The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-03-30

palgn OF 1868, lost III killed, wounded
and missing !, $40 men. In the campaign
beyond the Potomac the brigade nun.
bered but 1856 men. 1t lost 73l men.
This tells the story. There were few
such brigades in the army Of Northern
Virginia.
About 800 laborcrs are employed in
the rolling mill, furnaces and foundres
of Birmingham, Ala. about 400 in the
coal mines of Coketon, six miles distant,
and about 100 at Oxmoor, also six miles
distant. The country around Birming-
ham is said to produce more corn, cotton,
wheat, oats and potatoes, acre for acre,
than the cane-brake.
Mrs. Schneider, of st. Charles, Mo-,
slapped her twelve year-old son Willie
because he was naughty, and when Mr.,
Schneider came home to dinner he
whipped Willie. Willie then went to
the barn crying. When they found him
an hour or two later he was hanging
dead, suspended by leather strap from
a beam in the hay loft.
The Atlanta Constitution The rail,
roads leading south from the Ohio river
are blocked with corn, pork, weat, hay
and other articles destined for Southern
consumption, all of which should have
been produced in the South itself The
very fact of the blockade is a sad com,
mentary upon the agricultural enterprise
of the South. The railroads cannot sup
ply us with articles that our own soil
would gladly produce if it was tackled
with the plow and the hoe.
Chattanooga Times The project for
a new railroad to the top of Lookout is
succinctly this: A horse track to the
foot; 90 up on an incline to the point by
stationary-engine power, taking car,
horses and all; then horse road back
from the point to say near Chickamauga
bluff, which has many advantages over
the point as a hotel site, being well
watered and having large tract of fine
surface in the vicinity. The matter is
in the hands of live, energetic men Of
means.
The proposed prohibition amendment
to the State constitution OF Texas reads
as follows: The importation into and
the manufacture or sale within this State
of intoxicating liquors as a beverage is
prohibited ; provided, that the Legisla-
ture may exempt beer and native wines,
unmixed with alcoholic liquors, from
the provision of this section, and the
Legislature shall at the first session after
the adoption of this amendment enact
laws to carry out the provisions hereof,
The President Of the New Orleans
Board of Health says that part of the
sickness and mortality in the rear of the
city must be referred to the cultivation
of rice, and that the Legislature Of Lou
isiana, the Board of Health and the City
Council of New Orleans should consider
the subject of rice culture in its relations
to the health of the city of New Orleans /;
and such ordinances should be considered
and passed as will protect the inhabi-
tants from the effects of the destructive
emanatiOns of rice fields.
The condition Of the Ieyeea on the Lou
isiana side of the Mississippi river from
the Arkqnsas line, down as far as Pensas
parish, is reported precarious. At Al
satia the caving has cut out the apex
of the triangle made by the lcvce, but
the fall OF the water prevents Immediate
further damage. At Milfikin's Bend
the caving has cut to the top of the
leyee for three-eights of a mile, and in
three places has cut the levee half in
two. The town of Milikins Bend is in
the active process of removal. \ large
force is throwing up y second IevCe.
Americus GA Republican; The mem.
bers of Georgia in the United States
Congress of 1913, we're: Senators, John
McFherson, Berrien and Walter I. Col.
quit; Representatives, Edward J. Black
Hugh A. Harrison, John II. Lumpkin
Howell Cobb, VIM. II. Stiles, Absalon
II. Chappell and Alexander Fl. Stephens
Of all that delegation, Mr.. Stephens
physically the frailest and who ncycl
had well day, is the only one living
now. Who would have not have plckct
him out then as the first, and not thu
last, victim to the insatiate archer ar
row.
Ina discussion of the divorce laws o
l
Massachusetts before legislative com
mittee, Charles Cowley, of Lowell, men
toned that "a Judge of the SuPeric
Court Of New York, often serving on tn,
Supreme Bench, had gone abroad II
marry when it would have been crimina
to do so under the New York laws, an'
had then returned. An adulterer wa
now wearing the judicial ermine in New
York, and passing on divorce suits.
Alfred F. Giles argued in behalf of mel
marrying as many women as they loved
and declared monogomy to be tho sourc'
of the worst evils"
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