The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-11-23
NEWS GLEANINGS.

pair OF oxen which weigh $500 pound,
Athens, Ga, has prohibited the ridin
of velocipedes on her streets.
Eighty bushels of rough rice to til
acre is the average yield in Florida.
Arkansas produced 7O5,OOO bales o
cotton during the season of 1SSO-Sl
The German carp planted in Tennc+
see ponds do not propagate well.
1t takes S3o,O0O,O00 for freight anJ
insurance to place II years cotton Gro,
in the New England cotton market.
Over fifty thousand bales of cotton
were exported from the port of Sayan-
nah last week.
Farm lands in the neighborhood of
Athens, Ga, bring from 500 to 800
per acre,
There are fifty females in the North
Carolina penitentiary, two white and
forty eight colorcd.
Wild turkeys are plentiful in the
country adjacent to New Orleans on
account Of the protection accorded them
by the game laws.
The State authorities have effected Il
sale of 100000 acres of Mississippi river
swamp iand to the Georgia Pacific Rail
road Company.
A rattlesnake six feet long and
twenty inches in circumference was
killed recently in Rutherford county,
Tenn.
Deer, squirrels and pheasants are said
to be very abundant in the Shenandoah
Valley region this fall. Partridgcs arc
scarce, while wild turkeys are about an
average.
The Alma (Ark Independent knows
men who saw their wives and children
put in, make and harvest his years
crops, and are now investing the pro,
caeds in cheap whisky.
Mrs. Jane Gornto, a widow living
near Wrightsvillc, Ga, sent her son for
quininc. The clerk gave him a bottle
of morphine, which he made in pills and
gave his mother. She died in forty
eight hours.
On the wharf at Key West, Florida,
are two sticks Of mahogony. One
measures twelve feet in length and is
fourteen feet two inches square. The
other is three feet eight by three feet
two inches in thicknes.
In Atlanta the rain drops that fall
off the western side of the roof of the
First Baptist Church find their dest:na-
ton in the Gulf Of Mexico, while those
which fall from the eastern side of the
roof meander to the Atlantic ocean,
The cotton States consume ~, 252, ,2lI
bushels more wheat than they raise, and
pay to the North for wheat, corn, oats
and hay $150,O00,0o0 annually, which
is equivalent to that amount OF money
being literally squandercd by Southern
people.
The net profits OF the cotton factory
owned by the Tennessee Manufacturing
Company Nashville, for the year were
$4,000, The company declared divi-
dend of ten PER cent. Arrangements
hsve been made for the erection OF an
other mill at a cost Of s250,0oo,
quarrel between Capt. Fsank Sui
livan, of the bark Potter, at Charleston,
S. G., and Portuguese seaman named
Sylvia, the latter drew knife. Sullivan
said to him that he didn't have "spunk'
enough to cut anyone. To prove he had,
the Portuguese drew the knife across
his own breast, infic,ip9 deep and
painful wound
The Natchez and Jackson, Nicksburg
and Ship Island the Mobile and North
western, the Durant snd Lexington, the
Greenvlle, Columbus and Birmlng-
ham; the Aberdeen and ElytOn, the
Columbus, Faycttc aud Decatur; the
Zazoo City and Canton, the Meridian
and New Orleans are some Mississippi
railroads that for the rre'cnt only exist
Oh paper.
Gen. Jubal Early lives at Lynch
burg hotel and practices law. Although
not yet seventy, he is as bent and
bowed as a man of ninety years. Hi'
dropping shoulders, his long gray beard
and flowing white hair, and the strong
staff on which he leans, makes HIM LOOK
like the ideal Rip Van Winkle lie
wears the Southern gray yet, ard his
still vigorous mind is full of fire.