The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-11-16
NEWS GlEANIkGS.

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vi Texas ships ~, 100000 worth of pecan
annually.
81 North Carolina ranks third in the lis
Of dcotton-producing States.
Eight hundred Russian emigrants ar,
thinking of settling in Georgia.
Lawrence county, Georgia, doubled
its population in The last ten years
The total acreage of cotton last year
in Tennessee was 722, SOP, yielding $780,
621 bales.
Charleston, $. c., has decided on a
paid fire company, which will cost 1885,
900 year.
Macon, Georgia, will have Il tomato
canning factory, owned and conducted
by Northern men.
Tennessee will realize as much from
her fruit crop this year as she usually
does from her wheat crop.
Four thousand men are at work on the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad from Atlanta to Rome.
Yazco county, Mississippi, produced
more cotton last year than any county
in the cotton region. 1t turned out
1891 bales.
The Constitution says over $ljO,G0O
worth of real estate has been purchased
at Atlanta by the Coal railroads in the
past four months.
Gen. Peyton Wise has been elected to
gil the Office of bonded tobacco inspector
at Richmond, Virginia. The salary is
only $4,000 a year.
Among the exhibits at the Talbot
county, Georgia, fair were l,2OO speci-
mems of minerals. The owner was
twenty-five years collecting them.
The Florida Agriculturalist says this
is the last year cheap orange lands can
be procured. There is very little left,
except in private hands, and it will
bring big prices in the future.
Tive paupers in the Aiken, 5. c., poor
house have SO arranged it that their
hearts will hereafter beat the State as
one. The beautiful and accomplished
groom is only seventy, while the bride
is ugly and thirty-threc.
Union Springs (Ala.) Herald; A suit
for damages by a coored widow of this
county against the l.. and N. railroad
for killing her husband was recently
compromised for $500. The lawyers
got $3.50, her advancing merchant got
1925 for looking after the affair and the
clone widow" got 1925 to soothe her
grief. Nothing like an equitable divis-
ion of spoils
st. Louis Republican: There is doubt
less no child now living that will see
New Orleans a greater exporting port
than New York, but the next few years
will see it make demoralizing advance
on New York. Within the last three
years it has advanced ahead Of Philadel'
phia, Boston and Baltimore, and within
the next three it will make enough
progress to cause lots of trouble for New
York, however impossible it may be to
surpass the trade of that city.
Nashville American: For snuffdip-
ping and sneezing the people of Tennes-
see annually pay over $l,OoOOOo' a
dealer in snuff informs us that the Nash
vile merchants annually pay over $780,
900 for snuff, and the merchants of the
city of Memphis more than that amount
The people of the Southern States con-
sumo annually over $S,OOO,OOO OF that
article, while the people of the Northern
States use comparatively none TWO
firm, of New York supply the South.
A Pike c. unity, Alabama, negro flr't
stole hat, bride from near neigh
boris next stuck to his hands, going
farther a mules head became fastened
in the bride, proceeding on his journey
a stable furnished harness for the am
NAL, and few miles further on a farm
ers spring wagon had joined the cara
van, then some one tlse's bale OF cotton
that wouldn't get out of his way was
transferred to the wagon, and the pro
eession arrived at Union Springs, where
the police jailed the manager as he was
bargaining to get rid of his booty. lie
resisted and cut one of the policemen
throat.