The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-05
NEWS SUMMARY.
THE SOUTH.

A, u, Dockcry, of North Carolina, ha
been appointed United States consul a
Leeds,
North Carolina has Just sentenced ;
man TO four years imprisonment for CRIME
committed in 1854.
ID. II. Hill, of North Carolina, ha'
been elected president Of the industrial
university, located at Fayetteville, Arkansas
An eagle killed near Swaynesborough,
Ga, measured from tip to tip OF the wings
seven feet eight inches
Last years peanut crop in Virginia,
Tennessee and North Carolina is valued at
$l,lOj,550. These states produced l7,17O,-
600 bushels.
In all probability the pension agency
for the district of West Virginia, North Car.
DINA and Tennessee will not be removed
from Knoxville.
A mad dog bit two hundred and two
dog who were not mad at Sardis, Kentucky,
the other day, and the citizens don't feel
mnch like being out nights.
The business men of Nashville have
organized Merchants Exchange, and
elected John G. Mcclure president. The
board of directors are: H. c. Hensley, Geo.
NJ Jackson, John N. Sperry, Frank Moulton,
j. II. Wilkes, and j. w. MGavock.
Rafc Pelton, a negro, was hanged at
Marion, Arkansas, on June 10, for the muir.
der of white man named Lester, about
year ago. lie made speech from the gal
lows, in boisterous, naughty and defiant
manner, in the midst of which the sheriff
cut the rope, fearing rescue by the excited
negroes present, and Pcton's soul was
jerked to Jesus. Owing to the rope being
too long, the feet Of the culprit touched the
ground, but his body was lifted by the dep.
uties and the rope shortened. After hang.
ing fifteen minutes life was pronounced
extinct
Senator Spencer, of Alabama, has left
with an exploring party for the Big Horn
country
Selim Rnker, formerly editor of Flakes
Bulletin, and at the time of his death city
treasurer OF Galveston, Texas, committed
suicide in that city recently by shooting
himself through the head. No cause stated.
A rather severe wind storm visited
Memphis and vicinity on June II. Trees
were blown down, houses unroofed, and
several steamers on the rivclNwere driven
from their moorings, sustaining severe
damage.
Another report of meat shower comes
from Franklin, Tenn. A scientist says, |
have placed the substance under fair mi
crOscope and find it an organism, lOricated
infusoria. From the average seen in one
drop the number must have been immense
indeed. The incloSng jelly is perfectly
transparent, except little coal dust and
paint from the roof. Each animalcule is
inclosed in n case or shell of silica and all
are alike, of the same family. One drop
contains about fifty or sixty, and they have
plenty OF room to float around. They are
about one fourhundredth of an inch long
Where they came from cannot say; posi-
bly, from the dccaying heaps OF kelp in the
Gulf of Mexico, or, as the winds have been
from the north for some time they may
have come from the lakes
The state debt of South Carolina is
given as follows by the Christian News and
Courier: "When the entire fundabe debt
of the state shall have been converted into
consolidated bonds and stocks, the state
debt will amount to $5,9769l7. This result
is obtained by the reputation by the repub.
Leans in 1878 of the $6,OO0,C0O of spurious
conversion bonds, and by the sealing of the
remainder of the debt to 30 cents on the
dollar. The actual bonded debt of the state
Oc:. 81, 1867, principal and interest, was So
522,576. To this must be added the bonds
issued to redeem the bills receivable issued
under Gov. Orr's administration, making the
antc.reconstruction debt $500, $40, or $780,
$50 more than the debt under the consolida.
ton act"