The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-02-02
SOUTHERN NEWS.

IN Moorc-yillc, n. c., out of 40 cases
Of measles. there has been one death.
An attempt is to be made in North
| Carolina 70 create the office Of Railroad
Commissioners,
Eight thousand logs broke loose in the
Lower Pearl river and loated out into
the Gulf of Mexico.
Subscriptions to start glass factory
at Moss Point, ON the Mississippi coast,
amount to $l3, 500.
One thousand immigrants are expected
to arrive shortly in Southeast Missouri
and North Arkansas.
-Four large wttlcsnakcs, killed recently
in Greene county Ala, had fifteen,
fourteen, twelve and ten rattles.
Last year was the most bountiful
known in Texas since the war The cot
ton alone amounted to 5000 bales,
A person writing to a Mississippi paper
thinks that cotton seed is better for fer
tilizing purposes than cotton seed meal
A company is to be chartered to dcyel-
op the granite quarries near Petersburg
Va.
An alleged petrifed baby, said to have
heen uncarthcd near Eureka Springs, has
been sold at Russellvillc, Ark, for
$4,000.
1t is suggested in West Virginia that
the State shall appropriate 500 to
send an agent to the North OF Europe to
induce the Immigration Of families of
Swedes and Danes.
The estimates of the expense Of the
State government of Texas for the year
ending February 2S, 1889, aggregate
$l,3579l3.
St. Stephens, in Savannah, is the only
coIored Episcopal church in Georgia,
The twcnty-ffth anniversary has recent
ly been celebrated
The loss to the Louisiana sugar inter
ests by the cold and wet weather is now
carefully estimated at 25,030 hogshcads
or about ten per cent. Of the expected
crop.
Mr.. Gage told the SugNr-plantcrs' As
ISOLATION ut New Orleans that in his
opinion nothing could equal negro as a
laborcr on Il sugar plantation when he is
properly paid and handled.
The Swiss colony in North Carolina is
said to have discovered that the muber-
ry tree grows with as much luXuriance as
the cherry, and that the soil and climate
favor the production of silk.
The capacity Of the Charlotte, n.
cotton mills is five bales of cotton Ter
day, there being $500 spindles The
machinery Is all on one floor. The walls
are very thick and the floor is triple,
thus ncutralizing tie effects Of the jar
ring OF the heavy machinery.
The Birmingham Iron Age reports n
contract with parties from Chicago for
$4,000 tons Of coal 10 be delivered on the
line OF the New Orleans and Jackson
road
New Orleans States: Mr.. Duncan +.
Kenner is the first planter to take the |
wise prccaution to lay tramways from
his cane fields to his sugar-housc. His
example should be followed.
The soil and climate of South Florida |
are said TO be very favorable to the cul-
tivation Of sugar cane. The yield il |
sometimes as much as 1000 pounds to
the acre.
More than $4,000 has been raised for /
the endowment of the Columbia, S. C.. |
Theological seminary. It is said the
seminary now has $4,000 in invested
funds, and that the outlook is very en-
couraging.
Over 800 pupils are now in attendance
at the Agricultural and Mechanical Col |
ege of Mississippi. This is the limit of
its capacity at present, and Gen, Lee
has accordingly announced that no more
pupils will be received.
Wages Tor good field hands in Able,
vile, S. c., range from $50 to SIG, some
few receiving as much as 800. But W
contracts have been made, a ma jority
pretering interest in the crop or rental.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser re
ports the departure of a considerable
number of carpenters for Pensacola, Fla,
where they expect to find work in the re-
building of the burnt district.
The failure of Welsh & Bacon, at Al
bany, Ga, is said to be perhaps the arg-
est single failure that section has ever
known. The gross amount of assets is
reported by Col. Nelson Tiff, the as
signee, to be s49s, 254.17 and the liabili-.
ties s476, 26979.
The oldest living student of the Uni
versity of North Carolina is the Hon.
Mark Alexander of Mecklenburg
Va, who matriculated in 1903,
and is now in his eighty-ninth year o
life. He is the only survivor, except
one, of the Congress of 1919, and the
only survivor but one of the celebrated
convention of lS29.30, of which
Madison, President Monroe and