The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-04
NEWS GLEAHINGs.

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The Virginia penitsntiary now con-
1aias eS1 convics.
About three-fourths Of the fruit crop
Of Georgia has been dried.
AZ Gainesville, Ca, MIS-. (i. nbei
did at the age Of 100 years.
The South will make 100000 GAL
lens Of cotton sesd oil this year.
Bee-keeping il becoming a large and
profitable industry in Mississippi.
The trade IN cotton In Montgomery,
Ala, last year footed up u. 600, 600.
Florida has shipped, during the sea-
Dn just closed, $4,000 head of cattle to
0uba.
In some portions Of North Alabama
corn II offered At twenty-five cents a
baaheL
Clay county, N. O., polls but twenty
negro votes, while Wake heads the list
With Sass.
The colored military companies in the
South win hold an encampment in At
lanta this fail
The Sslma, Ala. cotton mile have
inst shiyped Eve car loads Of cotton
goods to China.
Hale county, Ala, il looking out for
her moo industry and il gathering
thousands of tens.
Macon, Ga, has . bonded debt of but
e1oo. 900, and taxable property amount
ing to >lo, 900. 900.
Memphis has one-seventh of the
whole number Of cotton-seed oil mills
n the whsle country.
The 6rst and only flown clock in the
State Of Florida surmounts the new
seurt house at Tampa.
Large and very rich deposits Of iron
ere have recently been discovered in
Hazlhall county, Ala.
A grove Of eighty banana trees,
eighteen months old, il bearing good
Auit at Waynesboro, Ga.
An effort 10 being made to found a
college ut Greenville, Miss, for the ed
ssation Of colored youths.
.. Over 400 mines, including silver, cop
- and efhar minsyalA are being work
Cd in North Carolina
Florida will soon be . perfect net
work Of railways, and the rapid devel-
epmsnt Of the State will Of course fol
low. Her resources are wonderful, and
. few years viii Plaoe her among the
liveliest Of the Southern States.
North Caroolina's rico crop 10 good,
and this year viii reach 50, 900 bushels
Of tide-water and 300, 900 bushels Of up
land.
A stalk Of Sea Island cotton nine feet
n height and having forty-two branches
md $50 hollis, Il. on exhibition at Bron-
soa, Fla.
The Georgia Lunatic Asylum is full
. sverAowing, and cannot accommo
dsts . large number Of insane persons
waiting treatment.
Il h estimsted that over one-half Of
~ new manufactures started in the
esuth during the last two years belong
- Northern capitalists.
Little Rosk, Ark, voted on the
~iissnss" question at the recent election
and decided BY an overwhelming ma
jority to continue b "sip of the flowing
nswl.s
Tho New Orleans Times Demo crat say
II 10 quite probable that the amount
vaid by the South to the West for food
stuSs this year viii be @10o, 600, oo3
lso than paid in 1881.
The Atlanta Constitution publishes
table showing the taxable property 0
Georgia to Be worth, - returned from
taxation, $50, ooo, 900, An increase owe
sst years returns Of Ole. 900, 900.
There are now twenty-five iron ful
laees In Alabama. Tho Birmingham
Are says that within . radius Of fift,
miles Of Birmingham there is enoug
hon 10 supply thousand furnaces 70
. thousand years.
Two moro Of the old guard have pass
ID over the dark river. Michael Hol
bsrt aged 1ol years, died last week j
Marion county. West Va, and Jam.
etalwart, aged Ill years, has just die
in Acoomac county, Va.
he Americas (Ga.) Recorder "a,
Shat during the present cyclone Il
wells In the eastern part of the cit
were blown dry. These wells, up
tie time Of the gale, were unfailinI
Tie explanation Of this -remarkabl
occurrence j. The existence of subterr
.eaa pssasss sndstAs violent agitatio
en- tie surfnes opened channels of z.
cape for Tie water TO these.
A curious locking specimen of Il
bovine race VS. exhibited on the stree
u 0rssnGbore, n. O., recently. II
animal IL . Dsvonshirs bull calf, thr
noaths old, With tail and hide sinil
10 thoss Of N elephant. The calf
sbout IL usual sise, and apparent
vsll and hsasty. Its hide is entire
dutitutS 1t bsix, lies in hssvy fol
In a elsphapt's, end Is Of about I