crew and two families Of pas
sengers were saved. The Morgan was boa
of two hundred tons, and was in the cottol
seed trade.
Raleigh News: An engine has beel
A. ,AS
nOa Gap, through the indefatigable and thol
oughly intelligent efforts OF Major Wilson
president of the Western North Caroln
railroad. The whistle Of railroad engn
has for the first time been heard in Mort
Carolina on the west side of the ridge. TIL
iron horse has actually shrieked in tn
Swannanoa valley and tossed mis- heecy man
within the domain OF "ihe state OF BuT
combe."
New Orleans Delta: In paper rea
before the board of health on Thursda
evening, DR.. Joseph Jones gave statistics
show the absolute necessity OF legislative il
reference to compelgenersl vaccination, fc
the same reason that it establishes quaral
tine. From 1903 up to 1865 :the cit
and state were exempt from smallpox ep
denies. For the past ten years and te
vases VI anu NoiioiOi
in the city were 3,499, and deaths 5,5?l, III
colo.ed people, from lack of vaccination, b
ing the principal sufferers. The board al
pointed committee to bring the subject b
fore the legislature.
Austin (Tex.) Gazette: FL Paso is Il
theater OF a continued disturbance. Tt
Mexican population have organized and clai
the right to govern by mob Law. They n
fuse obedience to the civil authorities an
threaten resistance should attempts be mac
to control them. The Mexican citizens Al
aided in these revolutionary proceedings |
anumber Of leading Mexicans west OF Il
river. Major Jones, by late advices, hr
reached Messilia, forty miles above FL Pas
and We shall learn whether he will be able
obtain peace ard quiet. The probabiliti
are that he will not without the use OF focc
aud the men under him are too limited
numbers to engage an organized oppositio
The crop report of the Memphis co
ton exchange for October, for west Tenne