The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-03-25


give support t. 10000 persons.
A NEGRO in Morgan County, Georgia,
has trapped ten beavers this winter.
NATCHEz, Miss, is building yarn
mill 4S by l6O feet in size.
AT Erata, Miss, J. w. Musgrove
died at the age of 103 years.
SAVANNAH has contributed 81, 1875
to the Irish relief fund.
THE colored Good Templa Yrs in ir-
ginia, have organized Grand Lodge for
that State.
TIE Mississippi Legislature has fixed
the compensation Of its members in fu.
ture at S4O0 per session. #
I DURING the last few months 4 300
dogs have been killed in Dallas, Texas,
and the work still goes on.
ATLANTA has distributed among the
farmers of Georgia this season $4,000
Kentucky and Tennessee mules.
The Texas newspapers are advancing
their subscription rates on account of
the advance in the price of paper.
The only colored school in Columbia,
s. c., has been closed from lack of
funds.
TIE E"qui~r-,Sun says that there is
not an available sleeping-room in Col
umbus, Ga, unoccupied.
The largest sugar mill in Louisiana is
in st. Charles parish, and was erected
in ninety days.
A YOUNG lady in Vicksburg cowhided
young man who sent her a comic
valentine.
SEVERAL young ladies are attending
the medical colleges at Nashville, and
will be graduated during the present
term. .
AT Martin, Ga, qmatch dropped into
some cotton and started fire which de
stroyed the cotton gin of r. d. Cow,
and also saw mill belonging to him.
ALL the Southern Railroads are shin
ping guano. The Observer says that
whole trains loaded with it pass through
Charlotte, N. c.
In Henderson County, Tenn, man
only twenty-six years old, was married
to woman vino has experienced sixty.
five winters.
DURING the last four weeks at least
1000 emigrants have passed through
Chattanooga on their way to. Texas and
the West.
AT the late special session of the
South Carolina Legislature, ffty-nine
acts and eight joint resolutions were
passed.
CHATTANOOGA firmes during last
month shipped 500 barrels of eggs over
the East Tennessee and Georgia Rail.
road.
THE Quitman (Ga.) Reporter believes
that the farmers in that region have
lost enough in spoiled meat to about
offset the benefits of the rise in cotton.
THE Agricultural Commission of
South Carolina has already turned over
to the State Treasurer 81 ! 900 privilege
tax on fertilizers.
AT Covington, Ga, farmers are buy
ing largely of guano, and prospects are
favorable for . large clipping of wool.
Small grain is looking well throughout
that section.
The Gazette says that there are old
gray-headed men in Hawkins County.
Tenn, who have never seen steamboat,
The IIolston river runs through Hawkins
County.
The Charlotte IN. c. O5scrrcr saws
that the demand for phosphates as a
fertilizer is 80 great this year that the
manufacturers will not be able to fill all
their orders.
A STEAM wooden mill is to be started
at Charleston. Tenn. Three citizens
have subscribed 10000 to the capital
fund, and no difficulty will be expert
enced in raising the balance necessary
to begin operations. r. ...
NASHVILLE Amrican: The Commits
sioner of Agriculture, Statistics and
Mines is now in daily receipt of letters
making inquiries with view to the
purchase of farming, mineral and tim
bered lands in Tennessee.
AN Ohio man who had a mortgage for
Sl0S on the colored Methodist Church
at this place came down last week TO
foreclose it, but the colored people
raised the money Sunday and paid it
off, Winchester San. '...
NASHVILLE american: Seventy-one
operatives from cotton factories South
arrived here yesterday, and, with others,
will begin work at the Tennessee Cotton
Mandatory next Monday night. That
establishment is to be run day and night
hereafter.
The Chamber Of Commerce OF Char
lotte, N. c., will invite 1000 merchants
on the lines of the various railroads
leading into the city to spend several
days in examining the inducements the
trade of the city offers. Railroad
tickets will be enclosed with the in
vitations.
THE United States Government holds
$3.50. 900 Virginia bonds as Indian trust
funds, which will have to be redeemed
out of any money that may be coming
to Virginia in payment of the advances
she made the Government during the