The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-08-22
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

A snow-white mocking bird has been
captured in Texas. ...-.
Savannah is exercising most vigorous
quarantine measures.
The Memphis board of health will keep
no secrets, but will announce every case Of
yellow fever appearing.
Four hundred German families are
settling on O500O acres of land in the north
ern portion of Taylor county, Texas.
The superintendents of the various
railroads centering at Macon, Ga, have
agreed to accept Mexican dollars at valua.
ton of only ninety cents.
Four companies of u. S. troops,
recently qsrtered in the barracks below New
Orleans, have moved to Holly Springs, Miss,
frightened by Bronze John.
New Orleans has at present a pOpula-
ton of only 100000 which, however, is
steadily increasing by emigration from
France, Italy, and Germany.
A negro named Ephraim Miller, living
in johnson county, Texas, fearing that the
eclipse was the beginning of the worlds
end, killed one OF his children and then
committed suicide.
Henrietta TEX Journal: Three buf-
faloes have identified themselves with W.S.
Browns herd of cattle. This unusual occur.
renee is worthy of note, and the fact goes to
prove that something may yet be done with
the buffalo.
The New Orleans board of health has
adopted q resolution declaring that the
mode OF quarantine adopted by Mobile is
.unne harsh, and the request is made
that the Mobile authorities permit the pass.
age of through freight and passenger trains
after being fumigated.
The Augusta News says sixteen me-
groes who returned from Liberia on the Azor
passed through the city Wednesday morn
ing, on their way to Mississippi. One OF
them said he had carried away thousand
dollars some years ago, and now brought
back nothing. All said they had enough OF
Liberia.
Dallas Commercial: The statement
that one thousand of the delegates who at,
tended the state convention had pistols OF
revolvers upon their persons may be
stretched little, but at best it speaks very
| badly for Texas 1t shows that our repIe
sentative men either feel that they are mo-
adequately protected by law or that they
have very little regard for it.
| Fish in Florida are so numerous thai
they even inhabit the clouds and fall dowI
from thence with rain. According to the
Gainesville News. one of the printers of tba
paper put bucket out to catch some waite
during the heavy ram on Wednesday, ant
after taking it in found four minnows in tn,
water. They had doubtless fallen from
higher regions during the heavy rain, ant
they seemed uninjured by their aerial navi
CATION.
Montgomery Advertiser: All through
Alabama crops are very good and the yield
promises to be large. An immense amOun
OF grain was sowed, and the harvest wa.
fine. The rains of the last few days, it i,
feared, will greatly injure the cotton in th,
prairie and canebrake portions OF the state
as during showery and rainy weather tn,
worms flourish and multiply. OF one thing
however, the people are we'll assured-tbe,
have the biggest corn crop raised in mani
years.
New Orleans Times The .extraordi
nary haste made by many surrounding
towns little and big, to quarantine agains
New Orleans, thereby subjecting their owl
citizens as well as ours. to great and unneces
sary inconvenience, is striking ILLUSTRATION
OF bne rtckltSsnetb anu StluSuneA8 OIL Ir1glt
, ened humanity. 1t has all the evidence o
, an irrational panic combined with what 81
pears to be studied effort TO make their so
! called precautions as asirritating and injuriou
, as possible.
Atlanta Constitution The Mobilisn
, are badly frightened. They see Bronze Johi
advancing in irresistible power. In thei
Q vivid imsginstions he rides on every breeze
, and turks in every railroad chr. Nothin
seems to be free Of him, in their eyes, el
4 cept few through mail pouches; and ther
q is 80 strong suspi ion against them tina
=, they have to be transferred to asolitary bO
4 ear sixty miles west Of the city-at lionel
q Boloxi, to which port the coast train is pei
niitted to come in its eastward journey. 8
a Sanford (Fla.) Journal: The youn
:, wife Of Harry Smith, living out on the Pin,
u ample Ridge neighborhood, has the true gr
/. for pioneers wife. A few weeks ago, du
ing The absence of her husband, she disco
y cred an alligator after her chickens Sh
/. ouietly gets her husbands revolver an
- smpties six loads into his 'gatolship, maxim
u him sauirm every shot; then brings out th
Q doubls.bsrreled shotgun and peppers hi
!. with that, and ends the fight BY chopin