The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-05-02
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

A district telephone company has
organized in Nashville.
1t is said more corn has been planted
in Mississippi this year than usual.
1t will only require three months to
put the New Orleans mint into operation.
Within the last five wears Forsyth,
Ca, small town, las lost 100000 by fire.
Six thousand live chickens were
shipped through Knoxville the other day for
New York.
Muldoon, of Lou sville, Kentucky,
will build the confederate monument at
Columbus, Ga.
A negro has just been sentenced to two
years in the Tennessee penitentiary for steal
ing coon skin.
1t is stated that the wheat acreage
planted this year in Tennessee is double
that of last year.
indians will be taught at the Hampton,
Virginia, normal school. The experiment
will be interesting.
Since Savannah announced her deter
mination to put tramps to work they have
given her wide berth.
Ed. Jackson and JEFF Childs will be
hung in Georgia next June, for the murder
of Powell Ballard last fall
Capt. Eads estimates that the cost of
the Improvement of the st. John's.river bar,
by means of jetties, will be $l,7l7OOO.
The New Orleans Picayune says :
" Homemade hog and hominy" should be
inscribed on the banner OF every southern
farmer.
Some of the large cotton counties in
Mississippi are endeavoring to prevent or
restrict the expectation of cotton seed from
their borders.
The New Orleans firemen are anxious
for the passage of an ordinance compelling
storek keepers using iron shutters for their
buildings to keep them unlocked.
A farmer living near Chattanooga,
having lost number of lambs by the depre'
dations of gray eagles, offered fifty cents iol
every one killed, ani six of the emblems
have been shot.
The ladies' of Warrenton, Va, have or
panized society for the payment of the
State debt. The idea is to get every woman
in the State to Join, the initiation fee to be
twenty-five cents and monthly contribution
A direct steam line has been established
between New Orleans and Belize, Honduras,
by a New Orleans firm. 1t is the first step
toward building up trade which it is be-
lieyed will one day assume very important
proportions, and is attracting the close at
tention of merchants in that city.
The heart of the business portion OF
Clarksvile, Tenn, was burned out by the
great tire Of Saturday night, cntailing a loss
of fromtwo hundred and fifty to three hun
drel thousand dollars. The calamity IS q
terrible one, and there is every reason to
believe that it was the work OF an incendiary
Chattanooga Dispatch: A wholesale
Iiouor dealer told us yesterday that the
Murphy movement had undoubtedly lessen
ed the receipts of the saloons of the city
but had largely increased their Jug and
bottle sales. He claims that he now sells
two bottles where he formerly sold one tc
people in our city.
Chattanooga Dispatch There arr less
than five hundred experienced and compe
tent coal miners in Tennessee to-day, out
side the convict workmeD, and every mar
of these can, If he will find plenty of work
dming the entire year. Convict labor may
in some instances, have worked some hard
ships by forcine free miners to change theil
location, but it has really defeated no free
miners chance to obtain steady employment
The negroes are to hold convention
in Charlotte, N. c., on the 10th of Septem-
ber next, the object of which is to petition
the law.making powers of the country t.
restore thewhipping>post for stealing anc
other grevous oHenses. Stephen McCorkle
a tolored man, is at the head Of the move
and he says there will be delegates from
several of the southern states:
Clarksville (Tenn.) Chronicles fir
extra: Some years ago we repealed some ex
Cellent laws forbidding frame building
within certain limits of the city. HaC
these laws been in force, and had all Ou
business houses been built with fire proc
walls, as they should be, not one.tenth Of tn
calamity we are suffering would have fallel
upon us. The present is our opportunit.
for making laws for the future. Severa
squares have shortly to De rebuilt, and, he
fore operations are commenced, we ough
to re,enact our safety building laws, SO as t.
render such another calamity impossible.