The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-12-27
NEWS SUMMARY.
SOUTH.
New Orleans desires an observatory.

luG ltpIOldpulC0 VI liRlHlhJ lGlHtbSCt
and South Carolina are in session.
A genuine shad has been caught in the
Conecuh river, in Pike county, Alabama.
General Joseph Wheeler will probably
settle in Chattanooga and practice law there,
Cape Fear river rose fifty feet in
twenty.four hours during the recent freshe t
Real estate took Jump in Atlanta
when it was decided that she is to keep the
capitol.
Some of the parties engaged in the
huge Texas land.swindle are being tried in
Austin.
Montgomery has received 62,117 bales
Of cotton, 12 S02 bales more than at the same
date last year.
A New England firm has Just con.
tracted for 100000 feet of hickory from Au.
gusta county, Va.
Dalton, Ga, listens to the rumbling of
the wheels of urhundrcd freight cars daily,
on ali average.
When any one attempts to march
through the streets OF New Orleans with
fife or drum, he is taken to the lookup.
August Michon, formerly drummer
in the thirteenth United States' infantry com.
mtted suicide in New Orleans, Wednesday,
A party of Texas couuty.Olficials have
been arrested for hunting in the Choctaw ma
ton, a privilege allowed only the redskins.
A negro got finger bit off at North
Carolina >shucking, and died therefrom
the three day after. His wife has gone de.
ranged.
The immigration bureau brought to
Tennessee in November 234 immigrants from
Kentnotv
T.;.u,. o, = h,oolol ,;,h
,ooi hoa,s o1, trv;na % n net dow, south befora
the river falis rberc ore a oO0 Goo bnshels
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oeVehty'hVe vessels OF alnerent ma
Th i'uemy ar;denoa q" ~ ramIlv
roviir;r,, nrosraritv 'i'
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lhe Klchmond wing thinks the James
river canal so damaged by the recent floods
that it would be best to take out the locks
anu Ir;n u';llis ana Abandon IL: ,,,
~, uiiioh nloh anu eA,ieueral soia'cia aI
,a;a wHn''unooSa, .l ele contributing money 10 re-
pa'r the aalhase oohe 10 the confederate
"on"'hen' Wy "hhho"h Vanuais'
Maj. Edward GOttheil, Louisiana com.
missioner a to the Paris exposition, and per>
TS, TW""i lfichu ol NaPoieah lil'' oleu III Ihe
0"ariIy hospitai at new orleans, Wednsday
A dispatch from Little Rock: "The
bad weather for the past month has injured
the cotton to an alarming extent. Not half
OF the cotton has yet been picked, and all
'"''e rcApt'hs III 'ie ieio ~ injured.
The Harrison COal-mine, eighteen miles
from San Antonia, Texas is seven feet thick,
while digging well, and is of the camel va
ncty The price in town is Sc per ton.
A cOlOred trooper who had served his
term in the penitentiary remarked to another
who was sentenced this week at LaGrange,
Ga: Warren, you won't have none O. this
same hide on you when you git back here"
1t is said that there are one hundred
men engaged in drumming on the streets of
Atlanta, Ga, for local retail trade. They
represent principally the dry goods and
clothing houses, and always work on com.
mission.
Jebanon (Tan, uer.ld. Dur;p, tho
,,on,, Of WaNon,Ia,I ,nI na 49, h"m1.od oni .no
eiyht car',onJ, Of bogs s ] were Shimnsd @ iIy from
This point Taking fiftv.iive ~ the aver,gs
capacity of A car we have n total of 75GO
hogs.
thc oiic'a' 'ole Vi hissi"siPi'l oh sVaIe
ohicers is III iast announced: IL shows ma:
Jorlly ior all M the democratic candidates OF
sbe ARREST ',vv ever given for INV @ canddate @ ] ioy
governor in this country.
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NASuuiS NniiH'' l'eia'u we noCiceu
ou .he ciiain-S"nS the othcr uay eishteeh
Nou', nearly men, ana lherg e, were several
VINO were not OUT INA: uay. me gang does
aSrea' ueai Oh WORK lor the city at IL Saving
oi from POW 10 sl,ooo per hon'h'
Ihe commissioners court OF Ellis
county, Texas has made diagram of the
courthouse yard for record, allowing any
person i'll the county to put tree i'll the yard
and have recorded title to said tree, in fee
simple, and the designated spot.
The Jacksonville (Fla.\ Press says
pbilodeInbio comnanv are to snend s156 OOO
in making winter resort of Fort George
island. The whole island is to be made
park, the grounds handsomely graded, and
seaside cottages of tasteful architecture will
be built. beside extensive hotel accommo.
dations.
Tho Meridian (Mits.) Mercury is in
formed that the surveyor of Perry county,
while running of piece land, was led by
the yearning OF needle to the silver dollars
of our daddies to the discovery of $4,000
concealed by the murderer Copeland, as de.
tailed in Or. Pitts book containing the reve.
lations Of the Wages clan.
Sbrevenort ia Times. A molodv
among bnos bos tbo mast fey wseks heen
mreva5l;nS ., % th;S norsh RJ,' onL ;s aImost az
iat.i r. them no tba freeJn,en f, an are II of,sct,
ibe head has tbe snnearanca Of .uinsv and
kills in a surnri,inp,y short time M. Foy
has lost over n hundred head from this novel
disease.
Mai. Gen. Beniamin Uuyet died in
Charleston. s. G.. Friday at the ase of seventy.
two. He was n graduate of West Point and
long in comnand mt Fortress Monroe and
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