The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-15
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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FOURTEEN postmasters in Virginia re-
ceive salaries of 81 900 or more.
The cattle drive from Texas this year
will reach nearly one million head
The exodus fever still RACES among the
colored people, in some parts of Texas.
CHARLESTON has organized n society
for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
THE sewers of Atlanta are being disin-
fected with mixture of carbolic acid and
tar.
The English sparrows have driven the
squirrels from Court Square, in Mem
phis.
One hundred and seventy-two voters
are enough to organize County in
Texas.
In Union County, South Carolina,
Willis Brannon murdered his wife, and
fled.
THERE are twenty applications for the
West Point cadetship in the Third South
Carolina District.
THERE are two jute factories in ope-
ration in the South, one at Charleston,
5. c., and one at Columbus, Ga.
The City Council of Atlanta has passed
an ordinance requiring that all Geographic
poles in the city be painted.
The authorities at Lancaster, South
Carolina, refuse to pass an ordinance
prohibiting the carrying of concealed
weapons.
AUSTIN, Texas, is satisfied with the
census returns from that city, although
they do not show a population above
1000.
THREE hundred thousand shad have
been planted in the Oconee and Oc-
mulgee Rivers in Georgia by the United
States Fish Commissioner.
A BRrrIsH ship has sailed for Texas
with $500 barrels of oil, made for the
purpose of preserving railroad ties and
bridge timbers under new process.
SEVERAL ladies in Memphis have made
application Propositions as letter carriers,
but the law provides that letter-carrers
shall wear only the registration uniforms,
and the ladies will not submit to this.
ONE of the census enumerators in Han
cock County, Ga, came across family
in which there had been thirteen children
born at six births-twins five times and
triplets once.
The estimated resources of the State
school fund in Alabama for the present
year amounts to 1897, S6S27. The
school population is 1864 Of which
less than one-half is enrolled in the
schools.
Four years ago the Virginia Fish and
Game Protective Association, in Rich
mond, numbered seven men. Its men,
bership is now two hundred, and through
its efforts twenty-thrce similar associa-
tions have been formed in various parts
of the State.
The New Orleans Drainage and Sewer
age Company has been organized with
81, 100000 capital for the purpose of
thoroughly draining the city, the owners
of property paying stated amounts for
services rendered, as they now pay water
and gas bills.
THE Hon. VIM. G.. LeDuc, National
Commissioner of Education, is in South
Carolina for the purpose of selecting a
farm for the experimental culture of tea,
in accordance with an appropriation
passed by Congress during the last ses-
sion.
AN appeal is made by the professors of
the Univers ity Of Virginia to its alumni
and to Virginians at home and abroad to
make united effort to raise $22, 900 the
sum necessary to secure the telescope
conditionally given to the University by
Mr.. Mccormick, of Chicago.
SOUTH CAROLINA claims to be the
leading Southern State in regard to edu-
cational facilities and progress. Six
colleges of high grade now exist in a
prosperous condition in that State. Six
female seminaries, all literally supported,
also exist. Besides, there are three
military academies, and an agricultural
school will be opened during the present
year.
SroNEwALL JAcKsoN's last dispatch,
written by his own hand, in pencil, on a
single sheet of English note paper, is
preserved in a case in the Virginia State
Library. IL was written to Gen. Lee,
Just before the battle of Charlottesville,
where jackson received his death wound.
1t is short note, ending Thus devoutly:
81 trust that an ever kind Providence
will bless us with great success"
In nearly all the Virginia cities the
population has fallen far short of the
public expectation. Alexandria is set
down as having 1900, Petersburg d.
433, Lynchburg about 16, 500, Richmond
about 5000. There are loud complaints
in nearly all the cities about the incom-
pleteness of the work of the enumerators,
and the Richmond State invokes the aid
of DIR. Cabell, the superintendent in that
district, in having the census Of that city
taken accurately.