The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-04-05
NEWS SUMMARY.



The African colonization fever has
broken out among the Augusta, Ca, colored
citizens.
The fire at Nowberry, Georgia, in
which POOLS hotel and twenty other build
ings were burned, amounted to $l5O,O0O.
Shall the bureau of agriculture, sta.
tstcs and mines be abolished is becoming
aquestion in Tennessee.
The total Indebtedness of the south
ern states, as estimated by the committee on
adjustment, IL about S2OO,OOO0OO, that of
Virginia alone amounting to $35OOO,OOO.
Georgia's most expensive luxury is
her last legislature. Over one hundred
thousand dollars vanished from the treasury
at the last session The clerical force in the
house is said to have been paid SLIGO.
As an evidence of returning confidence
in the honesty OF democratic rule in Florida,
the fact may be stated that persons of char.
acter and wealth abroad are looking to
Florida for settlement and investment of
capital,
Under tho new incorporation act of
Florida, no city or town can levy tax
greater than one per cent. for general pur.
poses, and an additional tax to meet interest
and provide for sinking fund to meet prnci.
pal at maturity.
Mitch. Pearson, of Bedford county,
Tenn, who has been before the courts for
twelve years for murder, and who has been
sentenced to death, &C., has finally been
sent to the penitentiary for ten years.
In twenty-one Louisiana parishes
heard from the yield of sugar in 1876 is
2O,6O0 hogsheads, more than the yield of
1878. The crop Of 1876, estimated on this
basis, will be 10000 hogsheads, against
10000 hogsheads in 1875, in round numbers.
Mobile (Ala,) Register Farmers in
form us that there is no doubt that great
deal of the fruit in North Alabama, both
north and south OF the Tennessee river, has
been killed in the bud. 1t has not happen.
ed more than once before within the mem.
ory Of man.
The "Thieves' Own association" is
the name of a new society in New Orleans,
which is composed entirely of colored
females. The object of the society is to hire
out as servants and disappear suddenly with
such "unconsidered trihes" as they conven-
ently can.
The average price of land in few
counties in northwestern Georgia, where
they raise grain and hay, is as follows; Bur-
tow county, per acre, $3.50; Chattooga,
$6,92; Polk, $6.9S. The average price in
southern Georgia, the best cotton region in
the state: Dooly county, per acre, $2.7i;
Lee,$2.99; Macon, 1886; Randolph, $2.S4.
A Florida correspondent of the Pc.
tersburg (Va.) Index and Appeal says there
is lemon tree of one hundred and FIVE feet
in circumference at the top. Upwards of
10000 lemons were taken of that single tree
few days ago, and it is estimated by com.
petent judges that there were still 2O,O0)
creditabIy stated that the average lemon tree
will bear from $500 to 5000 lemons.
The boundary-line question between
the states of Virginia and Tennessee,
which was thought to have been settled in
1903, has recently been brought up in the
legislature Of the former state, under an act
,F thn lan # NJ bn
ernor authority to select a committee to con-
fer with a like committee from tennessee to
take up the matter and locate the line but
Tennessee positively refused to touch the
matter at the time of the act of 1872.
Acts for the removal of the political
disabilities of the following persons were
signed by President Grant: John NJ. lladen,
of Texas; Theophlus II. Holmes, of North
Carolina P. J. Quattlebaum, of Georgia
w. F. Darlington, of Virginia; William But.
Ter, of South Carolina; Il. G. Gatlin, of Ar
kansas; s. p. Moore, NJ. d., of Virginia; D.
II. Hill, of North Carolina; NJ. l., Bonham,
of South Carolina; John S. Marmaduke, j.
L. NJ, Curry, of Virginia Catesby r.
Jones, of Alabama; Wade II. Gibbes of
South Carolina, and VIM. Il. Jones, of Texas.
Savannah (Ga.) News, 18th: The
Central railroad company have transported
during the past thirty days, from Savannah
alone, over 10000 bags of commercial fer
tilizers. In the transportation of this stuff
300 cars have been required, and allowing
twenty cars to the train, at least one hun
dred and thirty.fve trains, or five trains per
day, were necessary for this work. These
fertilizers are landed from the vessel (Which
bring them from northern ports) at the
Central railroad company's wharf, and are
hardly cold before they are moving rapidly
to the interior to either make or break some
farmer.