The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ATLANTA is6yerrun with rats

Tor Governor in Arkansas.
TWENTY newspapers and periodicals
are published in Raleigh, N. c.
INCREASED attention is being given
to bee keeping in Georgia.
In Charleston, S. c., man was fined
So for stealing three potatoes.
The ice factory at Baton Rouge, La,
manufactures three tons daily.
Nor single Mississippi River steamer
burst her boiler last year.
ARRANGEMENT are in progress to re-
move the Confederate dead from Ander-
sonville, Ga.
THE Mayor of Charleston, S. c., is
vigorously pressing the campaign against
the gamblers of that city.
The game law of Mississippi is in
tended to protect deer, partridgcs,
doves, and feld-larks.
IT is estimated that the cotton crop of
Texas for 1869 will bring into that State
$44,OO0,0O0.
BLACK bass weighing four pounds are
now being caught in the James River at
Lynchburg, Va.
NINE new tobacco factories have been
contracted for and will be built this year
in Danviile, Va.
THERE are $500 churches in the
South belonging to co!oed congrega-
tions.
IT vii! require 5000 baLcs of cotton to
pay for the guano to be used in Marion
County, s. G., this year.
THERE are twenty.onc counties in
Eastern North Carolina in which there
is not a single Presby yterian Church.
ONE hundred extra workmen will be
employed during the summer by the
Georgia Railroad to build freight cars.
OVER $4,000 have been subscribed bv
citizens of Nashville to the proposed
free bridge over Cumberland River.
IT is impossible to borrow money for
the public schools of Louisiana whie
the school system is subject of legisla-
ton.
EVERY free citizen of Mississippi is
allowed to keep Il dog who will buy Il
So so brass collar from the State, and
keep it on the dogs neck.
SIXTY Mormon emigrants from
Georgia and Virginia, in charge of FL.
der Morgan, went West this week, bouni
for Armosa, Col.
In Kinney County, Texas, last winter,
forty-two bears were killed within five
weeks, and most of them bya boy fifteen
years old.
THE new State bonds of Alabama are
redeemable at the option of the State at
any time after the expiration of ten
years.
The Grand Jury of the Circuit Court
of Bartlett County, Tenn, includes three
colored men. The Petit Juries are also
composed partly of colored men.
A ALARGE amount of building is likely
to be done this year in Petersburg, Va.
Notwithstanding there has been great
advance in the cost of building material.
EX-Gov. JAS. l.. ALCoRN, formerly
of Kentucky, is the most extensive and
probably the most successful cotton
planter in Mississippi.
ANEW circular-saw mill is in process
of construction in Suwanee County,
Fla, which will be capable of saving
10000 feet of lumber daily.
THE Charleston Is. C.) Me,cs says that
the Southern cotton planters will either
be made very rich or terribly poor b!
the commercial fertilizers they ar,
using.
NINETY-FIvE centennial trees-ont
for each county in Tenne,see-are to b'
| planted on the Capitol grounds at Nash
vile, to be known by the names of theil
respective counties.
JAS. r. DoDGE, in his investigation o.
sheep husbandry in the South, reports
more than 100000 killed by dogs las
year, or more than five per cent. of the
entire number in that section.
THREE thousand dollars worth of rope
was used to secure the RATS in the Cum
berland River during the recent freshet
The value of these RATS was estimated
at from 100000 to 100000.
NASHVILLE american: "1he Nash
vile Directory for 1880 contains the
names of 145 Smiths, 127 Browns, ant
SO Joneses. The Jones family has here
tofore outnumbered the Others"
THE proprietor of the Kelleyville iron
works, in Marion County, Texas, has
proposed, if he can get convicts, that he
will inclose his works with walls ant
build a substantial brick prison to con
tain 100 convicts
IT is intended that the Jackson statue
when taken to Nashville and mounted
shall be unveiled by Zephaniah Weaver
who has attained his ninety-sixth year
and who was a soldier under Jackson ir
the Indian wars and at the battle OIL
New Orleans.