The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-01-29
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

ton producing state.
Eight hundred negroes left Jasper
and Clark counties, Mississippi, last week
for Kansas.
The Atlantic and North Carolina
railroad is now paying the interest on
its bonded bebt. -
The five cotton factories in and rear
Petersburg, Va, used last year 5000
bales of cotton.
There are six murder cases on the
docket for the February term of court at
Chesterfield, S. G. y
The post-office at Atlanta will be mov-
ed into the new Government building
early in the spring.
Ex-senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, ha' a
gold mine in South Carolina which pays
him 1000 week.
The agricultural Fair company at
Darlington, S. c., has declared a divi-
dend of seven per cent.
The Oxmoor furnace, at Birmingham,
Ala, yields eighty tons of iron, and is
ilettlng %l,VVV per day.
Atlanta has twelve. regular passenger
trains arriving each day, and they are
said to be all well filled.
An orange weighing a pound and a
half has been gathered by John S. Liv-
ingston, Of Palatka, Fla.
A bale of cotton was rallied off, at San
Antonio, Texas, for the Hood relief
fund, and brought $242.50.
Gov. Joseph L. Brown has purchased
real estate in Atlanta in the past six
months amounting to $4,000.
Lots sold for taxes by the sheriff at
Hampton, S. c. were bought at good
prices by enterprising citizens.
A bale of cotton weighing $50 pounds,
shipped from Wilson, S. c., was found
to contain 800 pounds of stone.
They are talking Of establishing cot
ton factory in Spartanburg county, S. G.,
with capital Of over 100000.
The real estate in Columbus, Ga, is
assessed this year at $77S,GS5-an in
crease over last year of $l2S,O00.
A first-class wagon and carriage shop
is being established at Huntsville, Ala,
by a Mr.. Laptes, from Louisville.
Eleven bales of cotton were destroyed
at Goldsboro through the carelessness of
boy'who was popping fire-crackers.
/, The shoe trade of Macon, Ga, is
geratcr in proportion to the population
than that of any other city in the south.
In Virginia the killing of partridges
and pheasants is prohibited between
January ! and October 10 in each year.
Good farm laborers in Oglethorpe
county, GA, get from $50 to $50. per
year and their board, while a few get
$780, d i,t q -
Texas has 7 900 schools, and her school
fund is apportioned equally among the
children of scholastic age, regardless of
color.
To pay debt, the vestry of Christ $
church, Alexandria, Va, are endeavor-
ing to sell the Bible used by Gen. Wash
ington.
Contractors say that the amount of
building in Atlanta next spring will be
enormous. Real estate is going steadily
upward.
The amount of stealing in Greenville
county, South Carolina, has become Sc
great that many persons have erected
man-traps.
The Commissioner of Agriculture OF
Tennessee has prepared large and com.
plete map Of the state at his own per
sonal expense.
Montgomery Advertiser: Alabama
coal is fast becoming the fuel fol
steamships that ply in the commerce Of
the Gulf ports.
The ladies of Americas, Ga, are col
Letting money to pay for removing the
Confederate dead from Andersonvillc tC
the former place.
The town council of Elberton, Ga
has fixed the license for retailing liquors
at $1,000. Opposition will carry the mat
ter into the courts. -
The directors of the coming Florida
State Fair, to be held in Jacksonville
have decided that no games of ctanc,
will be allowed on the grounds.
The Little Rock, Gas company ha
reorganized, and the city will again b,
lighted with gas. The price of gas tt
private consumers is 1915 per. 1,OO'
| feet. ...s.
One hundred and thirty-six loade,
cars were sent south over the Chatta
nooga railroad within ten hours Thursda,
Eight locomotives were required to hau
them.
The only vow that a young lady il
Marion county, Fla, made on the open
ing of the new year was that before tn
year ended she would get married, b.
lingo.
Prof. Jas NJ. Stafford, of Nashville
has been appointed assistant to Prof. T
! W. Hilgard, special agent in charge, t
| write up the production Of cotton i
Tennessee.
w. g. Thomas, who resides near Elizi
BEETHOVEN, Tenn, has two sons, one THU
teen years old and weighing 35l pounds
and the other seven years old and weigh
ing 17S pounds.
The police force of New o leans las
year made 1884 arrests, of whom IL
ISL ere males and 1851 females. Tn
number of these who could not read o
write was 6,925. 45Elytt
The state debt of Mississippi is g, SIS
900 II. During the past two years tn
debt has been reduced $4,000. Tn
cash balance in the treasury Dec. 81
1872, was $500, 757 IA. .,.4..i.a
After defraying the current expense
of last year, the city of Americas, Ga
has remaining in its treasury 1898 81
besides a. balance in bank to the credi
of the city of 1851 "a. $50
The Brown House. in Macon, Ga
was recently sold, including furniture
to P. G. Lounsberry, of New York, f.
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