The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-09-10
SOUTHERN NOTES.

NchsbuiG, Mlss., l5 soon 10 nave hnOther
military company.
In portion' OF Mississippi the cotton is she'd
ding for want Of rain
Kentucky has beat her best wheat record
this year by 3,C0O,O coo bushels.
A pumpkin vine 90 feet long il growing in
garden in Bowling Green, Ky.
A Miss Mccoy is in jail at Dardancllc, Ark,
charged with killing her infant.
A seventeen and hall foot sha,A has been
caught in Matanzas river, Florida.
An lssaquona. Miss, county farmer has
1900 acres of cotton xix feet high.
Saloon keepers who keep open Sundays in
Atlanta are fined go Monday morning.
A Cleveland and Hendricks pole, l2O fee!
high, has been raised at Blackburg, Va
A Lot spring that cmits steam aud fulphnrio
yapur has been discovered at Osyka, Miss.
Rum is made from sweet potatoes in louisi.
ana. Several barrels of potatoes yield barrel
Of rum.
Norfolk, Va packers and dealers are maxi
Ing big preparations for the coming oyster
| season.
A Jacksonville, Fla, apple measured eleven
aud half inches IN circumference and weigh
ed seventeen ounces.
Tie taxable property Of Savannah is 49,,
GGl ,3li real estate, sl25lG,2O2; stock, per-
tona, etc. II, ,lij,ll2.
From onc-tighth of an acre this season. DIR.
| a. II. Symmes. of Peru, Fla, gathered 2,5OO
| pounds Of crOw-iuot hay.
Willie ont hunting few days ago Mcssrs. p,
! W. McCants. FranL Glover aud Ben Williams,
Of Coletou. =. e., killed -four bears.
Six tons, OF |, 100 gallons Of honey were
shipped from Rock Point, La, to Shreveport,
tcw days since. II sold for fifty cents gal
lon.
Mr. j. W. Brown. who lives near LimonIa
Fla. made, on unftrtilized light hammock
land, 7CG bushels Of good corn on forty-iivt
acres.
A Mississippi man has begun work under q
pa.ent intended TO strip cotton seed OF It's
husk and pack the kernel in solid oil cake
for shipment.
graceful dancing master at Macon, Ga.
named German, ungracefully burgarizcd 8
private residence, and was incontinentll
uanced into Jail.
Georgia paper, viewing the opening o
cotton bolls, chccrily remarks: "Tho SOuth'
own neccy SHOWS are beginning to whiten tn
hill-;ops and plains"
Work ON the Terrell asylumat Austin, Texas
- progressing well, and the building will b
completed ~ required by the contract. y
the 100000 appropriated, $4,000 has beel
drawn out,
Al an .nlaad Florida town last week Indian
ver., present with their gaunt dress and tui
lans. and two OF three Indian children. The
were reserved and quiet, cutting moccasin
and making bead purses.
Many Georgia farmers are in distress, o'
ing 10 their inability to meet obligation
imeSurr,d in the past few years to big none,
lending companies. Much OF TINS money WI
borrowed at IA per cent interest
Fort Sumter has literally fallen. II is no
only one story high, and has but half doze
guns, not one Of which could be used. III
Government pays about goo month it
wa,chmcn, who keep lights burning ortf
. fort for vessels.
Charleston has received from Winnsboro
q niece Of granite twenty feet long and thr'
y feet square at the base, to be used for makiT
/ the shaft for the monument ordered by u
q Charleston Light Dragons, andwill be erectt
A in Magnolia cemetery.
0 Mfr. c. W. Wiecking of Walhalla, s. C., HI
= this season sold from bis vineyard, contalnlr
u ~ acres, 80 600 pounds OF grapes, roall2i
u from six to ten cents per pound. Besides,
u ia estimated he will make from six hundred
l. einLt hundred gallons of wine. Hewill reali
n sl75 per acre net. The vines are three yea
0 old and will become more valuable.
General Leroy Pope Walker, First Secreta
in the jefferson Davis Confederate Cabln'
> and who gave the order for firing on FC
O Sumter, died at his home in Huntsville. Al
a recently, after q brief illness. Cen Walk
= VIVA President Of the Constitutional Conve
a tion of 1875, which framed the present cons
!. tuition.
2 Prof. Stevens, Of the Smithsonian Institrt
: has gone with a party Of explorers to the l
:, gion Of the clill ard cave dwellers to make
o Collection of relics and curiositos to be tax,
!, 10 the New Orleans Cotton Centennial Exp
T. sition. The explorations will lie made
V Arizona and New Mexico, and conducted,
u part, among villages never before visited.
,, Mfr. Sam Hing, wealthy Chinese mercha
u of III paso, Tex and y respectable Cree
/ young lady by the name of Miss Vogue, we
$ married at New Orleans the other day. n
younc lady, who is said to be really beautif,
Q was neatly attired, and the happy husbal
l was dressed in Il black broadcloth suit. II
long plat of hair was carefully coiled al
& placed ON the top Of his head. Mr.. Hing Il
been located in business at FL Paso for sol
time. lie furnishes supplies and labor to
worEmen on the Texas Il Pacific Road at II
end. lie has amassed quite a large sum
ry money.
ey Tho reports of the destruction OF the wi
M Chinese fleet are confirmed. The French
We five men. including an American pilot
no was killed on board the heavily armed Ere
re- war ship Volta. The French fleet suffered
damage. Admiral Combets next
ng will be to destroy tho forti
yn the Min River, between tho ., arsenui
he tho mouth of the river. He WI then,
he thought. Join Admiral Iespes before helu M
rnr and arrange with him for the occupation
III that place. II is also Thought tnae ~. .apv
nrt tion will be sent flom Tonquin into iullnai
he iLe end of the wet season unless emma acct
ve frances terms. ,,,,,,o 90 n
nj Tbe French are clatcd at the display OF Z
N nose pngnacity, because 1t viii conduct 10
h., ,,ocicd hos,iilies, in which case only the G
ii, ture of Pekin will cfectnally end the war.
eff, Il of the situation IN to cause an enorm
,or increase in stocks at Hong Kong and to gen
as alIy paralyz the import trade, Night IRA
H. on the Canton River is prohibited. Amohg
tie , Chinese, who are wholly unprepared Ior '"
ar there is bitter feeling. They dehouhce