The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-08-15
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Vefely from urOutn.
A Texas man has raised and shipped
north this year $50 mocking birds.
The city assessment of Dallas falls
100000 below what is was for 1877.
The Georgia state fair, at Atlanta in
October, offers 800 in premiums.
The streams in parts of Georgia and
North Carolina are said to be lower than for
forty years.
The Fort Smith (Ark.) Herald reports
that work will soon be resumed on the jet
ties at that place.
The Charleston, IS. O. Journal of
Commerce has suspended after eating up
100000 over and above its capital.
Mountain trout in streams on the
south side of the Blue Ridge can not live.
Every effort to raise them has failed.
Montgomery disposes of about twelve
thousand pounds of ice, more or less, every
day, and it is all manufactured at home,
The Austin Statesman thinks, unless
Texas sets up the whipping the state
will become an unendurable den of thieves
and scoundrels.
The Sunday ordinance in Richmond
worked so badly that it was promptly re.
pealed, and the back doors OF bar.roOms will
be open as usual on Sundays.
In Georgia white girl, aged fifteen,
ran oil with negro man, and both landed in
the Savannah Jail. The girl claims to be a
negro, and clings to the man.
The ice dealers OF Charleston have
raised the price of that article, but the
uoapnfppfnrv a Savannah CnnnIing tho do.
mand at less than one cent q pound.
The subject of the narrow-gaug rail
road up to the summit of Lookout mountain
is again being agltated, with the view of
converting that height into summer resort.
The reporter sent over with the Libe-
rian emigrant ship discovered one negro in
Monrovia who had made money and was de~
lighted wi tn the country. He was an under
taker.
Austin (Tex.) Statesman Some peo-
pie predict that corn will not bring over
fifteen cents bushel this fall. Farmers had
better make their arrangements to feed as
much as possible OF it to hogs and cattle.
A correspondent of the Blue Ridge
Echo mentions the fact that a farmer in
Rappahannoek county, who sowed ten tons
of phosphate last fall, now offers his entire
wheat crop to any one who will pay for the
fertilizer.
The Macon Telegraph says: A very
daring robbery of large amount of money
in the mails in Georgia has Just been dis
covered. The post office officials and the
detectives are actively engaged in their in
vestigations.
The government refuses to pay $50 per
ton for ice,' and custom"house and other EN-.
ployes Mt New Orleans have to drink warm
water. The mayor of the city is taking steps
to import ice, as it is absolutely indispens-
able in the treatment of yellow fever.
Montgomery (Ala) Advertiser: The
law authorizing the hiring out OF state and
county convicts will no doubt be bone of
contention in the next legislature. An ef-
fort will be made to repeal the law on the
ground that 1t interferes with honest labor,
Galveston News: A monster of the
deep, in the shape OF a shark thirteen feet
long, was pulled out of the bay yesterday
evening. The mouth was sufficiently large
when open to permit the passage OF a mans
head and shoulders, and it required twenty
men to land him on the wharf.
The property of the Mobile and Ohio
railroad, which is to he sold under iudg.
ment OF foreclosure, at Mobile, Ala, on
August 10. comprises 372 miles of main line,
| fftysix miles of branches, all equipments
and appurtenances, including over 1000
cars and nearly 100 locomotives, the lease OF
| the Aberdeen branch, about 100000 acres
of land and the franchise OF the road.
Dennison (Tex) News: There is q
great religious revival among the negroes at
Preston Bend. A few weeks ago two negroes
on Judge Porter's place were killed by
| lightning. A day or two after that team
ran away and broke q negro's leg. The
superstitions negroes Interpreted these oc'
| currences as special vi stations of Providence
and the result has been thai nearly all the
colored population have experienced re-
ligion. II keers the colorsd preacher busy
bsptizing the converts.
Austin (Tex.) Statesman Lsst yeal
| cotton in this section of the state averaged
about one.third OF bale to the acre, and the
total shipments from Austin amounted Ia
about 10000 bales. The cotton crop in this
section Of The state now promises full bale
10 the acre, or three times as much per acre
as was made last season, with an increased
acreage. Therefore some anticipate that the
shipments from Austin this season may
reach 5000 bales. Certainly the shipments
will be more than double what they wert
last year.
New Orleans Democrat: The present
type OF yellow fever differs in many partieu
i.rs f,oin the characteristics OF the same dis
ease In former years. This year the patien
feels no pain in the back, and his pulse, skin
and general appearance do not indicate {
high stage Of fever, The fever is hidden