The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-08-19
SOUTHERN NEWS.

The colored population of Charleston,
8. c., has decreased since 1870.
The death rate of Raleigh during the
past year was eighteen per 1000.
North CAROLINA will probably loose
Congressman by the new census.
The census returns show heavy in
crease in the population of Virginia.
LOUISIANA has had an increase in pop
ulation of twenty-seven per cent. since
1870.
The colored Methodists are building
$40, 900 church at Wilmington, North
Carolina.
AN alligator four and half feet long
was shot in the Cumberland River at
Nashville.
The State Lunatic Asylum in Georgia
is so well filled that no new patients can
be admitted.
The Mayor Of Atlanta is paid salary
of 81, 600, and the members of the Coun-
ell $500 each
The ice factory in Charlotte, N. c.,
will have a manufacturing capacity OF
two tons per day.
A MAN and wife in Uvalde County,
Texas, are aged ninety-two and ninety
years respectively.
A QUANTITY of sea shells were bored up
from well twenty-seven feet deep in
Sumter County, $. G.
HERE is the vote of Jackson County,
Tenn, as it has stood for several years:
Democratic, LOO; Republican, l.
TuE timber and lumber business in
Georgia will amount this year to 3O0,-
OOO, 900 feet, and will exceed SIS, 600, 900
= year.
A WILD cat, weighing twenty-five
pounds and measuring thirty-tive inches
III length, was killed in flower garden
Savannah.
The State of South Carolina has re.
ceived from the United States Govern
ment set of weights and measures Of
the metric system.
40 HYpRoPHoBA is epidemic throughout
the country adjacent to Woodville, Miss.
Many valuable" dogs have been de-
stroyed for this reason.
VEGETABLES are so scarce in parts OF
Virginia that quantities are purchased at
Petersburg and sent thirty and forty
miles into the country.
The new park at Augusta, Ga, has
been fitted up with grotto, two fonn-
tains, and miniature lake. 1t is also to
be adorned with statuary.
A BRIrIsH ship has sailed for Texas
with $500 barrels OF oil, made for the
purpose of preserving railroad ties and
bridge timbers under new process
The New Orleans schools have been
closed until there shall be money enough
on hand to pay expenses. Teachers
salaries are already Sl75,000 in arrears.
The principal cotton ports in the
South rank MS follows, in the extent Of
receipts of the staple: New Orleans, Nor
folk, Savannah, Galveston and Mobile.
TWENTY towns in North Carolina,
whose population was about 46,5O0 in
1870, now contain 1906 persons, an in
crease of q, 500, or nearly sixty per cent.
The Georgia Baptists have 755 white
Sunday-schools, with 1880 officers and
teachers, 22,550 scholars; 72O colored
schools, with 1880 officers and teachers,
2l 800 scholars.
The Gazette says woman came to
Little Rock on bridal tour. Her hus-
band did not come, as he had only
money enough to send her and buy a
few articles she needed.
SHARK fishing is one Of the principal
sports ut Beaufort, N. c., this season.
There have been large numbers of them
around there, and some measuring eigh
feet have been caught.
THERE has been gratifying increas'
in the population of all the counties II
Tennessee from which census return
have been received. Marion County re
} ports an increase Of l02 per cent.
The largest cotton seed oil mill in tn
United States is being erected in Littl
Rock. 1t will have capacity of usin
three hundred tons of cotton seed pc
day. The work will employ six hundre
. and fifty men.
= NEAR Cleburne, Texas, o single higl
: way man, apparently not over eighteee
years of age, attacked stage, secure
!, the mail and robbed the only passeng'
q of 1925 in money He then rode OIL
4 horseback and eluded the officers sent
: pursuit.
u !, GOLD mining in Virginia is becomln
q an important industry. The mines
. Buckingham, Spotsylvania and oth'
q counties, are being energetically WORKED
and with profitable returns The count
-. of Montgomery is now developing
~ ~ promising business.
:. The Georgia Historical Society WI
w organized in 1839 Its first volume VI
ne published in 1840 and the second
h, 1872 The new building was occupl'
NJ in ls49. 1t has since that time issued
~ large number of valuable pubiicatio
and Increased it's library to 12,W
10 volumes.
i AsHEvILLE, N. G., has three smokiI
10 tobacco factories and one sale warshoui
5, The warehouse during the past TO
:. ~ months sold SO, 600 pounds OF tobacc
"a some Of which sold for as much as t.
dollars and fifty cents per pound L