The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-22
SOUTHERN NEWS.

AN artificial stone manufactory haA
been opened at Charlotte, N. Q.
The population Of Suffolk, Va, has in.
creased from $50, in 1870, to zoos.
MANY farmers in Whitfield County,
Ga, will reap less wheat than they
sowed.
The population of Dallas, Texas. is
10000. The suburbs contain 5000
more
A THOUSAND cactus plants were shipped
few DAYS since from Fort Worth, Texas,
TO Minnesota.
PINK marble is being shipped from
East Tennessee to Albany, N. Y, for
the State-house.
The new census will show the negro
population of the South to be very largely
on the increase.
The Board of Education in Savannah
has asked for an appropriation of $4,000
for the public schools.
A PosToFFIcE in King George County,
Va, is discontinued because no one can
be found for postmaster.
THE Little Rock ice factory will double
its capacity this season, putting in $2O,-
600 worth Of new machinery.
SHERMAN, Texas, has been Boosting Of
10000 inhabitants, but the census report
will reduce the figures to 1000.
The mortuary reports throughout the
Mississippi Valley denotes decrease in
diseases of a malarial character.
THE engines of the water works at
Jacksonville, Fla, have a pumping ca
pacity of 4,OOO,0 600 gallons daily.
The Odd Fellows of Austin, Texas,
propose to erect grand building for the
order in that State, at a cost of $75, 900.
The water works have been finished in
Jacksonville, Fla. They are said to be
equal to those Of any other Southern
city.
THE latest reports from Austin, Tex,
gave the population at 10,999, and they
were in search of one more citizen to make
it II, 900.
THERE are very few vacant houses in
Atlanta. One census enumerator who
counted $500 people found only six
houses unoccupied.
The Little Rock and Fort Smith Rail
road Company builds its own cars. The
Iron Mountain Company builds locomo-
tives at its shop i'll Little Rock.
SHREVEPORT, La, has population of
1000, which is several thousand more
than any estimate that had been made
before the taking of the census.
THE case of Dismal Swamp Land Com
pany Va. Robert Anderson's heirs, now
before the Chancery Court of Richmond
Va. has been in the court since 1899.
The postal business of Macon, Ga.
is greater than that of any city (Atlanta
exceptedD in North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida or Alabama.
Fl. G. CHAMBERLrN, of Taylorsville,
Texas, clipped 7,O00pounds of wool from
his flock this spring. The fleece from
one Merino buck weighed forty-thret
pounds.
THE American Union Telegraph Com.
pany is extending its wires rapidly
throughout Alabama, but the opening Of
new offices is delayed by the difficulty in
obtaining operators.
JOHN JACKSON, n Savannah negro,
burst blood vessel while stealing a
heifer, and was found in pasture with
the rope tied around his waist and the
heifcr quietly grazing at the other end.
The Georgia Orange Association, Of
Atlanta, proposes, under Florida
charter, to locate homesteads and plant
and cultivate orange groves in the latter
State on the English cooperative plan.
SoMR Florida farmers claim that 800
worsh Of fencing is required for every
seventy-fve cent hog in that State
They think that farms and crops should
be protected rather than that the hog
should be allowed full liberty.
THE Key West (Fla.) Key says tina
the cigar-makers there are not doing a.
well as they should, owing TO the surplus
of cigars in the market. Some of tn
most skillful workmen are leaving for tn
North, and their places can not be easil..
filed.
AT the last meeting OF the Tennessee
Press Association only nineteen paper
were represented. The Memphis Ava
lanche objects to the plan of organiza
ton of these meetings, and says that n
Tennessee town that has once entertained
a press convention has ever been know
to invite it to return.
A TRAIN hand employed on the Macol
and Montgomery Railroad, picked up il
the cars, few days since, pocket-bool
containing $4,12O. He turned the sun
over to the proper authorities. and but
short time after the owner had the wire
working upon double time along the line
When the safety Of the little fortune wa
telegraphed to him he ordered one hun
bred dollars to be paid over to the finder
The decision of the United State
District Court at Memphis in the case {
P. P. Ward VS.. The Paducah and Men
phis Railroad Company is to the effec
that railroads are not bound to keep cal
tie guards to protect cultivated lands
unless when the owner Of the lands i
granting the right Of way makes con
tract with the company binding IL +
make and keep open cattle guards for hi
protection. The Legislature may CON
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