The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-04-06
NEWS GLEANINGS.

1t is said that diamond worth $27,.
900 has been found in Webster county
Georgia.
Sixteen years ago Durham, N. c., con-
tanned sixty people; now that town has
a population of 1000. Manufacturing
tobacco did it.
The appropriation of $65,0OO for the
improvement of Savannah harbor will
be expended under the direction of Gen.
@. A. Gilmore, the news says.
The act "to abolish private seals and
prescribe short form of deeds, and for
other purposes" has been repealed by
the North Carolina Legislature.
The Montgomery Advertiser and Mail
thinks that it is not likely that the ques-
ton of the annexation of West Florida
to Alabama will ever be raised again.
Negotiations are nearly or quite COM
pleted for the permanent occupation of
the commodious shops of the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad at Huntsville,
Ala, for the establishment therein of a
mammoth cotton seed oil factory.
A bill against treating" has been in
troduced in the Illinois Legislature "lt
not only makes treating unlawful, but
the man who is treated is in equal danger
of punishment, for it puts the person
buying liquor for another and the person
accepting on the same footing"
The Legislature of North Carolina has
granted one acre of ground, to be taken
from the southeast corner of the lot on
which the Governors mansion is now
located, to the trustees of Shaw Univer-
sity, for the purpose of establishing a
medical college for colored students.
Wheeling (W. Va,) Intelligencer:
Keene Richards, of Kentucky, one of the
noted turfmen and importers of Arabian
horses in that State, died on Saturday
last. Many years ago he was a student
at Bethany College, and Is well remem-
membered as a dashing and generous
young fellow of large fortune.
The total area of Mississippi is AZ, 156
square miles, of which not quite 3,172
square miles was devoted to the culture
of cotton in 1879. The total amount of
cotton produced was 922, $40 bales, over
hundred thousand bales more than the
crop of Georgia or Texas, according to
the Aberdeen (Miss) Examiner.
1t is his superstition which makes the
Russian soldier so good fighter and so
faithful defender of despotism. All
he asks is the satisfaction of his anima'
wants in this world; for the sake of
eternal bliss in another he will endure
incredible hardships with complacency,
and will die with a doggcd resignation
unknown to other men.
The arrival of "the first batch of i'm
migrants" at Columbia, S. c., is reported
to the Charleston News and Courier.
Nine men, woman and child, all from
one neighborhood in the province of
Westphalia, Germany. They were re-
ceived by Col. A. P. Butler, acting Com
missioner of immigration. He will i'm
mediately order another batch, and
hopes to get a hundred next time.
Atlanta, Ga, special to Columbus
(Ga,) Enquirer-Sun: A prominent rail
road man of our State remarked that
"nine-tenths of the business done by
railroads in Georgia was in bringing pro-
visions and guano from the West into
the State" He agrees with Stephens,
that "the rich are getting richer and the
poor poorer" and that as our people
make larger crops the railroad business
proportionately decreased.
The Southern University (for colored
people, established at New Orleans un-
der authority of the constitution of the
State of Louisiana, is yet only Temporal
rily organized, it seems. Two chairs
appear to be permanently filled, that of
mathematics by Prof. Edmunds, and
that of languages by Prof Canonge. The
board has appointed Mr.. Fayerweather
acting President, and it is not probable
that permanent appointment will be
made before June. A man is desired
who has administrative capacity, and
also ability to fill the chair of natural
sciences.
Wheeling Intelligencer: The sheep
men of West Virginia ought to pass a
resolution of thanks to Delegate Lowry,
OF Summers county, at their next meet.
ing for the effective aid he rendered in
the Legislature and before the proper
committee, in the passage of the law
laying the dog tax. He faced the music
like man, although his county does not
rank as wool.growing county, and he
declined to have it exempted. The law
sin force in twenty-five counties, and
can be applied to Others if the people
thereof wish it and vote for it.
The Governor of Texas has signed the
law passed by the Legislature at the
present session, entitled "an act granting
aland certificate of 1880 acres to eacf
OF the surviving soldiers of the Texa
revolution, and the surviving sinners o
the declaration of Texas independence
and to the widows of those that fell a