The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-02-21
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
A very black couple in Columbus. Ga,
have three Albino children.
North Carolina has 33l convicts in
the penitentiary, and 700 at work on rail-
roads.
The tenderest TROPICAL plantsat Tampa,
Florida, were not injured in the least this
winter.
Tennessee has now eleven hundred and
twenty convicts, and expects to have twelve
hundred in two months.
Marshall, Texas, Herald Reports from
all parts OF the state represent the wheat
crop as promising an abundant yield.
Diphtheria is again very fatal in Nash
vile. Conductor 4. B. House has lost three
children within a week, and has two more
sick,
The Fort Worth Democrat is authority
for the statement that one of Davy Crocketts
sons was in that town the other day with
load of cotton.
Governor Hahn has offered bill in the
Louisiana legislature licensing gambling
houses, and prescribing the manner in which
they shall be conducted.
The Eastern Virginan tells of twenty
Goldfish being caught u fortnight ago off the
coast of Accomac-the first of the kind ever
known in Nirgnian waters.
Salisbury Watchman There is little
negro girl, two or three years old living in
town, with three feet and one hand. Her
right arm has aperlect foot on it.
H. NJ. Moody has sent to the office Of
the Jacksonville, Florida, Sun and Press a
peach one Of some thirty that are on the
tree which had been in bloom the entire
season."
A Texan is exhibiting calf with eight
well.de6ned sheep horns, eight goat horns
and two natural calf horns. He has also a
Berkshire pig with three horns, five legs, six
feet and two tails.
Tallahasse, Florida, Patriot Peach
trees are in bloom, and if the weather con.
tiuues as mild as we have had it for the past
two weeks, vegetables will go begging for
the want of buyers.
The governor has appointed Hon. f.
FOntaine, of Columbus, and Colonel John
A. Speer, of Lagrange, as the two honorary
commissioners to represent Georgia at the
Paris exposition.
One of the finest bayous in the state of
Louisiana, which was, twenty years ago, a
perfect Eden of beauty and splendor, has
become a swamp fit only for the habitation
of alligators and bullfrogs,
In Hampstead. Texas, the grand jury
indicted the gamblers, and the gamblers in
turn filed infOrmations before the county
attorney against a majority OF the grand
| Jury also the county attorney himself.
Hutchins, the colored lawyer from
| South Carolina, who some time since made
vain effort to obtain admission to the Georgia
bar, has at last susceeded in carrying his
point, and is now u full.hedged Georgia
barrister.
Gus. Johnson will be hanged ON the
18th of March, in Rome, Ga, for the murder
of negro. lie will be the first white man
hanged in the south since the war for the
murder of q negro So says the Atlanta
| Constitution.
Tennessee will not only send large
| display of her products to the Paris expOsi-
ton, but will have about 10000 pamphlets
| printed in French and German, and contain.
ing such information about the state as i'm
migrants will desire.
! The Richmond Transcript exhume:
the fact that Virginia once mad native
African Tor governor. Governor Alexander
Spottswood, who filled the char in 1850
was born in TaDgier, while his father, Il
British officer, was there on duty.
Mrs. Lily Murphy, of Pittsylvanis
county, Va, died on Wednesday. During
her illness, her son, VIM. Murphy, aged "a
veors declared if his mother died he would
% loo. and when she died he cut his throat
Nth a razor. but it is thought he will re-
cover.
rL. e,Lo.o, of JooLoonv;Ile Fla
are complaining about the dull season in
their line. They all work on shares, and
receive pay according to the price received
by the parties they work for. The hsh are
solI principally in ST. Louis, Nashville
Louisville and New York.
Tho publication in the Charleston
Com.'ar Of tbs disnatcb from Rev
peTS Tnu pl. oo",,n. uneina W the nnrcbsse nf
shin, has created the greatest excitemen
among the colored people. The arrival o
the craft is already anticipated, and ney
influx of emigrants may be looked for.
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, ward W. isarn h ,hat ,t"s soma n;natn T,m;i;s
will arrive here in the course of two month
from Pittsburg, Pa.
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