The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-06-03
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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The proceeds of the Frog opera in
New Orleans amounted to 81 $50.
TEXAS 5 per cent. bonds are quoteo
at 102 and are scarce in the market
ONLY one hotel in Jacksonville, Fla,
will remain open during the summer,
UNMUzzLED dogs on the streets Of
Memphis are shot down without mercy.
NEARLY 1000 workmen are employed
upon new buildings going up in At.
lanta.
The summer uniform of the police
Of Richmond, Va, includes white
gloves.
II is estimated that the present rice
crop in Louisiana will be double that OF
last year.
A COTTON compress, costing $40, 900,
will be erected at Brenham, Texas, this
summer.
FISK University, at Nashville, has
been presented with bell weighing
1000 pounds.
DURING this year 100000 bushels of
corn have been shipped to Europe from
Richmond. Va.
VIRGINIA is set down for 1926, 900 in
the Congressional River and HarbOr APP.
preparation Bill.
A GOOD quality of white porcelain
clay has been discovered in Forsyth
County, N. G.
A GRAND agricultural and mechani-
cal fair is to be held at San Antonio,
Ttx's, next fall.
Mrs. SALLIE Gray, of Meridian, Mass,
is III years old and still engages in
letter-writng.
In Henry County, Ga, a whole 1rove
of hogs, while lying in heap, wee
killed by lightning.
LONG staple seed cotton is so scarce in
East Florida, but one-third the usual
crop will be planted.
NEW ORLEANS has shipped :, France
and Italy within year 100000 gal
Ions of cotton seed oil.
AN evening paper has been established
at Lynchburg, Va, making three dailies
now published there.
TIE Hon. John n. Hudson, State
Senator from Americas, Ga, has been
sent to lunytic asylum.
THERE is lady postmaster at Elon,
Amherst County, Virginia. Her last
predecessor was also lady.
THE Legislative Council of Memphis
las passed an ordinance abolishing
all hanging signs from over the side
walks.
A CoLoRED barber at Macon, Ca, was
while engaged in quarrel with another
man.
A CONFEDERATE Memorial Associ-
atior is to be organized at Memphis to
care for the heroic dead in Elmwood
Cemetery.
The average yield of the oats crop in
the vicinity of Austin, Texas, this veal
il from eighty to one hundred bushels
pei acre.
J. f. WEST, who killed a negro some
time ago at GAINESVILLE, Ga, has been
refused bail and is now in Jail at
Griffin.
A FARMER in Montgomery County
Tenn, drove the bugs from his tobacco.
plant beds bv treating them to dose OF
rotten eggs
The water in Wolf River, so long de.
tested by Memphians, has been officially
pronounced the "third best water in the
United States"
THE planters of Alabama and North
ern Mississippi are more engrossed thar
ever in the cotton crop, and are neglect
ing everything else for it.
THE President of the Mississippi
State Agricultural College, at Stark
vile, receives an annual salary of s., 500
and the professors $4,000 each.
OVER $500, 900 has been raised in TIT
North for the construction of the new
Sibley mills in Augusta, Ga, and tn
remaining 5000, 900 is promised.
THE cotton mills at Carrollton, Miss.
have been bought by one King,
Georgia manufacturer, who will add 2O'
operative to the working force.
THE credit of the State of Mississippi
is at par. Her warrants are equal t.
currency and are paid on demand. He
bonds command premium in the mar
Ket.
THERE is not single liquor salool
in any town on the line of East Tennes
zee and Georgia railroad, between Chat
tanooga and Knoxville, a distance o
i12 miles.
LOCAL option has proven a success il
Jasper County, Texas. Not a case o
drunkenness has been seen on tn
streets of the town Of Jasper during h
present year.
The people of Charleston, s. G., hav
subscribed about $500 for the relief O
the families Of the two negroes who die
from foul air N cleaning out one OF tn
fire wells in that city.
The sculptor Clark Mills claims to b
something of hor,eman. and to be pre-
pared to defend his bronze horse again'
Al. adverse criticisms by judges @
, horses in Tennessee.
A BRICK the size of an ordinary ciga
box, made Of the counterfeit nicse's
lected in the street.car cssh.boxes, is N