The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-08-12

In two years time the value of lands
IN certain parts OF South Carolina has
risen from 50 to $40 per acre.
The population of North Carolina
paid for fire insurance last year S2i7, ,3OS,
and for life insurance SlSi, 1856.
The manufacturers of Chattanooga
ten years ago, employed 800 men, boys
and girls They now employ 5000.
A RATrLEsNAKE fourteen feet long,
with forty-cight rattles, was killed Mt
Brownwood. Texas, by John II. James.
DuRlNG the first half of the present
y,ar Georgia had forty-scven business
failures. Alabama nineteen, and Florida
eight.
'I'HE st. Louis Cotton Exchange offers
a premium of $500 to the largest shipper
of cotton, from Texas, to that market
this season.
JAMES c. SMITH has erected NAM
moth ice-cooler on the streets of Rich
mond, Virginia, to he free to the water
drinking public
'rHE first hell ever cast i'll Charleston
was hung last week in the round tower
at the works of the South Carolina Rail
road Company.
The tobacco growers of Virginia claim
that the adoption of the j. w. Barnett
process of curing tobacco will save S., 0O0,
600 annually to that State.
The city authorities of Natchez cN-
pect to realize enough money from the
drummer tax to pay for the public els
terms recently built,
4 MAN in Wakefield n. c., sixty-fivc
Years old, is the father of twcnty-ninc
living children, twenty-siX of the num-
bcr being by one wife.
THE Tennessee papers publish II
"blAck list of advertisers who fail or
refuse to pay their bills. The lists are
kept standing for three months.
The Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Animals at Charleston, S. G.,
is about to place drink troughs for ami
mails i'll the various streets of that city.
WHEN the trunks of leading Vicks-
nurg belle were deposited at the wharf
of that city the other day, negro boot
black exclaimed Coles circus done
come at last. "
ARKANSAS is to have n normal school
at Pine Bluff, for training colorcd teach
crs. The college is to be branch of
the Arkansas State University, and the
building is to cost $1,000.
COUNTIES in Arkansas are entitled to
two clerks when the population reaches
$1,000. The new census returns show
that a number of counties are entitled to
elect second clerk.
GOLD is found III fifty-six counties in
Georgia silver in three, copper in thir-
teen, iron in forty-three, diamonds in
twenty-six, and whisky in all Of them.
The last gets away with all the rest
The watcr-works force several thou
sand gallons of bilge-watcr upon Little
Rock daily, that dogs turn away from in
disgust. The only redceming feature
about it is that it is wet, and answers good
purpose in sprinkling the streets. If the
artesian well company ever does strike
good water in sufficient quantities, it will
not have much competition from the
water-wOrkS.
The contract for bridging the Ouaehita
River mt Monroe, La, has beenlet to the
Baltimore Bridge Company, by the
Vicksburg. Shreveport and Pacific Rail
road The bridge will he an iron one,
$40 feet long, with two spans each 2i0
feet and one ninety feet. The bridge is
to he completed by the lst of next Jan
nary, and will he the finest structure Of
its kind in the State The cost will be
about SliO,0OO.
CHARLES NATHAN has been appointed
10y the State Bureau Of Agriculture of
Louisiana as an immigration agent, and
has sailed for Europe. Mr.. Nathan took
with him orders from private individuals
for between 800 and 600 farm laborers,
whose expenses are guaranteed to be
paid by those who will employ them.
As he will travel in England, Germany,
Spain and Portugal, there is no doubt
but what he will he successful in his
mission. He has already brought ont
200 immigrants from Portugal alone.
LITTLE Rock Gazcttc: Quite..a sensa-
ton was caused in the Presbyterian
Church by the queer antics of the organ
during the singing of hymn by the
choir. The boy who pumps the organ
fell asleep, and the supply of air for the
pipes ran out The choir began the
song with confidence. and proceeded
smoothly till about half through, when
suddenly the full tones of the organ gave
way to succession of toot-toota, and the
alarmed chorister became confused.
One gentleman pluckily preserved to the
end, and remained master of the situation.
MoRRIsrowN Tenn. Gazette: A gen.
tleman visited the court house last Thurs