The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1879-01-02
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Arkansas has lIO lunatlcs cOnnneu IN
jais.
Mr.. Gray has been postmaster at Grays
Hill, Tenn, 30 years.
The growing wheat in North Texas is
suffering greatly from drouth.
San Antonio has shipped 1888 tons OF
bones North, valued at $76, 300
The minimum fine for buying cotton
in the seed in Vicksburg is 500.
So far this year 1877 vessels have cleared
from Richmond for foreign ports.
A farmer in Orange county, S. G.,
lost SO hogs from cholera in November.
Wade Hampton received eleven
wounds during the war, one of them saber
thrust.
The report of the Howard Association
shows that Port Gibson received $20,678.27,
and expended all but $2,271.71.
In consequence of falling off id the de
mand from Mexico, cotton in San Antonio
is only worth 524 cents for good ordinary.
Moses Wood, young white man in
Franklin, Va, blew his brains out because he
was lashed at the whippingopost for stealing
ten dollars.
In South Carolina only thirty cents
day is allowed for dieting prisoners and
bill is before the Legislature to reduce it to
twenty cents.
Memphis Appeal: Nearly one hundred
thousand bales of cotton are on storage in
this city at present. At $50 per bale, the
stock on hand would Represent $5,O0O,OOO
Richmond Wing The schools of the
Commonwealth are suspended in half the
counties and the people who have paid the
school tax see their children growing up in
ignorance.
Last Friday, near Keachi, La, Ben.
Tabert and Wylie Holmes, young men, and
brothers.n law, met while out hunting, and
having an old grudge, each fired at the other
with fatal effect.
North Carolina has for some years
been shipping cotton seed oil TO Italy in the
clarified state, where it is used in place Of
the more expensive olive oil. 1t has OF late
begun shipping peanut OIL
The NcComb miss. Intelligencer says
that n arly twenty children have been left
orphans in that town by the late epidemic.
| Up 10 InlS llihc tlcy nave pooh hihuif o"i w
for by the Howard Association.
B,Rev. George G. Brooke, one of the
Oldest ministers of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, died in BerryviIle, Va, last
Sunday. Mr.. Brooke has been IN the con-
ference since 1929, nearly fifty years.
The Illinois and St. Louis bridge, sold
under decree of the court fOreclosing the
first and second mortgage bonds, was pur-
chased in the name of Anthony X. Thomas,
of New York, who paid fifty thousand dol
lars as earnest money The price paid was
two million dollars.
Fort Smith Elevator The prairies in
the Indian Territory between CaddO and
Fort Sid have all been burned off, destroying
a large amount of hay, and rendering neces
sary the removal of many cattle. The acci
dent will prove serious obstacle to freight
ing until grass reappears.
New Orleans: The recent decision in
favor OF the cOnstitutionality of the Moffett
register law has not in the least disconnected
the opponents of the bill. 1t is intended tc
promptly take an appeal to the Supreme
Court, which will suspend the operation Of
the law, and there can be no question but
that the incoming Legislature will repeal it
Vicksburg Herald Four gin houses
have been burned in the Edwards neighbOr
hood during the past two or three months
and more than twice that number in other
portions Of Kinds county have been de
strOyed in the same manner within the SAINT
period. In only one or two instances is the
work attributed to other causes than that Of
incendIaries.
. The Ladies' Memorial Association o
Columbus, Gi., have raised 1920 Tor thu
Confederate monument. Messrs. MuldOOI
a Karins, of Louisville, are to complete ant
erect the monument 26th of next April, TO
$4,000 It to be thirty.two feet high, from
the foundation, composed of nine section
of the finest Italian marble, save the tw
lower ones, which are to DE OF George
granite.
The remains of Mrs Polk, the widow
: of the Rt. Rev. Bishop LeOnidas Polk, Lieu
: tenant General in the armies OF the Confed
crate States, were inferred in st. Paul.
Cemetery, at Augusta, Ca, on the lltf
1 Mrs. Polk died in New Orleans in 1875, al
i, is in compliance with an earnest wish
: EXPRESSED by the deceased, that her bod
g has been removed from its temporary res
u ing place in New Orleans for final repOse il
u. N~
J, distinguished husband.
Tarboro IN. C) Southernor: A re
Is markable case OF defective vision is that O
:. the three children OF James Howard, a sci
faring man, whose family live on Ocracok
d island. They become totally blind eac
q. day after the sun goes down. II by chanc
they happen to be in the yard playing whe
" the sun sets, their playthings are immed
r ately laid aside, and efforts made to reac
d., the house, when they soon retire and slice
" soundly until sunri,e, after which their sigl
NJ is described Us being restored, ami to a
n appearances perfectly unimpaired II
vnnngest is three and the eldest ten yea
he oId-two boys and one girl, all Of light col
al olexiop. Their eyes are light blue, AZ
=, there is nothing about them that appears
all strange.
y For the past ten years the dog h
o. been an issue before the Georg
nj JeyisIa,urr, the sheep owners ma
inc vigorous effort to THU out the cur
and nrot,c ct their hocs s by taxing the eanin
T,oye RS ago a dog tax passed the Hous
AIT lint wac killed in the Senate Oh constitution
of Grounds, The constitutional eonyenti'