The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-08
NEWS SUMMARY.
THE SOUTII.

isnanally five hundred thousand shingles.
The notorious Duke Fleming of Mays.
vile, is said to be the head OF the forty Mexi.
can freebooters.
Owing to bad weather the Texas state
ia'r at Austin has heen;postponcd to Novem.
ber l3.
Fifteen thousand people listened to
Wade Hampton at the North Carolina state
far, Thursday.
Corn is selling in Hyde county, n. c.,
Tor 81 per bushel. In some counties in Ken.
tucky it is selling for 81 per barrel.
The number of deaths in Charleston
last week was forty.six, of which nine were
OF whites and th!rty.seven colored.
Washington county got the premium
at the Georgia state fair for the best acre of
corn, The yield was only fourteen barrels.
A committee of gentlemen from st.
Louis, Cincinnati and Memphis are soon TO
visit New Orleans to inspect the Barataria
ship canal.
Only forty-6ve members attended the
meeting Of the Old Texas Veteran associa.
tion at Austin. They report forty deaths in
he past year.
There have been one hundred and
twenty-five cases Of yellow fever and thirteen
deaths, at Port Royal. Many negroes had
the disease, but none have died.
Gov. Hampton was given big milf
tary reception at the North Carolina state
fair Wednesday. There were teyenteen com.
panies in line.
Sixteen penitentiary convicts have 30
far escaped from the Greenwood and Au-
gusta railroad stockade near Greenwood,
South Carolina
Richmond Wing: The liGuor.dealers
are sending 10000 circulars to dealers
throughout the state, urging them to become
members 0l the State Association OF Liquor
dealers.
A proclamation Offering reward of
$1,000 for the recovery Of the books stolen
and carted away from the auditors office
was issued by acting Governor Wiltz OF Lou.
isiana, Tuesday.
The MOflett bell punch is working well
wherever tried in Virginia, and is growing
IN popularity. At fredericksburg, in twelve
days, the tax was $2i623, exclusive of sales
by the gallon. That town alonewiIl pay $4,000.
Of the six negroes who burned the
town of Darlington, South Carolina, last
July, four have been sentenced to the pcn-
and twenty years respectively. The Jury
WAS composed of whites and blacks.
Capt. Ralph Trembly died in Jackson-
vile, Fla, on the 17Ih. He was associated
with Audubon during his residence in Flori>
da, and accompanied that distinguished nat
,ralist in many Of his expeditions upon the
Keys md amid the Everglades, in quest of
rare varieties OF the (eathered family.
Picayune: The Indications of i'm.
provement in the commercial prospects of
this city have become so numerous Of late
that events are scarcely noticed now, which,
few years ago, would have OccaSioned quite
Il stir. The eve has come of that day Of
prosperity so long predicted for New Or
seaDs.
Senator Withers, of Virginia, has in
troduced bill for the relief Of owners of
property in the late confederate states,
which was sold under what is known as the
"Confiscation act" The bill provides that
the government of the United States Shall
pay to the former owners OF such property
the amount of money received for their land
at the sale and receive in return quit claim
conveyance of ownership, which title can
be Transferred to the purchaser.
Knoxville Tribune. The south has
had the Speakership OF the House OF
Representatives for lorty.six years, in the
forty-four Congresses that have been held.
The incumbcnts have been Macon of South
Carolina; Clay, OF KentGcky; Chceve, of
South Carolina; Barbour, of Virginia
Stephenson, of Virginia; Bell OF Tennessee (;
Polk, of Tennessee; Hunter, of Virginia
White, of Kentucky; Jones, of Virginia
Boyd, of Kentucky Cobb, of Georgia. and
Orr, OF South Carolina.
The citizens of The town of Weather
ford, Texas, and of Parker county have de.
tern,ined that the Texas Pacific road shall
be built from Fort Worth to that place, n
distance OF twenty nine miles, and have
gone to work with spirit deserving OF i'm.
iatiOn by others. WeatherfOrd il a small
town of probably two thousand inhabitants,
and Parker county is sparsely settled.
Among other liberal subscriptions we learn
that banker OF Weatherford gave five thou.
and dollars.i
The Jacksonville (Fla.) correspondent
of the Savannah News writes: That queer
marine animal, the manatee mentioned in a
previous letter. is on exhibition. He is Il
hearty feeder, and consumes daily wells
packed barrel of grass from the river. Ills
owner, an intelligent German, thinks o
taking him to the Thomasvile fair, and from
thence to Louisville. II he carries out his
present purpose, the thousands who viii
visit ThOmasylle next week will have an op
rOrtunlty Of examining really rare and re
markably natural curiosity.
a "Liberia Exodus Association ha'
been formed in Charleston, South Carolina
DIR. +. W. Blyden, lately appointed LiberiaI
minister to Great Britain has made, with ;
view to settlement by American freedmen
an exploration of the country immediatel.
west of Mcnrovis. He reports that abou
seventy.tve miles from that city a table'lanl
from 500 to 5000 feet above the sea.level
reached. There is in this region an Amerl
can settlement, represented to he very pros
porous. The Rev. 5. D. Alexander, OF thi
city, president of the New York State Colon
ization society, makes an appeal for aid t
this migration to Africa. He is of opinion
that it will grow to large proportions.
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle: We say
yesterday at the city hall one of the saddles
cases Of complete destitution and misery tina
1t has ever been our lot to witness. Sittin
against tree was a pale, emaciated man
evidently in the last stages of consumption
while at his feet sat little girl about min
years OF age and boy still younger. Al
were in tatters and pinched with hunger
travetstained and weary. They had n
extra clothing, no blankets-their sol
property consisted of the ragged clotht
they had on their backs, and jug of blsc
INK which the man had manufactured an
was trying to sell. In response to a questio
propounded the man related that his nam
was Silas Able. He came from Kentuck,
and was on his way to Florida. The part
had walked the entire distance from Ker
lucky to Augusta. He bad no place to sta
and no money to pay for anything. As b
spoke he coughcd painfully, and his littl
daughte. gazsd sadly up into his face wit
tears in her eyes, which famine and sufferiD
mad made unnaturally bright. Poor littl
wali, even that consolation will scarcely b
lett her long, as the father with whom Sh