The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-02-28
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Fort Worth received 10000 buffalo
robes last year
Richmond's bonded debt is $4,477,.
1850; taxable property, $685. S9,O67.
The salary of the governor of Louisiana
is $4,000, and the proposed amendment only
cuts it down to $1,000.
There are one hundred and Efty.one
Willamses in Augusta, Ga, according to the
new directory of the city.
1t is thought that for several years to
come the orange crop of Florida will double
hat of each preceding year.
The net earnings of the Eagle and
Phenix manufacturing company at Column
bus, Ga, last year were $780, 1913.
The Madison La.) Journal says there
are cotton fields in that parish that have
never been touched by cotton pickers.
The supreme court OF Tennessee de-
ciaed last Saturday that the state cannot be
sued by her citizens through her officers.
A Nashville lady deposited one hun.
dred dollars in Philadelphia bank twenty
seven years ago, and on Monday received
thereirom 1927,
Diphtheria has become so prevalent
and fatal in Tennessee that the state board
of health has issued a circular upon its pre-
vention and treatment.
Governor Hahn has offered bill in the
Louisiana legislature licensing gambling
houses, and prescribing the manner in which
they shall be conducted.
Murphys are making things lively in
Wheeling, Nashville, Montgomery and Little
Rock. Southwark the star OF temperance
hold its way, as it were,
The special joint committee of the
Virginia legislature on the revision of the
criminal laws recommend the whipping-post
for petit larceny and other small offenses.
The Knoxville Tribune says a ven
delta in Hancock county eliminated few
days ago in the killing of Deputy Sheriff Cobb
and Andy Rhea, and the wounding OF Fugali
and Epperson.
The two cotton factories at West Point
are adding new machinery, and will soon
commence running day and night, an ind.
cation that Georgia industries are in pros
porous condition.
Charlotte On. C.) Observer: The min
ing outlook is very promising, and those who
have lahorcd so hard for the development of
the mineral resources of this section are
much encouraged.
All the states south of Mason and
Dixon's line were represented at the open.
ing OF the southern educational convention,
at Atlanta, except Kentucky, Texas, North
Carolina, Arkansas and Maryland.
Williamson county TEX Sun: Corn
is selling freely at % cents bushel; oats
scarce and in demand at thirty cents wheat
at 81 and Sl.25 for seed and immediate sow.
ing barley scarce at twenty-five cents.
The New Orleans Democrat is hand
ling the Louisiana State lottery without
gloves, and promises to furnish the proof of
some damaging charges if the legislature
will appoint an investigating committee.
Messrs. Nash 4 Weisser, of Fulton,
Texas, killed fifteen thousand beeves the
mast season, and successfully canned two
million of two-pound cans of beef, besides
thousands of cans of turtle, tongues, soups,
etc.
There is a family in Madison county,
Florida, of remarkable stature. The recorder
reports their heights as follows: The father
is seven feet four; the mother is six feet
eight; two sons seven feet three, and one
daughter seven feet nine.
The Atlanta cotton factory question il
not vet definitely settled, and counsel for the
Lowell machine shop will take the case to
the supreme court. Meanwhile the directors
of the cotton factory will deposit the re-
ouired bond and go ahead with the work.