The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-08-16
NEWS GLEANINGS.

Gull eggs sell at fifteen cents dozen
at Tampa, Fla.
Atlanta, Ga, capitalists talk of tart
Ing large shoe factory.
Georgia has turned the tables, and is
shipping oats to the West.
The hemp crop in the blue grass region
a Of Kentucky will be short.
Texas has nearly 81, 100000 cash bal
snce in the State Treasury.
A cotton seed oil mill has been con-
tractCd for in Greenville, Ala.
The cotton crop of Florida will be
about the ZANE az that of last year.
New corn j. being contracted for at
twenty-five cents bushel in Texas.
From Ncy Largo, Fla, $50, 200 pine
apples have been shipped tins season.
The fine quarries of marble in Pick
ems county, Ga, are to be developed.
Americas, Ga, according TO recent
surveys, is just 500 feet above sea level.
Rich deposits of phosphate rock have
been discovered in Chatham county Ga.
Preserving FIGS Is IN important indus
try at st. Augustine and Jacksonville,
Ola.
"a An Atlanta druggist saws there are
1900 confirmed opium-eaters in that
city.
North Carolina now leads the South
ern States in the number Of her cotton
mills.
n 81. Augustine. Fla, is manufacturing
and shipping large quantitses of orange
( wine.
{ Virginia has GSl prisoners in the pen.
itentiary and 29l hired out on railroad
work.
Three hundred Swedish families will
settle along the line o. the Florida Cen.
tral Railroad.
4 Jewish synagogue, fashioned afte
an ancient Palestine palace, is to b
built in Athens. Ga.
A large factory will be erected near
Norfolk, Va, tor the preservation of
lumber by the creosote process.
' For the first time in the history of
Jefferson county, Ga, no Intoxicating
s liquor can be purchased within its Dor,
\ tep.
N In the past ten years Georgia has in
creased the number Of her farms ninety
eight per cent, and now has total of
lSSG26.
Mrs. VIM. Boarding, who died recently
ln Perry county, Ala, was lO7 years
4 old. Her husband, who survives her,
3 is 100 years old.
The great iron viaduct for the track
Of the Frisco railway south of the Bos-
ton mountain tunnel, in Arkansas, is 32l
feet high and 800 feet long.
OF the 1881 convcts in the Georgia
penltentiary, ia are negroes. Only
imrty women are among the nun Der,
and but enc Of them is white.
|s The United States troops stationed at
Tampa are TO be moved to Mount Yer
hon, Ala, and the Tampa post will
4 probably be abandoned altogether
Since the spring of 1880 Memphis has
paved eight aud Il half miles of streets
and rut down forty miles Of sewers and
forty miles of su1soil pipes. The cost
was 100000.
S Savannah parties are endeayoring to
Establish semi-monthly line of steam
srS between that place and London, Eng
sEland, for the purpose Of bringing immi-
grants to this coantry.
M There are about one thousand acres Of
land on Matecombie key, Monroe coun
tN Florida, and it has recently been
purchased by three Key Westers, who
intend to convert it into one big coco:
nut grove.
The Southern car works at Knoxville
Tenn, turn out $500, 600 worth of rail
road cars and $4,000 worth of wheel
every year. Three furniture facto rit
90 an annual business of 100000;
barrel factory, 100000; a handle facto
ry'sl2O,OOO, and an iron company, $3.50
quo. There are besides, two founderie
doidg a business of 100000, and 81
Touring mills, all doing well.
Peter Griffin, colored, lives near AT
gusta, Ga, and owns farm of over 80
acres, all of which is under cultivatio
lie has 100 acres in corn, and will max
nifty bales of cotton this year. He he
twenty acres in oats, and raises on hi
place everything that he needs. Their
are six plows under his direction, an
ne has a home that is fitted up wit
every convenience and comfort.
East Tennessee letter: Ancient nun
mics are found in East Tennessee cave
with sandals petrifed to their feet Tin
Der in our forests disclose wounds il
Z flcted near the heart, With sharp-edgt
tools, leng before Columbus quit wea
ing petticoats, Triangle-shaped coin
OF unknown alloy, of the date of 121
are plowed up in our fields. Fossil r
mains of animals, long since extinct a
n found petrifed on our hillsides. Dirt