The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-09-16
SOUTHERN NEWS.


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TEXAS has twenty-eight daily news,
papers and 100 weeklics.
The official census returns place the
population Of Charleston at 50,043
TuEShclby County (renncssee)Gra
will hold m extensive fair this year.
EIGHTEEN postmasters in Mississippi
draw salaries of 81, 900 or more, each.
Two colored women were drowned
while bathing in West Feliciana Parish,
| Fla
PETERSBURG, Va, has six cotton factor
lies, giving or loymens to nearly 1000
operatives
The Town Council of Thomaston, Ga,
has increased the retail liquor license
from 500 to $500.
CHARLOTTE is the only town in North
Carolina where physicians have to pay
for license to practice their profession.
In 1874 the entire orange crop Of
Florida was represented by $500 hall
barrel cases. In 1879 it amounted to
200, 600 cases.
CERTAIN men in Florida drive lucra-
tive business catching rattlesnakes and
shipping them North. The market is
quoted at So apiece for good-sized rat
tiers.
SEVERAL newspapers Of the South tell
of cases of poisoning from eating water
melons and pumpkins which were RAISED
in cotton patches where Paris green had
been used to kill boil worms.
A hill in Texas, on the Brazos River,
is believed by the neighboring people to
possess curative powers. A Spectator
has bought it with the intention Of sell
ing the earth for medicine.
The Episcopalians in Savannah have
five large and hourishing churches, with
9i3 families, SOB Sunday school pupils,
| 1872 communicates Last year the con-
trihutions for various church purposes
amounted to $2S, 6ll.67.
The peach orchard of John II. Parnell,
in Troup County, Ga, Is the largest III
the world II covers $50 acres of land,
and will probably yield $4,000 this
year It's owner is near relative Of the
celebrated Charles Stewart Parnell, NJ. p.
THE company that has been expert
menting iii Florida with palmetto for
making paper has met with such crafty.
ing success that they will erect about
twenty paper mills in various parts of
that State, where palmetto trees grow III
abundance and where the transportation
facilities are good,
The records of the Charleston Police
Court show that the colored folks do not,
as o general thing, get along well to-
getller in the married state, but what IL
singular is that the cases brought before
the court are almost invariably charges
of husband bearng.' 1t is the colored
wife who generally makes most business
for the Recorder.
DEJARNErrE, the young Virginia gen
tleman who murdered his sister, in order
to maintain the honor of his family, has
published a letter, in which he coniesses
that his treatment of her was brutal and
barbarous, but that his love for her was
as strong as his cruelty was shocking.
He says that the conduct of his sister
caused him such grief rs to destroy his
reason. and that the report that the
crime was committed for the sake of the
family honor is without foundation.
Mrs. NANCY WRIGHT died near Witt
Springs, Ark, at the age of ninety years.
She was born in North Carolina during
the period of the Indian troubles, and
learned to handle the rifle with great dex-
terity. She chopped down trees, cleared
fields ndmade rails, plowed and did other
outdoor work. At the age of seventeen
she married Baptist preacher and re-
moved to Tennessee. They had thir-
teen children. Mrs. Wright is said to
have been very handsome woman in her
youth.
MAJOR POOLE. while on trip to New
York, noticed at Port Royal, the taking
ON board of thirteen half-casks of white
clay, from the Kaolin works in South
Carolina, near Augusta, Georgia. He
learned that the clay was being shipped
to Maillard, the great French candy
manufacturer of New York City, where
it is sweetened, colored and doctored, an q
shipped back as pure French candies
which find a ready sale, and are eagerly
devouredby the little ones. ia UdhasSet
(Fia. Patriot.