The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-13
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Knoxville, Tenn, has raised $3.50 900
oyord buildinp n cotton factory.

toward building a cotton factory.
A hog owned by a man living near
Petersburg, Va, weighs 1900 pounds.
Louisiana proposes to enter extensive
" in the raising and manufacture of
jute.
At Henrys, n. c., a vein of mser-
schaum of extremely fine quality has
been discovered.
Vicksburgs new cotton compress, with
storage capacity of $4,000 bales, is
ready for business.
At a sale af public lands at Austin,
Tex, 10000 acres were sold at fifty
cents, man named Forsyth taking it
all.
The State Land Office at Tallahassee
has now eight clerks employed. Three
did the work before the boom reached
the State.
A man near Newman, Ga, has been
working an alleged gold mine forty
wears and has never made a cent. lie
is still confident that "thcre's millions
in it,"
The huge rattle snake recently killed
in Sumter county, Fla, has been for
warded to the Smithsonian Institute.
The snake measured eight feet and two
inches in length.
Raleigh News and Observer: North
Carolina has 17S varieties of minerals,
25 more than any other State can show
up. There are 112 varitics of woods,
and again we are in the lead.
1t is intended organizing the "Ben
Hill Monumental Association" in Geor-
gia, the object of the association being
to collect funds to erect monument at
Atlanta in memory of Hon. b. II. Hill.
An old silver watch, once the prperty
of Aaron Burr, and an autograph of
Thomas Jefferson, were purchased in
Richmond, Va, recently, by ex-Gov-
enor Randolph for the New. Jersey
Historical Society.
The enterprising Texan who started
goose rancho near Taylor has given
up his project. The geese, 400 in all,
died. failing TO find sustenance enough
in the grass on which it was thought
they would thrive.
The chestnut tree recently felled at
Salisbury, n. c., measures nine feet in
diameter, and lady and gentleman can
walk through it without getting near so
close together as they do at lawn par
ty. The rings on the tree indicate that
it is 400 years old.
"Pa, what is a pes'lmlst, anu what is
an optimist ?" "A pessimist, my son
is one who takes the surplus kittens,
Just after they are born, and chloro-
forms them. The optimist is one who
lets the kittens grow up, to live a
wretched, starving life; to be tortured
continually by boys and other thought
less animals, and to be finally killed
with brickbats and left to rot on the
street"
Great war ships are costly even in
England, where ship building is less eX-
pensive than in this country. The Brit
ish ironclad Inhexible cost $4,OOO,OOO,
bu, she is the most formidable war YES
sci ever constructed. She has tonnage
of II, ,4O6 tons, 5000 horse power en-
gines and an armor ranging from six
teen to twenty-four inches in thickness
She carries four eighty-one ton guns,
which propel 100 pound shot dis
tance Of nine miles,
At the receut Forestry Convention a
Montreal it was shown that in Canadi
the annual production of pine lumbe
is 100000, 900 feet, requiring the tree
o! 100000 acres, and that at this rat
the pine forests will not hold out owe
fifty years, and not that long If tn
present waste in cutting continues ant
fires are allowed to ravage the pine re-
gion. DIR. Loring, our Commissioner .
Agriculture, made an address to tn
convention, showing that the pine for
ests in the United States would in Ten
as be exhausted in 800 years Florid'
thirty years; Alabama, seventy years
Mississippi $50 years; Minnesota le
years; Michigan, seven years; Wisco'
sin, twenty years; North Carolina, hlt
years; Louisiana, $40 years; Georg''
seventy-fve years; Pennsylvania, hN
years Arkansas, 800 years; Californi
200 yems; South Carolina, twenty-sevt
years; Maine fifteen years. The bu
of the pine lumber supply is in Il
Southern States, and from Dr. Loring
statement ii is very evident that it is
great public duty to prevent the prese
reckless waste of timber, and to rehab
itate wasted areas by forest planting.
Prof. Henry A. Ward, of Roch,