The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-02-09
OUTHERA NEWS.

At Brownville, Texas the recent snow
storm was the first in fourteen years.
Farm hands are said to be more scarce
in Thomas county, Ga, than they have
| been since the war.
Three hundred German carp have been
placed at various points up the st. John
river in Florida.
A Louisiana planter says that be CON
sidcrs twenty geese in n cotton field equal
to one hoc-hand.
Negroes are said to be leaving Gadsden
county, Fla, in such numbers that it
amounts to an exodus.
Toccoa, Ga, having an existence Of
eight years, has acquired thrifty popu.
lation approXimating thousand souls.
Thousands of robins roost in a cane
( brake about fifteen miles from Homer,
Lq They are taken 10 Homer by the
saokfull.
A clipper ship brought into Port
Royal, S. G., loaded with guano, came
up to the dock at half-tide, drawing
twenty.one feet.
In Louisiana the census exhibits ALB
Chinese, $40 Inlians and hallbrecd-,
eight haf-Chincsc, one West Indian and
one East Indian
n. Garbini hns been elected President
Of the New Orleans Fruit and Produce
Association, new and permanent organi-
antion Of wholesale fruit dealers.
In the last four months of 1880 col
portucrs of the American Bible Society
supplied l9l3 destitute families and 95j
destitute individuals with the Bible
Harry Stephens, the weII-known col
ored body-scryant of Hon. Alex. II.
Stephens, who died last week, at Craw-
fordviIlc, was the owner of perhaps $20,-
600 worth Of property.
The st. Augustine tFIa,) Press SAYS
that the majority of the farmers there
abouts, instead of raising their own corn,
buy it at the city stores. \ cotton planter
could scarcely do worse than that
An amendment OF the constitution of
Arkansas has been proposed in the Leg
stature, providing that the general elcc-
tons shall occur every fourth year, State
Representatives be elected for four wears
and the LegisIatur, meet every fourth
years.
The Perry, Ga, Home journal SAYS
that the old plantation system, almost
universal in Houston county before the
war, has gone t. its DEATH and small
farm now constitute the order OF agri.
cultural work There are very few ten.
mule farms in Houston.
There is proposition to form a new
North Carolina county ou
Of parts of Sampson, John
atom, Wayne, Cumberland and Har-
nett counties. There are several propo-
sitions to cut off dportions of Wake county
Tor the formation Of new counties, but
Raleigh il aycrse.
At Scarboro Ga., john f. loole is
President Warren r. Wood, Treasurer,
and James A. Fulchcr Secretary, of the
"Fir,t National Non-cmsing Society,
Scarboro Division No. H. The object
of the organization is to discontinue the
practice Of profanc swearing.
By clerical crror in making up the
| list of cities or census bulletin No 45,
the population Of one enumeration dis
tricl of Atlanta was omittcd. The true
population, Gen. Walker, Supcrintend-
cnt of the Census, says is 37,42l, not
81, 1893 as previously announced.
Real estate in the business part of Or
augcburg, $. c., is as high as i'll Charles
ton. A cotton factory with four Glenn
cnt attachments is established. The crop
of upland rice raised in the county will
probably reach about 10000 bushels.
i The cotton crop is between 10000 and
10000 bales.
The answer of the citizens of Memphis
to the petition Of bOndhOlders or crcdi-
tors of the old corporation of Memphis
alleges that the compromise proposed by
the taxing district, twenty-five cents on
the dollar, and IN addition, the taxes
due the old city, say S1,248,982, is fair,
just and honorable.
Kroxville, Tenn, was laid out in l79l, ,
and named in honor of General Knox,
of Revolutionary fame. The tint Ter
rtoriul Legislature assembled there in
1894, the constitutional convention in
1705, and the first State Legislature in
1895. The seat of government was re-
moved to Nashville in 1910.
J Richmond Dispatch: II Mr.. Jefferson
Davis does not make numerous changes
in his proof-sheets, he is not the man he
was in 1850. Then he had habit of
changing the reporters notes TO such an
extent that his speeches seemed almost
to be new ones, or rather not the same
which he had delivered in the Senate.
A bill is pending before the Florida
Legislature providing for four examining
medical b0ards--at Pensacola, Tallahassee,
jacksonville and Key West-which shall
examine applicants and grant certificates
To those only who are qualified to dis