The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-08-30
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Nashville has twenty-one hotels.

gtrlCtlOn OF stTecJ railway.
The new three-cents per-mile railroad
law has gone into effect in Texas.
Fort Valley, Ga, Twill erect beauti'
full and costly Confederate monument
Pike county, Ala, has fourteen
year-old BOY who weighs 1856 pounds.
Arkansas is shipping immense quaint.
ties OF black walnut timber to England.
Last year Texas imported corn, but
this year will have 100000 bushels
to sell.
Mississippi has organized several live
stock insurance companies-a new de-
parture.
A million dollars worth of improve
ments are being added to Birmingham,
Alabama.
Five miles from Fort Smith, Ark, a
vein of coal five feet in thickness has
n been struck.
Griffin, one ef the most enterprising
little cities in Georgia, is to have the
electric light.
The wooden plate factory at New
berne, N. c., turns out 600,O of the
plates each week.
Atlanta, which last year handled l2o,-
OC0 bales of cotton, expects to handle
l6O,0 900 bales this year.
One hundred and twenty.four varie-
ties Of cotton goods are turned out by
the Mississippi mills.
Athens, Ala, has a population Of s..
COO and a valuation of $4,000, ,OOO-that
is, 81 600 to every inhabitant.
The coal measures of the Warren.
Ala, coal field are 1000 feet in thick
ness. The seams number for!y-two as
far as developed.
Mrs. Butler, of Marion county, Ga,
who has reached the age of 1l2 years.
was baptised last Sunday as a member Of
the Primitive Baptist church.
Pensacola parties have sent TO Ger.
many for 200 servant girls, to be held
under years contract, with privilege,
to employers, of two years.
A shark was killed in Mobile bay q
few days ago which measured fifteen
feet from tip to tip, and of that variety
known to sailors as the tiger shark.
Columbus, Ca, has ten cotton and
wooden mills. Sixteen thousand nine
hundred and forty-eight bales of cotton
were used in manufacturing last year.
DR.. McCurry, of Floyd county, Ga,
has succeeded in making fine article Of
syrup of watermelon juice. 1t is rich
and thick, and has the taste of honey.
Mattresses made of needles from South
Carolina pine boughs are said to cure
pulmonary and rheumatic ailments, and
an active trade in them has been estab-
lished.
A $1,000 diamond was found recently
in the bed Of a creek near Danbury, n
c. As it was in the rough and other
large ones have been found in the State,
the charge of sailing will not hold.
Perhaps the best apology,for Mormon
polygamy that has been made is by a
wit on Pacific coast newspaper. He
says that at least the system does not
throw the burden of supporting hus-
band on one woman.
Louisiana's salt mine, which is in
Iberia parish, covers an area of l40 acres
aud is solid deposit of remarkable pur-
ity and excellence. The rock is very
solid and is without fssure or seams.
Over 200 sacks is the present daily
output.
A weed far superior to oakum, has
been discovered in Putnam county, Flor
ida which, after being put through 8
process, proved the above assertion. A
stock company is :being formed for the
purpose of utilizing it. The weed il
found in abundance.
The Oldest stove probably in the
United States is the one that warns the
hall of Virginia's capitol in Richmond
1t was made in England and sent t.
Richmond in ITO, and warmed th
House of Burgesses for sixty years oe-
fore it was removed to its present loca
cation, where it has remained for thirt,
years.
us the Turkish civil service system,
asked traveller in the orient of a pasha
like ours? Are there retiring allow
ances and pensions, for instance?' "M
lllustrious friend and JOY of my liver,
replied the pasba, "Allah is great, an
the pub. func. who stands in need of
retiring allowance when his term of o.
fce expires is an ass have spoken.
The Hebrew Aid Society, of Ne
York, is sending back to Russia tf
rauper, diseased and infirm Jews ser
over to this country by the Londc
committee. This is very [sensible,
the Hebrew Aid Society has enough
40 looking after the able bodied refuge
ana getting them work in this countr
a Jewish agricultural colony has be,
established in Colorado, which is said
be doing well.
What is said TO be the largest fla,