The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-09-20
NEWS SUMMARY.
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The Medina river mt the San Antonio
crossing, CostroylIle, Texas, Is Ns dry as Il
PoWper'houSe'
haywood, North carolina, boasts OF
TOBACCO leaves one yard long and twenty and
, 4 naar ,,'tro troo ",'e ~ Nowbor, No,a, couo
linn il IN hoon rn. ,h ,i.i O' .noi VI o'''o-
son II hoo g,ro,, ~ ',,0 a,,is" '''o '''' 'e"'
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o,t rooent Teat a. 'I, oiou'n"' PeIoons pres
nn,r JIiIisEo"o Nth IS w in1"'l"" o'"''',
'''o''"'',
n harroW'guage railroad has been
S"bi"a P,sa p" hy tbs wo" rU Of 'g,SC deA"'' TO
~, '",e'
Two thous'tuu collars OF Ihe Peabody
fund, awarded to san Antonio, Texas, lifts
''''' P'"'I '"' " " ''.''' !" ''''oo' ''"''e'S'
raJIic7haKe WIN genuine horns an
lnch long IS on exhibition in Charlotte, North
CarchhS' Inc snake - native OF that
''",e' - u,,,.
Mr., ). p. Williams, Of De Soto parish,
LOUISIANA killed in one week, with twenty
e!ght successive shots with rifle, twenty.
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lhe state geOlOglSt estimates the flow
ot water from the Alum Springs, OnSlow
~ "'''''' N'''''''''j w w WV IH'NNulu
s''''n' per minute
vi one hundred and thlrty-seVen col
ored people baptized at Kldgeway, near
Raleigh. n. o., hlty-one were baptized lace
downward.
There are but five sound legs and three
good arms on the battIc'scarrcd tickets Of
the democrats in the present Virginia cam
paIgn'
Bolton. South Carolina, boasts of the
most elaboratey adorned public well in the
up country. II cost $3.50, and is quite Il
feature of the town.
Richmond Va. shipnpd 600 barreIg
of flour to Rio de Janciro last week mis-
was enterprising enough, but it went in
bFltlSh vessel.
The rcceipts of cotton at Norfolk Va.
for the wear endiuo Sertcmber / 1877 vera
5O96l2 bales, an increaSe of 38,6Ij halesovrr
the previous year.
Eight dailv trains arrive and eight
d,iIv troing Icovo Snar,onLrrrr " n o,,orr
dov exrent sunday maIsinr siyteon tr,ins
arrivino md donortina dniiv
nv
mere are GWehty-CWo species Oh OAK III
Wv '''!o VI -'o'tn va o''p', elS,.' SPFGieS ~
p!n' mug oI SPruce' lVe oi EN-, H'eo o'rch'
e'SnV VI hicNofy anu seven Oh ilaSholi"'
The board Of managers of the Lee
monument M lkcnmond' Na'}l mas extended
W NJ t'lliL ioi .gcelNlIS nS tlo"olS ~ 'ne nlsI VI
: N2veilnGri ,i Nollt pi INC "'ouelS "'ie"uy re-
''l.'' wiz 'e oN''i"''eo'
The Austin State Gazette says that
yellow fever Is preceded by north winds pre-
ValilnG Tor Il c@hSlaerap'e tlme. mat paper
,Np'''''' '"'"o "pP'o'.'"N''t !" w" VI t'''
"'nU' Nv" P''y"'i'nS III So"'"''" iV""'.
The Little Rock Ark. } Gazette thinks
the war between the iron Mountain and the
Memphis and Little Rock railroads will lead
to thc construction OF new bridge, probably
"' ''e o'nV vi i'o'NS' '"o' vi "o'N ''Ae'''
In the land OF the Papahat they also
catch stlngaree. One was at the Barnes
hotel wharf, Biloxi, Mississippi, the other
day, that weighed one hundred and twenty
two pounds
NIesars Georce w Haseltine and
Owen. of Iooranoo Georoio have given
81 600 IA the tund for establishing n free
grhooI for tbe negroes Of that Mace. The
ncgrocq have raised about 81 600 fortbe same
nurpose
A man in Chattanooga has a genuine
pearl, which was taken with five others OF
various sizes from muscle from the Ten
nessee river, near that city 1t is very Ius-
trous, and appears to be of good quality.
Tioutonont Armotropr bos racoivnd
t.,, tba NJ T.ro, ata4o ,,o,,D.,an+ "a SOC 40
J ro ,l ,,',a .,,, 81 TaI,, WosIn,. Uor,
Al" "' Tbe o baIon"a % Si9l will H he maiJ as soon
ne an annronriatior can he made for that
nnrno,n
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rive years ago Ille "eekiy shi hipliiehV
OF peer TO NlCkSDUfB WIS HDOUI hlAIy hGSS
per week, nut no" the Shipment amounts 70
at least SIX hundred per week Il conSIueraple
ontr, pon,,nn VI "N''" s''' w '''' ''' ''''''''H
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savannah news iorIua lteni INC
time mas come when me competition "S 10
the prize Tor me regular flori1a yal!lS, S",5If'
,lmes called "nlgger Killers IS actlVe. or'
landa leads on with specimen weighing 'ch
pounds.
The New Orleans Times says that the
IeuJq I,st ,t' vear % omiv i amomnted to As 5qg 81
or not sufficient to nav for keepinc up the
vorious Offices nee essary for their DISPOSAL
and shaving thot tbe Government would
sve money Rv Giving the lands away.
Tha o;t'. o,aa;I 81 rrorIoator South
me ciVy couhcil vi on"ii''tU,' LG"sJ s;,iai
Oarolhl, propose 70 'ie"Io oits .i,a
orioin and canse n: fires The authority of
the chief Of the fire department in this re-
gard having been called in question, his
Iohors in flat direction have been discon.
tinued
In Iouis;ana county Viroinia last
woaL Wiss Knncl,lss d;ed afte2 n nainful
illness, Her sister came into the room where
the body was lying and threw herself upon
the bed in parOxyiSm Of grief, and as was
supposed at the time, tainted. When her
friends made an effort to revive her it was
found that she was dead.
Ira D. Robbins alias Latimer. taken
from the Simpson county (Mis,l iaiI by A
crowd of about six hundred men, and hung,
is said to have committed 'innumerable" :"