The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-20
NEWS GLEANINGs.

NEWS GLEANINGS.
Georgia has 2, 517 drinking saloons.
The bonded debt of Louisiana is $11,-
$3.50.
There are seventy-three saw mills, all
running, in Obeon county, Tenn.
Last year Texas imported corn. This
year she will have millions of bushels
to sell.
Hon. Alexander III. Stephens says he
now weighs five pounds more than he
ever did before.
A solid lump OF pure silver, weighing
nearly q pound, was found near Mag
nolia, N. c., recently.
The explosion of bottle of ginger
pop caused an Augusta, Ga, lady to
loose the sight of both eyes.
A steamship from Norfolk to New
York few days ago carried 10000
chickens from Southwestern Virginia.
North Carolina has 776 saw-mills,
with capital of s1,74S, 217, employing
5000 hands, and the products are worth
s2,672.796.
The total consumption of cotton by
North Carolina mills and factories for
the year ending August 81, 1882, was
10000, 600 pounds.
A panther six feet in length was re-
Gently killed in Buchanan county, Va.
1t had for long time been terror to
the neighborhood.
During the year of 1881 ninety.six
wild cats were killed in st. Johns county.
Fla, and so far this year seventy-six
have bitten the dust.
The average corn crop in Tennessee is
10000, 900 bushels, but it will reach
100000, 900 bushels this year. The whea
crop will reach nearly IL, 900, 600 bushels.
Mrs. Bozeman, whose age is we'll au
theEticated to have been Is years, died
in the Halifax county On. O. poor
house last week. She leaves a great
great grandchild forty years old.
The crop of sugar made in Louisiana
during the season of 1872 amounted
to 159, 81, $50 pounds, equivalent to
1926 hogsheads. The production of
molasses amounted to 1901 ,104 gallons,
or 206, 194 barrels.
An Alabama law, passed by the last
Legislature, prohibits the owners of
sheep killing dogs to permit them to run
at large. The first conviction under the
law was made in jefferson county re-
Gently, and the owner of the dog fined
$75.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
learns with surprise that the "poor but
proud" young women of that city are
reluctant to engage as operatives at the
cotton mill for fear that such employ
ment is;:"not quite respectable"
Fifty one counties in Georgia have no
licensed saloons. Two others close out
October 1. Seven have only one each,
and in many counties the the sale is
confined exclusively to the county town.
The prohibition element is becoming
stronger and more formidable every day
The corn crop for the State Of Geor
gia is estimated by the State Agricult-
ural Department to be in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000, 900 bushels, which makes
the yield about equal to that of 1859
which latter has long been regarded as
probably the larges corn crop ever gath
cred in the State.
The Blair family, of Camden, S. c.,
have a sad record. Miss Blair, beau
tiful girl, has just committed suicide.
Her great grandfather was hanged, hel
grandfather committed suicide, her ia
Their, L. w. r. Blair, was tried for muir.
der, and escaped only to fall in a per.
sonal rencounter with Capt. Halle, a
short time since. One of her brothers
is now in the State penitentiary, serving
out life sentence for murder.
AZ INC OdNiours Iloihc, idudeiCd
institution at Little Rock, Ark, nc
medicine is given to the sick, no matter
what the disease with which they are
suffering. One of the inmates, child
died recently for want of medical treat
ment, and the inhuman managers of THU
more than inhaman institution made NJ
effort to save it's life. They should bt
prosecuted for willful murder, and thu
name of the house pre6xed by some
thing smacking to ha IS. The presen
name is misnomer all reports b
true.