The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-03-11
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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| THE;Etna furnace, at Rome, Ca, il
turning out an average of twelve tom
of good pig-iron per day.
TIE popular vote in Nashville ant
Edgeield, Tenn, on the question OF an
ncxing the latter to the former, re
suited in favor Of The stlirmatiye
DR.. SEARS has allowed sS00aon thu
Peabody fund this'year in the schools
Denison, Texas, and prollcrs TO th'
high schools of Texas fifty Peabody
prize medals. N8 Ss
REV. JACOB IoUNG, OF IRWIN County
Ga, killed a catan ount that was known
to have killed oSe one bundled sheep
and was terror to all the sheep owners
in the c0uRtys.sa.a.s.-a..' s-a,a'.'aa.-as..s.-..
ATLANTA has four public coloret
schools pd three schools FOR the superior
education of colored people. The latter
schools have an aggregate attendance oil
800 students. -
CoLUMmA, 5. c., has seven printing
offices. giving employment to fourty'twc
journcymen printers, besides the usual
Number of apprentices. There is also a
book-bindcry in the city.
A sn,bclonging to the New Or
leans fire department died last week at
the age of thirly-seyen years. The fire
company paid SS75 for him, and he did
active work as an engine. horse for four
teen years.
EDdErfEED, the beautiful suburban
village recently Yagnexed T, Nashville,
will probably be known as East NASH
vile in future. Edgeteld has sepa-
rate existence Of thirty-seyen years and
now includes property worth $4,000, 900.
THE Chairman Of the Military Com
mittee of the Directors of the Nashville
Centennial offers 81 900 for the best
drilled military companies taking part
in the celebration. A number Of COM
panies will be present from other States.
A BILE is before the Virginia Legis-
lature to amend the criminal law so as to
include razors in the act in which con-
ceaed weapons are defined, and to make
it a-misdemeanor to carry, a, razor ha-
bitually, the penalty of which shall be
a fine of $50. ...,5s X "a '.71''';ns
IHEREhaye been presented to the city
of Chattanooga two pfiecesiof property
on the river bahk, ;inc1udirg 1000 feet
of rivsr,frontage, tosbs used for wharf,
with theexpaess understanding that no
tariffs are.to be charged on freight lSnded
there, 80 ~ ~.
Mr.. ELLIS a widow IN Ellis County,
Ga, armed herself with an Ak, attacked
huge wildcat and cameout victorious.
The Arlington Aduancc says that this
was very bold act, as even old hunters
would not dare to approach one Of these
ferocious varmitsin that way.
RICHMOND .(Na.) Commonwealth: A
man named Weakley died few days
since.'ins SGalpeper County, aged 1906
years., IL is supposed his death was
fastened by the use of tobacco, to which
he was addicted for. a. period commence
ing shortly after the conc lusion Of the
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Revolutionary war. g - III,
APFIDAvrTs have been sworn ont
charging the daily papers of Wheeling.
W. Va, with Sabbath dissertation by
employing workmen opSunday, in VIC
lation Of the State laws. 1 The law and
order party say they will fight to the
bitter end, and have employed detect
ives. ! ~ 1 ~. ? - II
A GENTLEMAN at Atlanta has pur-
chased Confederate currency amounting
to over 81 100000. which he will use
$ circulars, printing his advertisement
IN the back of each bill. He is of the
,pinion that many millions Of this cur
ency arerstill IN existence, and that
here are many parties who'are boarding
carefully, expecting some day to see
t. worth 4 o. centsont the 'dollarrNS s.s'e-
THE fine animal, Boeuf Gras,"
which heated the procession on sMardi
Hras at New Orleans, is pure white,
light feet eight inches long from tile
,lorns to root of tail, eight feet eight
.nches round the withers, nine 'ect three
inches around the protine, fifteen and
three quarter hands high, and weighs
something l,s' than three thousand
pounds; il in prime health and as gem
tie AZ a lamb. ... ...-.- -. /.
4 Is i}lount County, Ala, a dance was
Ifrivon sass Il. e-resi,lence of a weli.to-do.
farmer at some distance from the, county
town. S,veraU Young iuen from town
came out in full dress, anticipating lots
Of fin, but we're met at the door by the
oil gentleman, who said that the dance
was ior his n.ighbora' boys and glrIs,
snd he wanted nobody to fool around
who could not wear jeans and dance an
Old Virginia reel. :. ~, 49,
/ LANDS in Sumter, Marion, Clarendon
aud Williamsburg counties, s, c., which
eighteen months ago we're offered at -
per acre without purchasers, are now
selling freely at $40 per acre. One
Northern farmer, who bought land in
Sumter County, claims to have made
last year thirty bushels of wheat TO the
acre of better quality than he had ever
raisc,l in the North, aud more salable in
.the markets, and had also raised fifty
bushels Of oats to the acre. ''''.'
DIR. G. M.VAIDEN, a leading philan.
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