The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-09-02
SOUTHERN NEWS.
MISSISSIPPI includes $500, 900 acres OF
Government lands.

MISSISSIPPI includes $500, 900 acres Of
Government lands.
The Louisiana Land Reclamation
Company have $1,000 acres of sea marsh
lands ready for the pillow.
GRAYsoN has the largest population Of
any county in Texas-37, $50. Sherman
is the countyseat.
The farmers of Northern Texas may
he obliged to employ Chinese laborers to
gather the cotton crop.
H. NJ. CALDWELL, a North Carolina
horticulturist, grows stoneless peaches
by grating upon plum trees.
The office of County Treasurer, in An
son County, N. G., has been abolishedby
the Magistrates, with saving of $lO0 to
the county.
A PROPOSITION has been made to furn-
ish Wilmington with n complete system
of water works, on the "Holly system" +"
for 100000.
SEVERAL farmers clubs have been or
ganized in Abbeville, S. c., upon plan
differing from the Oranges, but with the
same general purposes.
The corn crop i'll Texas this year is
the heaviest ever known in that State.
In some counties the price will only be
ten cents per bushel
THE Trustees of the Peabody Normal
College of Nashville, Tennessee, award
Texas free scholarship for each Con.
gressional District.
A WOMAN in johnson County, Ga.
only twenty years old, is the mother
of six living children, of different ages,
the oldest being child of nine years.
The foundation for the new blast
furnaces at Cowan, Tenn, has been
commenced. A stack 100 feet high, the
highest in the State, is to be erected
there.
THERE has been paid into the State
Treasury of North Carolina this year,
$342, ,29OG in school taxes. OF this
amount S25, ,S44.59 was collected on
liquor licenses.
The Southern Presbyterian Church
has had in six years m increase OF about
fifty five ministers, one hundred and
thirty-one churches, and nearly thirteen
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The grand aggregate value of the
whole property of Savannah and Chat
ham County, Ga, is returned for 1880 at
Sl7. .672, ,222. while in 1879, it was Sl6,
S42, ,316. 80, showing an increase of 1929,
905. 80.
THERE is quite trade at Morgan City
La, in green alligator hides. Severa
men are kept busy all the time shooting
alligators and skinning them, The
hides are packed in boxes and shippeC
North.
The population of Florida in 1880
was 81, ,455, in 1860 was lao, "a, and IL
1870, notwithstanding the losses Of th'
civil war and the general destruction o
her industries, was 1877, ,74S. 1t is be
hcved the present population will not b'
far below 100000.
The cotton factory at Windsor, N. G.
uses two Clement attachments with to
tai working force of seventeen hands
1t cost forty-two dollars and ten cents {
day to run the machines, which earl
sixty-four dollars and twenty cents, leav
ing net daily profit of twenty-five dol
lars and ten cents.
The Hon. r. b. Elliott, who wa
recently appointed special agent of tn
Treasury Department for the States O
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgi
and Florida, gets salary of eight dollar
per diem, and exercises supervisor,
control of the custom-houses, post office
and sub-treasury offices in those States.
CENSUS returns have been receive
from ninety-fve counties in Texas, show
ing gain of 54S, 1856, or a little owe
ninety per cent 1t is believed that Oh
population of the entire State has double
since 1870, when it was only 87s,579
There are one hundred and seventy -thre
counties in the State.
Francis FoNTArNE, State Commits
sioner of Immigration for Georgia, ha
made contracts with one hundred Ger
. man families to work at Cedartown ant
vicinity. He thinks they will be wort
to the State at least $50, 600, besides thei
value as settlers and laborers. One hun
dred more families are expected i'll
short time.
The water company at Memphis are IL
trouble over the suit brought by W. }
McDermott to compel the fulfllment o
contract entered into with him b.
President 7. j. Latham for the purpos
: OF substituting Mississippi River wat
for that of Wolf River, so obiectionab
to large majority of the people of Men
I phis.
SOME of the German citizens of Men
phis have held meeting in that city
. discuss the best methods of inducing en-
, igration to West Tennessee. They d
, cided to organize society, to issue pu1
licatiOns describing the resources Of tn
section, and to open correspondence vii
s all agencies that can be induced to aid
q the enterprise.
Two PRISONERS escaped from jail
Dalton, Tenn, BY cunning but cru