The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-12-06
NEWS GLEANINGs.


Cedar Key, Fla, bears the distinction
Of being a town in which not singl
COW is owned or kept.
Alabama is in such prosperous con
dition that the Governor recommend
reduction of taxation.
A gold mine has been discovered il
Warren county, Ga, which promises t,
be one of the richest in the State.
In Georgia this year 14O,515 whit,
voters paid their poll taxes, and 90, Is;
colored voters did the same thing.
A bill has been introduced in the Ala
bams Legislature to prevent person,
playing "crac-a-loo"' in public places.
The iron bridge across Yazoo river
twelve miles above Vicksburg, Miss, i,
to cost $25O,0O0. 1t is now under wav
The actual capital now invested in
Southern cotton mills is placed at $50
100000, giving employment to 40, OOC
hands.
A bill has been introduced in the
Georgia Legislature to require railroad
companies to fence in their roads and
erect cattle guards.
Georgia farmers, elated and encour.
aged by the immense oat crop harvested
this year, are putting in larger crop
thar ever this fall.
The New Orleans Times. Democrat
and Charleston News and Courier are
agitating the project of organizing a
Southern Associated Press.
The Commercial says Vickburg is on
irregular business boom, forging ahead
at a lively rate, but the condition of
the city finances is deplorable.
The award of 800 for design for
the Confederate monument to be erected
at Nashville has been ordered paid to
Henry o. Avery, of New York.
Wayerly, Tenn, takes pride in point
ing out to visitors the site on which
stood the log school house in which Col
Robt. G. Ingersoll taught school twenty.
five years ago.
Virginia ranks seventeenth in the
list Of Reproducing States, the oyster,
menhaden and shad fisheries being the
three branches in which her citizens are
most extensively interested,
A Mississippi man has discovered that
an excellent quality of sugar can be
made from sweet potatoes. If this
proves true, new usef has been found
for one Of the best and m ost prolific o
American products,
The News says Galveston may as well
give up the hope of being algreat cotton
market, in consequence of direct expor.
tation of the cotton of Northern Texas to
Liverpool and Bremen by spiuner's
"S'hVo th'ouSuOuo Vic Ctdlt.
A bill providing for the erection of a
new Capitol has been introduced in the
Georgia Legislature. The bill provides
that it be built of Georgia granite and
marble, decorated with Georgia pine
and walnut, and cost 81 100000.
On the farm of VIM. J. Watkins, in
buckingham county, Va. is a mound
between twenty and thirty feet high,
which is filled with the bones of men
and women, together with pieces of In
dian pottery, arrow heads and other
elics.
The many hundred Thousands of cane
fishing poles used in the North each
year are obtained near the head of Big
Black river, in Mississippi. Four hun
dred thousand poles will be cut and
shipped this fall, besides 100000 small.
er canes for pipe stems.
Louisiana's crops of sugar, rice and
cotton are enormous. Some of the SUI
gar plantations are yielding three hogs.
heads of sugar and six barrels of moas>
ses to the acre. This is remarkable. The
planters are in high glee. Net incomes
from $500 to 100000 are talked of.
Lynchburg(Va.) Advance: The an
nual report of the Hampton Indian
school shows thirty Indian girls and fif-
ty-four Indian boys in attendance. The
students made 1000 pairs of shoes and
seventy.fve sets of harness, beside.
many other articles, during the present
year.
A Charleston Is. o. woman blondin
ed her hair with some vile concoction
and then while braiding it, held it il
her mouth. The stuff poisoned her lips
and the poison soon found its way
throughout her entire system. Ate
weeks Of doctering, she recovered, bu
only by the merest chance.
Montgomery Advertiser: Among tn
fruits exhibited at the fair during tn,
present week was barrel af Alabam
oranges, raised by Mr.. Tatum, Repre-
sentative in the Legislature from Bald
win county. They attracted genera
attention by their rich color and larg
size, and compare very favorably wit
the best Florida oranges.
Mellomaise is South American c,
real, superior to both corn and whes
Tor cakes and bread, which experiment
ing has proved will grow successfully
the South, making from fifty to OF
hundred bushels to the acre. In Sout
Carolina it has been grown for sever