The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-06
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Florida has made an immense crop of

The Southern Presbyterian Church
has 5000 elders and 1000 deacons.
The prohibition law prevails in forty.
two counties in the State of Georgia.
A Southern scientist has discovered
that alcohol can be produced from
acorns.
George w. Swepson, with a property
worth 100000, is the richest man in
North Carolina.
Richmond, Va, has debt of $4,741,-
7O7 IS, on which she paws an annual in.
terest of 1903, 1874 43.
The celebrated Dummctt orange grove
has according to the Florida Dispatch,
been sold for 100000.
The public library at Knoxville, Tenn.
has 800 new books, is out of debt, and
has $4,000 in the treasury.
A young Virgnian has invented a ma
chine which turns out $50 cigarettes per
minute. 1t is on exhibition at Lynch.
burg.
In lS33-34 the railroad from Charles
ton, S. c., to Augusta, Ga, 100 miles,
was the longest railroad then in the
world.
The gum of the palmetto, which is
found in abundance in Florida, makes
as good if not better mucilage than gum
arabic.
1t is calculated that the splendid
grain crops of the South will save that
section slOO,O0O,0OO hitherto diverted
Northward.
A mortal enemy of the cotton worm
has turned up in Mississippi, 1t is red
dish looking spider, and attacks and
kills large numbers of the worms.
As early as 1888 the sale and con-
sumption of whisky was prohibited in
Georgia, then a colony under British
rule. The act, however, was repealed
in 1742.
The Rugby colony in Tennessee. in,
stead of being on the wane, is said to be
growing nicely. A large number of PEG
pie from Michigan will cast their luck
with the colonists this fall.
The State Democratic ticket of Texas
contains the name of but one native
Texan. OF the other nominees three are
natives of Kentucky, one of Georgia
one of South Carolina and one of Ten
nessee.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat
from carefully gathered information
learn that the present condition of the
rice crop in Louisiana is good and the
prospects for large and good crop most
favorable.
The locomotive General" which was
the one that pulled the train that .wa'
stolen by the Mitchell raiders in 1861, il
still in use as freight engine on thu
Western and Atlantic road, and is il
good condition.
The process of articulatng Guiteau'
skeleton is nearly completed at the Ar
my and Medical museum. 1t is doubt
full if the bones will make frst-clas
skeleton. Many were found to be pc
rous, requiring great care to mount.
Near Fort Valley, Ca, lives a MAJ
who has named his children after ami
mails, having belief that they will il
consequence live to an old age. Their
are four children and they are name
respectfully, Rabbit, Coon, Fox an
Postum.
Nashville, in its craze for marital an
natal insurance companies has cappe
the climax by organizing "The Mats
Twin Association" which will pay 50
600 to each member producing certif
cate of the paternity of pair of twi
babies.
in the Gulf near Apalachicola, Fla
asaw fish of immense size was captures
1t was fourteen feet, six inches Ion
forty.two inches across the body, Il
saw forty-one inches long and sevt
across the center between the points
the teeth, weighing 500 pounds.
Near Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, ;
elm tree, said to be the largest in Il
United States, if not in the world,
growing. 1t is 1O5 feet in diameter al
S29 feet in circumference from tip to
OF its branches. The size of the trul
and height of the tree are not given.
j, Fl. Lester, who lives near McDo
ough, Ga, is 113 years old, having be
born in Rockingham, N. G., Decent
7, 1853. He distinctly remembers t
Revolutionary war, and when elev
years old was detailed with other be
to defend the women from the Tori
lie served under Gen. Floyd during
war Of 1872.
A horrible condition of affairs
been developed in the "Saviour's HON
an institution in Little Rock, Al
which is supposed to be charitable Q
From insufficient rourishment many
the child inmates have been star
nearly to death, and many of them
die, The institution is conducted
fanatics Of the worst kind.