The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-02-05
SOUTHERN NEWS.

lntTeaTe I,VUV IHuiaho l'ihS III thio
sissippi.
Corn is worth three and four cents pei
pound at Clarendon, Texas.
On Friday 176 vessels were harbored in
Pensacola bar.
The State of Texas in future will in
no case pay any witness fees.
A boy in Chester county, 5. G., has
caught 200 opossums this season.
u There are 500 vacant houses in Mem
phis, the result of the late epidemic.
# Americus, Ga, is organizing society
for the prevention Of cruelty to animals.
5 Two of the moonshiners on trial at
y Knoxville, Tenn, last week were women.
81 Charlotte, N. c., has twenty-five
4 licensed bar rooms and twelve churches.
6 The coal fields of Alabama are estimat-
ed to contain $1,000, 900 bushels of
coal.
The venerable oaks in the court house
yard at Americus, Ga, are filled with
mistletoe.
a "At one fell swoop'' twenty-five appli-
cants have been admitted to the South
+ Carolina bar.
During the last three months over 200
negroes have left the depot at West Point,
Mississippi.
Over 500 mules arrived in Atlanta
Monday night, and all of them were
sold next day.
Of the 1874 members of the two houses
of the Louisiana Legislature, only thir-
teen are Republicans.
The Fish Commissioner of Georgia is
distributing a large shipment of carp in
the streams of that State.
A great many cattle are dying in
Cherokee county, Texas. Their death is
supposed to be caused by eating acorns.
The South Carolina Board of Agricul-
'ture has permanently employed chem
st that uniform anal ysis of commercial
fer ilizers may be obtained.
T"e annual report of the Mayor of
Shreveport, La, shows that during the
past year the revenue of the city exceed
ed its expenditures $l39.56.
North Carolina has six newspapers
edited by negroes, Louisiana three, Ten
nessee and Texas two each, and Virginia,
Alabama and Mississippi one each.
Henry S. Noble, of New Jersey, has
purchased 2,10O acres of Lick Mountain
land in Virginia, with view of devel-
opiDg its great coal and iron deposits.
One thousand tons of granite has re-
Gently been sent from quarries near Col
umbia, S. c., to Washington City, to be
used in some of the p lblic buildings.
The Emmett Benevolent A sociation of
Galveston, Texas, has appropriated 800
TO be sent to the Irish Land League in
Ireland, for distribution among the po r
in that country.
Terrell county, Ga, is out of debt and
has 1000 inte treasury besides. As
Il result, the price of real estate has ad-
ranced nearly fifty per cent in the last
year.
Baylor Thornton, subordinate officer
in the Virginia House of Delegates, is
under arrest for abducting and commit
ting an outrage upon young lady of
Richmond.
The Waring plan of sewerage has been
unanimously adopted by the Legislative
Council of Memphis. Whether the pipes
shall be iron, brick or vitrified is yet to
be determined.
The Savannah and Charleston Rail
a 10 Tn ha hn.
June next by a decree of Judge Aldrich,
of the Court of Common Pleas, of
Charleston county, S. c.
Memphis Avalanche OFF the rottine
Nicholson davement the streets are prac-
tically impossible for vehicles, unless
empty, and even then there is no Ger
tainty of pulling through without an ac-
cident.
The rapidity with which the new sew.
ers of Memphis will be constructed will
depend on the promptness of the tax
payera The first installment Of the
special tax for this purpose will be due
February l.
New Orleans Times: Most of the far
mers OF Lincoln parish now raise all
their own meat. Unfortunately, all who
had killed their cattle in the earlier part
bf the winter have had the meat spoil on
Eheir hands.
81 Pulaski (Tenn9 /. Citizen: The unpre.
3edented warm weather and the late
fains are having the effect to injure seri-
ously the growing wheat. Its effects are
ept to tell.in the yield, however fortu-
pate the changes that may come.
AT Huntsville, Texs, J. J. Elkins, ex
4Sherif of Walker county, Texas, was
sHhot and killed by Peter Greer, a. farmer.
4The shooting was the result of a per-
sOnal difference which has long existed
between the parties.
Selma Times: Doctor J. Fl. Henry is
preparing I'm eIaborate and exhaustive
pamphlet OH tie gold tields.ef Alabama.