The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-10-12
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LOuisiana's largest ar~planters, an
he says the sugar crop will fall of full
one-half.
The Mobile pres, Indignantly howl a
the published reports that the city is O
the decay. Trey assert that the city .
Mobile is fast improving.
The cotton crop of South Carolin
will unquestionably be short as com
pared with last years crop, but there i
some reason to hope that the loss vii
not be as great az generally supposed.
II Is said the Pensacola railroad ha,
tire largest pair of track scales in Amer
lea, which are LOG feet long, and can
weigh three cars at once loaded witt
spar timber.
Marion (Ala.) Standard: A Perry
county woman, whose arms are cut Of
Just below the elbow, threads her needle
by sticking it in her drcs, and tax
ing the thread between her two stumus
Of arms and fore ing it through the eve
OF the needle. She does neat sewing
hoes corn well and can pick fifty or sixty
pounds OF cotton per day.
Arkansas Democrat: The cotton
crop of Arkansas is much smaller than
II was last year. But it must be remem-
bered that We lost a large portion of last
years crop by bad weather, and much
of what was gathered was of Il very in
ferior quality and sold for a small price.
If the weather continues favorable for
picking there will be only a small DIFF
fercnce in the amount saved az COM
pared with last year.
Mobile Register There seems to be
q fatal disease among horses and mules
Ia this neighborho)d. Within the
forty-eight hours ending at dark last
night eight horses and five mules have
died. We also understand from Capt.
=. +. Alba that he has several horses
under treatment for the same disease.
which is an affection of the throat.
Some apprehension among the owners of
valuable animals exists for fear that the
disease may become epidemic.
The State Virginian: The rains tina.
have fallen in the past few DAYS in
nearly every portion Of Virginia and
North Carolina will benefit the Grass
and set the streams TO running once
more, but they come too late to help the
tobacco crop. Indeed, some OF the most
experienced tobacco planters are Of the
opinion that the rain, coming 50 late as
it die, will do the crop more harm than
good. But the tobacco raisers sill have
the consolation of knowing that the de-
ficiency in quantity will he made up in
a measure.
The Madisonian: There ia negro in
Morgan county, Lewis Jordon, who j.
thoroughly conversant with the rldi-
ments of the Latin language, knows
smattering Of French, and is fast learn
inc To read and parse Greek. He is
capital scholar in English grammar, and
il ready in mathematics. He has ac
quired this extraordinary amount Of
learning without the as istance of pre-
eeptor, and seems charmed when undo
some great mental task He hasn't n
intelligent face. hut rather the revere
appearing at times silly in the extreme
he is about thirty-fve years old, and
feels confident that he can master sew.
eral Languages before his death. Fl
laughs at you when you ask il he could |
not progress faster if placed under 8
competent teacher. He is humble, po-
lite and strictly reliable.
Knoxville Tribune: One of the most
wonderful phenomena that have cone
under our observation in long time Is
a natural flow of gas from the earth,
that burns with brilliant fame when |
ignited. The spot where this gas es
capes is about one mile f.om divers |
Springs, in Anderson county, and i'm.
pregnates the atmosphere for yards !!
around with the odor. The gas seem, !
70 come from spring on Coal creek,
near the water, but for yards up the
mountain side there runs vein about
foot wide, which has been fred and AT
times burns brilliantly. AT the end OF |
the vein, on the bank of the creek, the |
gas burns with bright yellow fame
and emits considerable heat. A pipe l.
sometimes introduced in the spring and
At distance of several yards burn
readily. A traveller passing few days
ago stuck in a small pipe in the vein
put two rocks, one on opposite sides Of !
the pipe, and boiled tea from the flame
that was produced on igniting. The gas
evidently comes from coal formation
and is natural curiosity Persons g. |
miles to zee it.