The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-25
NEWS SUMMARY.
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Cotton receipts at Jefferson, Texas,
have reached about &c, 900 bales.
There were l3O, 900 bales Of cotton on
haRd In Calves ton on the lst.
From the LIST of September to the lst
inst. there were 2i,7lO bales Of cotton ship.
ped nom Brenhsm, Texas
Tho continued snow in North Carolina
IL driving aocks OF birds into the towns IN
search Of food.
According to the governors message,
tho debt OF Mississippi, on the LIST OF Deem.
Der laSs, was only 81, i,loo,SoJ.22.
The continued strike Of east Tennessee
ssal miners is quitting short the coal supply
Of A tlsHts and other southern cities.
A Mrs. Snow oowhided a Mr.. Wyatt
in Rockport, Texas, aada hostile meeting a
IL Bennett May Is looked Tor ..'...
The throwing OF SNOWFALL In Orange
ssunty, N. c.. led to the killlag OF Will
Thompson by Geo Lloyd,
Three runaway couples were married
sn the street, In Aurireesboro, N. G., dnrins
enc night ia Christmas week.
Nearly four thousand bales Of cotton
have been shipped from Courtney, Texas,
ainee September lst. When the new bridge
ever the BrazOs Ia completed, II La expect.
ed that the receipts will be largely IA.
creased,
Two Indian witnesses before the I. :.
souTt 1t Fort Smith died so suddenly as TO
beses suspicion that they had been taken
sHby poison. A post mortem confirmed the
Snspieisn, and demonstrated the fAet that
the poison was "rotgu" red.eye.
Legislatures are now in session In the
following southern states: Virginia, West
Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Mississippi, Louisiana (3), Arkansas, Missouri
and Tennessee. Seven United States sena.
tors are to be elected by these bodies.
Savannah News: 1t is estimated, irsm
Che receipts Of cotton at the shipping points
ausing the hrst sixteen weeks OF the pres.
cat cotton year, that the crop Is 4,50o, Oos
balss,which Is larger than any previous crop
Gace 1870, except thas of last year.
Sam Riddleheger, a native of Ken
tseky, died at Nashville, Saturday. Ne had
weighed as high as Eve hundred and forty.
three and threefourth pounds, aHd at the
time Of his death weighed four hundred and
seventy.three. His coffin was the largest
Awar tnt in NnShviIIa
Thornburg, the ascending clerk of the
Petersburg, Va, citizens bank, returned to
Petersburg, having seen, he says, an account
OF ths robbery In tho New York Herald
while he was in Pennsylvania, he deelin es
TO tell why he left, but thinks he can clear
Aimself
According to reports the farmers of
Bell county, Texas, will be in better eondi-
ton for making ersp than they have been
for several years past, as they now have pro.
visions and farm supplies In abundance, and
plenty to spare to enigrants coming among
them, at reasonable rates.
Ballard News: Mrs Josephine Will
son came into the carpenter shop last Tues
say whore Mr.. Il. D. CASTOR was at work and
that gentleman having in his pocket the ne.
ssssary papers, made the charming widow his
ior life. After the ceremony by Judge Wat
son, Mrs. CASTOR went home and Mr.. CASTOR
resumed his work at the bench.
In Texas snow has fallen to the depth
OF from six to eighteen inches, crushing in
reefs and freezing numbers OF horses and
cattle to DEATH A negro froze 60 death In
Houston and Que in Dallas. IN Louisiana
tralns have been snow.bound and negro
frose to death iu Shreveport. In Mississippi
members Of thelegislature were snow.bound,
and for two days no quorum could. be had.
Persons have crossed the river on the ice
at Vjoksburg fer the Grst time In the history
OF that section. In Alabama, Tennessee,
Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina aud
Virginia the snow and cold are uppreeedent.
ed in depth and severity. II Georgia and
South Carolina sleet has been very Iestruc.
tive to trees, telegraph lines, ETC.