The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-08-08
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

new constitution.
Mrs. Gen. Toombs is quite i'll at the
White Sulphur Springs,
Portions of North Carolina are suffer-
ing from severe drouth.
New corn is being engaged in Texas at
10 and Is cents bushe,
Columbus, Ga, has received this season
over II 600 bales OF cotton.
At one point on Red river III 900 cat
tic have crossed since April,
The genuine cotton caterpillar has ap-
pedred in Concordia parish, La.
Iu Texas butter sells at from Is to 25
cents, according to strength"
The Louisiana democratic convention
meets in Baton Rouge, August 8.
The Mobile cotton mill is to be in
creased in stock and doubled in capacity.
Amelia Island, Fla, has produced
watermelon five feet eleven inches in circupl.
ference.
Outside of the cities the Mofet regis
ter is said to be the most popular law ever
enacted IN Virginia.
The Eagle and Phoenix cotton-mll No.
3, at Columbus, Ga, has begun operation,
and will employ three hundred weavers.
Since the first of May northern ice has
gone up in New Orleans from Sl2 to 1876 per
ton, and manufactured ice from $40 to $22.
The salaries of the agents along the
line of the Macon and Augusta railroad have
been scaled thirty three and third per
cent.
Oakwood, Texas, is moving mile to
get on railway. In that state they think
nothing of bunding up town and taking it
west,
Barton county, Ga, shipped 225,O00
pounds of dried apples and peaches last
season, and will double that amount this
year.
A man of seventy and woman of
thirty were married in Augusta, and i'm
mediately after asked for certificate to the
pOor'house.
The papers claim that it has not been
hot in the SOUTH but North Carolina man
saw the sun kill and cook snake that got
too far out in a sand field.
There are one hundred and four news
papers and other literary journals in North
Carolina. Upon these periodicals nearly two
hundred editors are engaged.
At the Houston fair was exhibited
specimen of corn raised in Ford Bend
county, Texas, and taken from field that
produced sixtyseight and a half bLshels to
the acre.
Macon county, Texas, has produced
one hundred and twenty five pound pump.
kin. On the same vine are five still grow
ing, none of which weigh less than one hum
dred pounds.
One case of yellow fever has appeared
in Key West, and there has been general
stampede of tie United States forces. The
Key of the Gulf does not believe it to be
yellow fever.
When Sam Bass, the celebrated Texas
train robber, was mortally wounded, two
men were killed and several others wOunde l.
He and his party OF outlaws had come into
Round Rock for tobacco.
Tea raised in South Carolina and pre-.
pared in Baltimore was lately exhibited in
Washington to dealers, who were unable 10
distinguish it from similar varieties of
Chinese and Japanese growth.
A San Antonio special says A fifteen
hundred pound clip of wool arrived in town
one hundred and fifty miles beyond Ell Paso,
or about one thousand miles hom here.
Bars of pure gold, weighing twenty
ounces each, have been plougned up at or
near Lexington, N c., to the value of
$4,000. 1t is supposed to be the proceeds
of stage robbery committed some forty.fve
years ago.
Monteller Utz, at one time as wealthy
a man as lived in Page county, Va, was on
last Tuesday taken to the county poor house
as pauper. Before the war he owned $50
acres of land and forty,three slaves, besides
much other valuable property. His property
was lost through mismanagement.
The future growth of Florida is not, in
the opinion of the Sumpter Advance,in the
number of immigrants brought into her
limits, but in the millions of young orange
trees that are gradually coming into bearing.
Every tree that natures and puts forth fruit
adds $15 to $40 per annum to the wealth OF
the state,
Russell Register: Rumors of the ap-
proach of the internal cotton caterpillars are
flying in the low lands of middle Alabama.
We have not heard of any yet in Russell.
This hot dry weather will keep them away.
II will soon be too late to do much damage
them to do any harm.
A party of scientific people, teachers
and pupils, male and female, from Indiana
and Illinois, are walking in the mountains
Of North Carolina. The Asheville Citizen
says they have walked from Somerset, KY,
through the Cumberland mountains, and are
walking on to the Black, which will complete
distance of 200 miles.
Dallas Herald: An intelligent and OBJ.
servant farmer who has just returned from
ii 49, - - T,L.
son, Hill, Ellis and Dallas informs us that in
life.time's experience in the north, west
and south he has never seen such crops as
now cover these counties like grand panO.
rama of fruitfulness.
1t is thought the Texas cattle drive
this year will foot up 100000. Most OF them
Purgatoire into the Platte valley. By the
introduction of blooded stock the quality
has been greatly improved in the last four
years, and these plain>fed beeves are getting
the best prices in eastern markets.
New Orleans Picayune: Mrs. Lena
Hamilton. who was convicted of perjury and
sentenced to five years hard labor, has, on
petition, been pardoned by the governor.
The sheriff, it appears, refuses to release her
until the pardon is confirmed by the senate,
the law requiring the sanction of the latter
body to the condoniDg acts OF the executive.
The Nashville American says at Rhea
Springs, Sunday, mau by the name Of Col
Inns became deranged, and, stripping HIM
self, ran a muck through the town, knocking
down several persons who attempted to pre-.
vent his entering q church. He was over.
powered and put in Jail, but when the jailer
came in he killed him and knocked his wife
senseless to the floor.