The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-01-10
NEWS SUMMARY.
MOUTH.

hre'hlarm telegraph.
A bagging mandatory is being or
ganixed at Charleston, s. G.
The South Carolina house of repre-.
sentatives voted down the bill incorporating
the new county Of "Ninety- in that
state.
Mrs. Chisholm, of Mississippi tragedy
fame, Is to have office in the treasury do.
partment at Warrington.
Bills have been introduced in the Vir-
ginia legislature to incorporate the James
river railroad and the Virginia, Kentucky
and Ohio railroad companies.
A Big Bend correspondent of the
Macksville (Texas) Bulletin states that the
planters of that locality will abandon cotton
next year and cultivate sugar.cane.
The Wilmington On. C.) Morning Star
says one.half of the Duplin county lands
aimed by the Duplin canal have been obli
gated 10 the canal company in return for the
reclamation Of the other hall.
Raleigh IN. O. Observer New York
letter: The whole region Of western North
Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia is de.
scribed by Dr. White, from personal expert,
ence, as being Healths Eldorado."
The Vicksburg Herald says: "Com-
mon labOrers are now earning in this state
and in Louisiana from $50 to $75 per month,
yet we are constantly hearing of starvation
and strikes in the north. Laborers, come
SOUTH"
The Cumming (Ga.) Baptist Banner
says little daughter OF James Mathis, of
Forsyth county, fell from tree recently and
struck a snag four feet above the ground,
which penetrated her abdomen and sus-
pended her in that position for several min.
utes before she was rescued.
Richmond (Va.) Patron: Senator
Smith has drafted bill proposing to ap.
prentice out cOnvicts of misdemeanOr, under
proper restrictions, for the payment OF fine
and costs incurred in their arrest, mainten.
ance and conviction OF such parties, includ-
ing the value of the property stolen.
Rattlesnakes are 20 thick at Slaughter.
vile, Kentucky, that they have driven one
man out Of his house. For two or three
nights in succession they could be heard
nttling under and around the house, and as
their number didn't seem to diminish ma.
terially after he had killed twenty.seven OF
them, he concluded it was time to clear out.
A Cumming, Ga, letter speaks of re-
markable beet at that place, which shoots up
from the ground a stem about eighteen
inches high, and at the top of the stem q
fully developed beet, which could not be
spanned with the thumb and finger. From
near the ground sprouts spring out from the
main stem, which present at the ends perfect
developments of small beets.
The Richmond (Va.) State represents
as being the usual salutation of the old cOl>
ored people of that section, Boss, remember
your old servant" and says it is generally
accompanied by a supplicatory genuhexion
that reminds one Of other days. The State
says they are greater beggars than the laz-
zaroni of Italy, and have no idea of doing
you the slightest favor without being remem.
bered in money.
The entire state revenue receipts in
Alabama during the year have amounted to
$979,592. The state debt, including the Pat
ton certificates of 81 1855, amounts to 50, 705,-
6'8. The Mobile Register says: The auditor
informs us that the improved condition of the
state is shown in appreciation of the fund.
ed Liabilities. The per cent obligations,
known as state money, are being absorbed as
an investment by citizens of Alabama, and
the new two and three per cent. bonds have
advanced in value al least twenty per cent.
within the past few months.
Danville (Va.) Register: We heard OF
curious case OF absorption, the other day,
which will be Of interest to the medical pro.
fessiOn, at least. A negro woman of Henry
county, about sixty years of age, and former.
ly the property of J. r. Fontaine, deceased
was Ill for long time, and imagined that
she was "tricked." She died, but previous
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mOrtem examination, which he did, and found
in the uterus the remnants of totns, part of
the skull and other bones remaining. The
.fdtus, it is not doubted, had been there a
number of years, and had been nearly all
taken up by absorption, thus causing ill
health and death.
Elizabeth Ky. News Charlotte (Va.
letter: Edgar A. Poe was n student OF this
university when he was eighteen years OF
age (1S26) am informed by classmate ef
his VIM. Wertenbaker, esq, (the university
librarian) that Poe was astudent whilst here,
having obtained distinction in several
studies. He pronounces as false the state
ment of Mr.. Griswold (who wrote his first
memoirs) that he was expelled from the uni
versity. Poe, he says, was fond OF gaming
and lost large amounts Of money at the card
IaDle WnllSt mere; ne e4presseu much re6ro.
to my informant on one occasion that he had
contracted large debts at gambling, and fixed
the amount at So 000, but he was earnest
and emphatic in the declaration that they
were debts of honor, and he intended to pay
them rs soon as he could. Like many schoo
boys who are dofted "bad," he had tina
propensity of using his knlie upon thu
benches; his name is cut on bench in on'
of the lecture halls, and also on the mantle
in the room he occupied.