The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-18
NEWS GLEANINGs.

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Ono Of the most successful cotton.
yzowen In Alabama il negro.
Texss win have over zoe new distil
leriss By To close of the present year.
Ths cslosed Baptists in Tennessee
nnmber %, 900 and have $50 churches.
Work ON the jetties in harbor al
Charleston, South Carolina, has been
sesumed.
In spite Of the overflow, probably in
consequencs of it, the Iouisiana sugar
crop is the best since the war.
mex Butler, Who burned his little
child TO death At Flor.nce, Ala, has
been sent to the penitentiary for life. &
The Nickle church, to be built at Pal
estine. Tex. il t. be paid for by not less
than 100000 persons contributing a
nickle . piece. i : -
Para gras grows to an enormous
length in Florida Near Orange City
soae il growing that is eighteen feet
and . half long, $500
A terrspin farm has its existence at
Waveland, Misa, and last week 900 lit
tie turtles were hatched. They will be
full grown in three years.
I'm Heard county, Georgia, resides a
family Of eight persons, named Ray, al
of whom are deaf mutes. Nevertheless,
they are AL Industrious and happy.
The average corn crop in Tennessee is
10000, ,00o bushels, but it will reach
100, 0,00o. 900 busheis this year. The
wheat crop win reach nearly $4,000, ,000
The Farmers Cooperative Union, of
Florida, are said to have secured sim
pie but e6ectual plan for preparing or.
anRes for market in such a manner that
they viii keep for months.
The monument to be erected at Vicks-
burg, Min., to the memory of Carl
baldi, will be surmounted by life sized
statue Of that personage, and will be one
of the finest in the United States.
A large shot-tower is to be erected in
New Orleans by q local company who
have abundant means and plenty of ex-
Pezience. The tower will be the eleventh
In the United States when completed.
The progren of railroad building and
Enila6e1 h1einelG 4 the South List year
was unprecedented. About 1900 miles
ef road were put in operation, ard the
groa earnirsa amounted tc $6s, 900, ,0c0
Roberts 4 Eeltee .:of Bullock county,
Ala, hsd twenty-six acres of heavy
timbeskS 0ottom land which they want
ed cleared. In ten hours l06 axmen
With 500 LOG rollers and brush pliers
conplstsd tie job.
he Hot Springs creek on the Gov
rpnent reservation At Hot Springs,
Ark, il to b strengthened and, protect>
cd from sewage water and refuse, and
generally to have S127, 900 worth of inn
provsnents put ON it.
Tie Times Democrat, in an article on
the health Of New Orleans, claims that
there are no less than II, 900 people in
that city over sixty years of age or one
eighteenth Of the population, while 1876
have passed ninety.
Dallas, Tex, Is said to be built over a
grave yard of mastodons, and for five or
six years past excavations for buildineo
have seldom failed to bring up their
boneA A large number of these masto-
don remains were unearthed few days
ago, and some of the bones were of enor-
mouh sixe.
The officers of the Pawnee. Stonewall
jackson, Esthetic and Chief Marriage
Associations of Little Rock, Ark, have
been fued &26 each for violating city
ordinance which prohibits "gift" enter.
prises being conducted in that city. The
State Gazette aups them, wildcat
schemes to fleece the Innocent
A colored man. ]. R. Ballard. was re