The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-09-09
SOUTHERN NEWS.


Four mills at Richmond, Va, manu-.
featured, during the ten months just
closed, 2S7 476 barrels Of -four.
WILLIAM II. HARRIS has been ap.
pointed State Commissioner Of Immigra.
ton of Louisiana by Governor Wilt.
The receipts of cotton al Houston,
Texas, this season are 1904 bales,
against 97,346 for the same time last
year.
LYNoHBURe, Va, is doing heavy
business in the guano trade, large
quantities being shipped in all direc'
tions daily.
THERE have been filed in the Eufaula
branch of the probate office of Barbour
County, Ala, since the LIST of January,
l,O42 mortgages.
The Bersha zinc works of Wythe
County, Va, will furnish the United
States Government with zinc, for alloy
with silver in coinage.
The Mississippi State Board of Health
has ordered a quarantine to be estab.
lished at the port of Pascagoula against
vessels from infected ports.
In Montague County, Texas, a gentle
work OK went mad and attacked man
on horseback, goring the horse to death,
while the rider escaped by climbing a
tree.
The Commissioner of the General
Land Office of Texas has had prepared
separate maps of tifty-seven counties in
that State, to be used in attracting emf
grafton.
THE Farmville (Va.) Foundry and
Saw.mill has secured contract from
the Atlantic Ol-refning Company, of
Philadelphia, for 100000 barrel stav
and headings.
BARLOW iron furnace, in Barlow
County, Ca, with capacity of twenty
five tons daily, has closed on account of
the advance in freights by the Western
and Atlantic Railroad.
THRGE-FoURTHs of all the Baptist
Churches in the country are in the
South. The membership of this demon
ination in the Southern States is $780,
900, of whom 100000 are colered.
The Lynchburg Ners publishes re-
ports from eight prominent tobacco
growing counties in Virginia, in all OF
which there is great scarcity of plants,
caused by the cool weather and the
ravages of insects.
The people of Arkansas are no great
office.seekers. The candidates for Chief
Justice, Treasurer, Secretary of State,
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
Chancellor and Chancery Clerk in that
State have no opposition.
Two men, without any other facilities
than a tin pan, in five days obtained
500 worth of gold in Byrd's Creek, ten
miles from Christiansburg, Va. They
have now hired a number OF hands aud
gone to work systematically.
A HANDSOME dome is to be con-
structed over the new capitol in Baton
Rouge, La, broad enough to accommo-
date dancing party at the height of
over one hundred feet from the ground.
Extensive improvements are going on
all over Baton Rouge.
ALARaE lime-kin has been built in
Washington County, Ga, where there
is large quantity of limestone, on the
Central Railroad. This is three hun
dred miles further south than any other
lime-kilns, aud promises to meet READY
demand for its products.
A MAN iu New Orleans has for pets q
host of big and little spiders. He first
became enamored of them on account OF
their thrift, courage, industry and skill.
He has at length become so engrossed
with them as pets that he spends his
whole time with them and does not care
10 see visitors.
THE valuable water power of Maj. G.
w. Anderson, near Wiiliamstown, S. G.,
ogether with 272 acres of land, was sold
for $4,000 to representative OF
Charleston capitalist. The object of
this purchase, it is understood, is the
erection OF a cotton factory with a cap
ital of 100000.
A BOY was stamping some packages a
the postoffice in Macon, Ga, when
lady came in who bought three-cen
stamp, and then, turning to the boy
!. coolly asked him to run out his tongue
l The boy did so, when the lady moistene'
e her three-cent stamp on it, applied 1t tt
a the letter, mailed it and walked off.
S SOUTHERN newspaper property is rap
e dly advancing in value. The propert
t of this class is now worth more than il
g any other year since the war, and
/, South Carolina enthusiast predicts tina
e every newspaper that is now on SCUM
n basis and making money can REASONABLE,
It expect to double in value in the mex
r i've or ten years.
l. THE Council Chamber at Charleston
II s. c., ia ornamented with full lengtl
d portraits of George Washington, jaime
, Monroe, Andrew Jackson and Johl
1t Caldwell Calhoun; portraits Of zsct
n uyI. u.uontnu and Gau