The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-01-19
SOUTHERN NEWS,

VIVA i'i oN'llluSt u uNNbNuttN'
1t is estimated that the Indian-rivcr
country of Florida will alone produce
this year 10000 or 10000 boxes of or
anges.
OF %, l25 population of Harrison
county, Texas, l7,203 are colorcd while
of 9S,lOS persons in Grayson county
only 1858 are colored.
Good mules in Mississippi are worth
about as much as four bales of cotton,
while one can be raised for less than it
costs to raise half a bale of cotton.
1t proposed to improve the Library
building at Augusta, Ga, borrowing
money for the purpose from the Orphan
Asylum and depending on increased in
come to gradually reduce the debt.
4 new station.housc is demanded at
Memphis. The present building was
formerly used as slave market and ii
is said that in several instances death
has resulted from nights confinement.
Arkansas is in the same belt with
Northern Africa, Southern Italy, Egypt
and Palestine, countries which, in for
mcr days, were seats of the highest civ
iIization, and the granarcs of the world.
Receipts of cotton at Madison, Ga.
this season already aggregate more than
$1,000 bales, and are likely to b. more
than double those of last season, which
were not more than 1000 bales up to
April.
An effort is anticipated in the next
Legislature Of North Carolina to eotab-
fish criminal courts for the whole State
or for the larger counties. Some change
seems to be made necessary by the heavy
dOckCts.
The yield of sugar per acre ON the
Tcchc, in st. Mary parish, Louisiana, is
simply astonishing. On the left bank
in several instances it has averaged 4,OOt
pounds, and $500 pounds is said to he
not unusual.
4 horrible death has occurred at Holly
Springs, Ga, traccablc to Christmas no..
days inhibition of liquor. Peter Rcccc
fell asleep in brush pile and froze to
death. When he was found the hog
had torn ont his bowels.
The Richmond State thinks it was tn,
late Judge Percy Walker, of Alabama
who sent the famous dispatch north an
nouncing the attack on Fort Sumter:
"With cannon, mortar and pclard,
jeff Davis sends old Abe his Bcaurccard.
A poor little boy in New Orlcan
picked up pockct-hook containing
S3322j in cash and several promisSory
notes. His mother restored it to the
owner, who gave tic boy complete sui
of clothes and the mother money TO pay
three months rents lueand more besides.
The South Carolina Legislature i
commended for its bravery in passing the
anti-dueling law, the anti-whisly law,
the anti-conceacd weapons law, and 9th
err valuable measures which were enacted
in a session which il, by constitutional
limitation, very short indeed.
In Georgia there is no State law gov
crning commercial travellers, but power
Of taxation is vested in municipalities.
In Athens the tax is $40 per week, S2l
per month, Slc0 per year. No license is
required in Rome, Atlanta, Macon or
Columbus In Savannah the license is
the same as that of resident dealers in
the same articles.
Three plans or systems of labor are
used in Louisiana One is the share
system, under which the laborcr is fur.
nishcd with dwelling, land, tools, seed
etc, to make crop. Another is the
tenant system, paying a given rate pei
acre. On these two systems four-tifth,
Of the cotton plantations in the State are
| operated. The third plan is that of hir
ing laborers by the month, which pre-
walls in st. Mary and st. James parishes
A meeting has been held at the room
of the Union Francois, at New Orleans
by the Chambre Syndicate Corsultativ,
du Commerce Francois, which approved
n report suggesting the appointment of
| resident committee in Paris to co-operat,
with the Chamber, and also the appoint
ment of special committee to furnisl
| to the French Consul in New Orlean
facts and figures to be laid before Euro
pean capitalists with view to securin!
the establishment of French fnancia
institution on a large scale.
The purpose of the Atlantic coas
steamboat canal company in Florida is t.
construct steamboat channel connect
ing Lake Worth with Indian river, In
dian river with Mosquito lagoon anc
Halifax river, and Halifax with Matan
zas river, which would bring the naviga
ton up to St. Augustine, thence through
North river, and from that point int
the st. Johns by cut into Pablo creel
to Mayport, at the mouth of the st
Johns, or into Julington creek, which
would bring in vessels twelve or fourteen
miles south of jacksonville. 1t is sale
that this projected work would open VI
for settlement large extent of territory
ANEvApA Bishop says there is no Sun
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