The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-06-17
SOUTHERN NEWS.

THERE are seven or eight candidates
for State Auditor in North Carolina
REPORTS of the wheat crop in Tennes-
see are still gloomy.
THE houses in Charleston, ). o., are to
be renumoercd.
South CAROLINA has 10000 colored
Good Templars.
EIGHTY-Two houses were built during
the past year at Athens, Ga.
CLARK Mills proposes to undertake
M equestrian statue OF Gen. Joseph H.
Johnston.
THE glass works of Wheeling, W.
Va, are unable to fill the orders made
for their products
THERE will be more grain and cotton
raised in Texas this year than during
any three previous years.
The authorized capital of the sibley
Cotton NJ lis, at Augusta, Ga, has been
increased to 81 100000.
ONLY two cotton factories are in
operation in Louisiana, both OF which
are located in New Orleans.
The United States Fish Commissioner
is depositing large number of young
fish in the streams Of South Carolina.
THE Sherman (Texas) Oil Mill is
nearly completed Its owners have on
hand 600, 900 bushels of cotton seed.
NEW ORLEANS papers state that from
the present outlook a magnificent crop
of sugar will be harvested this season.,
ALMOST the entire wheat crop on the
line of the Nashville and Chattanooga
Railroad is seriously effected with the
rust.
THE Pratt Coal and Coax Company, of
Jefferson County, Alabama, are now
getting out three hundred tons of coal
daily.
ONE handrcd tons of mangansie
were Mined washed and shipped to
England last week, from Augusta Coun-
ty, Va.
THE proposed ship canal across the
northern end of the peninsula of Florida
is just now attracting great deal of at.
tention.
GEORGE SENKINs, of Barbour Coun-
ty, Ala, killed a rattlesnake which
weighed forty-two pounds and had four
teen rattles.
The orange grove of Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe, at Mandarin, on the st.
Johns, Florida, yielded last year 81, 600
to the acre.
THE old Colonial church at Halifax,
N. c., is over century old. In the
church-yard there is tomb stone
erected in 1772.
The Alabama State Far Association
will hold an attractive exhibition this
year at Montgomery, commcnu ny on
the Sth Of November.
Mrs. DELLA Mckinney, of Dallas
County, Ala, will be one hundred years
old on the 7th of November. She is a
native of Tenn ssce.
In some parts of Middle Tennessee the
farmers have plowed up their wheat
fields, having lost all hopes of crop
and have planted vegetables
A GANG of negro robbers has been
discovered in Tallahassee, Fla. They
had false keys, with which every door in
the townscouId be opened.
In Baker County, Ga, where last
years cotton stalks have been left stand
ing, they have put out new leaves and
have plenty of squares on them.
THE South Carolina Penitentiary has
received orders for palmetto hats from
the States Of New York, Georgia, In
diana, North Carolina and other States.
MILLER b. GRANT, who has been in
the Savannah Jail for year on the
charge of embezzlcment and forgery tc
the amount of $l3, 900, has been adjudged
Insane.
ADAMS CoRBETT, a miser, died neal
Falkland, Pitt County, n. G., agec
seventy. Over 81 1000 were found which
ne had secreted, also $4,000 in Con
federate notes.
| A POPULAR vote in Powhatan County
Va, on the question of subscribing $50,
300 to aid the Richmond and South
western Railroad resulted in a large
majority in favor of such aid
| A YOUNG man married, plowing, hi
wife hoeing, and his baby sleeping II
the fence corner in cradle, Is what
gentleman saw near Hartwell, Ua re
Gently.
RICE is becoming one of the most I'm
portant grain crops planted in southwe'
Georgia. The rains have gwen IL
GOOD start, and the largest crop eve
made in that section is expected thl
season.
THERE is a movement on foot 10 e'
tablish large cotton factory at Clark'
Vile. Tenn, which will employ fror
four to five hundred hands. The NOV
is headed by men of means and bushes
: tact.
The splendid Gordon setter, Far
owned by T. F. Taylor, of Richmond
Va, is dead. She probably was one @
the most "valuable dogs in Americ'
having earned upwards OF s2'Ooo
prizes and from sales of her progeny
THE town council Of Jonesboro, Ga
has adopted an ordinance prohibltin
whispering or other disorder in the RET
of churches during divine service, an
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