The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-04-04
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

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let.
The Nashville gas company sends to
| Alabama for coal.
Cullman has the only sauff factory in
the state of Alabama.
The Chattanooga steel ail works will
be in operation June lst
Memphis desires to hear Capt. Eads
on the subject OF river Improvement,
The contract to improve the harbor of
Jacksonville, Florida, will probably be given
to Capt. Eads
Gov. Holiday, of Virginia, has offered
rewards for the apprehension of the lynchers
of Charlotte Harris
Certain lands on the st. Johns river,
Florida, sold the other day for four hundred
dollars per acre.
Mr.. Caswell Bell, aged seventy, shot
himself in Atascosu county, Texas, because
II widow wouldn't marry him.
The sheriff of Denton county, Texas,
recently passed through Dallas, escortlng
four murderers and two horse thieves
A Selma, Ala, man has patented a
machine for distributing poison on cotton
shortly.
Three persons in the parish of Assump-
ton, in Louisiana, killed nine thousand alli-
gators and sold their hides for seventy.fve
cents apiece.
The expenses OF the recent session of
the Louisiana legislature were two hundred
thousand dollars less than for any year since
reconstruction.
The results Of artificial propagation of
fish in Virginia are beginning to be exhibits
cd in the large number of shad and herrings
in the streams.
The merchants of Corpus Christi,
tive in congress protest against the free
importation of foreign woods.
Memphis Appeal Work on the Gus
tom house will not be recommended until
congress determines whether or not the
building is to be finished with Tennessee
marble or other stone.
Richmond Dispatch There is a ser
Gus falling off in the revenues of the Mofiett
register This is not at all an indication Of
fault in the register itself, but OF dishonesty
in some liquor sellers.
Shreveport Times: A resident of San
Pedro, Texas, killed his wife with hatchet
because she would not get ont of bed first to
make the fire. A coroner's jury brought in
verdict of "Died from natural causes"
Dallas, Texas, Commercial: First
Murlerer--The right of trial by jury is the
cornerstone of American liberty. Second
Murderer You bet it is. And then they
loaded their pistols and went to look for d
new victim.
Nashville American Collector Wood
cook says that he has received information
from the persons coming from the counties
mentioned, TO the effect that the illicit dis.
tillcrs are making an organized effort at
resistance, and that q very bitter feeling
exists among them.
The bill passed by the Mississippi leg.
islature, a few days before adjournment, in
aid of the Ship Island, Ripley IL Kentucky
railroad, donates large body Of lands held
by the state to assist in its construction, and
provides for the employment of convicts
along the line of the road. The act requires
the company to begin the work of construc.
ton at both ends of the road within six
months.
West Virginia has the largest and most
union. Prof. Fontaine estimates that the
area still covered by forests is between nine
and ten million acres, and that the value of
the surplus exportable timber is fully seven
ty.fve million dollars as it stands in the
forests. The oak, walnut, cherry, ash, pop
lar. maple, elm, sycamore ami locust attain
size there not surpassed on the American
continent
Rockdale (Texas) Messenger: Rock
dale, on Monday, witnessed a strange phen-
omenOn. Ii was II shower OF leaves. As far
as the eye could reach the heavens above
were filled with them, reminding one of the
days Of the grasshoppers. There was no
commotion of the atmosphere to be observed
in any direction on the horizon. The sup
position is that they were lifted up by an
| immense whirwind and carried great dis.
tance. They were falling all day long
New Orleans Times: We have learned
with regret that it is very probable New Or.
| leans will not send to the Paris exposition
respectable sample of cotton, and, indeed,
| il any cotton Is sent there at all from here it
will only be bale or two put ur by some in
dividual, to exhibit the power of some press
or for some other purpose altogether foreign
| to cotton as grand national product. And
| it is also sa1d tnat even our COTTON eXcDaDge
will content itself with sending mail box
containing few pounds of this great staple.
A letter from Col. A. Burwell, a
prominent lawyer Of vicksburg, is printed
in the Memphis Appeal, in which the claims
OF Memphis as the eastern terminus OF the
southern railway route to the Pacific are
urged, and the disadvantages Of Vickshurg,
which he styles the doomed city" are clear.
lv SET forth. Col. Burwell states that he is
astuated to this opinion against his own per.
sonal interests by facts too palpable to be
ignored. All his worldly possessions are at
tbe south end OF Vicksburg, but he cannot
helr but recognize the superior advantages
Mep,phis possesses for the eastern terminus
of the great trunk line Of the Southern Paci
cfc railway.
New Orleans Democrat: At the pres
ent time there are in the port o. New Orleans
twenty.one steamships, forty ships, forty.
two barks, four brigs and fifteen schooners,
making an aggregate of l22 vessels against
ninetyotwo last year at this date. The Brit,
;sl she ,mer Texas has cleared for Liverpool
nth % .l99 bushels Of corn in bulk, and the
steamer Ithuriel, for the same port, with