The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-08
SOUTHERN NEWS.

ROME, Ga, isovcrstocked with English
sparrows.
STREET peddlers are not allowed in
Meridian, Miss.
SEVERAL stores in Atlanta rent for as
much as s400 each per mon h.
VIRGINIA negroes are emigrating to
Iowa to take the places of striking white
men in the mines.
Ar Columbus, Ga, a piece of property
tha, was offered for 81 800 two months
ago brought So, 40 Tuesday.
A LAD of seventeen years of age in
Jasper, Walker County, Ala, has
recently welded lady of seventy-one
years of age.
THERE is great scarcity of seamen in
Galveston who are willing to make the
voyage to Liverpool and other foreign
ports. Thirty dollars advance and $50
per month have no. charms for Jack.
The Oldest surviving Congressman is
Hon. John A. Cuthbert, now practic-
ing lawyer of Mobile. He was born in
Savannah Ga, in l7Ss, and represented
Georgia in Congress in 1919.
THE erection of the Nashville Centen-
NAL Building progressing finely The
subscriptions to the exposition loan al
ready amount to 100000, and more is
expected.
SEVENTEEN hundred and five purils
have been enrolled in the Knoxville
public schools since September, 1879;
the total enrolment in the Chattanooga
schools during the same period exceeds
2l00.
The shops of the Alabama Great
Southern Railroad, at Chattanooga, have
lust turned out Pullman sleeper, u
coach, and baggage and express car,
which are said to be as good as can be
made in this country.
MONDAY, while Thomas Philbates was
fishing with nets at the head of York
River, much to his surprise he caught
genuine Arctic seal Il strange inhabitant
for those parts. All of the inhabitants
of West Point turned out to see the
"big show"
The average annual attendance of
colored pupils at the public schools IN
South Carolina, from 1869 to 1876, was
1861, while from 1876 to 1880 the
average attendance was S0,723 an in-
crease of little more than forty-fivc
per cent.
The people of Virginia are deter
mined that the name and fame of Stone
wall Jackson shall not pass out of the
public mind A new county has just
been formed to which the name Stone
wall has been given and that of Jackson
fixed upon for the county,se
In the Gates murder trial at Ridge
Spring, s. c., the other day. young cx-
oduster said: "I jcs tell you, white folks
got no business gwine to black folks par
ties, case darkies is not gotmuch sense no
how, and when dey gifts quart of mean
whisky dey jes as leave kill dereselves as
any udder pusson."
NASHVILLE american: County war
rants are no longer hawked about the
streets at from seventy to eighty cents
on the dollar. The present trustee, Geo.
X. Whitworth, is using all the means in
his power to convince the people of the
fact that the county can meet its obi
cations.
The New Orleans Picayune of Monday
says it is stated that the youngest twins
of the Hood orphans have been taken by
a gentleman and his wife, residing in
New York, who have adopted them.
The baby member of the family has
also been taken for adoption by another
family
The working of squad of convict Ia.
borers is to be tried on Frogmore planta
ton. in Concordia parish, La. A large
and secure prison has been erected on
the place for their safe-keeping, and
three men arc employed to guard them
two during the day and one at night.
THE Tennessee Historical Society
wants portrait of the late Col. Robert
Butler, who was born in Tennessee. and
was assistant Adjutant General to Gen.
Harrison at the battle of the Thames
He was also at the siege of New Orleans
was Colonel of the Fourth United States
Infantry in 1921 and afterward Surveyor
General of the public lands in Florida
KNOXVILLE Chronicle: In converse
tion yesterday with Mr.. George W.
Ross, Secretary and Treasurer of the
Knoxville Marble Company, he Informed
us that from actual estimates and stats.
tics gathered, that company shipped
from this point during l S79 considerably
over seven million pounds of marble to
different parts of the United States.
SHARPERs are travelling along the
Alabama, Georgia and Florida border,
pretending to sell machinery. They ge,
a farmer to sign blank ordering certain
kinds of machinery. The next thing
the farmer hears of the machinery is q
note presented to him, for say, $780,
written on the blank above his signature