The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-11-28
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.


In the port of Wilmington, N. c., Friday,
One of the wonders of the Texas State
Fair was a "Sleeping Beauty" made OF but'
Ter.
Georgia has supported her 795 luna
| tics the past ten months at an average daily
cost of "a IL cents.
A bill for the introduction o. the Moi.
felt register has been introduced IN the
Georgia Legislature.
The proprietors of the Belmont vine
yard, Front Royal, Virginia, have made l5,>
900 gallons of wine this season.
General Joseph Il. Johnston received
In Richmond 1858 votes and his opponent
GAL. Johrston's majority in the district is
1915.
ada l.. NJ" writes to a paper pub
| lished near Button that .he wants a hus.
band, aged twenty.six or twenty. eight,
| farmer, and man who knows something
| more than measuring few yard OF calico.
| Address her at Button, Texas. No clerks
need apply.
Jefferson Davis has been singularly
unfortunate with his sons. Joseph II. fell
| from the piazza of the Executive Mansion
| III hlClllHbIN uulJuS tIiS N"i 'hN '"' N'''N'i
William died of diphtheria in Memphis in
| 1873, and Jefferson, the only surviving one,
has died in Memphis of the yellow fever
William Newton, of Florida, was SEN
fenced to he hung two years ago for killing
a woman, but just before the time OF the
execution his sentence was committed TO
Imprisonment for life. A few days ago his
plot to murder the guards and escape from
convict farm was discovered, and, in des'
peratiOn, he poisoned himself.
Richmond is not strictly temper
ance town. The Wig says: The Moliett
registers returned for the month OF Ociober:
Alcoholic drinks, l05,4Hi tax, $2,66L73;
malt drinks, IA, l66; tax, $710.SS; total 49,.
| 372'76. The total revenue derived from the
| registers from The beginning OF the system
to the LIST Of November amounts to $52, 736 ".
New Orleans Times: 1t is confidently
| believed that the results of the inquire into
the subject of yellow fever now being made
will be the utter subversion of popular ideas
regarding quarantine. Through travel will
| be interdicted in the future only by such
| towns rs will 90 against all scientific opinion,
and the mails will probably be uninter.
| dicted.
Mr.. Ayrauit of Virginia, will exhibit
at the State Fair his steer, weighing rearIy
1000 podnds, and heifer, $500 pounds,
which probably are the largest animals OF
| the kind in the world. One is a thorOugh>
| bred Durham, and the other seveneghths
pure blood. They are well known through.
out the country, the steer rs "Champion"
and the heifer as "Queen OF Cattle"
Millett Brothers, cattle kings OF
| stb,vau4 Tavuu hava thn contract for fIir.
nishing beef to all the Indian agencies in
the Territory, embracing Fort Sill, Washita,
| Usage, cheyenne Fort Renol PGwnee,
Conca, Modoc, Nez Perces, RuGpa, and Sac
and Fox agencies. To supply these ten
agencies it requires about 1000 head OF 500
pound cattle per month.
A Galveston News special says of the
State FAR in Austin; "There were lis
entries of horses, Al of CATTLE ll3 sheep, and
81 hogs. The cattle and horses are thorN
oughbred. Stock of Texas farms show to
better advantage than those brought from
Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky per-
haps because oil more recent excellent
grooming. II is evident from the show
to-day that Texas is taking position in rails
ing blooded stock with any of the Western
States.
All Saints Day was celebrated in New
Orleans by q decoration OF the many thou
sand newmade graves The Democrat says
of the Charity Hospital cemeteries: "There
were no visitors to these gOlgOthas (where
the record states that 32,962 persons are
placed where the weary are at rest) except
a detachment OF Battery r, New Orleans
| Artillery, who remembered poor dead
comrade and laid wreath OF evergreens
and flowers OIL his grave"
G. K. Lombard, in his report to the
| Chattanooga Relief Committee, says: 1t
will be seen that altitude is no protection
against the disease, as every family occupy
| ing Academy Hill suffered more or less,
while In the hollow south OF the Academy,
on ground lower than the Digger lot, there
| have been but seven cases, and no two IN
any one house, although the family were
| not isolated, while in the Crabtree and Dug
ger lots two and three in family have been
Frustrated in one day.
Charleston, S. g., isanticipating great
results from the construction of jetties by
the United States Government at the mouth
of its harbOr. A tuntalzing bar has hitherto
proved an obstacle to the free passage of
shipping, but this projected improvement
will increase the depth OF the water by at
least ten feet, and enable the largest ships
to pass at all times. The opening between
the jettes will he a half mile wide, and
through it will flow the waters now spread
over line of ten miles.
New South: The deaths at Grenada
and vicinity up to September 20 are, as near
as can be ascertained: Adult males. 1l2 /;
females, 20; miners, 81; total whites, 233.
OF the first, our merchants, druggists,
traders, aud clerks furnished nearly half
four resident physicians, four ministers OF
the gospel, two lawyers, one chancellor, the
Postmaster, the Mayor OF the city, two AL.
dermen, two dentists, many mechanics,
among them both of the undertakers and
their employees. Some deaths have occurred
from yellow fever since, but not many
especially in the city.
A startlingrobbery and bloody tragedy
occurred a few nights ago three miles north
of Bryan, Texas. About midnight gang Of
five masked men, mounted and well armed,
went to the house of Thomas Higgs, broke
in and tied him to the bedpost, hand and
foot. The villains then robbed the house Of
$3.50. They then took Higgs and made him
walk in front to the house OF his brother,
Sam Higgs, a quarter OF mile distant.
They forced him to knock at the door, and
ordered him to make no reply. His brother
Sam, not receiving any answer, seized six.
shooter and fire d, MORALLY wounding Tom
Hggs. The robbers then opened fire, com.
pletely Kidding the house with bullets.
The occupants, however, miraculously ess
capped. =,
New Orleans Democrat: In the Ma
sonic Cemetery lay the remains of Edward
Barnes and his five children, the latter side
by side, the sod over them and the names,
"Hattie," "Millie," "Woodland," "Jeffie,"
and ,'Eobert," worked chrysanthemums over
the grave which theyrepresented, while the
plst in which these children we've buried
was encircled with eyergreens Interpreted
with flowers, each grave divided with line
OF the gray moss gathered from the funeral
looking trees OF the forest beyond. The
father lay few feet to the left of his sons
and daughters IN the Mount Moriah Lodge
tomb He died September LIST, Hattie Sep.