The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27
SOUTHERN NEWS.

gable rivers than any other State in the
Union.
OVER 100000 head of cattle will be
driven from Texas to Kansas this sum
me,
The penitentiary hoe.shop, at Rich
mond, Va, has been leased by Boston
firm
CHATTANOOGA is to have paint fac
tory with capacity of five tons per
day.
Tom BOYD received only $l5 for
leapng from the bridge at Nashville
Saturday.
VIRGINIA has a new cOunty-Dickin
son--formed of portions of Lee a4d ad
joining counties,
ONE hundred and sixty thousand
shad were placed in Deep River, North
Carolina, last week.
RICHMOND, Virginia, has forty-fve
churches, which are attended by one in
sixteen of the population.
THERE are fifty colored type.setters in
the United States, nearly all OF whom
find employment in the South.
The cotton mills of Columbus, Ga,
have used during the last eight months
Is, 4G2 bales of cotton.
A PARTIAL census of the physicians
in Arkansas shows that there are | ,079
in sixty counties in that State.
TIE South Carolina State Library
which occupies single room in Ike
State Capitol, contains $4,000 volumes.
A LOT of jute seed has been distrlbutsd
among the farmers OK Hanover County,
N. c., for experiments in jute culture,
EIGHTEEN gentlemen in Bryan
County, Ga, have organized Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mails.
A QUARANTINE warehouse, to he
used for fumigating mails and freights
in case of quarantine, is being erected
at Orange, Texas.
THE growing of pineapples and bana-
mas has been successfully tried on the
Upper St. Johns and the Indian River
country, in Florida.
AT Yorkville, S. c., dealer, while
distributing some guaLo, found in it
two joints of a human finger, on which
was gutta-percha ring.
The fines and costs of man con-
victed Of selling beer illegally, as as
sessed by the Criminal Court at Nash.
vile, Wednesday, amounted to $3.50.
THERE are in one hundred counties
of Texas $3.50 registered physicians.
Grayson County has the largest number
LIS. One county was without
physician,
The deer which have been driven 10
the high grounds of Louisiana by The
high water are being slaughtered in
large numbers, regardless of the game
laws of the State.
TWELVE molders at the WATSON Oar
Works, at Chattanooga, have stopped
work because negro was put on the
force and given place in the room
with the other workmen.
The Baptist revival in Raleigh, N.
c., has assumed such proportions that
the church can not contain those who
attend, and the congregation had to Sc
cure Metropolitan Hall.
,rHE third annual fair and races of the
Georgia Stock and, Fair Association will
be held at Oglethorpe Park, Atlanta,
commencing Monday, October Is, and
continuing six days.
The capital invested in the sugar. in
terest in twenty-four Louisiana parishes
amounts to $50, 100000. The product OF
sugar and molasses in these counties in
1879 amounted to S22,O00,000.
SOME of the best signs of the return
of better times in Eastern North Caro-.
lima are shown from the general good
condition of the county finances. In
many counties their paper is as good as
gold.
Two large ships have been chartered
by the Virginia and Tennessee airline
to be loaded for Liverpool with cotton
from Memphis direct Seven thousand
bales will arrive at Norfolk in very
few days to be loaded by that line.
OVER three hundred men are employed
in the machipe-shops of the South Caro-
lima Railroad Company at Charleston.
They are able to turn out every kind
of work needed on the road, including
the building of locomotives and passen-
ger coaches.
THE old records of the city of Char
lotte, N. O., have been accidently dis
discovered, and now the people there
are busy studying their past history
Among the old city ordinances is one
that provides for the purchase of city
bull, and that this bovine champion
shall be allowed TO roam the streets I'M
molested.