The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-01-25
NEWS GLEANlNGS.


Four hundred inmates in the Alaba-
na insane asylum.
New Years day Georgia had S971,-
SO "a, in her treasury.
Voluntary donations TO the Universe.
" of Virginia since 1865 foot up $4iO,-
81 This years hay crop in Augusta
county, Va, is estimated TO be worth
over 100000.
Maury county, Tenn, is out of debt,
ind her warrants are worth ninety five
ents on the dollar.
The license to sell intoxicating spir-
IS within the town of Jasper, Ga, has
cen raised to $1,000.
One hundred thousand young Cali
brnia salmon ha e recently been placed
~ the waters of Georgia.
Bets of $500 have been made at Au-
gusta, Ga, that this years cotton crop
vii be at least G, 100000 bales.
The residence of Hon. Ben. Hill, at
Athens, Ga, has been sold to Prof.
peer, of the University. 1t originally
bst $4,000.
There are seventeen tobacco factories
Pc ersburg, Va, employing about
6C0O hands. The gross annual pro-
bets amount to about $4,000, 900.
& The city of Fayetteville, n. c., fol-
wing the exsmple of Memphis, has
I'd its municipal existence terminated
a state law in order to escape from
< )e clutches of the mandamus movers.
Chattanooga Times: As things are
Nv going, the south will in the year
20 support her own markets with
Fry grade of cotton goods, and with
yery form of iron and steel, fine cut
BY included.
pr. Barksdale, of the Virginia lunatic
Glum reports the case of negro lu-
otic whose brain weighed seventy
Qnces' This is believed to be the lar
- brain on record, except that of Oil
- Cromwell.
I'm Mississippi there are los, $40 horses,
~, 900 mules, 273, 250 oxen, 300, $3.50
cQFs, 300 $3.50 sheep and 1879, 500 hogs,
9TH the following average value:
Rprses, 81 70; mules, $40 80; oxen, 81 50;
Ts, VIZ 90; sheep, ~ 81; hogs, ~ 20
he black continent smallpox is ra
IS at a great many points in Texas.
It's said TO have been first introduced
Xexiled Russian Jews. BE that as it
b, it is very obstinate and fatal, re.
ring the greatest care to keep it from
eading.
3 gentleman largely interested in the
posed canal, near Macon, Ga, states
the project is not abandoned by
means. AZ the proper time the
pie project will he brought promi,
Idly to the front. He is Of the opn-
1Qp that the enterprise will only cost
ont $45O,COO.
~ is generally conceded, says Flori
Nexchange, that the brown or rusty
M4ge, is much the sweetest and can
% kept longer than the bright fruit but
yuot a unusal perversity of taste,
hebrown fruit is deprecated in North.
Mmarkets, and sold at half the price
Z hir fruit.
[ontgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: There
N4$2, % 700 acres of government land
a alabama, subject to entry under the
pestead and pre-emption laws, and
entering of land was never brisker
at present. Hundreds of acres arc
g sold on the cash basis system OF
% per acre, particularly in some of
counties of the state.
he total receipts of the city of At
y from all sources during 1881, was
,51S 81. The city debt is $780,
and the expenditures on account
interest and sinking fund, s193,573,
ling balance 1886, 1859 for ordi-
expenditures. The city has no
ling debt, and can not, as the state
stands, increase its bonded debt.
be Baptists ministers Of Richmond,
have resulted against the bill be-
the legislature of that state, to re-
Re the political disabilities of per-
- who have, in recent years, violated
law against dueling. They say:
Xe look upon the proposed action as a
lation of the spirit of the constitu-
and the laws of the state, as an in.
to heaven and an affront to the
bal aud Christian sentiment of the
Einia people"
ernandina, (Fla.) Mirror: A few
since we were on the north shore
Orange lake, in what is known as the
pd, once designated as Townsed Ter
ry, from its isolation. Five years
no public road passed through it,
|ail or water communication came
bin twenty miles of it. While we
there within twenty minutes time,
beard the putting of trains on the
vays, the whistle of a steamer and
pree steam saw mills, and realized
Change which has been made and
rh is going on all over Florida.
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