The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-09-13
NEWS SUMMARY.
NE NOUTn.

in San Antonio, Texas, for thirty years.
The buffalo are reported dying on the
frontier OF Texas from the effects OF the
drouth.
Fort Worth, Texas, has two -four mills
that use one thousand two hundred bushels
of wheat every twentyfour hours.
The San Antonio (Texas) Express
proposes the importation Of English spar.
rows as remedy for cotton worms.
The state of Virginia wants the scalps
of foxes at the rate OF one dollar for gray
and dollar and half for red foxes.
Two immensely rich black lead mines
have been discovered in Barlow county, Ga,
on the Western and Atlantic railroad.
Mr. j. g. Dove, bee-raiser of Darda-
nellie, Arkansas, received three Italian queen
bees, direct from lta y, that cost him ~ so
each.
The improvements of the Coosa river,
now actively in progress, will give uninter.
rupted navigation of seven hundred miles to
Mobile.
The Memphis Appeal gives a summary
OF the building done in that city within the
past two years. The aggregate is million
and half dollars.
The receipts of the street railway
company in Memphis, Tenn, at the fve.cent
fare are largely in excess of receipts under
the ten.cent system.
Belle Boyd, who figured so extensively
during the war as scout for the confed.
crate forces, is now living at Calvert, Texas,
and supports herself and sister by sewing.
A petition in bankruptcy has been
filed by Robert N. Blakemore and John w.
Gould, firm OF Blakemore & Co., of Memphis.
Liabilities about 100000; assets about $4,000
The Nashville American of the 18th
instant contains list of eighty criminals of
Tennessee now running at large, and for
whose arrest rewards amounting to $4,000
are offered.
Last week twenty. three tramps were
put off the train between Nashville and
Chattanooga a distance of nearly so miles.
They would get on at nearly every other
station, only to be put off at the next,
A. NJ. Davis commenced bee-culture
three years ago with two hives in Shreve.
port, Louisiana. He now has seventy.fvc
hives, and his sales of honey this year will
net him $4,000.
Among the inmates of the Virginia
pententary are man and woman who
stole one hundred dollars from the latter's
mother upon which to get married and set
up housekeeping.
1t is stated that one farmer in jefferson
county anticipates gathering seventy.tive
bushels OF corn per acre from several acres
the present season. And this is the first
years experience at farming in Florida
SGrdnnoh Ne'rS.
BY contract with the authorities of
Memphis General Forrest takes the Migrants
and tramps convicted in that city of its
hands, and pays therefor ten cents day,
Working them on his plantation.
Frere ID EST, the leader of the Murphy
movement in Nashville, Tennessee, caught
IN the act of stealing, was held on prelmi-
nary trial in bond of two thousand dollars
TO answer. His brother Percy is at large.
The steamship Rio Grande recently
made the trip from New York to Galveston
IN seven days and seven hours. This is
claimed to be the quickest time on record,
although two hours were lost in going in and
out of Key West.
Captain Malachi Corbel, keeper of life
station No. s, on the coast of Virginia, near
Norfolk, will receive medal from the gov.
ernment treasury department for saving life.
On one occasion he rescued seventeen of
the English bark Tinto.
There has been dispute for some time
in Van Zandt county, Texas, whether the
county seat should be Wills Point or Canton.
BY a decision of the district Judge, Wills
Point has the best of it, and the county
records will remain there.
The pilots engaged on seagoing vessels
across the bar at Galveston say that the water
in the bay and gull is clearer than they have
seen it for many years. The anchors OF
heavy ships which can not come inside can
be seen lying on the bottom in twenty-five
feet of water.
A tombstone with q six-shOOter en-
graved on it is to be erected to the memory
of one Tom Burns, who was killed in the
ChOctaw nation last month. The Fort Smith
(Ark.) Independent surmises that a six
shooter was probably the last thing Tom
saw. hence the novel design.
In the archives of the Tennessee his
torical society IS Gen. Israel Putnam's com.
mission, signed by John Hancock, and that
OF Daniel Smith, first secretary of the terri.
tory south of the Ohio river, dated 1890, and
signed by George Washington and Thomas
Jefferson.
The Vicksburg Herald says that ain a
nc" noe tN 'n1lo WIN pe pioro iaogi 10y
III .nis s.ate tnan can De procured. .i a s"d'
TbgP ot eu'on anu gram Is TO ot the
fall and winter, II il first 10 he gathered,
then to be prepared for market, and then to
be Transported to market,
The Savannah News says that IN less
than sixty days the Enterprise factory OF
Augusta, Ga, will be in the full tide OF sue
cessful operation. The building has been
completed and the machinery has been
placed. The mill starts out under the most
favorable auspces-freedom from taxation,
1880 spindles and 1913 looms.
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