The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-11-24
S0Ui HERN NEWS.

Kinds is the most populous county in
Mississippi.
There are / Inc cotton seed oil mills in
Mississippi,
The cattle drive Of Texas this year will
reach 10000.
The State Treasury Of Texas contains
nearly Sl,OO0,oOo.
Jasper county, Ala, voted to repeal
the prohibition law.
Western Texas il fast being turned
into pastures with barbcd wire.
Beaufort county, =, c., has ., 49S white
and 1852 colored inhabitants.
The State Offices Mt Little Rock are
still heated with blazing pine knots.
There are 2,l70 members of the An
cicnt Order of United Workmen in Ten
ncssee.
The new public school building at
Little Rock will be heated with hot
water pipes.
A gentleman has recently settled at
New Smyrna, Fla, with twenty-five
hives of bees, brought from Ohio.
Preparations are being made to light
the Eagle and Phoenix Mills at Colum-
bus, Ga, with the electric light.
OF 122 Grcrnback newspapers in the
United States only sixteen are published
south of the Ohio river,
$. II. Cox, of Ogethorpe county, Ga,
presented the Rev. Mr., lvey with a
plantation worth $4,000.
There is but one member of the forty |
of the last Georgia Senate returned to
the present Legislature.
There are fourteen thousand six hun
drcd and hf,y-two more females than
males in South Carolina.
The Pratt coal and coke company, five
miles from Birmingham, Ala, are get
Ting out coo tons of coal per day.
The Commissioner Of immigration Of
Florida thinks that $4,000 people ave
immiarated 10 that State within two
years.
An elegant new steamer is being built
to run on the line between New York,
Port Royal, Fernandina and Jacksou-
vile, Fla.
In Nicholas county, W. Va, Jamc'
Austin, aged thirteen, and George Mas.
tin, aged sixteen, killed during weeks
hunt, four deer.
Notice has been given that bill will
he introduced INTO the next Legislature
to increase the liquor license OF leliaIr
county, Ga, to $4,000.
The shipments of cattle and sheep
from Southwestern Virginia are now 70
heavy that it is with difficulty that carr
can be procured for thcir transportation.
The machinery for Clement Attach
mcnt has been received and put in posi-
tiou at Mt Pleasant, Gadsden county,
FLA. 1t took three cars to carry the ma
chiucry to that place.
A sale of $4,000 in Tennessee bonds
WAS made in Nashville at forty-siX cents
ON the dollar, a heavy advance on the
rates which have ruled for some time
past.
One thousand feet of tubing for the
ortcsinn we'll has arrived in Little Rock,
and work will be at once resumed III pre-
pairing the well for further boring. The
directors believe that q large volume OF
water will be obtained.
A man in Madison county, Tex. gath
cred on his farm 900 bushels of pecans
and sold them in San Antonio for S3.iO
rcr bushel. Just $25 covered the ex-
pcnscs of gathering and marketing, 30 he
realized profit of 50, 400 on the crop.
In Augusta, Ga, velocipede tourna-
ment for the small boys is held every
wear the merchants Of the city contribu-
ting the prizes, which consist OF knives,
balls and other articles best suited to
boys fancy.
There will be live colored men in the
Tennessee Legislature, three from Shelby,
one from Upton and one from Davidson
county. T. A. Sykes, the colored mem
Der from Davidson was member of the
North Carolina Legislature.
The Capitol Commissioners appointed
by tn" Georgia Legislature to look into
the validity of the title of the city OF
Atlanta to the City Hall lot, which was
decided some time ago to the State Tor
the site of the State capitol, have held II
meeting and decided to accept the olty
Hall lot.
At Dallas, Tex, Maj. Penn baptized
thirteen convicts, old men and women,
middle-agcd and young people, in tie
river. Long before the hour arrived for
the immersion the town commenced pour
ing forth its citizens till the banks Of the
river on either side was Il mass of hui
manity. His meetings are the events of
the season.
The hotel-kecpers of New Orleans.
who have decided to employ white girls
as walters, say they have no trouble in
securing them, and say that respectable
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