The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-08-05
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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CHATTANOOGA and Knoxville have the
same number of inhabitants.
THERE are 2,100 convicts on the rolls
of the penitentiary at Huntsville, Texas
TIE assessment of Volusia County,
Fla, is 100000 greater this year than
last
MACON has twenty-seven churches, or
one for every four hundred and seventy
inhabitants.
The Virginia Penitentiary contained
on the LIST of June exactly ! 900 convicts,
of whom 1888 were colored.
SAN ANTONIO mas grown enough III
population since the census of 1870 to
entitle her to the letter-carrier system.
The Memphis appeal makes the dis
gushing statement that many of the
ladies of that town are becoming cirgar-
cite smokers.
In Southern Georgia half-formed bolls
are reported on some of the cotton stalk
of last years growth, which kept alive
through the mild winter.
CAPT. A. Fl. PETTIGREw, who COM
manded Gen. Lees body-guard during
the late war, has been elected Chief Of
Police Of Lynchburg, Va.
The population Of North Carolina in
1870 was l,071 1861. The census of 1880
will show at least 100000, with pros
pect of the number being 100000 more.
For the week ending June 30 United
States patents were issued to inventors
in the following States Alabama, one;
Florida, two; Texas, two; Mississippi
one.
NASHVILLE ranks as thirtieth among
the cities of the United States in regard
to population. With the exception of
New Orleans and Louisville it is the
largest city in the South.
The stands of all fruit vendors have
been removed from the streets of Nash
vile by the order of the city authorities,
As a consequence, several respectable
fruit stores have been opened.
The Hon. A. H. Stephens spoke in
Augusta, Ga, Thursday, to very large
audience. He believes that Hancock and
English will certainly be elected, and the
Democracy will win great victory.
ONE colored female encountered by the
census enumeration of the Nature Bridge
district, in Rockbridgc County, Va, gave
the name Of Sallie Martha Brown Wash
ington King Green Violet Ada Moore
Thompson. She was the only daughter
of an aged colored man
THE Bertha Zinc Works, situated near
Martin depot, Wythe County, Va, are
turning out forty-four tons of spelter per
day. The owner has contract with the
United States Government to furnish the
mint ut Philadelphia with zinc for alloy
with silver in coinage.
THE Amcricon says that the avocation
of "street- walking is now followed in
Nashville by larger number of females,
chiefly black, than ever before. There
are not less than 800 women now follow.
ing this practic, in Nashyille-mora,
probably, than in any city Of twice lis
size in the country.
AN order from the Postoffice Depart,
ment establishes new money-order offices
as follows, to date from August 2; Nine
in Tennessee, four in West Virginia,
seven in Virginia, six i'll North Carolina,
six in South Carolina, five in Georgia,
four in Florida, four in Alabama, one in
Mississippi, three in Louisiana and
twenty-five in Texas.
A SUNDAY-sCHooL has been inaugu-
rated at Augusta, Ga, on novel plan,
1t is for the benefit of the factory chill
dren in that city, and is known as the
"Pinafore Sunday-school" It's plan of
working is to take the children in the
little canal steamer "Pinafore" up the
canal every Sunday afternoon, and on the
excursion the little ones are entertained
with religious teaching and the singing
of hymns.
LITTLE is said in the papers of Texas
in favor of repeating the tax on drum
mers Some seem to think the tariff
should be prohibitory. The ubiquitous
drummer is beginning to he regarded as
an Ishmaelite and pariah. Complaint
is made that drummers and candidates
invade social gatherings, picnics, camp
meetings, and the like, and not only ply
their trades openly, but make themselves
,ffensive by their obtrusiys manner and
loud talk.
TALLAHASSEE (Fla.) Patriot: Three
able-bodied white men came to town this
week to sell eight quarts of whortlc-
berries, which they had, no doubt, spent
n whole day in picking, and then walked
from their homes, distance of seventeen
miles, through the scorching sunshine,
to get them to market The last we saw
of them they had bummed around fol-
several hours, offering them at ten cents
a quart, without finding purchaser, and
had stopped to debate whether to sell al
a lower price, throw them away Or lug
them back homo.
PENSACOLA Fla.) Gazette: On last
Tuesday week Sheriff Hutchinson cap
tured a murderer who has for eight years
eluded the officers of the law. His name
is Nat. Sylvester, alias Charley vii
liams, and he is wanted in Mobile to an
swer for the murder of Officer Jerry