The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-01-01
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Selma, Ala, receives over 1000 bales
of cotton daily.
There has been no winter this year in
Southern Georgia.
The blue ribbon is worn by 3,50S peo-
pie at Atlanta, Ga,
Retail whisky houses are taxed $lO,-
900 each in Greensboro, Ga.
Every village in McNairy county,
Tenn, has a chartered school.
Eighteen of the seventy-four counties
in Arkansas have no newspapers.
The Herald says that Vicksburg has
the poorest streets in the United States.
The manufacture of plug tobacco has
been begun at Raleigh, North Carolina.
OF the sixteen officers elected by the
Virginia Legislature five are Republic
can.
The Alabama Conference of the M.
f. Church South embraces 144 minis
tiers.
Cooperage and shoe-making are taught
in the Arkansas Institute for Deaf
Mutes.
Over 200 men in TT. Worth, Texas,
are out of employment, and the number
is increasing.
In Hale county, Ala, there have been
recorded this year | ,249 mortgages and
only 100 deeds.
There is great commotion in the New
Orleans city hall over the general reduc-
tion of salaries.
Mr.. Joe Jefferson has the finest orange
orchard in Louisiana. He has 5000
trees ON his place.
Gov. Holiday, in his late message to
the Virginia legislature, recommends the
repeal Of the bell punch law.
The Atlantic and Gulf railroad will
hereafter be known as the Savannah,
Florida and Western railroad.
Richmond, Va, has a soup-house for
the poor, established through the efforts
of the ladies of the City Mission.
Fifty indictments have been brought
against the saloon-keepers of Dallas,
Texas for violations of the Sunday law
Three hundred and thirty German
emigrants, destined for Texas, arrived at
New Orleans Monday per steamship
Hanover.
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: II is
stated the profits of the two furnaces of
the Eureka Company at Oxmoor now
reach nearly $4,000 per day.
The Commissioner of Agriculture of
Georgia, anticipates considerable profit
to the State from the inspection of fer
tilizers during the present year.
Annual meetings of the stockholders
of number Of southern railroads have
been held recently, and all of them re-
port gratifying financial progress.
The complete returns from Louisiana
show Il democratic majority of 30,751,
and an overwhelming majority in favor
of the new constitution, reaching 59,072.
Constitution: During the present cot
ton season it is estimated that 100000
in gold has been brought to Atlanta
and passed from here into the currency
of the State.
The bell-punchers are trying to effect
a compromise with the city authorities
of Fort Worth, Texas, by paying the
quarterly tax as formerly, instead of the
bell punch tax.
Two hundred and fifty iron workers at
Richmond, Va, are on strike because
of the refusal of two members of their
union to work ut Il mill where negro roll
ers are employed.
Thomas f. Owen, of Pittsylvania
county, the past season, with the help of
one hand and one horse, made n crop of
tobacco which brought 81 200, besides
oats and wheat and meat enough for his
wants.
The exodus showsno sign of diminish
ment. Anumber Of negroes from Kan
sas, bound to Grimes county, Tex,
passed through Denison Monday. They
the situations as fearful and
say hundreds of colOred people are with
out food and shelter.
Lynchburg Virginian John G. Moo
may, the proprietor of large fruit-can-
min establishment in Boteourt county,
has purchased four hundred acres Of land
formerly owned by Benjamin Wilkes,
of Bedford county, for $4,000. He will
convert this land into a fruit farm.
Memphis Ledger: The Odd Fellows
of this city expended last summer,
through their Relief Committee, among
sick brethren and families, the sum of
80 ,506.9S, and this was all they received,
1t was carefully handled, and used where
it would do the most good.
Union Springs Ala.) Herald: Not
less than a million choice fruit trees,
shrubs and plants have been sold and de-
livered in Pike county within the past
eight years, and fruit of every kind
grows to perfection and is prodnced in
satisfactory quantities to make it profit
able. ...
Charles jenkins, near Lynchburg, Va,
was found hanging in his barn by a rope
made from sheet, and cold in death.
When TO body was cut down large
carving knife was discovered, with the
blade deeply imbedded in his breast near
the heart. Financial embarrassment is
to have led to the suicide.
The Mobile (Ala.) Register reckons
that 800, 900, 900 will be made this year
by Southern planters by the rise in crops
over what they expected to get for them,
and it urges that part of this be put
into the establishment of manufactures
in the South, especially for those spin
ming yarn from seed cotton.
Nashville Banner: Hon. NJ. 7. Bryan
will introduce a bill at the extra session
Of the Legislature to annex the city of
Edgefield to Nashville. Under the an
nexation Edgcfeld will be divided into
three wards, to be known as the Eleventh |
Twelfth and Thirteenth wards of the
city of Nashville.