The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-03
NEWS GlEANiNGS.

bales Of cotton.
Last year North Carolina made onl,
nineteen barrels Of beer,
There are fifty six cotton seed o
mills in the United States, Georgia ha
only one.
Another squad of Cherokee Indian
are soon to leave London, Tennessee, fo
the Indian Nation,
Many now claim that iron can b,
made cheaper at Birmingham, Alabama
than anywhere in the United States
OF Florida towns the census Of Lake
Cit7 is 1879; Lavilla, 1918; Jackson,
vile, 1913; Pensacola, 5,SIj; Tallahas
zee, 2404 Fernandina, 1862, and Pa
htka, 1916.
Nine Incorporated companies a d in,
dividuals are engaged in phosphate
mining in the navigablo streams Of South
Carolina.
The great temperance petition pre-
ented to tho Georgia Legislature the
other day was GOO feet long and con
tanned 10000 signatures. IT was greet.
ed with applause.
The Steamship Seminole, among other
freight from Savannah to Boston, few
days since, carried 10000 watermelons.
One of the officers of the Southern
Express Company says that the pay roll
of the Company for Georgia alone is
$4,000 per month.
The Augusta Sewerage and Water
Supply party carried their ticket at the
recent election, and city bonds will be
issued to raise the money and begin the
work,
A moccasin residing in Henry ounty,
Alabama, bit Mr.. Roberts son on the
foot, in Hollands mill pond, six or
eight feet under water, recently. He
had no whisky or any other antidote,
and yet he expericn ced but little injury
from the reptiles fangs. Query: Is the
bite Cf snake ri der water poisonous
Further figures of the Alabama cen
sus show that Eulaula has 1856 people
Union Springs, S62; Greenville, 2,471;
Tallassee, 1882 Opclika, 9. 2l5; Auburn,
116l Girard, 2,22i; Noble, !9.lS2
Montgomery, 1913, and Tuscaloosa,
2O17.
Mr.. Il. VI. Sandys, a Louisiana sugar
maker, is putting up permanent works
tSterling, H., l3cXlO feet ground di.
mensiohs, walls twenty five feet high,
built of stone, at total estimated cost
Of $4,000; capacity, 800 tons of cane
per day. Mr.. W. G. Clement is also
putting up large mill at the same place.
Tecumseh Furnace, of Tccumseh, Ala
bama entered on its seventh year Of
blast on the 10Th of June, on one hearth,
without blowing out. The furnace is
making twenty tons Of iron per day on
10 bushels Of charcoal. The furnace
ssixty by twelve, and uses brown hem
itite ore.
Senator Jones, Of Florida, recently
received a letter informing him of the
death of his only sister, Mrs, Margaret
Dowd, of Galveston, Texas. This is the
third death tha has occurred in the Sen
atOr's family within few months, He
lost his wife last fall, since then a grown
son of his died in Washington, and now
he gets news of his sisters death.
During trial for assault in Arkansas
acub, a rock, rail, an an aXhandle,
aknife and a shotgun were exhibited
as the instruments with which
the decd was done. 1t was
also shown that the assault
ed man defended himself with re
vOlver, scythe, pitchfork, chisel, a
hand-saw, a fail and a cross dog. Then
The jury decided that they'd have given
i've dollars apiece to have seen tie fight
A curious decision was recently made
ma trial Justices court in Abheville, 5.
Y, The cause under consideration was
The right of a wife to enter into con
aact to labor against the will of her
husband. The husband had brought
suit tor the setting aside of the contract,
out the justice decided that the woman
lad the right to make all the contracts
@e chose, whether of a property or a
PERSONAL nature. The husband was then
sntenced to pay a fine Of S25 and cost
@go to jai thirty days.