The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-06-24
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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Two ladies we're appointed postmas
ters in Virginia towns last week.
Ir is an indictable crime to kill tur.
key buzzard or carton crow in Tennessee
SEVERAL lots of tobacco were sold re
Gently in Oxford, N. c., at $3.50 pei
pound.
COLUMBUS claims to be the home o
more fine horses than any other city il
Georgia.
The Texas farmers are generally very
far behind the times in the use of labor
swing machinery.
The farmers of many counties in Geor
gia have planted cotton more largely thit
year than ever before.
A MAN on the Peninsula Railroad, in
Florida, gathered ten thousand good
oranges from one tree last fall.
The competition in the ice business in
Charlotte, N. c., has reduced the price
to three-quarters of cent.
TwENTY-THREE new post routes are es.
tablished in Mississippi by m act Of Con
gress approved on the Sd inst.
GOLD is found in fifty-six counties in
Georgia, copper in thirteen, and silver in
three, iron in fifty-three and diamonds in
twenty-six.
PLANTING flax for the production of
linseed oil and lint is proposed to be tried
near San Antonio, Texas, where flax
grows wild.
The Mississippi mills at Wesson have
their 400 looms running eleven orders
ahead for the full capacity of the mills
for the next three months.
NORTH CAROLINA is taking an active
interest in fish culture. All the leading
streams in the State are now being
stocked with the best varieties of fish.
ALL the saw-mills along the South and
North Alabama Railroad are kept buy
supplying orders for lumber. Large
quantities of the lumber are shipped to
Northern markets.
TOBACCO from Western North Carolina
is scarcely ever injured by the horn
worm. This crop has been grown there
but a few years. and the worms have not
yet learned to claim it.
Puck quotes colored philosopher as
saying, "twenty years ago niggers was
wuf thousand dollars n piece. Now
dey would be deah at two dollars dozen.
It's 'stonishing how de race am runin'
down."
The raising of Angora goats in West
ern Texas is increasing, and is alleged to
bea profitable business. 1t is said that
the meat is much better than mutton,
and each goat yields about two pounds
of hair annually. In the Eastern market
it is now worth 55 cents per pound.
AT Clarksville, Texas, a farmer named
Canterbury has been held to answer the
charge of swindling. He made cotton
bales with one hundred pounds of cotton
and the balance cotton seed. The bales
weighed so much that cotton buyer,
suspecting foul play, bored into bale
and struck the seed.
The Ocean Steamship Company, of
Savannah, paid $1,000 cash for city
tract on the water front, the terms of the
sale being "that the party purchasing
said property shall erect thereon grain
elevator with the capacity for at least
100000 bushels of grain, within twelve
months from the date of said sale.
WHILE n number of ladies were sitting
in the piazza of residence in Mt. Pleas
ant, S. c., mad dog rushed into the
group and snapped several times at
them, catching the dress of one of the
ladies in its mouth. Fortunately, the
ladies were able to make their escape,
and the dog finally butted its head
against the building until it was insensi-
BILE.
ONE OF the prodigies brought into no.
tice by the Exposition at Nashville is q
boy only five years old who is able to read
promiscuously i'll books and newspapers,
never stopping to spell a word, empha-
sizes well and enunciating slowly and dis
tinctly, like well-educated man. His
name is W. C. L. Wetmore, and his home
Wilson County.
In Edgefeld County, S. G., Thomas
NJ. Blease was shot and instantly killed
by Gardner, his son-in-law. tits reported
that bad feeling existed between the men
on account of Gardner's marriage with
Blease's daughter, and that Blease had
made charges against Gardner OF deli
cate nature, and, threatening to kill him,
had sought him for that purpose. Gard
ner being apprised of his father-in-laws
intention, killed him upon meeting him.
JOHN BURNSIDE is the most extensive
sugar-planter in Louisiana. He owns
and operates eight plantations located III
the parishes of Ascension and st. James.
On these fine estates, over an area in ex-
cess of six square miles, the sugar cane
now waves in the breeze. The statistic,
of his last years operations are as fol-
lows: Acres of cane ground, 3,2S7;
pounds of sugar produced, 6,OS4, 900;
barrels of molasses produced, ,29O.
L. j. Mccormick, native OF Rock
bridge County, Va, but now wealthy
Chicagoan, some time ago presented the
University of Virginia with telescope
costing $50, 900, which is the largest in
the world. William H. Vanderbilt has
since donated $4,000 to the University
for the purpose of building an observa-
Iory ond tba of},oaro of fho institution