The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-06-22
NEWS GLEAMINGS.
North Carolina has 96 counties.

The school fund of Kentucky is$l,
100000,
Key West, Fla, shipped 1000 cigar
last week,
Apricots sell in Lake City, Fla, at IS
per bushel.
Pensacola, Florida, is to have a new
hotel, cost 100000.
Wilmington, North Carolina, has a
population of l7,5O6.
North Carolina has a commissioner o.
immigration in England.
New Orleans is to have a school for
the training Of women nurses.
North Carolina has 22l Masonic lodges
at work with membership of S,199,
Six hundred thousand oranges will be
Slipped from Enterprise, Florida, this
fall.
Monticello, Fla, has shipped this sea.
son 5O3 barrels and 90 crates of Irish
potatoes.
A green turtle, weighing over 400
pounds, has been captured off the Flor.
ida coast.
One hundred children work in the
Maysville, KY, cotton mills for Is cents
to $l.25 week each.
Tile Association of Atlanta Preachers
have signed respectful protest against
the issuing of Sunday papers.
Nine spongers came into Key West,
Fla, last week, after Il nine weeks
cruise, and sold their sponge for $2,5ll.
Six thousand cans of oysters were re.
Cently sent North in one shipment by
the canning establishment at Newbern,
North Carolina.
One hundred and two thousand, eight
hundred and thirty-fve poundso of straw
berries have been shipped from Chatta-
noogs this season.
A correspondent of the Atlanta Con-
Stitution says Savannah is the modern
SOdOm and has four hundred bar-roOms,
or one to every twelve adults.
Such severe storm prevailed in Lee
and Sumter counties, Georgia, that in
one place, for nearly a mile, you could
walk On the trees that had been blown
down.
In Harris county, Ga, dinner-horns
are said TO have gone out of fashion.
Provisions are so scarce that when
horn sounds all the neighborhood re-
SpOnd to the call.
Charles Johnson of New Orleans, the
convicted ship-burner, says that a num-
ber of business men, cotton brokers
chiefly, were "interested" with him in
his business-the ship-burning business.
The Adventists of Granbury, Texas,
have erected a large tabernacle for the
purpose of expounding their doctrines.
Mr.. Matthew Berry, near Ramer,
Montgomery county, Ala, is sending to
the high school his eight children.
A number of young men from Greene
county, Ga, started down the river in
canoe about six months ago to try the
novel business of trapping beavers. The
voyage was very dangerous, but success
ful, and each mans skins netted him
500.
Two little boys, Clarence Gross and
Willie Dominy, were wrestling in Dub
lin, Ga, and fell on their sides. Willie
got up, leaving Clarence on the ground
The by-standers noticed that he did not
stir, and approaching they found he was
dead.
Mr.. j. W. Slaughter, near Pineville
Georgia, was having well dug on his
place, and when about twenty feet deep
awell'preserved oak leaf was found firm
ly imbeddcd in the chalk When about
hfty feet deep a live snake Of the black
species was found.
"The Atlantic and Gulf COals Canal
and Okeechobee Land Company" is the
dlgnliicd title of the organization which
proposes to reclaim the Florida Ever
glades. The company will have a cap
ltal of $4,000, ,0OO and will build a
canal to drain Lake Okeechobee, east
and west, and also a canal 800 miles long
along the east coast of Florida. Colon
s's from Europe are to be settled on the
lands, Sugar and indigo are to be
grown on the reclaimed lands. The
company held a meeting at Philadelphia
last week.