The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-10-25
NEWS SUMMARY.
THE SOUTH.

'n'Hm of $500 for the best fire company in
Shc state.
1he famous Dummitt orange grove,
on the Indian river Florida, has been sold to
New Yorker for $23,O
Jack Hunt, for the cold -blooded mur-
der OF his wife in Monroe county, Tenn, il
TO he hanged on the 2Nth proXimo.
Colonel Holiday, conservative can.
didaie tor governor Of Virginia, declines to
canvass The state, as there is no opposition.
Two Sisters of Mercy have died of
yellow fever at Fernandina, and two Others
have gone from ST. Augustine to take their
places,
Twenty-Five Judges are TO be ap-
pointed to examine the models which may
lie submitted for the Lee monument in
Richmond,
Hartsvilc ('renn. Sentinel The to-
hncco crop of the state now being housed is
vastly superior to any that has been raised
for many years.
In Virginia and North Carolina the
acreage planted in tobacco is fifty per cent.
larger than last year; the yield promises to
be better ia the same ratio.
The Columbia Is. c. Phoenix says that
there Is enough material before the legisa.
tive investigating committee to keep them
at work at least eighteen months longer.
Hon. Washington Leonidas Grce has
been appointed circuit judge in the Macon
tGo.l district vice Judge lIll, who died on
the bench AT Knoxville few days ago.
Waco (Texas) Register: The pecan
crop is iSreported good in this section this
year, and hundreds of bushels of The nuts
will likely be shipped from this place.
Black Horse and Left Hand, the In
'lilnS who have been i'll at Fort Maron, ST.
augustine, are cOnvalesuent and regaining
ihelr usual health and natural savageness
-Four little girls, the children of Mr.
Jacob Mu.seshite, of Robeson county, NC,
died lately Of diphthcria SO near together
that they were all buried last Sunday, at the
same time.
Samuel G. Reid, Esq, has made his
bond, received his commission and taken
charge Of the United States marshal's office
for the middle and southern districts of
Alabama,
Grcenville (S. C.) News: Work was
commenced on the Greenwood and Augusta
railroad last week, one hundred penitentiary
"onvicts being employed under Surerin.
tendent Bailey.
A Georgia negro preacher said TO his
flock: awe have a collection to make this
morning, and, for the glory Of heaven, which
ever of you stole Mr.. Smiths sheep don't
put anything on the plate"
\ picket-line is kept around Jackson
vile, Flu, night and day, to keep out yellow
fever refugees, but one Of them knocked
down colored picket the other night and
got in,
The demand for -pickers is on
the increase in Natchitoches, La, and the
price has reached 75c. per hundred pounds.
This would be $lS 80 per bale for picking,
or y per cent. OF its entire value.
The first official returns from Rich.
mond under the Mofat law are for the las,
seventeen days of September. In that time
there were registered 10000 malt and l37,.
20 alcoholic drinks. The tax thereon
amounted to $3.50.
According to the Columbus (Ga.) En-.
quirer one Of the strangest things in the
world is to find southern planters buying
tons OF northern hay, while the heavy and
%rIerous task the whole year round is to
keep the fields clear of grass.
\ volt that had killed over thirty
Hheep in Gadsdep county, Florida, was killed
the other day, after an exciting chase, in
which there were forty dogs and regiment
W. ,a,9ei men, u was hVe feet long and two and
Carpe, who killed his daughter her
child and himself in Bradley county, Tenn,
few days ago, was an avOwed atheist, and
was frequently heard to remark that his
ian,'iy ana hIl'seil might Us well pe killed
ny MS own MINUS
Savannah News: About fourteen hun
dred head of cattle and the same number of
sheep passed through Quitmau last Saturday.
They came from COlquitt and Mitchell cOun-
Ties, and were on their way to fernando
county, Florida, where they viii run IN the
wilds during the winter.
Several letters, received bv promi-
nept cotton firm in Mobile from parties in
the overHoycd district. represent quite AN
encouraging state of things relative to crop
prospects. Reports from this region indicate
that perhaps not a tenth of the damage at
first auticipated will he realized by the
planters.
From November 1870 to August II
1877 Tho fo,si,r svnorts of pans,coIa have
h.on Ssio ooI n,,h;n loo, Of Lewn ,imher
4 O9I ak cnh;c fee. If savn timber nO5lI
cubic foot of o,t t;mher oS mi O0o feei of
Iumher I go7 hale of cotton amnIovino pS6
vessels with , tonna,e of SI5 asri tons
"i'n ,o"""S' VI 80 -'"'''D ,'"''
,i tho i,rcsst or,naeiorowsrs p, w in cast TIoriJa
gtaies thai tbe nressnf cram of That dclicious
fruit is most nrnmisino his onnion. the
vaIue of villa oran1o o,ro,.as bas been in.
creaseJ ovsr nm . tboussnJ nor cent within
The last nine vears
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