The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-01-15
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

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- The salary of the Mayor Of Savannah,
Ga, i, 81, 400 Ier year..
The Unive sity Of Alabama has Ii
brary ef 1000 volumes.
six per cent. bonds ofthe City Of
Augusts, Ga, are sold at par!
u OF the 1000 consicts> in the Texas
penitentiarY only fiyeare women.
White shad are already being caught
in the Roanoke, in North Carolina,
Ninety-three arrests were made on the
streets Of Macon, Ga, on Christmas.
Thousands Of orange trees are dying
in Florida from some unknown blight.
Sherman, Texas, has appropriated ST.
900 for the construction of an,artesian
we'll. ,;l. - pg'f-.s
Two hundred new buildings were erect
ed in Nashville during 1870 at a cost Of
100000. 80, Y E.>.F-
The guava inlthe near future, will be
one of the most prominent exports from
Florida. s, t1 l's vsI
Not white man was seen drunk in
the streets of Baton Rouge, La, on
Christmas. q =,
The tobacco stamp tax paid in Orange
county, N. c., during November, amount.
ed to $1,092.7C.
A woman named Sallie Patterson was
convicted in Memphis of carrying con-
cealed weapons.
This fall the merchants of Abbeville
S. c., have had the best cash trade ever
known in the town.
1t is reported that two extensive cigar
factories are to be removed from Havana
to Key West, Fla.
The people of Perry, Ga, proposeto TO
have one of the finest public Libraries in
the United States.
Hon. John G. Nichols is trying to get
a $lOO, 1000 appropriation for the harbor
at Brunswick, Ga. ..
T The Nashville American published a
list of colored ladies who were cat home
on New Years day.
The negroes in southwestern Georgia
show disposition to work exclusively
for wages next year.
The annexation of Edgefield will make
Nashville's population 10000 by the
next birthday Of the city. E
Nine hundred MANNED ex-C Confederate
soldiers have, applied to the state of
Georgia foryartifoial limbs.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
South has five conferences in Texas, en-
bracing 1888 members.
They haVetacolored voting population
in Winston, N. c., of S59, only twenty
six of whom pay any poll-tax.
In Walton county, Ga., Miss McRhea
raised this year seventeen bales of cotton
and good crop of corn and wheat.
Twenty-three $1,000 of Madison
county, Ala, were sold to S. p. Reed, of
Memphis, at six per cent. premium.
A stalk of tobacco eight foet high, from
Granville county, N. c., is shown in the
agricultural museum of that State.
1t is estimated that Arkansas will pro.
duce this year 600, 900 balescotton, which
at low figure, will yield S3O,OOO,OOO.
Thos. S. Miller, young man in Ian.
caster county, N. c., drank a pint and
half of rum and died in few hours.
The Good Templars are hourishing in
Georgia. During the past month eight
new lodges have been organized in the
State. ...
The Georgia Railroad presented eight
car loads of old ties to the Mayor OF
Augusta, for distribution among the
poor for fuel.
Visitors to the cotton factory at At
lanta have become so numerous that or.
ders have beon issued prohibiting the
admission of any.
The buildings now in course of erection
in Chattanooga are most elegant in class
and style, and more costly than were
ever before erected in that city. I'D
Hon. A. P. Butler of Aiken county
has been elected State Commissioner Of
Agriculture of South Carolina. He is {
practical agriculturist oflarge experience
The fair grounds at Nashville have
been sold for $4,000 to firm of Nor
thern capitalists, who propose erecting
thereon furnaces and a merchant irOI
mill.
About twenty farms and twice as
many gardens in San Saba comfy, Texas
were irrigated last season. In most in
stances the water is obtained from
springs. u...
Gadsden, Ala, this season will buy
$4,000 bales of cotton, sell $1,000, 900 O
goods, manufacture 20,000,00O feet o
lumber and thousands of dollars of fur
niture.
| The Confederate monumentin Wilco!
county, Ala, will be begun at once, an'
the contractor promises to have it read,
for the dedication services by the 26tl
of April.
Owing to the reduced appropriation
for the city government of New Orlean
for the ensuing year, a wholesale reduc
ton will be made in the number of til
city employees. 80. t..
An association for the manufacture o
wine, with capital of $4,000, has beel
organized in Randolph county, Ga
Grape culture has been carried to grea
perfection in that county. I#T 4
The collections by United States Reve
nue. Collector W. M. Woodcock, at Nash
Vile amounted in December to 800, ,OOO
this being the largest months work Oh
record for the Nashville Office.
Selma eAla.) Times: From a printed
slip, we. SEQ that the number Of churche
belonging to the Alabama Methods
Conference South is 461!. That half i
bringing the matter down to a fine point
Wilmingt n IN. C.) STAR. Mr. All
Wannett, of NJ son oro' Sound, s,ys h
stood in Mr.. George Peck's pi.zza on
day last week and counted line whale
in one school 10 the ocean abreast tf tina
point. q l r