The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-03-21
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

The university of Nashville and tho
Vanderbilt university graduated ninety doc.
tors.
A statue of Major, General William
Henry Talbot Walker, who fell in the bloody
battle of Atlanta, July 90, 1864, will adorn
one of the columns of the confederate monu.
ment which will be erected in the city of
Augusta at an early day.
The Mississippi legislature has enacted
a law to fix the penalty in cases OF rape.
This law makes the punishment of rape the
same as is now provided by law in cases of
murder, which is death or imprisonment in
the penitentiary for life, at the discretion of
the jury.
Col. w. II. McCardle has been named
to collect and preserve the records OF the
late war, as far as the state of Mississippi is
concerned, a bill to that effect having passed
the state senate. He is to be allowed 800
per month for his services, and twelve
months to do the work.
The supreme court of Georgia decided
the other day, in the case of McDade VS.. the
Georgia railroad company, that the employe
of railroad company who receives phys-
cal injury, partly by his own fault, or partly
by the fault OF other servants or employees of
the company, cannot recover.
The internal revenue officers in the
second Tennessee district, during their raid
upon the moOnshiners, succeeded in destroy
ing 90 illicit distilleries, seizing II copper
stills. 10000 gallons of beer, $50 gallons of
singlings, 100 gallons of whisky, 25 bushels
of meal, Is bushels of corn and lot of meal.
Savannah News: Madison county
boasts of wonderful natural production in
the shape of horned rooster, the property
of Mr.. Ferguson. The owner exhibited him
at Athens recently and pitted him against
one of the city games Of that place, and, in
stead OF spurrng, he butted his antagonist
out of the ring aud gained the day, Send
him to Paris
About four hundred German immi-
grants, with their wives and families, have
just arrived in Taylor county, Texas, from
Ohio. They have bought an even hundred
thousand acres of land at dollar and a half
an acre, cash down, and have an abundance
of capital and improved agricultural imple.
menis with which to commence farming
operations at once.
The Tampa (Florida) Guardian says:
A sweet seeding orange tree in the grove of
Mrs. Peterson, at Spring Hill, fernando
county, bore two genuine lemons in crop
of oranges this season. There was no lemon
graft in connection with this lusus nature,
which must have resulted from the fecunda-
ton of the orange blooms with the pollen
from those of the lemon.
Nashville American: The following
shows the number of immigrants who came
into Tennessee during the mouth of Fehru-
ary. as reported by Commissioner Killebrew;
From Ohio, "a Indiana, AZ; Michigan, AZ;
80; New York, %; Pennsylvania,
1S; Minnesota, 81; Iowa, II; Illinois, 81
Canada, 1; Ireland, l. making total of 219.
About one third of this number settled in
Lawrence county, and it is expected 100
more will reach here this month or early in
April.
The legislature of Georgia, at its last
session, passed an act requiring all insurance
companies doing business in the state to de.
posit with the state treasurer, upon the
expiration of their certificates, $25,O00 in
United States or state of Georgia bonds.
This was done for the protection Of policy
holders. The certificates all expired on the
lst instant, and no insurance company can
now carry on business in this state unless it
has deposited bonds with the treasurer in
with the law.
The Clarksvlle, Tenn, Chronicle
wants the Red river made navigable. 1t says
a few hundred dollars judiciously spent
would make it navigable, in ordinary tides,
as safe to Port Royal as the same distance on
the Cumberland river. What an effect it
would have on the portions OF Montgomery
and Robertson counties that are tributary to
Clarksville. At present the roads are i'm.
passable, and the tariff on the railroad so
great that shipments of corn and tobacco are
almost prohibited. There are no mill.dams
in the way. The stream is open to the cross.
ing Of the Southeastern railroad.
Lynchburg Virginian: West Virginia
has had remarkable financial history.
Though not yet fifteen years old. defaultng
sherifls owe the state the enormous sum OF
five hundred thousand dollars. This does
not include what they owe to the counties
and districts. A few years ago one OF the
collecting officers in cur native county of
Jefferson defaulted for the whole of the
school tax, and as nothing could be made
out of him or his securities, another levy
was made upon the taxpayers to make good
his default But, as the whole state was
stolen from old Virginia, il is not remarkable
that kleptomania should be epidemic among
the collecting officers of that new state.
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer.Sun; PEN
sacola seems to be at the mercy of the
Mobile and Montgomery railroad mon.
opoly, and the opposition of that road
has prevented the putting on of line
OF steamers between that port and Cuba
for the expectation of grain and other
produce. A few weeks ago the gems
eral southern manager of the Pullman pal.
ace ear company was in that city, with
view of putting on through sleeper between
Louisville and Pensacola, and every arrange.
ment to consummate this convenience was
made, when the Mobile and Montgomery
railroad stepped in and put veto upon the
arrangement.
Little Rock Gazette: AS there is a
question as to the right OF planters who desire
10 supply their employees with manufactured
tobacco for their own personal use and ac-
commodation, we have taken pains, in the
interes. of our readers, through the internal
revenue office of this place, to get decision
direct from Revenue Commissioner Raum
upon this matter specifically. The decision
obtained by us is as follows: "a farmer or
planter who simply supplies his employees
with what manufactured tobacco they need
for their own spersonal use and for their
special accommodation, and not with a view
10 gain or profit to himself, is not regarded
as engaged in the business of selling manu-
factured tobacco, and would not be required
TO nav special tax for thus supplying his
hired laborers with tobacco"
There is but little doubt that the citi.
zens of Jacksonville will secure the large
arperiuesa of Captain Eads in looking after