The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-05-25
NEWS GLEANlNGS.

The Savannah News regards tea cult
IRE in Georgia as an assured success.
The Leesburg (Fla,) Advance learns
that wooden railway will be built from
Lcesbug to Lake Harris and Griffin for
the transportation of goods,
The Sugar Planter reports that sew
eral planters in West Baton Rouge, La.,
are to give the sorgum cane fair trial
this season, and if results are satisfac-
tory to plant extensively another year.
The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun
says that the woods are alive with To-
Gusts around Griffin. They are Of the
same kind as those there fourteen years
ago, and farmers fear foy their wheat
crop.
The rector at St. Johns Episcopal
church at Montgomery, Ala, has bap'
tized jO2 persons in twelve years. The
amount of money contributed by the
parish for all purposes during the past
twelve years, including the support OF
the church, is $lO9,77S.
There is Il peach tree, n)w growing
in Jasper county, Ga, on the plantation
of B. r.. Ezell, near Erickson, the seed
of which was planted by Mr.. EzclPs
father in 1909. The tree was transplant
ed in 1911. 1t is now growing fruit, the
Macon (Ga,) Telegraph reports, Mr.
Ezell is now in his eighty-second year.
The Raleigh (N, C) News Observer
rcports that Governor Jarvis, Lieutenant
Governor Robinson, and Others, who re-
Gently visited the eastern part OF the
State, saw two fish hauls at Mr., Cape
hart's fishery at Ayoca, one OF 100000
herring in the morning and another OF
l25 600 in the evening. The warp OF
tho scin was $500 yards in length, and
it was hauled in by steam.
One of the most remarkable instances
Of self-sacralicc and per cverancc Is
that of the Beal street coIored Baptist
church at Memphis, which, out OF the
very small daily earnings OF its poor
members, has contributed since 1860
s37 coo to buy ground and build ana
nav for its fine church cditicc. About
10000 more is requisite to complete
the interior of the upper part OF the
building.
The Mayor and board of aldermen
have revoked and cancelled every license
to sell wines, spirituous or malt liquors
or any Intoxicating liquors within the
limits of the city of Charlotte, n, {,
The keeping of such beverages for sale
is declared nuisance, and IN tins
declaration branded fruits and aIco-
hoIic liquors are included.
Mississippi has total population OF
i 13I 592, of which 1881 are whit"
and G52.22I are colorcd. There are
,cycnty-four counties in the state "I
which thirty-cight contain more c'Iorro
than white population, and thrty'slX
moro white than colorcd. The coIored
majority is l72,S5o. In lssaqncna
county the whites number S2l and the
colorcd persons 9,17I in Washington
county the whites number @,A1l and the
colorcd persons 2l,89l,
Contracts have been made by the ho'
cal Board of Swamp Land Commission
ers for the parishes Of Lafourche ana
for the construction OF two
coools TO he completed within one year
The New Orleans States says that TINS
will open to cultivation or other "'c'"'
prrpoqes and render conveniently acceS-
,ible a large area of heretofore useless
lands within easy distance from New
Orleans.
Spartanburg, S. c., news in Charles
ton News and Courier: The longest
cotton row in the county, or III the
State, perhaps, was laid off by MIR. f.
B. HUFF, who works land of J. ii. Mont
comery, Esq, two miles north Of town.
It is oO,76O yards long and the rows
pcing three and a half feet wide, tins
row contains fraction over two and
,nc.third acres. Its length is a little
mo,c than five and a half miles. 1t
would require about six hour to run
round this one row of cotton,
The Bullock (Ga.) Banner hears of a
man who is taking his all on cotton. He
has waved the homestead, and is giving
mortgages on all that he has on the in
coming crop, in order to get guano, corn
and meat. The Banner asks: Sup
pose the cotton crop this year is short
one, or that it is large one, but the
prices low and the mortgage and home
tcad waving notes can not be paid
what will become of his home and
farm?
Speaking of the eighth anniversary
next Monday of the settlement of the
Alabama town of Cullman, the Mont
romerv Advertiser and Mail says:
Eight years ago the town of Culman
was wilderness it has now something
less than 1000 people, and the region
all round is settled by industrious and
thrifty farmers. They arc mostly Ger
man, and such has been the success of
Al Al Il.