The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-11-09
NEWS GlEANINGs.
louisiana has good rice crops.
Large chestnut crop in Tennessee.

Rome, Ga, will have street cars in
short time.
The Texas Pacific railroad is within
80 miles of Ell Paso.
Albany Georgia has a new siX-hundrec
dollar irc alarm bell.
The corn crop in Georgia will be Al
average one.
An Atlanta hotel includes ten cleo
tric lights among it's attractions.
Gen. Gordon will soon start cotton
factory at Carrollton, Miss.
In Florida 81 600 worth of arrowroot
Is raised on an acre of land.
New Orleans has butterine facto.
y that turns out 10000 pounds per day.
The colored baptist of Lynchburg,
have completed a SO, 900 church.
DR.. John Phistcr, Grand Master, is at
the Gait house.
The Appeal says the grand jury will
indict the "Bucket Shop"
The Nashville grand jury has indicted
about twenty-five or thirty pool bnyers.
Alex. Bell, Of Pike county, Ga, is "A
years old and weighs 35j pounds.
W. H. Holt, of Mt Sterling, has ar
rived, and is domicied at the Louisville.
1t is estimated that gold, silver and
copper mines of the south will yield
GO,0OO,00O this year.
Mr.. +. Young, of Pennsylvania, has
paid $4,000 fora prospective gold mine
in Goochland county, Va
An artesian well in Durham, n. c.
has reached a depth of 1870 feet with
out any indications of water.
John Stewart, the oldest man in Ala
lama, is dead in Shelby county, aged
lO2 years.
COL W. G. Richardson, of Mississippi,
has raised $50 bales of cotton this
rear.
Translucent porcelain was first manu-
iacturcd in the United States at New
>rleans last 7'ring.
1t is crime in Georgia to point a gun
pistol at another in fun or malice.
neither the weapon Is loaded or not.
The seventy-fve members of the new
ermitage Club, at Nashville, are worth
the aggregate, $4,0O0,0C0.
A Chancery case eleven years old has
zen decided at Troy, Alabama. The
plaintiff got judgement for $3.50
The American rifle team is arranging
Or shooting tournament sometime
during the exposition at Atlanta.
McPhe son Barracks, at Atlanta, will
be broken up. The troops twill 90 to
New York barbor to take the place of
ne third regiment
Eureka Springs, Ark, has $4,000 III
habitants, and is beginning to ape city
manners. The latest affection is plas-
tered rooms ard brick chimneys.
Forty thousand dollars for building
and twerty thousand dollars for a site,
will be expended for an opera house at
Dallas, Tex.
The old city park of Charleston, 5 c.
has been re-christened Washington
Square. A statue of the father of his
county will soon be erected there.
The Sloss furnace now building at
Birmingham, Ala, will cost when COM
peted SlS0,000; will nmploy $50 men,
and have capacity of so tons per day,
A new town is springing up at the
terminus of the Pensacola and Selma
road, thirty-two miles from Pensacola
Junction, in Conecuh county, Ala.
1t is expected that that the canal
around Muscle Shoals will be completed
In two years, when the Tennessee will
be navigable from Paducah to Knox
vile, a distance of 800.
There is great excitement in the local
ltyof the zinc mines, in Tazewell county,
Tenn, over new finds" supposed to be
silver 1t must he valuable, as they
Will not suffer so much as an ounce Of
The ore to be lost
one year ago, near Charleston, Miss,
ahrs. Crosby gave birth to triplets. A
lew days ago Mrs. G. did nothing les.
,aan repeat the performance. The chill
u'en are all alive and kicking. and it i:
presumed that Mr.. G. is going through {
similar exercise.
Inc contract for that portion of the
.ehsacola and Atlantic Railroad no
heretofore let, consisting of about ont
hundred miles in the center of the line
nas been awarded to A. J. Lane Il Co.
VI Macon, Ga. The contractors vii
uansier about one thousand men to th'
PENSACOLA and Atlantic from the New
Vfeans aud Pacific railroad, where the.
are Just finishing large contract.
Nashville World. Considerable snI
pfise was caused yesterday by the sBle o
A,WO,O 900 in Confederate bonds, part o
'he assets of the Bank of Tennessee, fo
so'ooo. he sale was effected by Rober
Ewing, Clerk and Master, as Receive
,Of the bank, and the buyer was Raphaf