The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-19
NEWS GLEANINGS,

Dalton, Ga, has the only AK handle
factory in the South.
A 100000 statue Of John O. Calhoun,
will soon be erected at Charleston, S. G.
Athens Is the only city Of its size in
Georgia that does not have a free school
system.
The oyster beds on Indian river, Fla,
are said to be inexhaustible, and a can
ming establishment is in prospect.
The wages Of street car employees on
the New Orleans city railway have been
reduced from $38 to s95 per month.
A suit over an old SOW was settled at
Lulng, Texas, last week in favor of the
defendant. The costs were $547.S0.
William Smith, of North Carolina
has cold his tobacco crop in Lynchburg,
Va, for $4,000.
Three hundred dollars worth of snuff
was sold by Cuthbert, Ga, house the
other day.
Atlanta and Chicago parties have Or
4 ganized fertilizer company, the manu-
a factory to be situated at Nashville.
A shark was caught near Tampa, Fla,
he other day, weighing 200 pounds.
1t had, when caught, seven rows of
teeth.
Col. Pratt, of the Palatka, Florida,
Herald, says that alligator oil beats lard
all hollow, and that alligator steaks beat
the frogs of Paris.
There are over half million acres of
land in Fulton county, Ga, the county
in which Atlanta is situated, valued at
only eight cents an acre.
Atlanta Constitution Fifty persons
left Rome for Utah on Wednesday
morning. They were mostly snuff dip.
pirg womtn who had become Mormon
Columbia, Ala, has made more i'm
provements in the past twenty-four
months than she has made in twenty
four years before.
A fire in Mobile last week destroyed
the chronological collection of f. Fishes
1t was the result OF fourteen years labor
ind contained 5000 specimens.
Mr.. Richard Outlaw, residing near
Hartselle, Ala, is ninety.nine years old,
and expects to make his five bales o
cotton this year.
A young Frenchman, of Hamilton
Ga, spends his spare time catching but
terAies, which he sells to parties in New
York, Philadelphia and Boston at five
cents piece.
Lnychburg Advance: The gold boom
Is starting all over Virginia. Gold bear
ing quartz is being developed in several
counties, said to be as rich as any found
N the Rocky Mountains.
There is young student at the Uni
Fersity of Georgia who eats the hind
Eggs of every rat he can find. He also
iiets on those large size tad-poles. stewed
ike oysters. He says that both make
elicious dishes.
The latest form of cruelty is that
dopted by negro of Whitesville, Ga.
His mule was levied upon by his creditors
Vhereupon he ceased to feed it. The
animal died promptly, and the negro
Apply.
Caldwell, Texas, Register: A widow
pdy living on Dry creek lost calf dur
pg the last storm. After search it was
pund back of H. N. Smiths plantation
pdged in the fork of tree, supposed to
ave blown there.
A man, Jake Brooks by name, living
ear Argus, Crenshaw county, Ala.
pine months ago made two hand wagons,
utting his household goods in one and
is three children in the other, and took
trip to Florida and returned lately, he
ulling the chattels and his wife the
hldren.
The bones of woman and baby have
lst been fonnd in an old shaft neal
lila Rica, Ga. They are supposed t.
2 those of young lady who, seventeen
ears ago, having committed socia
hdiscretion, disappeared and was nevel
fterwards heard from.
Mr.. A. w. Martin of Milledgeville
a., was seventy two years of age on thu
9th ult., and never had lawsuit, wa
ever witness in court and neve
srved on jury but twice, never learned
play at cards, and has not taken
rink of liquor in fifty years.
Rome Courier: The guano trade ha
cen almost entirely abandonded by OH
lerchants. They find it does not in tn
Pquel prove profitable to themselves no
the farmers. There is not one. half a
luch sold this season as was the last
armers are learning to depend more OIL
heir own resources for fertilizers thai
pom bought stuffs.
A THEATRICAL, man at Chicago though