The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-03-18
SOUTHERN NEWS.

AGRICULTURAL SoilcSo nao oVV oeuu0hVo'
The military fever is raging in most
of the counties of Southern Georgia. "
GoAT-sKINs worth $4,000 were
shipped from Corpus Christi, Texas,
last week. # ar EGtb{gNQgE
THE exports Of hides from Texas in
q single year amounted to nearly $S,-
100000. .
A NUMBER of farmers are successfully
cultivating upland rice in Monroe
County, Ga. B IN
The amount of lumber exported from
Pensacola, Fla, during January was
"a, $50, 900 feet. III =- -
FIFTEEN Tennessee stables are tobe
represented at the spring meeting Of
the Chicago Jockey Club. ~
CHARLESTON people complain of the
lack of facilities for daily and weekly
recreation, and want public garden.
TAMPA, Fla, boasts that murder has
not been committed in that place for the
past six years.
AN appropriation Of $500 has been
made for an educational exhibit at tho
approaching centennial at Nashville.
ONE thousand men and 250 teams are
making things lively on the line of the
D...co Dos1rooI
THE ground in certain localities in
Nash County, N. c., has sunk several
inches, and an earthquake is feared.
THERE will be no nominations for
county officers in franklin County, Ala,
this year. The field is open to all aspi-
rants to Office. G
The average expense per, mile for
keeping up the county fence between
Abbeville and Edge6eld Counties, S. O..
is 1927 per annum. Y~WN e.
observation-disclosures brands of com.
mercial fertilizers are on sale in York
vile, S. C. The demand for them now
is greater than for any year in the past.
THEwool. ol.growers of Atascosa County,
Texas, have organized for the purpose
of eradicating the disease known as the
scab from the sheep of that county.
NEAR Valdosta, Ga, J. G. Jones killed
five wild turkey gobblers at one shot.
Their aggregate weight was ninety-fve
pounds. y-.r. .
SIXTY-SEvEN per cent. of the deaths
at Memphis are from more or less pre-.
ventable diseases, such as consumption,
malarial and typhoid feyers, scarlet
fever and diarrheal diseases. ~.
EARLY amber sugar-cane will be
largely planted in. Fayette County,
Texas, this year. A sugar factory is
being established at Lagrange, with q
capacity Of sixtyTtons Of cane Per day.
THE Missouri, Kansas> and Pacific
Railroad, Texas Pacific, Railroad and
Dallas and Wichita Railroad have agreed
to build large union depot At Dallas,
Texas. E5> .s'''
THE wife Of United States Senator
Wilkinson Call, Of Florida, is the young,
est of all the Senator'S wives, and issaid
to be the most beautiful. She was a
Miss Sinking, of South Carolina,
DURING the tornado Iat Nashville on
Thursday the wind reached velocity
of forty miles per hour. 1t blew steadily
from twenty to thirty miles an hour for
two hours and a half. lr .s5
A RECENT ordinance Of the city Of
Charlotte, N. O., prohibits. all work on
Sunday about freight offices, the shift
ing of freighttrains and all ether duties
of railroad employees except what are
connected With the regular passenger
trains.
SINCE Nashville and Edgefeld have
been annexed the next thing will be a
bridge for free travel between the two
places. Tho present suspension bridge
can probably be purchased, but it has
been suggested that new stone-arch
bridge be erected. ............ .
NEAR Charlotte, N. g., a negro girl
twelve years old fell down mine forty
feet deep, where she remained nine
hours without being discovered. She
was drawn up smiling, and has suffered
no i'll effects from the fall.
NATHAN Cook, Of Terrell County,
Ga, is 1O2 years old, and still earns his
daily bread. He has ten children, the
youngest of whom is forty years old.
He has lived in the same yard that now
incloses his home ever since the Indian
war. Hr..f
TIE Georgia Historical Society, with
its headquarters at Savannah. has nearly
u 600 volumes in its library. During
the year 932 volumes and 22S pamphlets
have been added. The income Of the
society last year,was $3,133.7l, which
was sufficient to defray all expenses.
MACON, GA, is infested with swarm
of tramps who seem to be a regularly
organized band. They have attempted
to enter several houses by force, and on
Friday a lady was knocked down in he1
own house while trying to prevent
the entrance of some of these vaga
bonds. ..... .......... -..,..
THE various manufacturing estab
lishments in Columbus, Ga, give EN-
ployment to l,20l adult males, l, 100 fe
males and $50 children-a total o
2,64t persons. This is the number
steadily employed. In times Of unusua
activity it is frequently doubled. Th'
population Of Columbusis about $4,000