The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-05-04
NEWS GlEANINGS.

in Texas.
Col. Fred Grant is to reside at Hous-
ton, Tex, it is said.
In Lafourche, parish, La, there are
3lS citizens named Williams.
The frontier battalion of Texas now
consists of five companies numbering
100 officers and men.
The Louisiana Sugar Bowl does not
hope for large crop this year, for it is
at least n month late.
The Austin (Tex.) Statesman says
that the increase Of the sheep llOcks
shout Uvalde this year averages ninety
per cent, the largest known for a long
time.
The Charlotte Observer reports the
purch ase of land near that city for the
purpose of smelling works, Ores will be
purchased from the owner of mines and
smelted and refined at the works.
Chattanooga Times: A terrible dis
ease prevails among the cattle in the
Seventeenth district IF Barlow county,
Ga. 1t proves fatal in nine out of ten
cases. Not less than twenty milch cows
have died within q mile of Euharlcc in
the past ten days.
Mobile (Ala,) Register: The resigna-
ton of DR., Stuart Robinson retires from
active service in the Presbyterian church,
one of the ablest divines in the country.
Many Of our readers will remember hear
ing DIR. Robinson preach when the Gen
eraI Assembly of the Presbyterian church
South met here a few years after the
war.
Austin TEX Statesman; Galveston
having deprived herself of her natural
barrier against the encroachments of the
gulf waves by removing the sand hills
that had formed along the beach, is re-
placing them, or aiding nature to do so
by planting hedges of salt cedars, against
which the sands drift and form natural
levees or brcak-waters.
The South Florida Journa' states that
DIR. A. G. Caldwell, of Sanford, has an
orange tree that is u curiosity worth GO
Ing to see 1t is a large, fine tree, stand
ing Just at his front gate 1t has a good
ly number of ripe oranges on it, and
about / 900 green ones half grown, the
tree having blossomed after the storm of
last August, and is now full of blooms
for another crop.
The Pulaski Glenn Citizen says that
DIR. Leftwich, assisted by the Christians
of Pulaski, held a prayer meeting in the
courthouse in that town before a very
large audience of country people, and
the editor states that it was one of the
most serious and effective meetings he
ever witnessed. Two ncighbors, come
to town to law each other, stepped into
the room where the meeting was being
held, and they soon had each other by
the hand and differences were forgotten
in embraces,
New Orleans States: Telephone com
munication has already been established
between Vicksburg and Jackson, Miss,
and verbal messages are sent over this
wire daily. Yesterday the exchange in
this city placed the telephone attach
ments to Western Union wire and
yelled 'Hclloa" at Vicksburg. The lat
ter answered back, "What do you
want? ~ Just as natural as you please.
This interchange of salutations placed
the two cities on speaking terms, as IT
were, and business began at once. Every
body who had anything to say said 1t,
and those who had nothing to say said
it just to be sociable, Mr.. G, w. lrby,
Of Vicksburg, sent an order to Justin
Langles for several boxes of ginger-snaps
and crackers. The experimental CON
nection was a decided success.