The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-18
CONVERSATIONS OF NEWS
THE SOUTH.

About 100000 young salmon have
been distributed in the Virginia streams.
Twenty-Five thousand young salmon
have been put in the Colorado river at Aus
tin, Texas.
The adjutant general of Virginia now
gets the magnificent salary of 500 per
annum.
Tramps are committing all sorts OF
depredatious on the railway trains in Ar.
kansas.
A number of colored people are emf
grating from Henry county, Tennessee, to
Illinois.
The machine-shops of the Mississippi
Central and Tennessee railway will be erected
at Jackson at an early day.
An organized band of colored cotton
hieyes has been discovered at Charlotte,
Nerth Carolina,
The number of cotton gins burned in
Georgia this season is placed at about sixty,
with but one conviction Of an incendiary.
The Florida state fair, to be held in
February, offers premium of FIVE dollars for
the biggest alligator exhibited.
The Rock City paper mills, at Nash
vile, were sold atchancery sale Tuesday, and
were bought by the bondholders for $4,000.
Hon. +. j. Warren, of Washington,
N. c., a Judge Of the supreme court, and sew
eral times presiding officer of the senate, is
dead.
Two carloads of marble for building
purposes will be shipped from Knoxville to
San Francisco, as soon as it can be quarried
to fill an order from that city.
Nashville Banner: b. S. Corey and
J. j. Stewart arrived in this city this morn.
ing with thirty thousand young California
salmon, Matched at the government hatch
ing.house at Worthwhile, Minnesota, and
which are to be deposited in the Alabama
river at Montgomery. This is but one OF
many shipments to be made into the gull
state this winter.
The steamers White, Check and Hi
nois, OF the well.known Cheek line, have
been seized by the United States marshal tc
satisfy claims of libellants fled in the United
States district court For some time the
boats have been running under the man
agement of Mr.. N. NJ. Jones, who was acting
as trustee for the benefit of the creditors Of
the line.-HemphiS Ledger.
Newport (Ark) News, "On Tuesday
night last fifteen tramps, on the south.bount
through freight, broke into the ice.car
opened beer.kegs, and helped themselves tc
all the beer and other things on the trair
that they wanted. At Walnut Ridge the con
ductor tried to put them off, but they drew
their pistols on him, and virtually KEEP
charge of the train to Alicia, where they go
off,"
Jas. J. Waring, in his third paper con
tributed to the state board of health on the
subject OF the yellow fever in Savannah says
1t is usees to discuss the real causes of this
epidemic so long as our people are willing tC
take for granted that the disease was, ant
can any time be introduced by some acci
dental case of yellow fever on shipboard es
Gaping the vigilance OF quarantine. What
ever may be said of other epidemicS, the vel
low fever epidemic Of Savannah in 1876 wa!
not introduced by any vessel coming iron
West India or South American ports. Tht
yellow fever zone is the zone OF filth and bat
sewerage and bad drainage. In the last cen
tury New England towns were decimate'
by the disease. Boston, New York and Phil
adelphia were constantly and terribly Wis
tied. TheyNare now said to be out of the zone
Spanish towns are the dirtiest in all tn,
world, but we're Cuba to fall into the hands
Of an English.speaking people it woult
11ickly be out Of the yellow fever zone, like
Philadelphia,