The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-05-03
NEWS GLEANINGS.
The average life Of the buffalo anat
is said to be about fifteen days.

The average life Of the buffalo qnat
is said to be about fifteen days.
Steel works to cost 100000 are to be
erected in Batesville, Ark, during this
year.
One man will ship 5000 cords of tan
bark from the vicinity Of Chattanooga
this season.
Mrs. L. G.. Coburn, a lady of San
Antonio, Tex, has 10000 silk worms at
work in her yard.
There are 900 convict at present in
the North Carolina penitentiary, 12S of
whom are white and 1862 are colored.
An orange tree in Orange county, Fla.
measures six feet four inches in cir
conference three feet from the ground.
An Atlanta merchant Gays one-fourth
of the corn Coming into Georgia from
the West is in damaged condition.
The old Tallahassee gas,works were
sold the past week for $50. They were
abandoned at the commencement of the
late war.
The Vicksburg and Ship Island and
Memphis and Vicksburg railroads have
been sold to r. T. Wilson & Co., of
New York, for 100000.
A tract of good farming land was
sold in Noxubee county, Miss, at
sheriff's sale few days ego for fifteen
and twenty cents an acre.
The Chattanooga Times says the ne
groes of that city, are accumulating
property, and several of them are build
iaghouses to cost from $4,000 TO 81, 900.
Mr.. J. A. Anderson, who lives near
Athens, Ga, has gourd that has been
in use to hold pepper and spices over
200 years. The genealogy of the gourd
is clearly traced.
A little boy at Mt. Crawford, Va,
ran his arm through crack in a hog
pen, where it became fastened, and be.
fore help could reach him the flesh was
completely torn from the bones by the
hogs.
Memphis Avalanche: The buffalo
gnat is worse than high water. A fifty
foot bank is no obstacle to him. With
a grindstone under each wing he flies
over hill and dale and bores the life out
of the $3.50 mule.
Montezuma (Ga.) Weekly: A mar
from Drayton tells us CT combat hi
saw several days ago between rooster
and a crow. The rooster was attacked
in a field while attending to his own lie
climate business. The victory for {
while seemed doubtful, but finally tn,
rooster conquered and left his opponen
in the field dead.
Near Penfeld, GA, lives two ladies
who, since the war, started to farming
with one old blind horse. Now the.
own a good plantation well stocked, al
paid for, and have eighteen or twent,
bales of cotton on hand. They man
aged for themselves, one attending I
the farm while the other managed tn
household affairs.
The Mormon elders have been nc
titled that they cannot teach their al
horrcnt doctrines in Morgan county
Miss, At meeting of the Apple Grov
Grange the following among other en-
phatic resolutions were adopted: RI
solved, that committee be appointe
who will present to said parties cop
of these resolutions, and respectfully re
quest these Mormon elders who are il
truding themselves and their vicio,
and devilish doctrines upon this con
munity to desist from so doing, AZ
further, to leave this community in
mediately. never to return.
Carrollton (Ga. Times: "Mr. Jol
r. Handley, living near here, mas
markable razor with remarkable h
tory. 1t is made like the ordinary "a
tier razor, the thick part of the back b
ing solid gold, SO pronounced by silv'
smiths. He has been offered $25 for
as it is thought that the gold upon
would amount to fully that much, t
party making the offer proposing to
turn the razor as before minus t
gold. Mr.. Handley, who was prese
at the surrender of Gen. Steneman nj
Macon, found this remarkable razor
the road, whore Gen. Stoneman h
passed, just after the surrender. and
is thought by some that the razor v
the property ofthe Federal General.