The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-03-22
NEWS SUMMARY.
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pay 10 the United States $4,000 every month,
The United States troops at New Or
cans are under orders to be ready to
march.
At the Mardi Gras ball in New Or
leans San Francisco belle wore $4,000
worth Of diamonds
The American ship, John DeCosta, will
sail from Charleston with 5000 bales OF up.
land cotton.
There will be no election of state libra
ran OF the legislature of the state of Tenncs.
see, as the incumbent, Mrs, Haskell, is found
both worthy and competent,
The municipal tax OF Charleston this
year is $625,OOO, at the rate of two and a half
per cent II will be collected in three install.
ments,
Turpentine lands on the Altamaha,
Ocmuigc and OcOnce rivers, in Georgia, sell
at fifty cents to five dollars per acre. The
pines yield 10000 TO 1000 feet OF lumber per
acre,
Three hundred hands are employed in
the New BraunfeIs (Tcxas) WOODEN mills
These mills have recently added improved
machinery aud will manufacture broadcloths
as well as army end navy goods,
The country in Georgia along The line
of the Macon and Brunswick railroad is pre-
eminentIy n sheep growing country, the
"wiro grass" INDIGENOUS to the soil, being
sufficient for stock the year round Stock
rasers are not obliged to feed atal.
Cotton seed oil is largely sold for olive
oil, which ii is said to equal for culinary and
table uses. There are five cotton seed oil
factories in New Orleans, producing an
.amount equal to the entire production of
olive in France.
A Chinese laundryman died of starva.
ton At Louisville, the other day, with these
pathetic aud expressive words on bis lips:
"Bes thing Chnaman do in Kcntuckcc he
dic-tlcc weekec-only waShec lun Shirlec
him no get poyee--hcap staryc on moths
Ing"
The school census tor the city of Gal
weston, just completed, shows the total mum.
Der of children of school age to be 2,i1i; un-
der, 1911; over, 1,O13; native Texans, 1904 !;
other states Lon foreign, 1893; white, 3,j7S
colored, ,16o Oithe total number, ,305 can
not read,
Major Thomas Walker, who served
through the Indian war in Florida, the Mcxi>
can war; and who WAS ina or of the Seven,
teenth Georgia regiment in the late war, aud
who was an actor of prominence in his native
country, Scotland, in his early days, died at
Albany, Ga, recently,
A bill has been introduced into the
legislature OF Tennessee to reduce the salaries
Of clerks Of courts, revenue collectors and ats
torncys general to S3,5Oo per annum, cxclu>
svc Of the pay for necessary clerical assis>
tance. The bill provides that all fees over
and above that amount are to be- paid into the
state. treasury,
The eucalyptes globulus, or lever-trce
which was to do away with southern
plaques. is curiously enough succumbing TO
levers chief enemy, frost himself. The
New Orleans Democrat says: "Every one
of these trees planted in the Lafourche
country is dead-kiled by our late cold
winter; and their late friends and admirers
are convinced that whatever be tEe virtues
OF the tree, it will not exactly do for the
climate of Louisiana.
A gentleman in Fayettc county, Texas,
writing to the Galveston News, gays: ] was
ont surveying all day yesterday and am very
sorry TO inform YOU that the whole face Of
the earth is alive with hoppers, and unless
they are drowned out soon will destroy
everything. We entertain the gravcst ap'
prehensions as to the future, with almost Il
certainty of no fruit or vegetables, and pos
siby no crops of any kind. They are de-
stroying everything green.
In 1886 the manufacture of India
rubber goods caused a new demand for
spirits of turpcntinc, increasing lts value
greatly and creating demand for new terri
tory near shipping points, Up 10 this tim" ii
was considered that the country on the west
and south sides of the Cape Fear river in
North Carolina would net yield turrcnt'ne
A test being made in 1887, the error was DIS
covered, and the business extended rapidly
in that direction,
The Augusta factory is in prosperous
condition, The product OF this factory t"'
four weeks, ending February ~ 1877, was
larger than for the same period for scvcra
wears. The cotton consumed amounted u
nine hundred and seventy bales and the
cloth manufactured amounted to l,l5j,ll'
wards The last four weeks OF this time th'
amount manufactured was much larger thar
for the two previous weeks. This is at th'
rate Of about fourteen millions Of yards pc
annum.
Cotton prospects, 1877" The time
have generally been very hard for the pa
three wears, and all interest subjected 10
most painful strain. How has cotton larc'
y under this pressure? Consumption in tn
limited States has steadily increased. II
Is7O-71, when times were comparatively fu'l
the consumption reached 1,1o,lab bales II
1874 tthe year of the panicl it was l,So5
ali bales; in lS7i-5, 1.2o7,to bales; and II
1s75-76 corrected figures, 1,556,5H5 bales
This is the first element of comfort TO our col
ton growers,
The Barataria canal company thin
the Eads jetties failure, but think thei
canal would be most eminent success
They think that this canal will so cheape
freights that the agricultural products OF til
Mississippi valley will soon he more tina
doubled, giving constant and remunerati'
employment to millions now uncmploye'
This will bring ships, steamboats,, barges an
barge lines without number, furnishing en
ployment to the five hundred thonsan
skilled mechanics now unemployed Ghrougl
oyt Ihs e,tisc Of this 0agntry, aEl viii Ga