The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-07-04
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

A Salt well has been discovered in
Anderson county, Tennessee.
Tennessee has received 1900 Northern
settlers within the last ten months.
The Pensacola Advance says the
orangeplanting mania is increasing in
Florida.
The sheriff of Pickens county, 5. G.,
charges that five revenue officers brutally
murdered q mOOnshiner named Ladd.
The first colored Baptist church in
Nashville is said to be the finest church
lifcc ever erected by coored people in the
south,
A member of the Central Baptist
church, in Nashville, has been expelled for
allowing his child to be baptized by Catho-
lie priest.
The New Orleans managers of the
Morgan railroad assert that the road will be
built through to Texas in the shortest pos
sible time.
They have lcc,ted Captain Kidd'a
treasure near Key West, Florida and there
is considerable excitement over it in the
neighborhOOd.
The Atlanta Judge to whom was re.
ferred the Legality of the ordinance against
opening barber shops on Sunday has decided
that shaving is moral necessity.
An E1gefeld, Tenn, firm has just
shipped two hundred thousand feet Of wal.
nut lumber to firm in Richmond, Tnd, to
be converted into church furniture.
The rapid increase of population in
Texas may be seen from the popular vote at
the state elections In 1866 the total vote
for governor was e0, 6S2; in 1870, 1874 in
1873, SS, ,36l in 1876, l9S,137 The vote this
year will probably reach 250,OCO.
Mississippi has no public debt except
small amount in funds which sie held at
home ana are worth their face in gold.
Stale tax is very low and county taxes are
reasonably so. The court dockets, civil and
criminal, are cleaner than ever before.
1t is stated that several pushing men
have organized for the purpose OF manufac.
turing iron cotton ties at the old rolling mill
in north Memphis. The capacity of the
works will be from forty thousand TO ty
thousand bundles of ties per annum, or
about one>third of the number annually sold
in that city.
San Antonio Herald: The farmers
about Benham, encouraged by an fer Of II
Frische, made by circular, to pay cash for
beans, planted the crop extensively. Frische
went back on his promise, and piles of that
vegetable, large enough to excite the envy OF
Boston, now rot on the wayside aud IN the
fields.
Iaroa ,nlnny nT Earn,opu ho, cot loI
in Tyler county, Texas, where they are put
ting in farm of 10000 acres under one
fence. The residences of the colonists arc
built toge her in town plat as in Germany
They have with them doctors, merchants
blacksmiths, etc, and are perfectly indie
pendent
Gen. Benjamin f. l. Bonneville died
in New Orleans q few days ago. He was
the oldest living graduate OF West Point
He served with distinction in the Florids
and Mexican wars. His cireer furnished
Irving with the material for his B nneville's
Adventures"
Atlanta Constitution: The peniten
tiary system of Georgia appears to be an
e,sy road 10 reform. According to the
Opiethorpe Echo, the convicts on AIexan-
der's farm are allowed to gamble. One OF
the conyicts, a horse>thief named McCord
won all the money OF his fellow.prisOners in
A weeks time and then broke the guard. A
wheel OF fortune should be introduced for
the amusement of these fatigued villains.
Tennessee now has five military and
two artillery companies: The Chickasav
| Guards and Memphis Lipht Guards, Of Mem
pbis; Porter Rifles, Of Nashville; Sumner
| Guards, of ia latin; Knoxville Rifles, o.
Knoxville; Bluff Cay Lieht Artillery, o
Memphis, and Burns Light Artillery, o
Nashville.