The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-12-05
ioldsboro, and is building third at Nor

gantown.
The Texans who entered into bond to
have the body of Bill Collins before the
count, have sent to Pembina, Dakota, where
he was killed, to getit.
The vote on hequestion whether New
Orleans shall remain the capital or the
prize be returned to Baton Rouge il so close
that the official returns alone cen decide it.
The next Legislature of Louisiana
will stand: Embellishments, Is; Re
publicans, al, House-Democrats "a; Res
publicans, 49, Nationals, 4; Independ.
eats
The new line of the Memphis, Little
Rock and Texas Railway will be completed
on the 10Th Of next month between Pine
Bluff and ArapOlis, on the Mississippi
River, in Chicot County,
1t is generally believed that the hog is
the deadly foe and great dread of the rat.
tlesnake, yet it is stated that in CoIquitt
County, Ga, last week, one Of the venomous
reptiles attacked and killed five hsgs.
There are now 1889 convicts in the
Georgia Penitentiary. Three hundred and
forty have been received this year, The res
ceipts for the hire Of convcts for one year;
up to December 81, 1877, were sll408o.47,
This year there are in Georgia % 1923
whites between the ages of ten and eighteen
who can not read or write, against 26, 5S2
in 1874, and S3,307 blacks, against 70,693
in 1874; total, 80, $50 in 1878 against 1856, IA
in 1874.
A South Carolina paper, arguing in
favor OF a "no fence" law, says; It costs
this county annually over one hundred
thousand dollars to keep forty thousand
dollars worth Of old hogs and cows out of
our fields.
An exchange notes the fact that the
lowest price at which cotton has sold in this
country during the last fifty years was in the
spring OF 1915, when it went as low as four
cents per pound. The highest price paid
for it, dunnS the same period, was
$l0H, in 1864. 1t sold as high az tifty>two
cents, however, for good money in 1866.
A farmer in Caldwell county, No had
a flock of two hundred Southdowns runs
ming out on the prairie in good condition,
and, having an opportunity to sell them, he
find them, made inquiries and learned that
the flock Of sheep had been driven to Kid
der and shipped to Chicago by man that
claimed to Own them.
That a large per cent of the yellow
fever deaths in Memphis were never re
ported is shown by the act that Superin.
tencent Phillips says there were 1854
burials in Elmwood cemetery, and the total
interments during the epidemic he esti>
mates at 5000. Seven thousand dollars
were allowed the city undertaken, and an
additional claim is under consideration.
New Orleans Democrat: Mr. w. w.
CorcOran, the great Washington philanthro~
pist, has presented to the State OF Louisiana
a painting of the battle of New Orleans, by
the celebrated French artist, Sami. This
magnificent work OF art cost $40, 600, and is
a noble present to the State, designed to or.
nament our State Capitol, and to commem0r.
ate one of the great events in the history of
our State.
An Oakville letter to the Corpus
Christi free Press says: Some of our cows
boys are making it pay this dry weather by
catching mustangs. The mustangs are
forced to come in at night after water; the
boys build corral around the water hole
leaving gap for the horses to enter; when
all OF tue herd has passed in the gap is put
up; when daylight comes the sport in rop.
ing is first>cass.
Memphis Appeal: The Howard As
ISOLATION of New Orleans claims that there
were fully 10000 cases of yellow fever in
that city during the late epidemic,a and of that
number less than 1000 died. Our losses in
Memphis were much severer than that. Out
of an estimated population Of $500 we had
more than 10000 cases, and OF that number
$3.50 died. New Orleans lost ten per cent,
but we lost about thirty>five per cent.
Avalanche: During the prevalence Of
the yellow fever well.known citizen of
Memphis drew raiions regularly from the
Citizens Relief Committee. He afterward
died, and left his wife in possession of all
his property. The widow Yesterday had her
will admitted to probate, and the schedule
of property attached shows that she owns a
plantation on Big Creek, Shelby County;
also home near Memphis; also city property
in Nashville Tenn, and tract Of land IN
Missouri.
A Galveston News special says: Ten
armed men, some of them masked, entered
J. w. Wayman's store at Circleville, and
forced the proprietor to open the safe,
when they took therefrom about 81 600, and
provided themselves with new suits of
clothes. There were about ten or twelve
men in tire store when the robbers en-,
tered, whom they made hold up their hands
and took their money and watches. Some
of the men p. esent claim that they recOg.
nzed Jackson, one of Biss's men, as the
leader OF the party.
Governor Hampton has issued his
confiding the affairs of the
State OF South Carolina to Lieutenant>
Governor Simpson. He says; ID is my
duty to make public announcement IL at
serious injury, resulting from painful ac>
cident, has produced physical inability on
my part to discharge the powers and duties
OF the Office OF the Governor of the State of
South Carolina, and that the Constitution of
this Commonwealth in such case devOlyes
the some upon the Hon. w. d. Simpson,
Lieutenant>GOyernbr of this State.
Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution /
never liked steers as a model Of hooded
stock nor as a motive power, but my neigh,
Dor Ere eman says they make the best pillow
nags in the world that they go slow, but
they'll go all day constant, and keep the
furrer, and never break nothin' nor run
away, and if they pillow up yellow> jackets
nest and get stung all over It only peerlens
Fem up a little --nothin' more. But it seems
to me that nothin' in the world would be
more monotonous than to foller 'em around.
I'd druther work mule any time, and have
him run away or kick the back.band in the
top OF tree once or twice in while.
Wouldn't your