The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-01
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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A NEW map of North Carolina is being
prepared by the State Geologist.
The new courthouse at Atlanta is to
he surmounted by first-cluss city clock.
NASHVILLE sends to Petersburg, Va,
for an arch tect for her centennial
buildings.
THE ice factory at Montgomery, Ala,
produces CONCEALED water at cost of
twenty-five cents per 100 pounds
GAs.woRKs are being erected at Spar
tanburg, s. c., and water-works and tho
telephone are in contemplation.
TWENTY-FIVE drays were seized at
Charlotte, n. c., in one day, for unpaid
licen e.
A MILD form of smallpox has at
tackled four negroes at Byron, Ga They
have been quaran ined.
The Little Rock G,zette gays there is
enough stone in the Fourche Mountains
Of Arkansas to build n larger city than
New York.
MOSES D. HODGE, d. d., of Richmond,
Va, is pronounced by the Atlanta Con
,titution to be perhaps the most eloquent
minister in the South.
AT the last term of court at Abbeville,
S. c., thirteen persons were sentenced
to the penitentiary for periods of from
one year to imprisonment for life.
THE Memphis gas consumer pays his
So SO with commendable serenity, while
the gas octopus rakes in the SO so with
still more serenity.
COLUMBUS, Ga, boasts of being the
birth place of Blind Tom. A full brother
Of Tom is day laborcr, as yard hand,
at the Eagle and Phoenix Cotton Mills
IF that city.
THE value of the oranges shipped
from Columbus, Ga, during the ason
Just closed was s17,2 4.40. Columbus
is the shipping port for a considerable
portion of Florida.
Gov. Roberts, OF Texas, is more than
seventy years old, yet at recent leap
year ball he danced, dressed in home
spun, with seven young ladies. The
next day he committed two death sem
fences.
AT Macon, Miss, Monday, Sam Bow
Icr who murdered Col. J. A. Reed, a
white man, while executing a writ of
seizure on his (Bowlers) property, was
convicted and sentenced to be hanged on
Friday, the I'd day of April, 1880.
The City Council of Knoxville, Tenn,
reduced the salary of the Mayor from
81 900 to 800 per year, and now that
official is trying to block the wheels of
city legislation until this sweeping act of
reform is rescindcd.
APACKAGE of fine tobacco sent by a
young lady of Ashevile, N. c., to Rich
mond, to be sold, brought 1926 per
pound, when it was learned that the
fair shipper intended to devote the pro-
ceeds to the relief of the Episcopal
Church at Asheville.
The importation of wines and liquors
is on the increase, as every foreign
vessel brings more or less quantity of
these luxuries. Three days ago the
French ship Alphonse ct Marie No. 2
arrived with 1,2O) casks of wine and
brandies-Mew Orleans Times.
The Muscogee correspondent of the
Columbus (Ga) Sun writes: Many have
not half as much labor as they wanted,
think there is fully twenty per cent.
less labor in any settlement this year
than last. There is but little daily labor
in the country now
A NEW steam rice-pounding mill Is to
be erected at Savannah. Already over
SOC, 1000 bushels of rough rice are an
nually brought to that city to be cleaned,
and, with increased facilities, it is be-
lievcd that large increase will be made
in this amount.
THE number of mules and horses
which have been sold at the several
livery-stab'cs in Montgomery during the
present season is about 5000, or prob
ably more. Three fourths of this mum.
Der were mules, and the remaining one.
fourth we're horses.
THE large quantity of improved farm
machinery which has been sold to the
farmers recently by dealers in this city
is taken as an indication that our farm.
es are improving their methods of agrl.
culture, and reducing, as far as possible,
the cost of production. Montgomery Ad.
vertiser.
BUTLER County, Alabama, claims to
have the smallest human being known
to exist at the present time. The name
of this liliputian specimen is Miss Can.
ady, of Oakley Streak. She is fifteen
years old, and is scarcely the size of the
usual two.year old child. She has not
grown any since her second year, owing
to long attack of sickness.
AT the last meeting of the Petersburg
City Council the Finance Committee
reported a sale of 1926 shares of pre-
ferred stock of the Petersburg and Wei.
don Railroad, owned by the city. twas
sold to pay the bonded debt of the city
falling due August |, next. The amount
realized by the sale, which was confirmed
by the Council, was $4,000.
The Nashville american mentions a
few signs of progress in Tennessee, as
follows: A mammoth cotton compress