The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-12-14
NEWS GLEANINGS.

Bear meat is selling in Little Rock a
five cents pound.
The Bristol and North Carolina Mar
row-guage railroad has been abandoned
The Baltimore Packing company will
pack fish, oysters and turtle at Apalach
icola, Fla.
Decatur, Tenn, has given up its char.
ter of incorporation to get rid of it,
whisky saloons.
Scventy-fve white persons left Green's
boro, Ga, recently to seek homes in Ar
kansas
Real estate at Atlanta has advanced
fifty per cent since the opening of the
Exposition.
The Union Passenger, Depot at Allan
ia will be ILLUMINATED. by an electric
light.
twenty-five nuns of the order of
Incarnate Word, from France, are en-
route to Texas to engage in educational
work in q convent of their order.
Two liye-oak trees are now growing
within seven miles of Palatka, Fla,
which measure respectively thirty-six
feet in circumference,
During the past fiscal year Savannah
exported $50, 100000 more than Boston,
$S1, 100000 more than Baltimore and
$60,OOO,OO0 more than Philadelphia.
The Little Rock and Fort Smith rail
road, in Arkansas, makes no charge for
carrying seed wheat to all stations along
its route.
The orange crop of Florida 'this year
is now estimated at 100000, all of
which but about 100000 will be ship
ped out Of the State.
There is a monster orange tree near
Fort Harley, Fla, that measures nine
feet one inch in circumference. 1t is
over fifty years old, and some seasons
has had over 5000 oranges on it.
In Union county, Ga, veins of mica
from five tn fifteen feet wide have been
found, which are Intersected by innu
mcrable smaller veins Of the purest
quality Of this valuable mineral. A
company has been organized o develop
it.
A German professor who is gathering
materials for history of this country
is quoted as saying that he was surprised
at the superior appearance and intelli-
gence of the white laborng class of the
South when compared with that of the
North or at of Europe.
Mr.. Ben Hilliard Of Washington
county, Ga, is perhaps the greatest suf-
ferer in the world He has been thirty
three wears in his bed, enduring the most
excrutiating agony from rheumatism,
bein4 unable to move any part of his
body except his lower jaw, and to slight
" shrug his shoulders. For all those
long years of suffering his joints have
been as stiff as if grown together solid.
Last week the Mexican Congress grant
ed pension of $3.50 month to Mrs.
Augustine Ramirez Her claim upon
the bounty of her country is the follow
ing: When the French invaded Next
co, Mrs. Ramirez was the happy wife OF
Severiano Rodriguez, and the proud
mother of thirteen children, all of whom
were grown up men. Her husband and
her sons all took up arms to repel the
foreign invader, ard extraordinary as it
may seem, they were all killed in bat
tie during the intervention.
New Orleans Times To take horse
back ride over each parish in this state
one would be surprised TO see thousands
upon thousands OF acres of the most
fertile lands to be found on this contl'
nent, lying idle, bringing in no revenue,
doing no one any good, but burdens to
the owners, cankers upon their energies,
their labors and their pockets. You ask
if these lands are for sale? Oh, yes; all
for sale can be DO Ight almost at youl
own price. But who is the owner
Don't know. How is a. man to get II
Don't know, and so on.
Within the last two week a very large
vein of pure lead has been found IN th'
Magruder mine. The first large piece
taken out weighed 26O pounds, and wa
sent to the Cotton Exposition as mt
specimen. But a day or two after an
other solid piece was taken out whlcl
weighed S56 pounds. ThiS was shippe'
to Augusta to the President Of the com
pany. Since then another large piece
which will weigh not less than sou lf'
has been dug out, but has not been ran
ed to the surface Of the ground. I'M
is pure lead, without rocks or iore'e
substance, and is ready for use aait come
out of the ground. - Washington (Ga
Gazette.
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