The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24
NEWS GLEANiNGS.

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Some unknown person has beer
poisoning the fish of Black Lake, La, by
the wholesale, with India berries,
A new cotton compress is to be erected
in Norfolk. Virginia, which is intended
to be the most powerful in the world.
Bradley county, Arkansas, is de.
scribed as glorious garden, where the
people own their farms and the crops
hide the houses from sight.
Sixty one thousand three hundred and
seventy tons of guano were imported
into North Carolina during the past
season.
Sohn e. Peoples, of Anderson, S. c.,
is the greatest rag man in the State. He
ships annually from 10000 to 200, coo
pounds of rags.
A colored Baptist minister, John An
gel James, of Forsyth, Georgia, i'm
mersed fifty converts in fifty.fve min
utes.
Louis Kent, colored man of Missis-
sippi has had the honor for three years
past of sending the first bale of cotton
to market. =.
Parties are poisoning the streams in
Sumter county, Georgia, with green
walnuts and devil shoestring to kill the
fish. This is violation of law.
Judge Gillian, of Oglethorpe county,
Georgia, often has applications from men
to buy marriage license on time. He
takes lien on the bride and then issues
them.
A swarm of bes have made a hum 70
themselves in the tower of the Presby-
ran church at Covington, Ga, wher
they are supposed to be butting up honey
for winter Use.
Senator Lamar's health Is still so poo
that his physician has forbidden him to
speak at public meetings at present,
saying he could only do SO at great risk
Old man Burnside, the New Orleans
millionaire, didn't know he had any
relatives But there is little army of
them marching right along to fight over
those five or six millions Of "tilthy lu.
ere"
In the South the cry is again heard,
"Raise what you eat" The people have
commenced eating cotton seed oil, and
may be they will lie able to eat cotton
after awhile.
Some negroes of Oglcthorpe county,
Georgia, have organized u church
founded on a new belief. They say there
is no hell, and the preacher proposes to
forgive all sins upon the payment of a
fee ranging from ten cents to a dollar, as
the class of sin may dictate.
The Dallas Times thinks that {" In
the beautiful hereafter, if towns should
become spirits, Galveston will be found,
with hands extended, standing on the
corner of the New Jerusalem asking for
aims. 1t is the beggar town of the
State"
Mr.. Joe Beasley, an experimental
gardener near Columbus, Georgia, has
succeeded in raising some melons with
delicious lemon flavor. He makes an
incision in the vine short distance
from the root, to which he attaches
lemon, and by means of absorption the
juice is taken into the melon.
Constitution: Whatever Georgia
may do, the two Carolinas will be well
represented at the Expositions and so
will Tennessee Never had Georgia
such an opportunity to show the whole
civilized world her natural resources
and unequaled capabilities, and if it
goes unimproved the men who are re-
sponsible for the neglect will live to see
their action condemned thousand
times.
Last week ludicrous occurrence
happened in MoNtezuma, Ga. A col
bred man was sporting around five
dollar gold piece, and unwittingly
handed it to notorious negro woman
named Sallie Banks, for inspection,
She, deeming herself bank, and that
the money WAS intended for deposit,
placed it in her mouth and swallowed it,
neglecting to give the man Certificate
OF deposit
During n protracted meeting at Rock
Hill church, Georgia, i'll Dooly county,
young man Of eighteen years. the son
Of widow lady, profcssed religion and
united himself to the church (Metho
dist). On going home he told his moth
er of it, who is Baptist. She was
highly incensed, and made an elder son
tie this seeker of religion, and together
they gave him an unmerciful beating,
and threatened more severe punish
ment if he persisted in what they called
downright foolishness." The young
man has gone back to the ways OF the
world.