The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-10-07
SOUTHERN NEWS.


IN Louisiana good hands make from
81. so to 50. 50 per day picking cotton.
The completion of the Mississippi
River improvements will require 81, 2OO,-
GOO.
MISSISSIPPI has had twenty-sx Gov
crnors, and of whom twenty-five were
lawyers.
Texas expects to produce one-fourth
of the entire cotton crop of the South
this year.
GEORGIA has only 800 Uniyersalists,
but they claim to be increasing in num-
bcrs of late.
NEARLY one hundred agricultural en-.
gines are in use in Anderson County,
South Carolina.
SOUTHERN planters hope to find the
English sparrows IN efficient remedy
for the rayagcs of cotton worms.
A LADY mt Columbus, Ga. on taking
plant from a flower pot, found nine
snakes in the earth at the bottom of the
pot.
CorroN factories in the South save
freight and insurance, and the profits of
middle men, and avoid the compression
of cotton.
DELTA, Miss, has malarial epidemic.
There is hardly n man, woman or child
in the town that has not fallen prey to
its influence.
GEN Gilmorcs estimate of the cost of
the Florida ship canal, 10000, 600, is
believed by many interested parties to
be too high.
MEMPHIS merchants are generally at
taching steam power to their elevators
to take the place of the water power
formerly in use.
A GOLD watch has been plowcd up on
the battle field ut Chickamaugn, and
with slight repairs will be u good time.
keeper again.
The ST. Louis cotton exchange offer a
premium of $1,000 to the largest ship
per Of cotton from Texas to that market
this season.
TnE tobacco growers Of Virginia claim
the adoption Of the Barnett process of
curing tobacco will save $500, 600 an
nually to that State.
lT is estimated there are 500 cases of
brcak-bone fever in Savannah, $50 in
Augusta, and 1000 in Charleston, and it
is epidemic i'll New Orleans.
The First National Bank has been es.
tablished i'll Pensacola This makes the
second national bank in Florida, the
other being III Jacksonville.
EACH citizen of Edwards, Miss, is as
sessed S3 annually for the improvement
of the streets, aud, in default of pay
ment, he has to work on the streets for
ten days.
THERE is prospect of an abundant
yield Of rice in Georgia this year. The
area devoted to the cultivation of this
grain will doubtless be largely increased
III the future.
Thomas FooTE, the Mayor of Macon,
Miss, gives notice that he will strictly
enforce the law of the State against pro
fame swearing in public. The penalty is
$40 for each offense.
Ar Mollohon, s. G., Young Jacks and
his wife left their infant in charge of
negro boy, who fell asleep, when dog
attacked the child and was eating its
vitals when discovered The child is not
expected to live.
THREE things have recently given New
Orleans "boom" which promises to he
permanent: The jetties have proven to
be successful, the Texas railroad has
been completed, and the National Quar-
antine has kept ont the yellow fever.
The Georgia law that no license to re-
tail liquors shall be granted without the
written consent of twc-thirds of the free
holders living within three miles of the
place in which the liquor is to be sold
will probably close every saloon i'll Osle-
thorpe County.
MECKLENBuRG COUNTY, N. G., has
seventy-iive churches, of which twenty
four are composed of colored people.
The leading denominations are the Meth
odist Episcopal, which has thirty-three,
and the Presbyterian, with twenty-five,
churches.
SINCE the sale of liquor was prohibited
in Carrollton, Ca, five years ago, the an
nual trade of that place has increased
from $1,000 to S5OO,O00, and it is sal |
hat there is not one merchant of the
thirty in that town who would not vote
against the whiskey traffic OH purely
business principles.
A CENSUS enumerator OF Bedford
County, Va, Travelled nearly two days
without seeing pair of shoes on man
or woman. An enumerator in Dinwiddie
County enumerated two persons, in
each of which instances he found them
the sole occupants Of their residences,
and found them alone and dead. He
enumerated them and shrounded them
himself.