The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-02-16
SOUT HERN NEWS.

arrived at Jacksonville, Fla
The calorcd Methodisls of Waco, Tex,
are to erect a 81, 600 college.
Judge A. j. Ross, Of Sa!ado, has bee,
elected Grand Master Of the Texas State
Grange,
Philadelphia wcrkmen are laying street
mains for the new water-works in Ma
CON, Ga.
Meridian has shipped more cotton iel
this season than any other town in Mis-
sissippi except Vicksburg.
Alabama has a provision in her con.
stitutlon forbidding the consolidation OF
competing lines Of telegraph.
No smoking will hereafter be allowed
in any of the buildings of Vanderbilt
University, Nashville.
Tho young ladies of Gretna, La, have
organized "rhc MeddIcrs' Social Club "
Miss May Morley is President.
Mai. Ten. j. NJ. Schohcld, the new
commander Of the military division Of
the South, has arrived in New Orleans.
New and extensive coal mines are to
be opened this year on the line of the
south and North and the Alabama Great
Southern.
Between IrwnylIc and Hawkinsvilc,
Ga, seven or eight new settlements have
been made, fences put up, dwellings
erected, etc.
Mrs Matilda Fields, of Gibson county
Tenn, sixty years of age, is the daughter
Of the celebrated Dsvy Crockett.
Atlanta, Ga, is a large horse and mule
market The receipts since September
have been I,j4S horses and mules, $3.50
cattle, and 2j,3so hogs.
The Tampa (Fla.) Tribune mentions a
report that the people in the eastern end
Of Hillsborough county and in Polk are
becoming discouraged about the orange
business because of the lack of transpDr.
tatiOn.
Out Of sl12OO5 voters registered in
Louisiana, 81, Al are white and of these
1913 make their marks instead of wri
ting their names. The colorcd registra-
uation is SS,024, and of these II, I03
write their names.
Atlanta Constitution Capital may
not be accumulated very rapidly in the
South, bat it will he rolled together
fully as fast as the Northern mll-owners
will care to have it. The North can and
Will manufacture Il vast variety OF
things but il cannot monopolizr or long
control the manufacture of the great
staple of the South
In Tennessee there are about ,2j0
convicis, about half of the number being
in the pcnitentiary and the remainder in
branch prisons. The branch prisons at
Battle Creek coal mines and at Scwanee
are wooden structures inclosed by wood
en- palisades, and it is said that they have
proved superior in comfort, security aud
healthfulneSS to the penitentarv itself
The size of the cot ton factory at Pied
mont, S. c.. has been more than doubled
and it is row the largest factory in one
building in the South. A correspondent
Of the Charleston News and Courier says
that five years ago there was no single
house ut that place, and now there are
la, besides the factory building, which
IS to support 800 people and house r.
700 bales Of cotton year.
Atlanta Constitution: The discovery
OF the lost portfolio came very near
working change in the list of States.
Georgia now has l,j42,01l people, and
tennessee ,j42 463. If the cnumcrators
OF Georgia bad found 800 more people,
Georgia would have outranked Tcnnes.
sec, and retained her place as the twelfth
State. AS the>case stands, she is the
thirteenth State. Is there not another
lost portfolio
The celebrated Dummitt orange grove.
the oldest and largest grove in East Flor
ida, situated between the Indian river
ana the Atlantic, comprising $50 acres,
having 300 trees now in bearing, pro-
duclng last year 1000 boxes, has been
sold to the Dnca leila Castellucia, au
ohlcer IN the Italian military service.
The Duke and Duchess will make Jack.
sohvlllc their winter home. The Duke
proposes to have skilled laborers brought
from his groves in Sicily.
+. Il. Ferguson writes from the United
states Fish Commission to Gen. Chal.
h'efs, OF Mississippi, that the charges by
'ne boats on the Mississippi are practi.
cally bar TO the continuance of the dis
'rlbution in Chalmers Congressional
district. He says: SIN all other sec,
''ohs Of the country railroads and boats
make no charge for the cans oe fish. but
Oh the Mississippi river they not only
cnargsd very high rates for the cans, but
III some cases, especially at Fort Adams
wharfage for loading and rcshipping the
Empty cans was charged"
The New Orleans Chamber of Com.
'4esce has appointed a committee Of hy,
Pfsons to correspond or confer with tn,
postmaster General upoh the followin!
proposition: That he shall invite tin