The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28
NEWS GLEANINGS.

seed oil-mil in Atlanta, Ga.
Polk county, Georgia, has thirty saw
mills, employing 1850 men.
The Buckingham gold mine, in Vir-
ginia, is valued at $4,000, 900.
The Charlottesville, Va, bent-wood
factory has begun operations.
Ground has been broken at Columbus,
Ga, for the new cotton factory.
One orange tree in Clay county, Fla,
has 5000 oranges on its branches.
Over two hundred houses are in course
Of erection at Chattanooga, Tenn.
Mrs, Carr, aged 100 years, died in
Barbour county, Ala few days ago.
Baker county,. Ga, has raised its liq-
uor license from $27 to s, 600 per year.
Charleston, S, G, is shipping phos
plate rock. used for fertilizing, to Eng.
land.
West Virginia produces nearly one.
fourth of all the nails used in the United
States.
The dam now building at Columbus
Ga, is the largest stone dam in the
South.
Judge Clayton, of Eufaula, Ala, has
decided that dealing in cotton futures i.
gambling,
Louisiana has 172,065 registered vo-
teres, of which S5, 45l arc white aud S..
024 colored.
1he mountains in Swain county, n
u, are sid to be of solid mnrblc-red
pink, rlaided and black.
A careless druggist at starkc, Fla
gave Mrs. Jones poison instead of doe
OF calomel, and she died from its effects
There are now in Wythe and PULASKI;
counties. Va, fifteen blast furnaces en-
gagged in making of cold blast charcoa
iron.
A negro in Montgomery, Ga, lost hi
only mule by death, but, being bounC
to make a crop, hitched himself and
while his wife held the handles, contin
ued with his work.
A rich strike has Just been made il
the famous old Magruder mines, in Lin
coin county, Ga, in the shape of a four
and-a-halffoot vein af silver ore, ASSAY
ing $50 to the ton.
Virginia drinks up her entire whea
crop annually, and it is stated that th,
liquor drank in Louisiana costs 81, coo,
0Oo-S2, 100000 more than its combine,
cotton, sugar and rice crop.
Pineapple grow to an enormous siz
in Key Largo. One recently exhibitc,
at Key West from that place measure,
foot in length and twenty-three nche
in circumference. 1t weighed cish
pounds.
Pensacola promises to he the futur
seaport of the South. During May eight,
nine vessels, with an aggregate tonnag
OF 6S, Jig tons, entered the port an
ninety-fve vessels, with an aggregate @
55,616 tons, cleared.
Three curious fish were recently can
tured in lagoon near Macon, Ga. Til
first one caught was about three lct
long, shaped like watermelon, an
was perfectly translucent, bloodless, col
and clammy. The otkers were smallc
but like the first in every other respec
A new and important industry is b,
ing built up on Lake Jessup, Fla. TT
fine beds of mari which have been di
covered along the south shore of Il
lake are being utilized, with fish fro
the lake, in the manufacture OF fertil
zers. A company has been organize
and buildings erected on Bird island,
the lake, mile and a half from Il
main land.
Out of the 2O0,655 immigrants wi
landed at New York from January 1,
May 81, of this year, more went to WI
consin alO c than to the whole Sout
10 show how few of them went Sout
the following detail is given: Virgini
1853; Maryland, 181; West Virgini
1856; North Carolina, %; South Caro-
ma, Ga; Alabama, 6S; Florida, 40; Miss
sippi, 10; Georgia, 1874; Arkansas, /, IL
Louisiana, 600; kentucky, SEQ; Tennt
see, l57; Missouri, 43O; Texas, 1900.
The Tennessee State library coStai
some valuable relics, among which il
piece of the flag surrendered by Lo
CORVALLIS to Gen. Washington, at Yol
town, October 10, 17S1 Daniel Boon
musket, Gen. Jackson's cap, and t
sword of Col. Du Puyster, British o
Ger under Col. Ferguson, captured at I
battle of Kings mountain in 1880.
case with many other things is to
seen limb in the shape of walk
cane, said to be cut from beech t
sixty feet high and four feet thick,
whick is plainly visible to this day
y following inscription:
u BOON cillfd Bar.
on TREE in year 1850.
Near Stellayille, Ga, a eaden me