The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-06-20
SGUThERN NEWS ITEMS.

Arkansas is shipping walnut and oak
logs to Liverpool.
The amount of back taxes due the city
of New Orleans is $4,0o0,0O0.
A Davidson county, Tenn, farmer is
making molasses from corn stalks.
There are twenty-five thousand vol.
umes in the North Carolina state library.
The bones of a mastOdon were recently
blown up by a rock blast near Rome, Ga.
A one.legged pauper of Houston,
Texas, has sued the county for his support.
A thousands acre plantation in the
YazOo valley, Miss, recently sold for s55 an
acre.
The Dallas and Wichita (Texas) rails
road has been placed in the hands of re.
ceiver.
The petition of the Macon ladies for
the free pardon of Kate Southern makes Il
document ten feet in length.
The American Baptist Home Mission
Society owe $i5, ,433 incurred for freedmen's
institutions at Natchez and Nashville,
The Georgia Historical Society has
been presented Gen. Lees plan for organ
izing negroes into confederate regiments.
The Richmond State remarks that "the
latter days of Jefferson Davis, like Jobs,
are likely to prove more prosperous than his
former"
The tobacco area planted in Virginia
this year is reported to be smaller than that
o. last year. The planters complain Of the
low prices.
There are said to be nine hundred and
forty more colored citizens enjoying the ad'
vantages Of the public schools Of South Caro-.
lima than white children.
On the plantation of Mr.. Tom Shan.
non, near Thomaston, Ga, while the father
and mother were temporarily away, cabin
containing six negro children was burned.
The Oldest child was ten years of age.
The average wages per month paid
farm hands in Georgia, with rations, is in
north Georgia, 50; middle Georgia, $3.50
southwest Georgia, S7,4l; east Georgia, IS I;
southeast Georgia, Sl0.lO; average for the
state, $SOS.
/ Kingston East Tennessean A letter
dated Boston, April 80, stated that a party
OF four capitalists would leave that city on
the Friday following to view 100000 acres OF
Cumberland mountain tablelands, owned by
| Cyrus Clark, of Pennsylvania, with the ex.
pectation of making purchase for the col.
onization Of eastern people.
/ The East Florida Banner states that
eighty thousand dollars have been subscribed
/ toward building Il railroad from Orange
lake to the Ock lawaha river. The present
crop Of oranges up there is put down at six
million, and it will be difficult to haul them
| to the river in wagons and over rough roads,
/ so n tram road will be laid down this sum-
mer, to be followed by Il better and more
costly road as soon as the iruit growers are
able to build it.
New Orleans PiCayune on new route
/ through Texas: For less than six millions
of dollars road can be constructed AGA
miles long, beginning here and terminating
at ID alas which will open up to market and
render available for settlement q wide re-
gion of great productive capacity. This
road will place the heart OF the richest sec.
tion of northern Texas within twenty four
hours of New Orleans, and while adding
incalculably to the market value OF wide
regions in both states it will form new
artery of life. blood to the commerce OF this
city.
Galveston News: Galveston is simply
dong nothing. She is just about as inert as
a wet rag. Any stranger passing over the
city would be apt to ak the question. how
do all these people live? The city does not
even produce an aA>handle. There was q
broom factory some years ago, but that gave
out. There is not lanyard in the place,
nor a wagon shop, nor cotton or woolen
mill, nor an oi.seed factory, nor the vestige
of a place where II pound OF bone dust or
oil cake could be produced; in fact, the city
is destitute of all pretensions to either
wealth or progress in the domain OF manu-.
faciure.
Augusta (Ga) Chronicle: The grand
Jury of the city court of Savannah recon-.
mend that the representatives. of Chatham
county, in the general assembly, introduce a
bill for levying special tax upon gambling
houses and houses of i'll fame, placing them
under the surveillance of competent ofiicers
and otherwise subjecting them to such police
and sanitary regulations as may be deemed
necessary for the good of the community
Two grand iuries Of this county have made
a similar recommendation, but no steps have
ever been taken toward carrying it into
: effect. 1t would seem to be the part OF wis
dom to regulate evils which cannot be SUPP
pressed.