The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-09-30
SOUTHERN NEWS.

lHE Atlanuc rOlllnB Hills nave peeh
sold to Northern capitalists.
LAWYERS and editors are required to
pay license i'll Opelousas, La.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala, is TO have $27, 900
bridge across Warrior River,
The British hound, bred in Virginia,
will not eat the flesh of the fox.
The colorcd people of Raleigh, n G.,
are putting up $4,000 church.
CAPT. KENNEpY's stock ranch in
| Western Texas contains 400, 600 acres.
MEMPHIS pays higher price for gas
than any other city on the continent,
THE track of the Texas Pacific Rail
road is now laid III miles west of Dallas.
The State Treasury of North Carolina
received last year ~, l32 30 from mar
riaGe licenses.
THIRTEEN agricultural fairs are adj
vcrtsed to take place in South Carolina
during the autumn.
A NEW street railway company, com
posed Of prominent business men, has
been organized in Memphis.
The Georgia wine company is in full
blast, and is now turning out 400 gallons
of pure juice of the grape daily.
A FARMER in Mccklenburg County, n.
c., lost 81, 0oG hv holding his last
years crop of cotton for higher prices.
The BERTHA Zinc Company, of Viz
ginia, has received an order from the
United States mint at San Francisco Tor
twelve tons Of spclter.
A LARGE number of girls are employed
in cigar factories in New Orleans. Most
of them are German girls, and their
work gives general satisfaction.
The people Of Volusia County, Fla,
are talking about holding an indignation
meeting over the census as taken in that
county. They claim that not more than
half the population was returned.
JUSTICE CREIGHTON, of Memphis, has
rendered Il decision in case arising from
n game of "pokor,' to the effect that a
man may recover money lost at cards,
but can not recover money lost that he
had previously won.
THREE men were about to cut a water
melon, in saloon at Athens, Ga. when
it exploded with loud noise, sending
fragments flying all over the room. One
of the men had an eye destroyed Ivy the
explosion.
THEREare four ccntcnnarians in Putnam
County, Georgia, as follows: Fanny
Bridges, aged ll2; Phillis Daniels, aged
100; Moses Lawrence, aged l06; Ned
Threewrits, aged lO6. Quite number
reach four score and ten.
In the Circuit Court at Nashville only
l35 divorce suits were brought during
the sixty years ending March, 1870. But
since that time over 200 have been
filled. Among the negroes there is one
divorce for every four marriages.
THE recent public execution at Dallas,
Tex, was followed by general hanging
OF dogs by small boys from the gallows
used the day before. TIL" ceremony of
adjusting the rope, the prayers, singing
and farewell parting was gone through
with.
Mrs. NANCY REGISTER, OF Hawkins
villc Ga, who is in her ninety-socond
year, used spectaclcs from her forty-tifth
year until about twenty years ago, since
which time she has been able to read
and do sewing without their aid.
JONATHAN HARP, the oldest inhabitant
of Sussex County, Va, died recently at
the advanced age of ninety -ninc years,
five months and seventeen days De-
ceased was a soldier of 1872, and re-
ccivcd pension up to the time of his
death. He retained his health and men.
tai faculties to the last.
The Magruder gold mines, in Lincoln
County, Ga, are to be worked by stock
company with $l,O00,0O0 capital. The
MaSrudcr property embraces 900 acres.
Heretofore the mines have been worked
for gold only, but in the future will he
worked for gold, silver, copper and lead,
allof which are foundin payingquantities
Ar the competitive examination foi
State students in the Sam. Houston
Normal Institution, from the Sixteenth
Senatorial District of Texas, held AT
Huntsville, two of the three successful
candidates were young ladies', and each
of them ranked higher in the examina
ton than the young man admitted with
them
ABOUT $1,000 miles of hoop iron
enough for three-fold girdle around the
earth-will he needed to bind the forth
coming cotton crop, if it reaches the
number of bales predicted by staiisti-
clans, or 5000. 900 bales. The number
of bands required is six to a bale, or
&c. OOO, 900 in all. The cost of ties will
be about 81, 900, 900.
NEARLY 300 brandy distilleries are in
operation in the Nashville internal re-
venue district One hundred are i'll
operation in Warren County alone. The
prospect is that there will be more
brandy made in Tennessee this season
than in any previous year, and conse'
quently it will be considerably reduced
i'll price.
The Hon. John A. Cuthbert. resident
of Mobile, Ala, is the Oldest living ex'
member of Congress. He was born at
Savannah. Ga. in 17SS: graduated al