The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-01
NEWS SUMMARY.
rsn ., SOUTH.
Mobile is to have a cotton factory,

The letter.carriers, petition, sent TO
congress from New Orleans, was lis feet long
and contained 10000 names,
The Mobile Register says the naval
stores tssic Of that port supports nearly
twenty thousand people.
The game law Of Virginia does not
allow any partridge to he killed or sold in
the state before the lst Of November.
Gov. Hubbard estimates the value of
taxable property in the state Of Texas this
year al S350,00O0 0, against S260,OO0, 900
last year.
The female treasurer Of a Sunday
school in Jefferson, Texas, absconded last
week with three hundred dollars belonging
TO the school.
The Metbcdisls OF Virginia and Mary.
land are TO be appealed to for contributions
to builr a monument to the late Rev. DR.,
duncan. The sum wanted Is $4,000.
The German steamer Hanover arrived
at New Orleans last week, colliled with
ship bottom upwards, and passengers asw
two other ships bottom upwards.
The city of Brunswick, Georgia. is
exceptionally healthy this year. Only one
white Ia child has died in over Il month.
past and very few coored people have died.
Charlotte IN. ca Observer: 'Possum
hunting is the rage Just now, and when You
see two men engaged in angry debate you
may Know that it is about who has the best
'possum dog,
Guardian Owing TO the strict quar-
antine regulations Tampa is dry, indeed, in
the provision line. We don't see the differ
ence from dying with yellow fever and being
starved to death.
A proclamation offering a reward of
$1,000 for the recovery OF the books stolen
and carted away from the auditors otii c
was issued by acting Governor Wiltz, OF Lou.
jsisna, Tuesday.
The Vicksburg cut-of, which occurred
some months ago. has finally begun to tell on
the river in front Of that city and the Nicks.
burg wharfb0at will have to be moved from
ITS present position.
A firm in Richmond, Va, has ready
second steam fre.cngine for the city of St.
Petersburg, Russia. This same firm, ust be-
lore the war, built the first fire.engine used
An the Muscovite capital
The New Orleans Times says that
thousands of unemployed men linger in that
city while urgent invitations are being sent
TO the people OF the north to come and settle
upon the fertile lands of Louisiana.
About two hundred and fitty Boston
mechanics talk OF locating in northern
Texas. Eighty.two of them had agreed to
ioin colony to settle there and take two
hundred acres of land each. They propose
10 siartthi fall.
Of the six negroes who burned the
town of Darlington, South Carolina, last
July, four have been sentenced to the pen-
Tertiary for life and the other two for ten
and twenty years respectively The jury
was composed of whites and blacks.
Gov. Porter has issued his proclama.
ton offering a reward of $3.50 for the appre.
hension and conviction of each of the par.
ties engaged in the burning and shooting at
the Knoxville Iron Company's works. ut
Coal creek.
Alamance IN. c. Cleaner Mr.. Joseph
Wood and his wife, near the depot, had an
interesting family of six children. Diph.
iberia made its appearance among them.
Last week we recorded the death Of two, and
this week we have to record the death Of
three others, leaving one OF the six.
Augusta (Ga) Chronicle: The mother
mercy, st, Patrick's parish of this city, has
offered the services of as many of the sisters
as may be needed to attend the sick at Port
Royal. Sister Mary Xavier, Sister Mary Ann.
Sister Mary Joseph and Sister Patrick leave
this morning for Port Royal,
A railroad man says there is scarcely
any limit to the amount Of tobacco raised in
west Tennessee, and that the shipment of
the weed over the orrhwestern road will be
greater than ever before known As il will
bring not less than o or cents, and prOba-
bly, more, according to the estimate of Colonel
Killebrew, Tennessee,is likely to realize a
good revenue from that product.
Natchez Democrat We hear many
planters saying that by the middle Of this
month, or the last of it at most, all the cotton
will be gathered, and they generally agree
that because of the worms and the storms
the crop will be, hereabOut, from thirty to
thrtyfive per cent less than full crop.
The office of the Knoxville Iron Com
pany, at Coal creek, with all its contents, was
set on fire few nights ago by masked in.
cendiaries, and totally destroyed. The chute
from their mine was fired, and during the
next night the guards were fired upon by n
number of unseen parties from the noun
tblU Slucs
Mr.. j. J. Blois, volunteer nurse from
Savannah, has completed the census OF Fer
nandina, and the following is the result:
Present population, 1882; adults, 1,O72; chill
dren, $50; classified as follows by sex: Males,
SlS; females, SIS; by color, whites SIS; col
ored, ,339; by condition, sick, 203; well, L.
339. OF those now well 1853 have been sick.
Knoxville Tribune The south has
had the Speakesship of the House Of
Representatives for forty.six years, in the
forty.tour Congresses that have been held.
The incumbents have been Macon. of South
Carolina; Clay, of Kentucky; Cheeve,, 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.