The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-03-16
SOUTHERN NEWS.

the last year.
The colored population Of Arkansas
has increased from l32, 1863 in 1870 to
2l0, 622 in 1880.
The Lynchburg News says that during
the past eleven months the sale of the
goods of the Charlottesville woollen mills
has given about seventeen per cent, net
profit from the capital stock.
The work of naming and numbering
the streets of San Antonio, Texas, was
begun February l6 Although the city
is over l40 yeara old, but few Of the
streets have been named, and none num-
bered.
The Palatka (Fla,) Herald says that
there are 10000 acres of the best sugar
lands in the world, south of st. Angus.
tine, on the Atlantic coast, If properly
cultivated it would produce 10000 hogs,
heads of sugar annually,
The constitution of the State of Texas
provides that the Legislature shall have
no power to appropriate any of the pub
lie money for the establishment and
maintenance of bureau of immigration,
or for any purpose of bringing immi-
grants to this state.
The receipts Of cotton at Columbus,
Ga, for the season beginning August 81,
on February % attained the total regis-
tration of 100,3SS bales, figure which
has never before been exceeded except
in three seasons 1906, l00,629 1882,
ll5.8S5, and lS59-60, l22, 10.
The prohibition bill passed by the
Alabama legislature for the benefit of
Clarke and Limestone counties forbids
the sale and manufacture of spirituOus
liquors in all shapes and forms, and cx-
crpt. nothing but the wine used by
churches in communion. Doctors who
find it necessary to u4c it at all must give
I in doses like other medicine.
The silver dollar of the Confederate
States is valued at 81, ,OO0. There were
onlv few of those coins struck. The
Confederate government had the dies
made and few coins were struck at the
New Orleans mint for the inspection of
the government official. They found,
however, that they had no more silver
The venerable Judge Warner, of Gcor-
gia, has been on the bench about forty
three years, though not continuously.
He was elected Judge of the Superior
Court when he WAS no more than thirty
wears old. He was the youngest Judge
in the State. When the Supreme Court
was organized in 1854, he was appointed
one of the Judges. About 1856 he was
elected to Congress, defeating B. II. Hill.
He is seventy-seven years old, and has
probobly done more than any other to
ennoble the Georgia supreme Court,
The free night schoo. opened at Mem
phis in front of the court house, on Main
street, for the benefit of mechanics,
labore.s, 4, newsboys and others, whose op-
portunites have been defective, is sue
cessful. The attendance has outgrown
the room, The school is in charge OF
Scott A. Murray, who is principal OF the
Peabody &c ool in South Memphis
Those attending the night school pay
nothing, and are furnished with every
thing necessary by charitable citizens.
John Parnell, brother Of the lrieh
agitator, came to this country ten or
twelve years ago, and bought an old
worn-out farm in Chambers county, Ala,
near the Georgia line. This he has CON
yerted into an immense peach orchard,
and the Americus ga Republican says
it is the largest peach orchard in the
world. 1t contains $50 acres, and has
Welded $40, 900 worth Of peaches. Par
nell is always first to have early peaches
on the market, and receives almost fab.
ulous prices for them. He is said to he
getting immensely wealthy at the husl-
ness.
The Waldeck plantation in Brazorla
county, Texas, comprises about $500
acres. about four miles from Columbia.
Formerly clarified sugar was manufac-
tured afterward cotton was substituted.
| After the war cane was again planted,
hut the sugar is not clarified. There are
$50 acres now in cane and no more mat
ted down to be planted. Last year the
product was go hogsheads of sugar and
1850 barrels of molasses, together worth,
say, 100000 or more. The Galveston
News thinks that the whole of BrazOrla,
Fort Bend, Malagorla and Wharton
counties could be converted into one vast
sugar field, making enough to supply the
whole United States.
1t seems that there are in Georgia GER
tain lots or tracts Of land of unusual
quantity. An inquiry addressed to W.
H. Sparks respecting the origin Of the
very odd 2094, 400 and forty acre lot;
has drawn out long explanation in the
Constitution. 1t seems that the act Of
June l6, 1902, for the survey and disposal
of the lands then just acquired from the
Creek Indians, between the Oconee and
Ocmulgee rivers, required the lands tC
be surveyed into tracts forty.fve chain;
square, which gives an area Of 202l acres
The survey of forty acres was ordered in
the gold region, tc give opportunit' tc
man , l,u' - possible. The 400