The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-05-31
NEWS SUMMARY.


tnllcu states circuit Judge EmmOnS,
whose brother recently died in Florida, is
himself in such bad health that he is not OK.
pected to hold court again,
The university of Virginia declines
the challenges sent by Washington and Lee
university to row six.oared race either at
lexington or Lynchburg.
\ hail-storm at Rio Grande City, Texas,
The 9th, injured many persons, and killed a
large number of sheep, estimated at four
hundred. The hail was so destructive that q
grown mule was killed.
An exchange says there Is one nugget
ol Georgia gold in the geological bureau
worth one hundred dollars and it is quite
an ordinary nugget, too, for Georgia.
There are now in operation at Colum-
bus, Ga, eight cotton mills, one woolen and
one bagging factory, four Touring and grist
establishments, two foundries, pillow manu.
factory, steam engine and boiler works, and
number of minor industries, among which
may be counted steamboat building.
A woman at San Antonio, Texas, had
imam arrested and placed in Jail on a charge
OF assault, She then proposed that if he
would marry her she would withdraw the
charge She proposed that he be brought to
the prison door and have the ceremony per.
formed there, but he preferred staying in
jail, The court then released him.
Major Jones, with his rangers, made
forty arrests in Kimball county, Texas, in
two weeks. The Judge was guarded to that
county, and there being no courthouse,
court was held in the rangers camp, under
The trees. The Judge sat on log and the
Jury and lawyers on the ground.
The negroes living with the Choctaw
and Chickasaw nations were made free by
The treaties Of 1866 but these treaties did
not stipulate that the negroes should become
members of the tribe, so that they simply re-
man citizens Of the United States, who are
legally residents Of the Indian territory !;
that is, they cannot VOTE cannot sue can.
not sit upon jury, and have no interests in
the schools and courts of the country in
which they were born and bred.
An exchange says that West Virginia
has the largest and most valuable body of
timber of any state in the union. Prof. Fon.
taine estimates that the area still covered by
forests is between 9,C00o0o nnI 100000
acres and that the value of the surplus ex.
portable timber is fully $75,COOOOO as it
stands in the forests. The oak, walnut
cherry, ash, poplar, maple, elm, sycamore and
locust attain size there not surpassed on
the American continent,
The hail storms in some portions of
Texas, of late, have almost been equal in
fury to discharge of canister. The Austin
Statesman says: A hail storm in Llano was
terrible. The hail remained on the ground
Two feet deep two days after the storm. 1t
killed eight hundred head of sheep for Mr.
Ramsey. in rarine near his sheep pens
the hail was eighteen feet deep. Five days
later it was still there to the depth OF four
feet.
The Star Vindicator, prominent parer
OF the Indian territory, says: The people
of this territory know nothing about hard
times. They should go to the states, and es-
pecially to the large cities, and see the abb
icct poverty that prevails. Then they would
come back satisfied that they were the most
favored people on Gods green earth. True,
great many of them have but little and
live hard but then this is their own fault
Tor une.tenth part Of the exertion that is
required to keep body and soul together
among the people of the older states will
give anybody here competency.
Mobile Register: The benefits to be
derived from the establishment of the pro.
posed cotton factory will be meager in com.
narson with the great results to which it
will lead, In ten years the proposed iac>
tory will leave in the .ciy 100000. One
thousand bales Ct cotton manufactured here
would leave in the city annually $4,000.
One thousand bales handled here would
leave only 5000. Something must be done
to stop the reCeding current Of the com>
merce of our city, II is principle demon
strated every day that the greater absorbs
the lesser" We may awake from our leth.
argy to find ourselves resting in the bosom
OF our neighbor. The success of the pro.
posed factory will be the turning point In the
welfare of our city.