The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-05-23
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

The wheat is suffering from rust and
fly in many parts of Tennessee.
The army horses at San Antonio are
grazed at $l.tO per head during the season.
Virginia olaimst the finest wheat prospect
ever seenin the state at this stage of the crop.
The total value of the foreign exports
from the port of Charleston, for the year
1877, was $l60lS.002.
The Confederate Survivors association
haSbeen organized in Augusta, with Gen. c.
| A. Evans president.
The Augusta Chronicle says: One
thousand tea,plants have been distributed
pmong Warrencounty farmers, and Madison
raepares "to put the kettle on"
Hoods Texas brigade will hod its an
nual reunion in the city OF Houston on the
tenth day Of July next Gen. Wade Hamp.
ton and Hon, Dan. Voorhees, are expected
to be present
The Catholics have bought 1000 acres
Of land in Mecklenburgh county, Va, on
which they are going to establish an indus,
trial farm for educating freedmen. This is
better than shipping them to Liberia to starve,
The Young man triel in London
county, Va, last week, for shooting into a
| crowd who visited him the night of his mar.
rirgo as calathumpian band, thereby
killing one OF the party, was sent to the
penitentiary for eighteen years
| Atlanta Constitution The tobacco
trade of New Orleans, which in antc.belum
! times was only secondary to the cotton busi.
ness, promises again to take new start, ad.
| Vices from the west indicating a general de-
Gil tn gbi ~ an ipp nf bn
| this way.
For the year the Alabama penitentiary
received 81 convicts, making S3l total con.
inements; of these, "A were discharged, 45
died, "a escaped, II were pardoned and 6
were delivered to sherifis to answer other
charges, leaving in the penitentiary, October
/, 1877, 655 convcts The net cash earnings
for the year were $27,7iS.96.
The Moffett whisky register law, which
was passed at the late session of the Louis.
lana Legislature, has gone into operation.
The bill places a quarter of cent tax on
every drink, and it is thought will yield
revenue of 100000 annually. The liquOl
dealers are violently opposed to the law,
and have already formed an ASSOCIATION to
test its constitutionality.
The Swiss German colony at lIelvetia,
Randolph county, w. Va does not appear
to be augmenting, but rather diminishing.
According to a letter from its principal
pioneer, G. Il. Lutz, in the last buckingham
Banner, the movement to settle such Il
colony there started in 1870, and by April,
1875, there were 500 people. Now there are
only about 800, and some of them are pre-
pairing to leave. No particular reasons for
this decline of the colony are given beyond
"a for hat pf
Austin (Tex.) Statesman: Two years
in the psnitentiary appears to be a remark
ably light sentence for the Griffin brothers,
who robbed the express company at Paris
of ten thousand dollars and still retain the
money. The wages of five thousand dollars
a year for serving in the penitentiary would
be accepted by thousands of the ordinary
breed of erring humanity.
Florida State journal. Among the
many interesting exhibits at the Gainesville
fair was q sample OF ozier willows, grown
near Starke by Mr.. Hopkins. 1t is said that
New York imports annually ten millions of
dollars worth OF willow from Europe, which
might Just as well be produced in Florida.
The ozier grows finely in the Hat lands
around Starke, and we look to it as an i'm.
portant element in the development of that
section.
Corpus Christi Free Press Gloom
and'sorrow has pervaded this community this
week. Mourners have wept for loved ones
who have fallen victims to a relentless, fend-
ish foe. The young and the old have not
been spared murdered, mutilated The
recent raid stands withouta parallel in the
southwest in magnitude and atrocity. Worse
than all, it is an allied force who struck the
blow. White men, Mexcans and Indians
mingled in devilsh fraternity.
Atlanta Chronicle For several days
past the Atlanta presbytery has been in ses.
sion in Gainesville, trying the notorious
Block case. Block was member OF the
church, and permitted dancing at his house.
For this Offense he was eXcOmmunicated by
the pastor, Rev. DR.. Leftwich, and thereupon
took an appeal to the presbytery. The inves-
tigatiOn brought out great deal of bitter ness
and bad feeling, and resulted in sustaining
the minis 'er by a vote of eighteen to eight.
The dancing member still declines to believe
that he has either sinned or violated the
rules of his church, and will appeal to the sy-
nod which meets in Atlanta next November.
Florida Patriot: The fruit crop, be.
yond all peradventure, is safe, and will be a
most bountiful one throughout the state.
The garden crops are now matured, and the
greatest prOfusiOn aud variety are presented
on all sides. The corn crop, of which much
larger acreage than usual has been planted,
is growing finely, and may soon be con-
sidered safe. The Oat and rye crops promise
an abundant yield, while the cotton is the
only crop that may be considered as in
doubt, and that doubt rests altogether on
the character OF the season.