The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-17
NEWS GLEANlNGS.

A MDTIDOu hiu'liS'
lady in Falkville, Ala
sackson, Tennessee, is to have cotton
factory.
The total income tax assessed in Vir-
ainia for 1880, was SO, 322, 460.
Over $4,000 pounds of tomatoes have
been shipped from Chattanooga during
the season.
Montgomery, Alabama, has an arte
sian well that discharges $4,000 gallons
Of pure drinking water every day.
An oak tree on the Feyser farm Page
county, Va, is twenty-five feet in cir.
conference.
The death rate in July in Chat
tanooga, from basis of 1900 popula-
ton, was only little over IS per cent,
per thousand.
Robert Thomas. colored man of Cooke
county, Tennessee, has bought the Car
pn farm of 205 acres, near cambridge,
for $685.
Jeferson's old clock at Monticello is
being repaired. 1t is remarkable time
piece on a grand scale, and splendid
piece of mechanism.
A Mississippian by the name of Darl-
iny P. Dear. has died at West Enter
prise. Wonder if the "P." stands for
Pet.
The Coosawhatchie swamp in Hamp-
ton county is drying up rapidly, and
quantities of fish are being devoured by
the buzzards.
John Colbert, of Etowah, has lost
three wives, being married thirty-six
years, has buried twenty-five children,
has lost one arm and thirty horses, and
is but fifty years old.
In the death of Colonel Randolph L
Mott, OF Columbus, Ga, the Macon
Volunteers lost the last of the Originrl
and charter members. The company
was organized April %, 1925.
Cork trees are being successfully raised
in Georgia. The cork on some of them
is already thick enough for use. 1t is
supposed these trees can be successfully
raised in most of the Southern States.
Apalachicola, Florida, has a popula-
ton of over 1000 souls, forty or fifty
vessels engaged in the sponge and fishing
trades, and five large mills, with a ca,
pacity of over $50, 900 feet of lumber per
day.
Coal oil has been discovered near May
flower, Arkansas, and two local compan-
les have been formed, who are leasing
all the land in the neighborhood. Pros
pectors and spectators are hocking in
in great numbers.
John Boswell, colored, formerly State
Senator in Florida, and prominent
candidate for Congress from that State,
is now working out a sentance for dis
orderly conduct in the street-gang of
Galveston.
A bill declaring a wife competent
witness against her husband, where he
commits an assault uponher, has passed
the Georgia Senate. Likewise, one to
make it misdemeanor to carry intoxi-
eating drinks to any public gathering.
The Georgia Redater says "the House
has on hand over 900 bills, or enough,
il each sheet were detached and pasted
together, to encirce the city of Allan
ia, which is nine miles in circumference.
No adjournment in sight, even with a
hrstclass telescope"
The farmers in South Georgia suffer
so much from watermelon thieves that
they poison fine melons frequently to
catch the thieves. A few nights since
party of young men of the best families
OF Decatur county we're out late at night
and took melon from neighbours
patch. All were desperately sick and
one has died.
One of the finest lighthouses in the
world is being erected at Cape Henry,
in Chesapeake Bay. 1t measures from
top to base 155 feet diameter at the
base, thirty feet at the top, rs feet. 1t
has six stories, and above there is a serv-
ice room, watch.room and lantern-room.
1t is constructed of cast.iron, and the
interior is sheet.ron. The light room is
circular steel frame, twelve feet in
diameter and nne feet high. The glass
used for the chimneys will be of French
glass.
A negro boy living in Charlottesville,
Virginia, fell from tree about six weeks
ago upon sharp stake, which penetrated
his liver. A portion of the organ pro-
truded from the wound. DR.. William
IT, Rogers attended the case. He clipped
on piece of the torn and protruding
liver about the size of marble and
swed up the orihce. He expected the
BOY would die, but he got better from
the first and is now running about as