The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-12-13
NEWS SUMMARY.
SOUTH.

history ol MlshiSsIpTl III. .iour NoIuiueS
Murfrcesboro, Tenn, has shipped twen-
.y.fve car loads Of cotton seed this season.
Ten carloads of tine sheep from the
east arrived at 'raylorsville, Texas, a few
days ago.
Fully seven hundred thousand gallons
o. o. oysters will be shipped from Norfolk dur
ing the present season.
The Raleigh News reports bridges
washed away and other damage done by high
"ate' in North Carolina.
There are 9,4l5 dogs in Georgia, and
they destroyed between April /, 1874 and
April l, 1875, 2S,625 sheep
DIR. W. r. Sharpe, prominent ply
siclan Of Fulton, N. c., killed himself by
taking morphine for quinine,
Texarkana has eighteen saw.mils
within Il radius OF ten miles. which cut
100000 feet OF lumber per month.
The agricultural population of Georgia
IL l,aoO,GO0 souls, and the number of acres
IN cultivation is IA trile over 100000
The overAowing OF the Trinity at Dal-
las, Tex, forced the tramps from their cover
IN the bottoms and the police sco0ped a iail
full.
A hawk swooped down upon a weather
vanc on Il church spire in Charlotte, N. c.,
and was disgusted to find it only an imitation
rooster.
Negro volunteer companies are organ
lzng IN oil parts OF Georgia. and are apply.
ing to the governor for orders to l,pld elec.
tions for officers.
Talmage e. Co., the New York bank
ers, have arranged to pay the January inter-
est on the new Memphis eli. 8 bonds, aggre
eating $600,0O0.
The Citizens and southern banks of
New Orleans are Paving out conner cents
over their count ..rs. The people take to
them very kindly.
The penalty for petit larceny in the
Mancheste.., Va, police court has been fixed
az laSh "Iipes, graduated in number accord.
ing 10 'he magnitude of the ofense.
me chief of the Cherokees, in his re.
c',nt message, shows clearly that the nation
IS civilized one. The public debt is $751;
1858, and the treasury contains but $3.50 66.
Wilmington On. C.) Star: f'ifty.two
harks, brigs and schooners in port at one
time speaks well for the commerce Of vii.
mingtOn, Such was the case on Thursday
The 33d.
Nelson Arden, colored, has been con-
victed OF the murder of storekcepcr in
BERTHE county, n, G., and sentenced to DEATH
The jury consisted Of seven colored and five
white men.
Last Saturday, at Lincolnton, N. G.,
three men had their boat upset in swollen
stream and one of them was drowned. The
he tNvn fDI for la tbn
upturncd boat and caught in the branches
ot a tree. One of them became nunlbcd and
sunk, the other hung there all night and was
saved,
A single firm at st. Augustine, Fla,
has caught during the season about one hun,
dred aud twenty-five green turtles weighing
two thousand five hundred pounds, which
are now kept alive in n tank, where they are
daily fed and kept for sale. They weigh
from five TO one hundred and ten pounds
EACH,
Austin (Tex.) Gazette; We met a
friend yesterday, from an upper county, who
had 100 head of hogs he was bringing down
for feed He expects to obtain corn in Bas-
irop county at bit and half per bushel.
The old hogs cost him, on an average, So per
head, and he expects to make them weigh l75
pounds.
Southern Sentinel: Mr.. =. G. King,
near BurnsVllc, has an old cotton press, the
screw OF which was made in 1878, hlty.cight
wears ago. 1t is now in {; perfect state Of
preservation, never having cost anything for
repairs. II was made OF elm and originally
soaked in oil, which DO doubt prevented it
from decaying.
Waco (Tex.) Register: A sad accident
occurred in Falls county a few days ago. 1t
appears that Mr.. Lock had been hunting,
aud IN his return Mrs. James Durham re
Iucsted him to kill a chicken. She, with her
babe in her arms, was looking for the chicken,
when the gun accidentally went of, killing
9th mother and babe.
Dallas (Texas) Herald: sour labor.
market is stocked to overtlowing, and every
fresh-arrivng train butadds to the miserable
multitude in our midst tnat suffers, starves,
Hnd fnally fights its way back east again.
Setore the door of nearly every house in this
city there daily begs a swarm that would
sadden the heart of satyr,
AbOnghohiGO, Creek Indian of the
town of Tookcaucauga, or "punk knot" on
Oakafnsky river, as the first human being
hung according to law in Knox county,
Tenn. The date Of bis execution was l19i,
and his otlense, the murder of an ancestor
Of one of the present distinguished families
OF that section. The total cost OF the trial
and conviction was 1886.
Vicksburg Herald: We learn from a
gentleman Just through from Shreveport,
that the Mississippi and Red River railroad
company are atwOrk on the railroad between
Shreveport and Monroe, just this side OF Red
riyer. The company claims to be able to
build the road to Monroe without stopping
and after that they will then make arrange
ments with the road in operation between
here and Monroe.
Secretary Sherman has revoked the
order refusing clearances TO vessels from
Mississippi ports. The citizens OF Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana have pesitioned
congress to send commission to investigate
the log question and the conduct OF govern
ment agents at PascagOula. Nine deputy
marshals were arrested by the sheriff OF
jackson county at Pascagoula yesterday, on
charges not known.
Jimmy Todd, one of Lees favOrite
scouts in the West Virginia campaigns, was
killed last week IN dispute with a hunter
an the mountain near Staunton, Va. The
Vindicator says OF him: "Hc was the mos.
remarkable hunter in the valley Of Virginia
having killed over2, 200 deerup to 1850, with
one old muzle.loading rife, which he had
bad bored 50 often that You could get your
thumb in it. He had killed bears without
number. He was dead shot and could per
form the ieat of putting a bullet through 8
hat on the opposite side Of tree by placing
an ax-hlade for the ball to glance.
Richmond Wing: A well-appearing
and INTELLIGENT white man visited Col Swan
the superintendent of the penilentiary, a few
days ago, and requested to be committed fol
thirty days The superintendent Informed
him that no could not accommodate him un
less he came bringing with him a record o
the courts Of the commonwealth eertiiyin;
to the fact that he was deserving OF the favo
~ the hands nf the state which he sought