The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-07-06
NEWS GLEANINGS.

Nearly all lhe UeoI ga culOors are III
favor of local option law.
volusia county, Florida, has the larg
e.t olange grove in the world, 200
acres
Some .. 800 dogs have been listed fo
,oyoticn in Lowis county, Va.
fruit canning factory, to cost $4O,-
OO is to he luiIt in Nashville, Tennes.
see.
The market price for turtle eggs in
St Augustine, Florida, is l6 cents per
dozen.
Georgia pays out about s5,OOOOOO
per wear to increase the cotton crop and
lessen the price.
A company has been organized with
a plenty of capital to 60 into the bust
ness of canning fruits and oysters at
Pa.cgoula, Mississippi.
A negrcs., arrested at Abbevlle S.
C., for carlyng a ristol, was discharged
OH the ground that the concealed weapon
act doos not apply io women.
The fruit growers of California have
chaIIlrgCdthe fruit growers of Florida
10 exhibit fruit with them in the city of
New York during next spring,
Loudon Hood, a well-known negro,
died in MTiv ether county, Ga, last
week, aged ninetyfiye years. 1t was
his rroudest boast that during his long
life asa slave he had never been whipped.
Gen. Gordon is prospectively the
richest man in Georgia. GOV. Colquitt
isreported to have recently made So.
eco " the sale Of a coal mine in which
be nd Gen. Gordon were interested.
A writer in the Ennis (Texas) Re-
view proposes raising catalpa trees for
fence posts he says that in five years
ircm planting tie tree is large enough
fer Iosts and that in ten We RS it is
large enough for railroad tic. He es-
tmates that 1000 trees can be grown on
an acre.
Unpopular ministers that no commun-
ity wants are called "gum,Icg preachers"
in the Georgia NJ. f. Conference. They
are "hard stock" and are generally put
off ON some mountain community, where
they get n salary ranging from $50 to
500 n year.
A South Carolina paper says that
thOufands ard thousands of doves are
Lfcsting the rice fields of West Wa
tarce. In some places the rice has been
rpplanted two or three times, Al d yet
the stand is not good, owing to its de-
stmction by the birds.
A party of miners in Northeast Geor-
gia, at the depth of twenty feet below
the surface, found seventeen diamonds,
They have lecn pronounced genuine by
New York firm, and are said to be
equal to the African diamond. There
may have been Salt in the neighbor-
hood.
Recent census bul,e ins show that
Selma has 1929 Teople; Greensboro,
1888; Demopolis, 1880 Marion, 2,O74
jacksonville, $50; Oxford, 1861; Annis-
ton, 9i2; Lafayette, 1,CGl, and Tallade-
ga 1,23@.
While Rev. Mr.. Collision, of Hous-
ton, Texas, was taking farewell of his
Methodist cor gregaticn, preparatory to
going over to EpiscoI aianism, and was
giving his objections to Methodism,
Brother JCcms f. DunbIc interrupted
him, saying: 81 have no right to OBJ
lcct ta your quitting the church if you
think proper, but ] have right and do
protest againt your using a Methodist
puIpit 10 abuse the Methodist church in
or TO condemn. Methodist doctrine
There was quiet On the Potomac after
that.
Mr.. J. NJ. Darsey, of Hinesville, Ga,
was annoyed last year by the otterS.
Just back of his house is a spring branch
which affords home for great many
offers. Fi,h being scarce, when the
corn was inmuttcn, they left the branch
and took to eating the corn, and they
could destroy as much as 40 many cconS'
Mr. Darsey would sometimes run aS
many as five out OF the field at one time,
and the dogs soon became afraid OF them
lie succeeded in killing number, how
ever.