The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-03-15
NEWS SUMMARY.
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The capacity Of the ice works AZ
Shreveport, La, Is $4,000 pounds per day,
Oil in large quantities has been found
in Dickson county Tennessee.
On the 25th 1881 barrels of resin were
shipped from Charleston to Rotterdam.
Eight prominent Pennsylvania iron
men are prospecting about Chattanooga.
The Belle Rowland, with a thousand
bales of cotton, sank on Swan Lake, La, on
Goth.
John Narrell has been arrested at At
lanta, Ga, for robbing the mails, and in defaut
OF $4,000 bail, is in Jail.
There was IS, 500 insurance on the $685.
600 !oss by the burning of the opera and
markethouse, Waco, Texas,
The members of the house of represen-
ta,ives of the legislature of Arkansas receive
mileage on 22,322 miles.
Judge NJ. G. Farley, Of Georgia, died
on the night of the cath, the identical time
that he predicted six weeks before that he
would yield up the ghost.
Jesus, whose sirname is Santistevan,
murdered his wife, Maria de Jesus Martinez,
by shooting and beating her with a pistol, at
Taos, Idaho Territory.
The area of the public domain of Texas
is now $685., 800 acres, out of which must
come the 13,602000 acres of the Texas and
Pacific railroad reservation.
A stem Of orange, fourteen inches in
length, holding fourteen oranges of large
size and fine quality received attention at
the Jacksonville, Florida fair,
A little girl in Savannah, Ga, was bit
ten on the finger by Il playful dog and died
in nineteen days of hydrophobia; still moth.
ing was ever seen wrong with the dog.
The Confederate Memorial Associa-
ton" OF Chattanooga Tenn, has $500 in
the treasury, and cOntemplOtes erecting the
monument at an early day. 1t will be thirty
feet high, with cubic base six feet in dimen.
sions, and will cost $1,000.
John r, Bynum, jeweler of Bolivar,
Tenn, and leader Of the Bolivar brass
band, was locked up in the calaboosc of that
town on Friday night, the 23d, and the key
carried mile away. Daring the night the
calaboose took fire and was consumed, burn.
ing the unfortunate prisoner before relief
could be obtained.
Raleigh Observer We learn from Mr..
Dumont, the attorney for the Massachusetts
colonists who have been prospecting in west.
ern North Carolina, that they have negotiated
for the purchase Of about SIX thousand acres
Of land lying twelve miles above Morgan
ton, in the region OF country known as the
Dinville valley, and that they are making
efforts to secure additional tracts adjoining
this.
Resolution That we, the Florida
fruit growers association, iu convention as.
sembled, would most earnestly request the
legislature, now in session, to appropriate a
sum of at least $1,000 per annum, for the
purpose of disseminating knowledge Of the
inducements for immigration to our state,
this sum to be placed at the disposal of the
board Of immigration, lately CT eated by this
legislature, for that purpose.
The Picayune states that in Louisiana
there is very wide disposition on the part
OF planters to cultivate this year those neces.
saries of life tor which they have heretofore
been compelled to draw upon the west. The
growth of grain promises to be more exten.
sive than it has ever been before, and the in.
creased raising of hogs and cattle is very
marked
Florida, if all reports are true, has had
a nice streak OF luck in the sale of state
lands. A party of English ald German cap.
italists have purchased 100000 acres OF the
Florida state lands, and are organizing nm
emigration company. The money paid for
those lands, it is said, will pay off the
state debt and leave balance in the treas.
ury.
Cotton Prospects, 1877 In the general
result of our crop, considered in respect Of
pounds, "Sea island" makes a very insgnif.
cant figure. The largest cr4p grown since
1926 was that nj 1859 80, when Florida pro.
duced l4,055 bags, Georgia, ls, $50, and South
Carolina, S,s0l-altoGe.her 52,4lS bags.
Since the war the condition OF things has
been so wretched on the sea islands that the
whole crop has dwlnded down lin lS75.16l
to only 1895 bag; or Florida $3.50 Gecr.
sia, 1913 and South Carolina, 1888.