The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-10-04
NEWS SUMMARY.
THE SOUTH.


Diphtheris in malignant form has
made IT'S appearance aleng the Tennessee
border In Lee county, Va,
The Tredegar works, at Richmond, Va,
are building three hundred cars for the
Atlanta and Charlotte Airline.
Five persons have been hanged in
Abbeville, y. e., during the past four years,
and still the murderers follow their business,
The Marietta (Ga.) journal says that
German millet is being used as rice in lower
Georgia, The husks are removed and the
grain is palatable food
DR.. Kenilwortb, celebrated physi-
clan Of Jacksonville, has given one hundred
dollars toward the trial Of Col. Hardee-
theory of concussion, as destructive OF the
germs OF disease,
jacksonville has formed a military
Gordon around the city to prevent the ingress
Sof refugees from Fernandina The military
and fire companies have volunteered to do
this service.
The city attorney of Galveston has
given it as his opinion that the city is not
liable for $3.50 worth Of scrip issued to pay
the expenses Of entertaining the Kansas
delegation in 1875.
A colossal statue OF the late Andrew
johnson is to be set up as monument to
his memory near his old Tennessee home. 1t
is of white marble, and is being carved in
Philadelphis.
Hon. NJ. J. Crawford and Miss Selmon,
OF Cartersville, Ga, were riding in buggy
few days since. Miss Selmon raised her
parasol suddenly and the horses ran away,
throwing both out, He was killed instantly,
his neck being broken, and she was fatally
injured.
The New Orleans picayune says John
Wesley Hardin, The Texas desperado, i. Il
very finely organized person. One Of his
victims he killed for snoring. He did not
like to be disturbed in his sleep, so he arose
in the silent night and slew the snorer.
The Danville Express learns that Col.
y. Samuel and Representative Barnes
have sold their large estate IN Charlotte
county, Va. CBarnesville) comprising be.
tween 1000 and 5000 acres, to Philadelphia
Catholic) colony. The sum realized from
this sale is $7l 900.
A Corpus Christie special says: AS a
bridal party were returning last evening
from church, Mexican men drove up near
them in a carriage and opened fire upon men,
women and children with six.shooters. One
Of the groomsmen was shot through the back
and will die. The groom fed
The Vicksburg Herald states that the
planters near that city are suffering from the
depredations of thieves, who steal their cot.
ton in the seed and take it to the city, where
it is eagerly purchased by parties who ought
TO know better than to encourage the thieves,
Under the Mofat bell-punch in Vir.
ginia saloons, the price of liquor has gone
up, but the law really seems to be enforced.
The penalties are severe. failure to turn
the crank entails fine OF from 500 to 500
for the first offence, and forfeiture of license
Tor the second.
Steamboat navigation of the Suwannee
river, Florida, has been resumed after long
suspension. This is one of the bodies Of
water that would be utilized in the construc.
ton of the proposed Atlantic and Gulf ship
canal, and the extent of its navigable ca.
pacity is an interesting question.
A young fellow in love with widow
got SO Jealous at a ball in Houston, Texas,
the other night that he got license and a
preacher, ana, going to the widows home o
little before day, informed her that she must
marry him instanter or he would make
lead mine of the other fellow. She married
him.
The statistician Of the department of
agriculture at Washington reports the con-
dition of the cotton crop the first week in
September as averaging the same as at the
same time last year. The worm is reported
in all the gulf states, but has done but little
damage, exceptin Texas and several parishes
in Louisiana.
The Savannah News says outside of
any special call, Savannah has gone to the
relief of Fernandina. Her physicians and
nurses only await the demand when they
will be forthgoing. The disease is epidemic
in Fernandina and it is the grand self.sacr-
fee that prompts the departure of physicians
and nurses to our afflicted sister city.
The Lancaster IS. c. Ledger says 1--WE
learn that Ezekiel Mayhem, q coored man
with some little education, and formerly
school teacher in Cane creek township left
for Liberia on Monday last, As we under.
stand, ne Is sent out to view the promised
land and is to returr and report his observ.
atons by the first of next year"
The A'snevllle (N.C.) Pioneer says
that last week, while a number Of oolored
persons, both male and female, were digging
ior medical roots in the Bee Tree range of
Craggy mountain, one Of their number,
named Elvira Seneca, better known as Vira
Lytle, was struck by rattlesnake upon her
right leg, just below the knee. She died,
leaving four destitute children.
The Charlotte IN. C.) Observer says
1T is surprising fact that there were four
mortgages upon crops of 1873 lately recorded
in the office OF the register of deeds. The
crops, OF course, will not be put into the
ground until next spring. II is bad show.
ing for the farmers that they should be mort.
gaging that which they themselves have not,
and will not have for twelve months, to Sc.
cure supplies for the present.
The Asheville IN. C.) Pioneer says
that at the last term of the court Alexander
Shaft was tried and convicted of fornica.
ton and adultery, and sentenced by Judge
Furches to six months imprisonment in the
county Jail. At the first meeting of the
board of county commissioners thereafter,
on application of Shafts wife, he was hired
out to her at S. per month.
The Galveston News says that the
question of prohibition continues to be a
leading issue in some of the northwestern
counties, where the local option law is still
before the the people. The papers quote a
sentence from the charge of Judge Clark to
the grand jury Of Hopkins county, as fol
lows: fou may visit the graves Of criminals
and with propriety might write above the
remains Of ninety.nine out of every hun
dred: bottle Of whisky; deck of cards
six-shooter; violent death eternal ruin
The following is the estimated damage
by the late cyclone around Galveston The
government works in Balyar channel in
Guiding portion Of the fleet, $4,000 th'
Galveston, Houston and Henderson railroad
loss OF track and bay bridge, 500, 600; Gulf o
Colorado and Santa Fe railroad, loss of tract
and bridge, $4,000; cotton presses, SIS, 800
uncompleted buildings in the city SO, 800
bath houses on the beach, $500; twent,
small schooners capsized, 5000; privat
buildings and property, $4,000. Total
sl32,0O0.