The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-08
NEWS GLEANINGS.


reached total of SO, 1925.
Savannah, Ga, has sent $1,313.25 TO
ihc Pensacola fever sufferers.
The South sends $500, eco worth of
eo,tor4ctd oil 10 Great Britain an
nually,
Mr.. PcaIdD, aged lei years, has Just
tbeen married to Mrs. Lee. aged forty
years, at Bib, Ala.
TohDt.YoIk, for the murder Of his
step son, in Whitfield county, Ga, goes
TO the penitcntiary for life.
A Blackshcar, Georgia, farmer still
uses a wagon made fifty years Ego, and
which has never lcen repaired,
Pcarce county, Ga, is seeking Icgisla-
ton that will increase the cost Of license
to sell liquor in that county to O,C0O
pcr annum.
The mace and sword Of State, used
in South Carolina in colonial times.
are still preserved. They were brought
TO this country in 1929.
The cotton crop of Texas is 50 large
and pckers so scarce and hard to get
that great deal of the staple will re
main ungathcred thereby entaiIng
heavy loss.
A company organized at Atlanta will
mrCrt and slaughter cattle, run stock
yards and make oleomargarinc and but.
terirc. The company has cash cap
ital of 100000.
Macon, Ga, bees have religious in.
clinations. The stceples of the Prcsby- |
ierian and Wesleyan churches were each
invaded by swarm on the same day,
which remain and are at work.
A curious bird, bionze colorcd, with
long keen beak, long slender legs and
and talons and similar in many respects
10 the English blttorn, Las lcn cap
tured near Nashville. 1t is stranger
to this country.
Newspapers are published in seventy.
three of the nne,v'four counties in
Tennessee at cighty-scvcn different
towns and cities. of which number
sixty.nine are county scats.E. There are
$50 papers in the state.
Pickens county, Alabama, is so over.
whclmingly in debt that property ha'
decreased in value until it is now
almost impossible to give it away, \ few
days ago 800 acres of fine timber land
and a mill in good condition brough,
but $40, The effects of the condition Of
affairs in the county.
Elizabeth Malley, convicted Of illcgal-
ly living with 5 o Prcntiss, cx-city
editor of the Nashville World, and
sentenced to term Of two years in the
penitentiary, has been granted new
trial; the motion for new trial in the
case OF Prentiss has not yet leCn acted
upon.
4 The Nashville and Chattanooga rail-
road will build Il belt railroad around
Cumberland mountain. The Cha.ta
nooga Times says the result of the
grand plan cannot be estimated. The new
road will pierce the heart of the fines
coal country in the state, and will al,
more in thcindustrial development o
OUR states, than anything done in years
Mobile Register: The McAllistc
gun, invented and patented ~ DIR
o. ii. McAllister, of Union county
Miss, has twenty.four rifle barrels, an
discharges 500 cartridges II minute
greatly exceeding the Calling gun i
execution and reliability, The cntir
work OF construction was done at tn
blacksmith shop on his plantation b
Dr. McAllister and machnist of hi
own neighborhood,
chattanooga Times: One would thin
That in the Tennessee penitcntiary wouI
be found hoary.headed old men, who Ia
been there for thirty or forty years; ye
Il strange to ray, though the penitentla'
was erected fifty four years ago, neve
"a during all that time, has prisoner ~
Vlved over seventeen years, though mal
! have been sent there under life scntent
There is no one there now who was the
1870.
The Columbus, Georgia, Enquil
says the worth of cotton seed is not,
yet appreciated by the planters of t
South. The lintors taken from the SC
sell at from five to six cents per poun
alter the oil is extracted the meal il
remarkable fertilizer and stock feed ;
hulls make good fuel, and the ashes
nch in potash Besides this, a beauti
rich dye, an analine purple, can be p
duced from the seed.
Atlanta Constitution: The conn
tee in charge of the fund raised for
erection of memorial to the late s
ator Hill, find that the cost of the s
ue will be very much less than was
nrst expected. By correspondence t
md that a..bronzo statue, seven or ei
feet IN height, perfect portrait
model Of Mr., Hill, ana done by an
list OF world wide fame, can be hat
ssum varying from $1,000 to $40,
Nashville Banner, The progress Il