The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-12-19
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

New Orleans has debt of $40 ,000,-
000 and the Mayor favors scaling ii fifty per
cent.
The Democratic Congressional major
tiles in South Carolina range from q ,96l to
1886.
A large force is at work grading the
Texas and Pacific from Fort Worth to Wea-
therfOrd.
The frst ship of direct line between
Charleston and Europe ia now loading in
Charleston harbor.
North Carolina has in two years in
creased the number of her live stock 500.
600, and their value $4,500,000.
Fifty.two thousand one hundred and
seventy.one oranges were shipped from
Tampa, Florida, from November 9TH to No.
vember 18th,
Representatives of one hundred fam
lilies at Lynn, Mass, propose establishing Il
cooperative boot and shoe factory someN
where in Texas
Fifteen tramps arrested in Atlanta had
goods and chattels to the amount of one
dollar in nickels and eight rtzors-only that
and nothing more.
The receigts of the Alabama Treasury
for the last fiscal year were S9lG,965 Of; dis,
buisements, $6l5,3i5, of which sos, $40 90
were for feeding State prisoners.
The Columbus Enquirer fOots up thirty
cotton gin houses destroyed in Georgia this
season. The greater portion are thought to
have been caused by incendiarjes.
A bill to enforce the constitutional
provision against giving away or selling
liquor within two miles of the polls on any
election passed the lower house of the
Georgia Legislature by vote of lO2 yeas to
80 nays.
Frank Jackson and Henry Underwood,
the surviving members OF the Sam Bass band
of Texas railroad robbers, are said to have
gone to Dakota, where they will probably
ioin the Comanches, with whom Jackson
once lived.
Tangier Island, Va, with population
of over 500, strange to say, has neither q
hotel. restaurant, oyster house, tailor, milIi-
ner, dresimaker, shoemaker, drug store, bar.
Der shop, postofiice, market, Constable, or
Justice OF the Peace
Characteristic Texas item: Major At
wood of the United States Army, stationed
at San Antonio, was married in st. Louis this
week to the daughter of Richard King, the
"cattle king" of the West. The brides
father presented the groom with $4,000 head
of cattle.
Speaking of dull times, a wicked Mo
bile man SAYS that few weeks ago stran.
ger arrived there and bought bale of
cotton, and a pleasant rumor was at once
started that the cotton buyer had arrived,
but it only proved to be Chicago man with
the ear,ache.
The Eagle and Phenix cotton mills, of
Columbus, Ga, have sent to Mrs. FELTON, two
dress patterns Of their own manufacture
one of them, after it is made up, to be worn
on the day DR.. FELTON, takes his seat as
member OF the Forty.sixth Congress. The
patterns are very handsome.
The School Commissioner of Georgia
pledges himself, should a dog and liquor tax
be passed by the General Assembly, to sus-
tain in every school sub'district of the State
absolutely free schools for both the white
and colOrei races for terms varying from
five to eight months in the year.
George Hurstou and Joseph Fulton
were two chivslric young persons OF Salem,
North Carolina, who quarreled, met in the
twilight OF last Friday and shot at each other
in the manner of "the CODE" Fulton was
taken home to his mother dead and HurstOn
took to the road as fugitive murderer.
1t has been discovered that Rev r E.
White, shot and instantly killed while in
the buggy with his wife near Sumter, s. G.,
was accidentally struck by ball fired at
hawk by q little boy. The rifle used was a
and tho hny ,pag nyar tVo hun
dred wards from the road where the minister
was killed.
Colonel Leath and Robert Brinkley
began business in life as partners in Mem.
phis forty years ago, and, as lawyers and
merchants, laid up a fortune each. On
Thursday the latter died at luka, MISS, and
the remains of the former were brought
home from New York and buried in Mem.
phis Friday.
The Tribune thus sums up the ship.
ment of cattle from Tampa, Fla, to Cuba
Shipped from Tampa during the year, up to
this time, 5,02i head worth here, $40, $50.
From Manatee, 2,9Ss; worth here, SAL 1872
Making the aggregate for both Tampa and
Manatee. both pla es being in Tampa Bay,
OF sll2l6S.
The report Of the Assessors upon the
educational advantages OF the inhabitants
of forty.three Of the ffty.eight parishes in
Louisiana is rather discouraging. 1t shows
that there are $1,000 voters in all, Of whom
50 600 kno nothing OF reading and writing.
OF these uneduca,ed ones Is 900 are whites
and $1,000 colored.
Nashville American: The political
complexion Of the new Legislature by Off.
cial count is Senate-Demoerats, 10; Re
publicans, 3; National Greenbackers, 3.
House IS; Republicans, II;
Naiionsi Greenbackers, 6. Total on joint
h,ltot-Dsmncrats IA. Rppublieons II :.