The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-03-30
NEWS GLEANINGS.

orally than ever before.
Bishop Fabre, of Montreal, condemns
as sin the practice of swearing Roman
Catholic witnesses on Protestant Bible
In the Arkansas House of Representa-
tiyes there are twenty.four natives oi
Tennessee and twenty-three natives Of
Arkansas. eEa'
The State Agricultural Department OF
North Carolina has been experimenting
in the cultivation of jute with the most
satisfactory results.
Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta and Ma
con, four Georgia cities, have an aggre
gate population of l00,S6O, and an ag-
gregate Indebtedness of $8,3S7, 900.
The frat cotton factory built in South
Carolina was one erected in Sumter
county by Mr.. Durant. 1t was driven
by horsepower, but was not success.
The Knoxville Tribune says that there
are numbers of farms in Tennessee upon
which the fences amount to fifty per
cent. of the whole value of the property.
The total amount expended by the
State of Louisiana for levees, crevasscs,
repairs, etc, in fifteen years, is stated by
the Secretary of the Board of State En-
gineers to be $l1, ,7G5,j99 So.
There are sixty wholesale and retail
dealers in sawdust in New York. They
have organized "Sawdust Dealers Pro-
tectivc Association" and have adopted
standard of measure and price.
1t is asserted that during the period
1S7075 one-iifth of the entire area of the
State of Mississippi has been forfeited
for unpaid taxes-6, ,50O,0 600 acres, 10000
square miles.
The English government intends stop
ping the rum ration to naval officers and
to boys up to twenty. Chocolate will
be substituted. The glory of the English
navy may now depart.
Rabbi Sonneschein, of st. Louis, advo-
Gates union of Jews and Unitarians.
He says there is not the slightest differ
ence in character standing, human
worth or dignity between jew and Chris
tian.
"Kordig Essence" is the name of a
newly-discovered mineral essence which
produces light without heat. One can
plunge his hand or head in the burning
liquid and have no unpleasant sensa-
tiOns.
Austin (Tex.) Statesman A fierce
dog ran after Emma Grutzrier bright
little eleven>year-old girl of San Antonio,
and when the brute reached the horror
stricken child, she fell lifele5s to the
earth. She was absolutely frightened to
death.
The County Commissioners of Bullock
county, Ala, after six years of econmi-
cal management, have paid over $50, 900
which the county owed, and retire from
Office leaving cash balance in the
treasury.
The Montgomery Advertiser says that
the joint committee of the South and
North Alabama Conference will meet in
Birmingham to consider the establish
ment of Methodist paper, to be the.
organ of that denomination in Alabama
The Covington (Ga.) Enterprise says
it is beyond doubt that coal mine has
been discovered within six miles Of Gov
ingtOn, and not more than three miles
from the Georgia railroad. The samples
of coal are said to be equal to that of the
Coal Creek
The latest novelty in sprtualism is
the production of ghostly lights in dark
seances. The luminous shapes are crosses
circles, triangles, and other emblems
and they iloat mysteriously over the
heads of the spectators a Boston me
dium is the producer.
Spencer F. Baird intends to offer tC
the Atlanta Exposition the use of tho
celebrated and wonderful exhibit of cot
ton fibre and fabrics made by the Chi
nese empire at the Centennial, and sub
sequently acquired by the Smithsonian
Institute at Washington.
Richmond State: The corn crop il
Virginia last fall was unusually large
while the Western corn crop showed
decided falling off 1t is generally tn
case that grain-producing Illinois cal
place corn in this market at mucl
lower figure than Virginia can, but thi
ear it is just the other way.
Atlanta Constitution The telephon
Is in complete working condition from
gainesville to Auraria, nineteen miles
Dahlonega, six miles, and Jacksonville
sixteen miIes-forty miles in all. TIL
hearing aud recognition of voice owe
the whole line is as clear and distinct a
II only short distance away.
An Oneida Indian, who is an ordaine
Clergyman, preached in New York Sur
day, and in the course of his sermc
quantity rebuked the sin of profanity
He said he was thankful that 9TH