The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-29
SOUTHERN NEWS.

800, 800.
CHATTANooGAha has two saloons for every
1000 inhabitants.
The population of Alexandria, Va, has
increased forty-siX in ten years.
SHERMAN is the leading cotton, horse
and hay market in Northern Texas,
EVERY farmer in North Georgia says
that he will make a good cotton crop.
An Alabama man has collected 200
mocking birds and taken them North
for sale.
The population Of New Orleans is
2l5, ,239, an increase of 1923 during the
last decade.
IN Atlanta subscriptions are being
made to u fund Of $4,000 to build
female college there.
A NEGRO in Nashville named n child
Revelations, because he was the last i'll
the family.
The population of Richmond is less
than has generally been supposed
probably not over $4,000
The City Directory Of Macon puts the
population of the city at %, 600, while
the new census makes it only $1,000.
Or the sixteen suicides that have been
reported from Nashville during the last
thirty months, fourteen resulted from
poisoning
The Howard Association at New Or
leans has Just elected officers for the en-
suing year. The association is in good
financial condition,
ONLY SO, 200 are now needed to com
pcte the sum required to fit up house
for the Mccormick telescope at the Uni
verify of Virginia.
The smelling works at Charlotte n.
c., will be put in operation again this
week. 4 carload of silver ore from
Nevada will be smelted.
ELDER f. O. BURNErr, the first Gov
ernor of California is still living. He is
n native OF Nashville, and is now i'll his
seventy-fourth year.
HARVEST hands We're very scarce in
Clarke County, Va, this summer, and
were known to work on Sunday, as well
as through the week. at s. per day.
The Rev Thos. Dawson, the oldest
Baptist minister in South Carolina, died
in the ninetrth or ninety-trst year of his
age at pendlcton, aitera lingering illness.
SELMA, Ala, is talking of building
water-works. 1t is thought that $i5,O
will be enough to complete such sys-
TEN as will meet the wants OF the entire
city.
The gross earnings of the Augusta
cotton factory for twelve months ending
June - were &l5147l2S The factory
pays quarterly dividend of two and one.
half per cent.
MEMPHIS has at present about twenty
three miles of sewers No complaints
have been heard as to their proper work
ing, and the general verdict is that the
system III vogue is perfect success.
ADJr. GEN. G.. T. BEAUREGARD, of
Louisiana, has contracted with n New
Orleans manufacturer to furnish arti-
fetal limbs to all Confederate soldiers
who are citizens of that State at the
present time.
IN Texas herder offered to surrender
to the Sheriff in case he should be pro-
vided with a square dinner. This was
refused, and i'll the fight that took place
three men were killed, two wounded and
the herder escaped.
GEN. Robert TooMBs is one of the best
farmers i'll Georgia. He made this year
$50 bushels Of white rust-proof wheat on
eleven acres of land. He gave 100 bush
els, worth ten dollars u bushel, to the
State for distribution among the farmers
Of Georgia to SOW for the next crop.
lN Charleston, as well as elsewhere,
the census enumeratOrs failed to find as
many citizens rs the directory canvass
crs. The census gives Il total this year
of 1890 whites, q ,2i3, and colored
q, which is an increase of S97 since
1870. Sholes directory for 1879 CON
tains census Of the city, which places
the total population at 50, lS5.
The Municipal Gas Manufacturing
Company has been organized at Charles
ton with n capital of $350,O0O. The
company only awaits the favorable action
of the City Council on the petitions of
themselves and over three hundred large
gas-consumers and taxpayers, praying
that permission to open the streets be
granted, to enter into contracts for the
manufacture of the necessary machinery
and pipes, so as to have their works in
operation early next year
AN immense raft, consisting principally
of walnut logs, has reached New Orleans.
There are $500 walnut logs, some of
which are six feet in diameter, which
were cut along the banks of the White
and st. Francis Rivers, in Arkansas.
The raft is 400 feet long and 2OS
feet wide. The walnut logs being too
heavy to float, they are kept on the level
of the water by 800 cypress logs. The
logs are to be sent to Connecticut by
rail, the freight charges being less by
that route than by steamers