The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-08-02
NEWS SUMMARY.
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on Sand mountain, Ala, between Marshall
and DeKalb counties.
Cedar Key, Fla, is about shipping
large quantities of reef shells to Fernandina,
TO be used in building concrete houses.
The watermelon season Is at its height
in Key West Florida, and one thousand of
this fruit are consumed daily, as it is cheaper
to eat than to ship them.
The publisher of the directory Of Au-
gusta, Ca which has Just been issued, makes
the population of Augusta 2S,76s-whites,
1876; colorod, S,632,
Over two millions IN back taxes are
due the city CT Memphis, and as yet but
little has been done 10 enforce their collec.
ton. Tho two millions, if collected would
relieve the city government of many clam.
orous and needy creditors.
There is u natural curiosity in Miller
county, Fla, nine miles south of Camilla,
known as the Blowing Cave" so called be-
cause it draws the mir in the forenoon and
blows it out in the afternoon, thus there is a
perpetual alternate blowing Of wind inward
and Outward.
A society for the promotion Of emf
grafton to Liberia is laboring with success
among the colored people of South Carolina.
Twenty-Five hundred persons in Charleston,
and about thirty thousand in the state, are
said to be in readiness to take passage for
the African republic as soon as Transports
ton can be provided.
A serpent thirty feet long, with huge
body, carrying its head as high as that of
horse" is spending the summer in Bradley
county, Tenn. 1t was seen there during the
war The east Tennessee papers have faith
il the accounts of it.
The Nashville American calls attention
to the mountain of slick near the Cumber.
land river, and within three miles OF Harris
vile, Tenn. For the manufacture of glass it
is equal to any in the United States. The
American also says that even the white sand
generally used by painters of that city and
elsewhere in the south is brought from the
north, when it lies at our very doors and is
ten times cheaper,
A mammoth fish, known as q granda-
CORE measuring six feet and half in length,
and weighing one hundred and twenty-five
pounds, was recently caught in seine in
the gulf, near Galveston. There is con.
viction among all old fishermen that it is
impossible to take one of these fish with a
hook and line, owing TO the great strength
and activity which they possess. They are
known as the gamest fish that inhabit the
gulf.
The promoters OF the LiDerian emf.
grafton scheme claim to have enrolled the
names of 10000 colored persons in the state
of South Carolina who consent to emicrate.
A bill for injunction has been filed in
the courts Of Savannah, Georgia, by certain
taxpayers, praying that the city authorities
he enjoined from paying money in the dis
charge OF any bonds, coupons or promissory
notes, AID asking the appointment of
receiver to take charge OF certain property
Of the city of Savannah, and TO hold the same
subject to the future direction OF the court.
The Tallahassee Ola Immigrant says
efforts are now being made by parties living
near the mouth of the st. Lucie river to
capture specimens OF the manatee frequent.
ing that section for exhibition in the north
ern states. Only three have ever been taken
alive; the first, several years ago, died on
the passage, the other two were taken to
Philadelphia last summer. and were de-
stroyed by fire on the second day of the
exhibition.
Capt, Booker Freeman, a prominent
citizen of Macon county, Georgia. committed
suicide at his house six miles north Of La
fayette last week He hung himself with
piece Of hickory bark
The following new anecdOte is told of
ex-governor Letcher, of Virginia Governor
Letcher, returning from Baptist fair, was
asked by friend what he had been doing.
Il have been eating oysters for the Lord at
dollar Dozen was his reply.
Mrs. Wimberly, of Otter creek, Fla,
has Noted 1912 50 on threefourths Of an
acre of cucumbers this season. On the same
piece of land this lady has planted sugar
cane, upon which she hopes to make at least
two hundred dollars.
The Brookhaven (Miss) Comet says
never glass of whisky has been sold in the
town limits of Brookhaven, though it has
population of 1900.
The Canton Miss Citizen says blind
ness in cattle is becoming alarmingly preva-
lent in that section. The ANIMALS lose their
sight without any apparent cause,a film
gradually forming over the eye until the
sight is entirely obsoured.
Within the last few weeks several
western farmers have bought land in Madi.
son county, Alabama. Colonel Stephen
Collins, who has been appointed by Gov
Houston assistant commissioner of imml-
grafton, states that large numbers OF families
in Indiana and Ohio will come south before
the close Of the year.
The fight for the location of tine capt.
tai of West Virginia is warming up between
Charleston and Clarksburg. Martinsburg
also wants it. There is a good deal OF abuse
going on. The negroes are interested in 1t
as well, and hold meetings on the subject
A Pickens county letter to the Charles
ton Is. CO. News says there are about 1900
taxpayers in that county. and it is estimated
that there are two dogs to every taxpayer,
making total # 5000 dogs. We estimate
that the cost of keeping one dog would, II
fed to a hog, make two hundred pounds oil
bacon. If this be true, then what it costs to
feed the dogs would make 100000 pounds
of bacon, which, at fifteen cents per pound
,roull Ln ,rnrth Il 20 900 Think of This