The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-06-29
NEWS GLEANlNGc.

The peanut crop OF Tennessee Will be
failure.
Gas in Nashville is furnished at Sl.75 |
per thousand feet.
A company is organizing to manufac-
ture cars in Selma, Alabama.
st. Augustine, Fla, has surplus of
S2,74O.S7 in cash in her treasury.
A fisherman at Pensacola caught 1000
red snapper fish recently.
Selma, Alabama, has population in
its corporate limits of 1929,
The mayor of Montgomery, Ala, re-
ceives salary of 81 900 yea.,
Western corn has killed number of
horses and mules in Alabama.
By lowest estimate Mr. Davis h as al
ready made 500 600 on his book.
Boston capitalists are investing $780,
600 in cotton factory at Vicksburg,
Miss.
Baltimore capitalists have invested
81. SOC, 900 in a Davidson county, n. G..
gold mine.
Two hundred thousand young shad
have lust been placed in the Congaree.
The colored people of Abbeville, s.
c.. have formed life insurance asso-
citation.
Yellow fever was not known in Mex
leo until 1925.
Volusia county, Fla, has t largest
orange grove in the world-l,OOo acres,
Mr.. Herzler, of Madison county, A la
bama, clipped l,4oO pounds of wool
from 252 sheep,
The sales of leaf tobacco in the Lynch
burg, Va, warehouse for the present
year aggregate 1927, 3o7 pounds.
An apple tree in LaGrange, Ga, has
two or three apples upon its trunk.
There is not sign Of twig or branch,
but they are growing upon the bark OF
| the tree.
A letter from Southern Florida de-
scribeq "A fight of white butterflies from
the south that has filed the air like
snownlakes for six days, going North.
A little nine year-oId boy at Center,
Ala. killed his uncle, named Brooks,
by hitting him on the head with rock
The uncle had Wiped the boy, and the
young reprobate took this means OF re-
dress.
Nine-tenths of the babies born in
Oglethorpe county, Ga, this year are
bows. This rule also applies to animals.
The males are undcniably on top this
year. This preponderence of rex is said
to be sign of coming var,
The spongers of Key W est are making
money. The Democrat says there were
over 81 600 worth Of sponges on the
wharf there one day last week.
The Atlanta Constitution says there
are MANY lunatics wandering around the
country, because of the inadequacy OF
the present accommodations at the Lun-
attic Asylum.
Georgia paper: The press Of feor-
pia il unit in the cause of temperance.
The boys differ somewhat, however, in
their ideas ~ to the proper mode OF
attacking the hydra-hcaded monster,
We are for killing him with kindness
and coercing him by persuasion. Choke
dog to death with butter and he won't
know what killed him.
The San Antonio Express says Last
week was a good week for killing con-
yicts who attempted TO escape, though
three we're laid out instantly and two
others mortally wounded. When it ap-
pears to be almost certain death for
convict to attempt to escape 1t seems
strange that the attempt should be so
frequent To remain must be almost
worst than death t. good many.
The Pueblos of New Mexico believe
that mt death they will be carried away
in some mysterious manner to a place
beneath "A vast underground lake, where
melons and peaches and beautiful maid
ems and horses and in never ending sup
DIV for the good Notwithstanding all
these inducements, some of the Pueblos
are AZ depravcd as if they had been born
| in the United States.
The editor of Paris North Texan thus
defines his position on the liquor ques-
tion. We are not a chronic temper
ance core nor church member. We
are a rough, wicked man, and we have
drank whisky, periodically, all our life
until last year, when, recognizing the
dut,es of a father, remembered that we
ere responsible for our example, wequit
the accursed practice, and we are in for
the war against the traffic-not those
who sell and. drink it.
The Temperance men of Virginia are
thoroughly organized. at would as
tonish you,' remarked leading tenn
perance man, "tO know the number OF
leading men among Republicans, Read
busters and Democrats who are heartily
in accord with our movement, but we
were anxious, that nothing should be
said about it until our plans were more
matured and our organization firmly es-