The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-11-30
NEWS GLEANINGS.


30( 900 in ten years.
South Cardinals cotton crop will |
|6O6, 200 bales of 400 pounds each.
There are 3,0l9 prisoners in the Teyg
penitentiary.
The public debt of Tennessee is s3S,
100000.
There are 10000 head of cattle an,
B50 0 head of sheep in Mitchell county
Texas.
Georgia has forty cotton mills, anc
hey pay from eight to twenty-five pei
cent. net on the money invested.
An eighteen pound sweet potato i.
mong the Georgia exhibits at the At.
lnta Exposition.
A fig bush in Mobile, Ala, is credited
it'll producing annually 800 bushels of
heat.
Birmingham, Ala, expects two rail
ads to center there within the next
rec or four years.
The city council of Knoxville, Tenn,
s passed an ordinance preventing the
OF phrlor or other explosive matches
THU the corporate limits.
The Atlanta Cons.itution'Freprints an
freight bill issued for the Georgia
Id forty-one years ago. Dogs and ne
cs were charged 50 each.
forty'eight applications for divorce
re filed at Chattanooga from July
November |, and only 10 marriage
'nses were issued.
he citizens of Sparta, Ga, have not
d any municipal tax for over two
re- The retail liquor licenses have
re than paid the expenses Of the
n.
he cotton crop of Alabama for the
|Bent season, Notwithstanding the
nth and other disasters that beset it
Ing the year. will not fall more than
per cent. behind that of last year.
he largest block of marble ever gotten !
in Hawkins county, Tennessee, con-
bed l35 feet and weighed 24,O0O |
nds and required twcnty.lour horses |
raw il.
bale OF cotton was -old at WaynCs |
b, Ga, a few days ago, that had 200 |
nds Of sand concealed in the center |
t. The negro who owned it acknowl- !
ed the sand.
hree lengthy, angular women passed |
hugh Rome, Ga, a few DAYS since
the Mormons. They said the mi.-
arv told them they could get hus-
DIS by going 20 Utah.
eureka Springs, Ark, hy authority of |
Governor, is now declared a city of |
first class. Within two years and
ae months from the building of the |
cabin, it has become second in pop
ton in the State.
is occasionally long time between
nks in Texas. Local option is Ell
ed on the road between Benham and
oks, and for sixty miles the law
sn't allow the traveller to wet hi,
Ppie Reads "UncIc jerry philoso-
SEES: De ole time niger is passin'
by. When desc ole bones is laid
rest in de narrow bed of eternal sleep,
sons, wild dar young buckish ways
be goin' roun' dcclarin' dat dar
der want nebbcr slabe.
Chickasaw ARK. } Messenger: On the
rning of the election we ate a. nice
butts, in which the cotton seed oil
used, as we ever saw, and we here
now declare we take no more lard
burs. The oil is cleaner and cheaper
n lard, and has better flavor.
ohm Greenwood, of Walkers Station
| River county, Texas, offers 81, OON
lard for the return Of a boy child
eteen months old, white.haircd, blue
D, with fair complexion, which was
EN- from Shawnee Prairie, in that
|nty. The child had a very dim scar
the back Of the left hand, and a scar
the left side, a few inches below the
pit.
jacksonville ella Union: Mr.. David
al. of Nassau county, Fla, has gone
he Atlanta Cotton Exposition. he
k along with him, just 10 show what
re is in Florida, what he calls his
king stick, which is nincty.tive feet
z, is perfectly straight, hewn to an
mt square, and fifteen inches i'll diam
p. He also took a cabbage palmetto
TX, sixty one feet long 10 the leaves,
with the leaves is sixty.seyen feet
r; also, pine flag pclc eighty feet
Z, a poplar flag-pole sixty.one feet
e, and poplar stalk forty feet long
thiriy-two inches diameter, eight
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