The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-01

uuy Noluilult Is ALSO W HuNc al lCc
factory; the Roam Iron Company at
Chattanooga and lockwood is employ
ing over l,200 hands; the Nashville cot.
ton mill running day and night
FIVE little stone-cuttcrs are whack-
ing away on the marble for the Custom
house building. 1t would take them
about one thousand years to finish the
stone necessary for that purpose, Unless
the United States looks into the matter
the present generation will be long in
the grave before the the Custom-housc
is fnished.-lfemphis Appeal.
SOME lively business has been done
in silver during the past few days. Ten
thousand odd dollars in currency were
taken in yesterday and 81 81 in stand
ard dollars. The last sum was derived
from the customs. Silver fractions are
running heavily, especially quarters and
halves. The small coin comes in lump,
of $1,000 at a time.-New Orleans
Times.
They are just beginning to find out
in Virginia that Sir Walter Ralcigh'was
never in that State. In North Caro-
lima it has been known from the first
that he was never on this continent,
never at Roanoke Island, as some sup
posed, and never in Wake County,
where the present town the capital
stands that is named in his honor.
In the pastoral regions Of Texas one
thousand head of stock cate, as is us
ually found on ranches, will double the
number within three years. This a.
lows for losses from age, diseases and ac.
cident. The net increase is at the rate
of thirty-thrce and one-third per cent.
per annum. This accounts, in part, for
the fortunes accumulated in few year.
by cattle raisers. Some of the cattle men
are immensely wealthy.
THE gambling mania has full sway in
the city, and the keno rooms do a pay
ing business. The mania seems to per-
wade the upper-crust and the undcr-crust
of society, and the young man and the
old gather in the rooms and the genial
keno men, gather many penny from
the better part of the city's denizens. -
austin TIA J Statesman.
HADDoN & Co., of Bainbrdge, Ga,
have Just caused a sensation by obtain
ing the contract on the lowest bid fur
nishng the pine flooring for the great
bridge extending from New York City
to Brooklyn. The contract calls for
1,ll2,OOO feet of yellow pine and 264,o 0
of white oak lumber, The Georgia bid
for the yellow pine contract was only
$3.50, the lowest price that has been
asked in the vicinity of New York for
many years.
THE Mississippi House of Represent
tives refused to pass the Senate bill
granting the release of the penitentiary
to the present lcssccs at sl.l0 for each
convict per month, and adopted sub
stitutc, appointing a commissioner to let
out the lame to the highest bidder. A
long and angry debate of ten hours
duration followed. The substitute pro-
vides that convicts be worked on public
works, and that lcssccs shall not charge
beyond $50 per head for convlcts so en-
ployed.
PoINTE CourE Ua) Petcan: Our
negroes who were foolish enough to go
to Kansas have written to their colorcd
friends to send them money to return to
Pointe Coupe. This, our colorcd people
emphatically refuse, They say that if
these deluded darkics could 60 to Kan
sas, they may return the best way they
can. Somc of them suggest that they
should work their way back. Indeed,
some have expressed the wish that these
modern pilgrims should remain in Kan
sas.
Iva few days the construction of two
hundred freight cars will be commenced
at the Georgia Railroad Shopsin this city.
One hundred of these will be box-cars,
fifty coalcars and fifty fat-cars The
construction of this large number of new
cars is nccessitatcd by the great increase
of business of the road. Gen. Alexander
says there is a gr at demand all over the
country for more freight cars. The bust
ness of the Georgia railroad is much
greater than it was at this time last year.
Four frst-class passenger coaches for the
road are now building at Wilmington,
Del. Augusta (Gd.) Chronicl'.
THE largest quantity of loose tobacco
ever sold at Richmond, Va, on one day,
was sold last Wednesday. One lot of
bright leaf, grown in southwest Virginia
and North. Carolina, weighing $500
pounds, was $ Id at the Centre Ware
house at prices ranging from $3.50 to
$40 per one hundred pounds. Most of
it ranged from $35 to $40, and was
raised by Capt. A. NJ. Alexander, of
Asheville, Buucombe County, N. c. At
the same warehouse three fine one horse
plows were given to persons having piles
weighing over 100 pounds obtaining
the highest price.
LITTLE Rock Democrat: Sheriff G. r.
Fox, of Epson County, Ca, passed
through the city yesterday, with man
loaded down with chains. The prisoner
was a murderer, fiend in human shape,
who, on the lst of March, 1878, took the
life of his wife, eluded the officers and