The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-05-11
NEWS GLEANINGS.

ore i'm circle OF Sixty miles around inns
citv to run two hundred furnaces profit
ably.
The only debt owed by Meckenburg
county n. G., according to the Charles
town News and Courier, is $500, ,OOO
contracted to ald in the construction of
railroads,
Charleston 6. C.) News and Courier
The production of cotton per acre is
Greater in North Carolina than in any
State in the Union. Georgia is next in
the scale of productiveness,
The Cedar Keys (Fla.) Journal de-
sires to know who can tell how the shell
mounds in that ncighborhood came
there. Some of them are nearly twenty
feet high. Digging for building pur-
poses discovered Il variety Of shells
The Roanoke News reports the trial
of suit for sixteen cents (thc damages
for trcsspass) by the Superior Court Of
Northampton county, \. c. The plain
tiff lost the suit and had to pay $3.50
costs. The trial occupied four days, and
the case has been pending for several
years.
The Louisiana Western Railroad Com
pany has built mammoth hotel, cover
ing a ground area of l4S by l2O feet, in
the Attalapas country, west of the bayou
Vermilion, and a town has been laid
out and named McComb, in honor of
the president and principal stakeholder
of the railroad company.
The Nashville Banner says that Liy-
ingstOne Hall, now in course of cree
tion, will nearly double the capacity of
Fisk University, The main university
building is five stories high. Jubilee
Hall is four stories high, with base
ment story, and will, perhaps, be COM
plcted by September, 1850. 1t is in
contemplation to erect another building
between Jubilee Hall and Livingstone
Hall.
Reporting the return of Okecchobcc
expedition, Jacksonville, Fla, matter in
Savannah (Ga.) News says: The ks
simmcc river was carefully examined
The lands are rich beyond expectation
Lake Okccchobec was sounded for forty
miles. Its average depth is eight feet
The Caloosahatchic was traycrscd for
sixty miles in Il row boat. The lands
around the lake and the two rivers are
capable of producing sufficient sugar to
supply the whole country. The climate
is delightful. Operations will be com
menccd without delay.
Pascagoula (NIiss.) Dcmocrat-Star:
There is a mistaken idea amo-g our
woOl-growerS on the coast that prices
will range up in the fortics for the carly
clip, based upon the assumption that the
crop will be short. 1t is true that many
sheep have died during the past winter,
caused by the severe weather, but when
we consider the quantity of wool grown
in this section as compared with what is
raised in California, Texas and the
Southern States, the amount raised on
the coast is very small, and is not likely
to affect the general market very much,
J., ii. Angomar recently died in New
York, and when his succession was
opened in the Civil District Court at
New Orleans, the New Orleans Times
says that it was discovered that $337
represents the entire value of his estate.
He leaves widow and three children.
lie was an inventor, Il man OF great en-
ergy, and his process for the propulsion
of street.cars would perhaps have made
him rich man if he had lived. He
had received all the substantial cncour-
agement he wanted.
Tallahassee E'loridian: The old idea
OF getting below the frost inc' seems
to be little hard to keep up with Of
course more damage was done by the
cold in some sections of the State than
in others, and generally the more north
ern sections were visited more seriously
but the actual experience of the past
winter show the idiotc absurdty Of the
claim that any portion of Florida, short
OF the extreme sOutherly coast and keys,
is exempt from damage by frost in ex-
ceptional seasons like the one Just past,
and that the frost questions after all is
one of seasons and surroundings, rather
than one of location.
The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun
says that Columbus has population of
nearly 1900 within the corporate lin.
Its, and that including the suburbs it
will reach between 1900 and $1,000.
Noticing that it has been omitted from
the census list of cities having over TO-
OOO population, the EnquirerSun infers
that there is an error in compiling the
returns. 1t says: "I'here is a probabil-
ity that there is an error in compiling
the returns after they left here, as Our
reporter, with the enumerators, exam.
med them and counted every name,
making the population of the city some.
thing over 10000. The department ha:
been written to, and in few days Of
fcial information will be received"
The Green Cove Spring, published al
Green Cove Snrinns Ella states fht