The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-02-23
'SOUT HERN NEWS.


The factory at Atlanta, Ga, now co,
sumes from 100 to $50 bales Of cottol
per week.
The Young Mems Christian ASsocia
ton of Mobile, Ala, has 400 members
Of whom sevcnty-fve are ladies,
There are now siSty-four legal dstil
Icries in the Nashville district. Whisky
made in January, $4,000 gallons
jhc Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer says
that the Eagle and Phoenix Manufac
turing Company made $25l, ,l4G.97 last
year.
The library of the Hon. A. II, Stcph
ems, of Georgia, contains between 5000
and 1000 volumes, They cost about
100000.
The Grctna (Ia.) Courier says that out
of a voting population of 1867 in JEFF.
ierson paris), l,GG7 can not write their
own names.
Capitals of Alabama; 1917, st. Steph-
rns (TcritoriaD; 1878, Cahawba; 1919,
Huntsville (StateE 1920, Cahawba;
1926, Tuscaloosa; 1912, Montgomery,
Gructli, the Swiss colony in Grundy
county, Tennessee, is in danger of cx.
tjnction on account of defective land
titles and multiplied suits resulting,
A capitalist from Rome, Georgia, is
said 10 have purchased recently in At
anta twenty-five houses and lots and
sixty building lots, upon which he will
soon build.
1t is thought that over 100, 900, GOO
feet OF pitch-piue timber and lumber
will be shipped from the port of Darien,
Ga, this year. A little over 100000
feet was shipped last year.
OF the ffty-cight men who framed the
constitution and declared the indcpen-
dence of Texas March ,, 1886 one is
still living: DR.. Charles b. Stewart 0
Montgomery county.
The Darcn (Ga.) Timber Gazette say
that within a few years nearly two doz-
en- murders have been committed in Me
lntosh county, and only one murderer
has been hanged.
Alabama pentcntjary convicts are
for the most part hired out to miners
and farmers, most of them at s. per
month. The sum of SO, 900 has been
plid into the State treasury within two
years.
About forty subordinate grange were
represented in the State Grange of North
CarOil a. A letter was read from the
secretary of the National Grange, in
which he states "that the business of
this office is increasing very rapidly.
1t is said that in winter in Louisiana
swamy millions Of swallows feed on a
species of willow called by the French
swallow trees. The French and Creoles
use the swallows in making jubles, a
preparation Of rico and meat, fish or
game
The Meridian (Niiss.) Mercury reports
that negroes are leaving the prairie belt
OF Alabama in considerable numbers
and passing through Meridian on route
9the Mississippi bottom and Western
louisiana.
Robert Toombs: Jeff. Davis wrote me
lormy picture to put in his book along
with some others. I wrote him that
would not be 'ound in such company.
VIII bet hinl $500 that his book does no
appear by the lst of April, nor while
live.
1t Is estimated that it will only tax,
aooul twenty years to consume the orig
mai pine forest of Georgia, and it i
'hought to he time for the adoption o
some effective measure of protection
'"e Macon Telegraph and Messenger cs
inmates the consumption during 1880 a
"lltOc over 2jO,0 acres.
1 Experiments have been successful
made In Oconee county, S. c., in plant
'ng cotton Sin checks" laying off row
'nfee feet each way. The land wa
Powed both ways, making the wor
'one with the hoe very light. The chic
"''ahtage is the saving of
llvation.
ihefe are now in attendance at tn
University OF Georgia 10 student
,ne hnest of the university buildings
"e Moore building, which was erecte
ana donned to the State for the unive
l sy %,y oy the city of Athens, at cost {
l s-''VV. The physical department o
l De second floor contains an amphithe
/ "capable of seating 200 students. III
'v'n can easily be darkened when r
gu',ea Tor experiments necessitating Il
exclusion of light.
New Orleans Times: Judge Roma
:" Ills charge to the jury in the Burtc
ae' 'ook a new departure, or rather. +
'Heu TO correct principles. In spea
a"s'o the jury about the selection of
'0'eman, he said: "That foreman v,
ourselves will sclect.p This rirht