The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-02-12
SOUTHERN NEWS.

LOuisiana's sugar crop Will amount u
$4,000 hogsheads.
Chattanooga is awakening to the i'm
portance Of good sewerage.
Negroes are focking in gangs to lus'
caloosa Ala, to see faith doctor.
Wilmington, N. c., has one church
building for every $50 inhabitants.
TheState Agricultural college of South
Carolina W IL be opened next July.
Seventeen carloads of mules were
sold in Atlanta, Ga, Wednesday.
The losses by fire at Charlotte, N. Q,
during 1879, did not exceed $4,000.
Robert P. Button, Grand Master OF
the Odd Fellows of Virginia, is dead.
Seventy thousand bales of cotton have
been received at Rome, Ga, this season.
Newbern, N. c., has a hat factory
and Hillsboro is to have a plow factory
Vessels drawing seventeen feet of wa
ter pass over the bar at Wilmlngton n
N. G. :,
A party from New Orleans is about
to start glass fac ory at Bay st. Louis,
Miss.
The city of New Orleans has appro-
priated 5000, 900 for police purposes this
year.
Very large walnut logs are being ship
ned from Southern Virginia to Phila-
delphia.
One orange tree at Bay st Louis, Miss,
produced crop of oranges which brought
the owner $50.
It is probable that there will be re-
organization of the Memphis Water
works company.
The school population of Tennessee is
514, the value of public school prop
erty in the State is 81, ,162,6S4 ~.
The water-works of Knoxville Tenn,
are involved in legal difficulties. The
contractors are financially embarrassed.
The citizens of Macon, Ga, have sent
$500 to the Irish sufferers. 1t was most
iy sent to Tuam, one of the most afflicted
districts.
Miss Lizzie Hammond, pretty white
girl of eighteen years, has been sentenced
to the Virginia Penitentiary for horse
stea ing.
In selecting jury for trial at Clin-
ton, Tenn. last week, 49l men were ex-
amined before twelve suitable persons
could be found.
One hundred shares of the Langley
Manufacturing Company's stock, OF Au-
gusta, Ga, sold recently in Charleston at
$13O.50 per share.
One hundred telephones have been or
dered by citizens of Memphis, and the
system may be considered as thoroughly
organized there now.
A large number Of the convicts SEN
fenced to the Tennessee penitentlary are
employed in the Sewanee coal mines on
the Cumberland mountains.
The net earnings of the woolen mills
company at Charlottesville, Va, for the
past wear. shows a return of over four
teen per cent. upon the capital stock.
A bill before the Senate of Mississippi
provides for the severe punishment o.
railroad employees or officials and legisla
tors for giving or receiving free passes.
Vicksburg Herald: We heard far
mer remark yesterday that the loss sus
tanned by the spelling of meat would al
most offset the benefit from the big pri
ces of cotton.
Donald Mcqueen, DID,, forty-thre'
wears minister of the Presbyterian
church at Sumter S. c., is dead, afte
an illness of many months. He was sew
enty years old.
| Alex. H. Stevens is puzzle to tn
medical fraternity. He is stronger nol
than at any time these fifteen years, and
it is said, will shortly discard his rollin
chair and crutches.
The State immigration society of Al
kansas has decided to publish, for dl'
tribution abroad, 100000 copies of
pamphlet of 200 pages descriptive of tn
resources of the state.
Charlotte IN. CO. Observer: Almos
every farmer who comes to the city n
ports that his wheat crop is being badl
injured by the fly. Cold weather an
snow are being very badly needed.
, Nashville American: An immens
amount of freight is now passing ovt
the railroads centering here. Both tn
l Chattanooga depots are crammed wit
s all sorts of merchandise and produce.
The first locomotive crossed the ne
and magnificent iron bridge of the Loui
n lana Western railroad, over the SabiI
!, river, near Orange, Tex, Tuesday. II
bridge is 400 feet long, with draw
. 20C feet.
- Atlanta Constitution: There is
movement on foot to organize two got
t base ball mines the coming summer. 1t
e the intention of those interested to tai
= these mines and 60 campaigning throue
the South.
The State Superintendent of Educ
a ton, of South Carolina, is endeavoril
n to put in operation plan by which Il
n public hools can be kept open for
h longer period each year than they ha
been heretofore.
= J. The city council of Richmond, Vi
:, has deposed William L. Smith, keeper
,e Oakwood cemetery, as it is believed tn
u without his knowledge and permissi
the recent work of the body snatche
~ there would have been impossible.
.r Columbus { Ga. Enquirer-Sun: Sc
ton Odom exhumed the body Of you
:, white woman yesterday that had be
10 buried twenty-seven years. She "
a. hurried ia a metallic case. The body W