The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-01-05
S0UT HERR NEWS.

p'Nh io"hu III NHclOkCc county, VA
Key West yields about $2l 800 per
month to the internal revenue fund.
Real estate in Lafayette, Ala, is as
sessed $ll4,l7j and personal property
Sl12,l75.
The revival at the Baptist church at
Durham, n. c., resulted in forty-sevcn
conversions.
1t is proposed to scale the city debt of
New Orleans to the extent Of fifty cents
on the dollar.
Lands in Montgomery county, Ala,
have more than doubled in price within
five or six years.
The buildingof the Library Associa'
ton, at Thomasvillc, Ga, cost $4,000
1t has 1000 volumes.
1t is against the law in Fort Smith,
Ark, to carry pistol in any other way
except in the hand.
In Perry county, Miss, John A. Syl-
yestcr planted poplar tree near an APP
pie tree, and the poplar bore apples.
In some instances in Grayson county,
Va, five and six persons of a family died
of dphtheria, and in one instance an en-
tire family,
Some thirty families from Michigan,
New jersey and Florida, are locating in
North Georgia. On the line of the Allan
Ia and Charlotte road.
William Lockridgc, of Highland coun-
ty, Va, says that he has killed in his
time as many as 1850 deer, The old
mans step still firm.
The receipts Of the State of North Car
DINA from all sources during the year
ended September 80 were $546, 1876 /,
and the disbursements were $4G2, 72o,34.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi de
clarcs that cightccn milI,'on the dollar,
including three mills for State tax, is the
utmost limit to which taxes can he laid.
About sixty Swiss colonists the men
being generally possessed of means, ar
rived at Mount Airy, Ga, Saturday. a
colony of Armenians are expected in the
spring.
The entire amount collected by way Of
taxation in North Caoolina is 81, OS2,7, o.
of which the counties spend two-tbirds
the schools one-sixth, and the State the
remainder.
Walnut furniture has been received
rom Chicago and put in place in the
new post-onice at Atlanta, Ga. The
Did furniture will be used to furnish the
post-ollicc at Macon, Ga.
The duclng bill has been passed by the
South Carolipa Senate, with an addi-
tional section providing that it shall not
effect indictments now pending orotlcnscs
committed before its passage.
Three men sit in the United States Sen
lte who were Governors of Southern
states when the war broke out, and re-
manned in office by reelection at its close
Harris, of Tennessee; Vance, of North
Carolina, and Brown, of Georgia.
The fat lands on the Escambia river
in Santa Rosa county, Fla, are alIuviaI
deposits from the rich lime lands of Ala
bama, and it is thought that they will
make the largest possible crops of rice
for hundreds of yea without any ma
nure.
Two bells found by a diver between
Fort Sumter and Fort .,Moultric, taken
from the wreck of vessel of about $50
tons burden, bear the date 1874, and
must have been cast nearly two centu-
res before the discovery of America.
There is an extensive deposit of kaolin,
or porcelain clay, in South Carolina,
near the Georgia city of Augusta, of the
finest quality, equal to the demands of a
hundred years. 1t is.said TO have been
used to adulteratc -four being soft, white
and free from gravel.
Old Poldo Lamar, in Alabama, is dead.
He was positively known to he 40 years
old. But according to his statement OF
his age when he came to this country
from Africa and his recollection Of war
times long ago, he must have been 125
wears old. He was able to 60 about
where he wished until about month
ago, when he fell in the fire, since which
time he has been confined to his bed.
The South Louisiana Canal and Navi.
CATION Company in less than twelveyears
beginning about nix miles west of Fort
Livingston, near the Southern entrance
to Barataria bay, has cut fine canal
westward, nine miles long, forty feet
wide, and six feet deep at low tide, cut.
ting into Bayou afourche about twenty
miles above its mouth, and extending
nearly three miles farther west, into the
back waters of Timbolier bay. This
gives safe and easy inland navigation tC
Bayou Terrebonne at point abouttwen
ty miles from the gulf.