The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-02-08
NEWS SUMMARY.
THE MOUTH.

The southern Methodist publishing
house, at Nashville, is said to be in fnOncia
distress.
The hog crop of south Alabama is
heavier this year than 1t has been since
1851.
There's move in the Georgia legisla.
ture to reduce the salaries of their supreme
court judges from $1,000 to $4,000 per
year.
-Four car loads of cattle are sent every
day, on an average, from Nashville to New
orleans where they are preferred to Texas
cattle.
Virginia has a national hank capital of
S3,59O,0l3 and pays All internal revenue of
SH343,7So. The six New England states
nave national banking capital of $iCO,5l7,.
20N and pay only $6,575,75l revenue.
The factory at Columbus, Ga, last
year consumed a daily average of 2,SOS
pounds of cotton, and 1886 yards of sheet.
inG total cotton, 7l5,GG2 pounds sheet.
ing, l,Sl5,33S yards shifting, 5OolC yards.
The cotton factory at Augusta, Ga,
cleared within the last six months, u little
over $4,000, This fact, tax en- into consider.
alton at time when the market for cotton
goods is depressed, and when most mills al
the north are either stopping or running on
short time, gives proof that the south is the
place to employ machinery and labor to adj.
vantage in the production of cotton goods.
A singular bill introduced in the Vir
gina legislature provides that any person
found guilty OF carrying concealed deadly
weapons shall be fined in the discretion of a
justice not exceeding S20-on half to 90 to
the nformer--and shall likewise forfeit to
the informer his weapon, in default of which
SO be committed to Jail by the justice for one
month or until the same be paid or delivered
up.
Since the year 1860 Virginia by dis.
membership and from other causes, has lost
III population 37O,6jl, loss in personal prop.
crty liaxable) $ll6SS9,OlG; loss in taxable
real estate, $l2l ,525,O0O; internal improve
ments, $36, l0O362; loss on banking capital
$ld,520,55O; loss on circulation, Sl2,OOOOO;
loss on the states interest in banks, $780,.
U2O; loss on dividends and bonds from
banks, $SGS, 1928; total loss, $306, ,16l702. TO
which may be added slaves and other prop
erty not taxed, $ll6,556,OOO; total, 49,
720,7O2.
Mrs Mary Connor, of Memphis, well
known, hard working, honest woman, while
carrying some things home on wheelbar,
row, last Friday night, was brutalIy assassi,
mated by an unknown man. As she passed |
along Washington street, near Market, and |
within few steps Of a dozen or more men
the murderer stepped up behind her, seized
her hy the hair, drew her head back and cut |
her throat. lie ran into u lumber house and |
thence into dark bayou, and was gone
The affair is Shrouded in deep mystery.
Charleston News and Courier: The
vessels in this harbor on Saturday last were
about eighty-live in number, of which three
were steamships, eight ships, ffty-one barks,
twelve brigs and schoOners TWENTY-FIVE
were under the flag of the United States,
thlrty-one of Great Britain, fifteen Of Nor.
way, eight of Spain, five of Germany, two
of Russia and one of Sweden. Twenty were
loading for Liverpool, seven for the cont
ncnt, four for Havre, four for Barcelona,
two forthc United Kingdom, one for Amster-
dam, and the bal ance for domestic ports.
AS an indication of the valuable trade
that awaits New Orleans by an effort on the
part of her merchants to utilize the adyan.
tages of direct railroad communication with
Chicago, we may mention that that city re-
1eived the past year 97,677, 100 bushels of
corn-an increase of lG,6O0,OOO bushels over
the previous year. Having the corn, she
commands the hogs, too. She shipped 5l5
us barrels of pork last year and 7G,Oi6
dressed hogs. Altogether, her produce
trade amounted to $236, $500, 900 50 100000
more than the previous year. She has hand
led and sold twenty per cent. more goods.
New Orleans Register: Capt Cow
den's arrival in this city, as the representa- {
tive OF reliable company organized in
w oINh anu hcNtibp
ria route to the sea, marks the beginning of s
new era in this important enterprise, A
Dill is before congress to grant the necessary
franchises to enable the company to do the '
work. 1t asks no money from the govern. {
ment. 1t does not interfere with any i'm. ,
provements at the mouth of the river. 1t is I
an enterprise that stands on its own merits,
and can succeed without breaking up any ,
rival enterprise, or receiving any subsidy {
from the government. II this enterprise
meets with any opposition we propose to ,
Keep an eye on the spectators who array
themselves against what we consider the ,
most important improvement in the great
valley-the opening of the Mississippi river
to the sea.
Charleston News and Courier \ pri-
vate letter from Mr.. Corley, a clergyman who
has moved to Savannah since the epidemic,
to his friends in Columbus, Ga, gives the s
following interesting account of what our
afflicted sister city has done to relieve her
destitute poor. 1t is record of which the (
citizens may be proud "The late epidem. /
ic made large provisions for orphan children
and for widows necessary, and nobly has
Savannah met the emergency. She has rs t
tablished one asylum for orphan boys and
two for orphan girls, and two widows homes ,,
for the needy and deserving poor; also !
home for the homeless, where all who need a
food may go and get a meal, and where 2
young women out of employment may find }
a temporary home until situation can be
secured. This last named institute is kept I
up by public and private charities, and the /
lady in charge gets five hundred dollars G
month for distribution among the needy. \ t
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