The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-11-10
SOUTHERN NEWS.
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Tomato cider is new drink in Texas
A negro woman 1903 years old diet
near Fort Valley, Ga.
Nashville ships fifteen car loads o
lumber northward every day.
Five negroes were elected to the Geor
gia Legislature at the recent election.
The ladies of Macon propose to max
vigorous winter campaign in the TEN
perance cause.
The people of Clarendon, Texas, ar
building abode houses. They are mad
Of sun-dried bricks.
A colored couple were married in th,
poor-house at Barnesville, Ga, the groom
40 years old and the bride only forty.
The three richest men in Georgia ar,
Joseph L. Brown, of Atlanta, and Fer
dinand Phinizy and John A. White, o
Athens.
Barnum is having bad luck in Texas
An elephant, twotigers, a giraffe, train
ed oxen and a number of smaller animals
IN his show have died.
The tobacco outlook has increased the
value of timbered land in BuncombC
county, n. c., at least fifty per cent
within the last three years.
In Schley county, Ga, freedman
with one mule, this year made twenty
three bales of cotton, weighing over SOC
pounds each, and 200 bushels of corn.
A young man died at San Antonio,
Texas, after licking cotton from the ef
feet OF poison put on the cotton to kill
insects. His brother is i'll from the same
cause.
A colored girl named Lizzie Hampton,
in Union county, S. c., has given birth
TO twin children, which are joined to,
gethcr by union of the breast bone,
having but one naval, but supposed to
have two sets of intestines confined in
one cavity.
r. A. Hyslop, gentleman. living in
Norfolk county, Va, recently captured
IN ordinary live turtle possessed of two
well-formed heads. The turtle was
brought to bay in the woods by dog
and is considered such curiosity that
Mr.. Hyslop has decided to send it on to
thesSmthonan Institution at Washing
ton.
Lcprosy exists to considerable extent
in the parish of Lafourche, La. An at
tempt to make sn official investigation
was lately resisted with arms, the lepers
and their friends believing that the sui-
fercrs were to be isolated on an island in
the ocean. The report of the pl ysicians
is that the disease is not gaining ground,
Baton Rouge, La, has no public
schools open. The same is true of st.
Landrey, and the Democrat, of the latter
parish, says: "Wc have school officials,
State and parochial, all the time, but no
schools. What is the use of having an
organization that accomplishes nothing
The public school system of this State is
dclusion and snare"
Samuel Hawthorne, who killed McGee
at Vicksburg in September, has been SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for life by a
Jury of twelve colored men. This is the
first case in Mississippi in which white
man has been convicted by negroes. The
Jury is said to have exhibited every evi-
dence of marked attention, and brought
in their verdict intelligcntly.
The Vallambrosa Place, near Dublin,
Ga, once the home of Gov. George NJ.
Troup, but recently the residence of Col.
Robert Wayne, who married grand
daughter of Gov. Troup, was destroyed
by fire. The family pictures and fine
old silverwarc were all lost, and many of
the historic oaks were killed by the fire.
Col. Wayne has suffered losses from fire
four times within eleven years.
In Tennessee, under the law OF 1874,
no liquor can be sold within four miles
OF an incorporated school of learning,
unless located in an incorporated town
or city. The friends of temperance are
taking advantage of the enactment in
some portions of Shelby county by secur-
ing charters of incorporation for schools
in their neighborhood, in all cases near
some little village where the inebriating
fluid is dispensed.
The Kings Mountain Centennial As.
ISOLATION reports surplus of funds re-
naming after defraying the expenses of
the recent celebration. 1t has deter
mined to build an iron railing around the
monument and construct a dwelling
house on the mountain near by for the
keeper of the monument, who is to be
selected hereafter. The Association is a
perpetual organization and it has been
determined to maintain it, holding meet
ings from time to time as may be required
for this purpose.