The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-03-09
SOUTHERN NEWS.

There is only one white woman in the
Alabama penitentiary.
1t is said that Sabine Pass has been
dcepcned ten feet at an expense of $780,
600.
A vineyard in Live Oak county, Texas,
is said to have produced three crops of
grapes last year
A single business house of Greensboro,
n. c., has bought 100000 rabbit skins
this season.
S venty buildings were erected in
Raleigh, n. c., in 1880, Of which one
was q church and siXty-three were dwell
ing houses.
Col. Thomas Ruilin has been appoint
ed Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of North Carolina, vice John II,
billiard, resigned
The Arkansas State Senate has passed
a bill appropriating $4,000 for It branch
normal college at Pine Bluff for the cdu-
cation of colored teachers,
The proposed amendment prohibiting
the sale of Intoxicating liquors in West
Virginia has beer indefinitely postponed
bv the State Senate.
In Gadsdcn, Ala, the value of taxable
property has increased from 1898, 792 in
1879 to Sll4, 200 in 1882, and the city
tax at one-fourth of one per cent. from
S7Si As to 81 1888 10.
The Swedcnborgian Publication So
cicty has donated to the library of the
Georgia institution for the education OF
the deaf and dumb Swcdenborg's COM
plctc works. There are no funds to re-
plcnish the library Of this institution,
and persons who can give books should
send them to Cave Springs, Ga, or to
Gov. Colquitt.
The North Carolina Legislature has
,,.,ol - I,;u ,r,yid;ur far tho uuhlico-
ton of a roll of the North Carolina
,.oon, - uo I,,o ,or Thc du,v If
collecting the names has been delegated
80 ,r,i Nooro tho his,or;,n In oddi.
,;,, a. ,bi. worl, hc will add other roct.
do.crirt;vc If fine movcmcpt4 Of each
roc;mant duripr fine war,
MONTGOMERY Advertisers Cousdcra
| lIr sensation WAS excited bv the sudden
SINKING of nearly 100 feet Of the track of
fine M,ntromcry and Eurnla railway at
noint near the limits Of Union Spring,
dav or two since. Those who visited
the spot spcak of it Is something of 4
phenomenon in its way 1t bad the app
rraranrc of depression caused by an
earthollake.
,1or,,,hiy Tennessee i in . had way
financially. Its taxable property has
decreased from S3O,SO0OO IN l"06 to
Sl3,'OO,Ooo; there Is S2,'9"ooo oil back
taxes due; and the tax rate Tor the next
two years, II the health Improvements
are carried out, VIII he $50 on HlVo'
The present population oi memphis Is
SO j93, and the total debt, ~, ooo,OOo, II
Sl7S per capita, ana 10 per cent on 'he
whole taxable property.
The ropid DEVELOPMENT of the business
If imnortinr Gruit to New Orleans, the
Time, Of that city saws. has materially
intorrcrcd with and reduced the foreign
trade Of New York, which city has here
toforc supplied the entire West with
fruit, New Orleans possesses exceptional
advantages rs Il distributing point, Her
climate is favorable. Fruit often reaches
New York during the winter frozen, or
is exposed to severe frosts on landing.
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