The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-10
NEWS GlEANlNGS.


lhe Rio.Grande'
A Marietta, Georgia, boy has a collec-
ton of 500 birds eggs.
There are thirty-two colored Baptist
churches in the District of Columbia.
Augusta, Georgia, will have first
cas theater.
OF the forty Generals furnished by
Texas to the Confedcracy thirty are
dead.
The negroes of Wilkes county pay
taxes on 5000 acres of land, and $l2,-
900 worth of stock.
Cedar Key and Ocala, Florida, are
aid to be outstripping any towns in the
State in growth and enterprise.
Alexandria, Virginia, has loaded a
bark with grain direct for Europe and
sees herself invested with Il halo of com.
mercial glory accordingly,
Blind Tom is said, when at his home
in Georgia, to remain alone with his
piano and play day and night. lie
plays about 1000 pieces by car, and picks
upnew ones every day.
Paul Viallou, of Bayou Goula, La.,
has 500 stand of pure italian bees. He
raises and sells many barrels Of honey
at fpyn seventy-iive cents to ninety
nfrt's per gallon.
The colored people of Nashville have
formed a society for the suppression of
miscegenation. 1t is said that the society
has SO far caused the arrest of eight per-
0ns charged with this oncn.c.
Hannah Faust, said to be III years
old, died in Columbia S. c., recently.
She was born a faw miles above that city.
Her daughter, said to be near ninety,
Aye' in Columbia also.
Vicksburg is justly indignant at the
by the National Board of
Health of the inspection station at The
Point. The station is Il protection not
only 10 Vicksburg but the whole Missis-
sippi Valley.
Vt is said there is not q mechanic or
workman in Macon who is idle for want
Of employment. The rush of improve
ments and the demand for builders and
building material have never before been
equaled in that city.
Gold is found in Georgia in thirty-six
counties, silver in three, copper in thir-
teen, iron in forty-three, diamonds in
twenty-six, whisky in all of them, and
the last gets away with all the rest.
The Mormon excitement is now abat-
jAg a bit in Western Coosa, Ala. New
Missionaries are daily expected, and
converts to the polygamous creed are
daily adding their names to the brutaliz'
ing muster-roll.
A gator, weighing 800 pounds, was
caught in PatauIa creek, Georgia, the
other day, which contained "a rock
weighing several pounds, large soft
she'll turtle and a beaver weighing fifty
or sixty pounds The beaver was whole
except that one leg was missing"
The pastors of all the churches in Al
bany, Georgia, without previous under
standing, prayed for rain last Sunday,
and writer in the News says hardly
had their benedictions been pronounced
when a little cloud gathered over the
sweltering city, others gathered to it, and
arefreshing, plentiful shower descended.
A little girl named Malcomb, living in
the neighborhood of Doe Hill, Virginia,
went out to the woods to play, accom-
panied by her dog, one day last week,
when she suddenly came upon num-
Der of wild turkeys. The dog gave
chase, and, in the alright, very large
gobber perched upon fence. The lit
tie heroine seized it from below, dragged
II to the ground and bore it home in
Triumph. The turkey weighed about
twenty pounds.
In Walker county, Alabama, is a nat
'ral bridge said to rival that of Vir.
elnla. 1t is in the sandstone called
mlllstone grit, which underlies the cora
formation. 1t spans about 100 feet and
is height is about seventy feet. A small
bridge connects it with the bluff beyond
Inc lines of stratifcation of the sandstone
give the structure the appearance of
having been artificially built up with
massive blocks. 1t is in the midst of a
region of wild and romantic beauty,
algh escarpments of the same sandstone
Oelhg seen standing out in the face of
The hillu oro,,ul